782 Coleopterological Notices, VI. 



South Carolina, The specimen described above is probably a 

 male, but the sexual characters are ver^^ feeble, the hind femora 

 being scarcely at all dilated. This is the smallest species of the 

 genus, but is more allied to nuhifer than to an}- other. 



3. Z. subfasciatus Lee. — Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, 1875, p. 176 (Xylo- 

 philus). 



Rather stout and convex, suboval, polished, pale flavo-testa- 

 ceous throughout, except the head, which is piceous-black and a 

 transverse interrupted submedian fascia, slightly' dilated at the 

 sides, of black ; pubescence long, coarse and conspicuous. Head 

 transverse, finely, sparsely punctate, the e3'es large, separated by 

 about three-fourths of their own width ; antennae slender, filiform, 

 slightly incrassate near the apex, one-half as long as the body in 

 the male, perceptibly shorter and stouter in the female. Pro- 

 thorax slightly narrower than the head, parallel, full}' one-third 

 wider than long, broadl}^ arcuate at apex; disk convex, scarcely 

 uneven, very broadl}- and obsoletel}^ impressed along the median 

 line, strongly but not very closel}' punctate. Scutellum very large, 

 broadly triangular, narrowly truncate and feebh'' bidentate at 

 apex. Elj'tra barely one-half longer than wide, nearly twice as 

 wide as the prothorax ; sides parallel and broadl}' arcuate, nar- 

 rowed and rounded in apical third ; disk somewhat convex, more 

 or less impressed along the suture especially near the apex, the 

 oblique impression from the humeri subobsolete ; punctures rather 

 coarse and deep but well separated. Under surface somewhat 

 coarsel}^ but not densel}' punctate. Length 1.5-1.75 mm.; width 

 0.7-0.8 mm. 



Rhode Island, District of Columbia and North Carolina (Ashe- 

 ville). This is one of the few species of the famil}' which are at all 

 common ; it is allied somewhat to signatus^hvLt differs in its more 

 broadly oval form, subobsolete elytral impression and in colora- 

 tion. 



4. Z. ]iu1>t>ardi n. sp. — Somewhat naiTOw, convex, polished, piceous- 

 black, the under surface pale, except the basal parts of the abdomen, which 

 are piceous ; legs pale flavo-testaceous throughout ; antennje black, piceo-testa- 

 ceous toward base, the apical joint testaceous; elyti'a pale flavo-testaceous 

 with a median black fascia as wide as one-fifth of the length, broadly pro- 

 longed pos.teriorly along the suture for a short distance; base also black except 

 at the tips of the humeri ; pubescence long, coarse, not dense but conspicuous. 

 Head transverse, finely, not densely punctate, the eyes large, separated by 



