766 Coleopterological Notices, VI. 



]V. filicor Ills.— Slender, convex, rather dull, pale luteo-flavate through- 

 out, the elytra with a feeble rounded darker spot at each side of the suture 

 behind the scutelluni, and a darker median spot just before apical third, the 

 latter with an oblique ramus extending anteriorly to just beyond the middle 

 gradually approaching but not touching the suture, the spot not at all ex- 

 tended laterally ; pubescence somewhat coarse and dense, cinereous-white, de- 

 cumbent, with distinct and rather numerous erect bristles. Head as long as 

 wide, dull and minutely, densely punctato-scabrous, the eyes large, at much 

 more than their own length from the base; antenna; long, fully one-half as 

 long as the body, very feebly incrassate toward apex, the tenth joint one-half 

 longer than wide, the eleventh slender, almost as long as the two preceding, 

 gradually narrowed in apical half. Prothorax slightly narrower than the head, 

 somewhat longer than wide, globularly convex, polished, minutely punctate, 

 abundantly pubescent, the basal pubescent area rapidly narrowed and almost 

 obsolete toward the middle; horn subconical in outline, not in the least con- 

 stricted, the sides arcuate, finely and rather feebly crenulate, the apex obtusely 

 rounded in the male, more rapidly and acutely pointed in the female, a little 

 broader and parallel toward base in the latter sex; crest short and wide, mod- 

 erately elevated, outlined by a broken series of feeble crenelures. Elytra 

 twice as long as wide, fully three-fourths wider than the prothorax, rounded 

 behind in both sexes, only slightly wider at posterior third than at base, rather 

 finely but closely and strongly punctate. Abdomen dull, the legs slender. 

 Length 2.7-2.8 mm. ; width 0.8-0.9 mm. 



Florida (Jacksonville). Mr. Ashraead. 



The male has the fifth ventral broadly subtruncate at apex, ex- 

 tremely feebly sinnate for a short distance at the middle, the sur- 

 face adjoining the sinuation feebly and transversely impressed, in 

 the female longer and evenly rounded, with the surface unmodi- 

 fied. The antenn;\? of the female do not differ appreciably. 



This species is allied to monodon, but is much narrower, with 

 longer and more slender antennte and quite different elytral orna- 

 mentation ; the spot on each elytron, with its oblique curving 

 ramus, has the exact form of an inverted comma, and differs from 

 any other of the monodon group in not extending at all toward 

 the sides of the elytra. It seems to be allied to pilatei Laf., but 

 is much smaller, the stated dimensions of jnlatei being 3.6X1.0 mm. 



]V. diiiocerus. — Narrow, convex, pale rufo-testaceous throughout, the 

 abdomen infuscate; elytra with two small scutellar spots, a transverse fascia at 

 apical two-fifths prolonged along the suture lieyond the middle, and a dark 

 post-humeral marginal line, prolonged to the fascia or nearly to the apex, of 

 black. Head as wide as the prothorax, minutely, densely punctate and dull, 

 densely clothed with short appressed silvery pubescence; eyes large, longer 

 than the tempora; antenme moderate, feebly incrassate. Prothorax globular, 



