Goleopterological Notices, VI. 645 



Anterior lobe of the prothorax globular or at least as long as wide. 



Elytra short, much narrowed l)ut almost completely unimpressed on the 

 disk near the base, and devoid of shorter subdecumbent hairs. 



1. scitula 



Elytra longer, less narrowed at base, but distinctly impressed behind the 



omoplates, having short sparse subdecumbent hairs in addition to the 



long erect setae 2. luiiuda 



Anterior lobe larger, wider than long. 



Elyti'a pale, with the humeri and two broad fascise of black ; head quadrate, 



subtruncate at base 3. evanescens 



Elytra black, with two narrow pale fascise, one near the base, the other be- 

 fore apical third; head narrower, more elongate and more rounded at 

 base 4. gileiisis 



The species are veiy homogeneous in point of size and others 

 ^ill undoubted I3' be discovered ; those above outlined are divisi- 

 ble into two subgeneric groups, the first represented by scitula 

 alone, as shown by antennal structure, and the second by the last 

 three species. 



1. F. scitula Lee. — Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., 1852, p. 94 (Anthicus). 



Convex, highly polished, with some widely scattered punctures 

 bearing long tactile seta?, but otherwise completel}" impunctate 

 and devoid of sculpture, pale rufo-testaceous, the head slightly 

 less pale ; el^'tra with two broad fascise of black, the first before 

 the middle completel}^ interrupted at the suture, the second near 

 but not enveloping the apex and produced slightly along the su- 

 ture anteriorly in a short cusp. Head oval, convex, rather longer 

 than wide, broadly rounded and unimpressed at base ; eyes rather 

 small, just before the middle, convex and coarsely faceted ; an- 

 tennae one-half as long as the bod}', slender but distinctly and 

 gradually incrassate, the last joint rather thicker, obtusely and 

 obliquely pointed and fully as long as the pi'eceding two. Pro- 

 thorax distinctly narrower than the head, elongate, convex, 

 strongly constricted before basal third ; collar short but deepl}^ 

 constricted ; basal margin present. Elytra short, oval, connate, 

 one-half longer than wide, nearly two and one-half times as wide 

 as the prothorax, much rounded at the sides and narrowed at 

 base, the humeri broadly and obliquely rounded at base but dis- 

 tinct. Length 1.9-2.0 mm.; width 0.65-0.7 mm. 



South Carolina, — Cab. LeConte ; Florida (Sebastian River), 

 Hubbard and Schwarz. The male has the fifth ventral almost as 

 long as the preceding two, evenly and not broadly rounded and 



