76 FAMILY IV. — CYDNID.-E. 



37 (57). Panga:us uhleri Signoret, 1882, 253. 



Broadly oval, subdepressed. Dark reddish-brown to piceous, shin- 

 ing; antennae and legs paler. Head wider across the eyes than long, 

 its apex very broadly rounded ; cheeks obliquely rugose and bearing a few 

 erect bristles, their margins rather broadly reflexed; second joint of 

 antennae slender, slightly shorter than third, fourth and fifth a little 

 longer, subequal. Pronotum about one-third wider than long, its front 

 margin less deeply concave than in biiineatus, the antemarginal im- 

 pressed line very fine; disk with transverse impression more shallow, 

 its punctures very irregular, a small deep round pit near each end of 

 the front row; side margins narrowly inflexed, armed with eight or ten 

 short erect bristles. Scutellum finely, sparsely, irregularly punctate, 

 the narrow transverse impressed basal line finely punctate. Elytra with 

 corium minutely alutaceous, its basal portion and costal nervure finely 

 and sparsely punctate; embolium with more numerous fine shallow punc- 

 tures ; costal edge with three or four setae-bearing ones. Under surface 

 smooth, polished. Front tibiae fossorial, gradually widened from base 

 to apex and bearing numerous coarse bristle-like spines. Length, 5.5 — 6 

 mm. ; width, 3 — 3.5 mm. 



Sarasota, Fla., March 4 (W. 5". B.). Raleigh and Beaufort, N. 

 Car., July 18 — Aug. 20 (Brimley) . Very close to biiineatus, differ- 

 ing mainly in the smaller size, paler color, more evidently punc- 

 tate elytra and more expanded apical half of front tibiae. 

 Known only from North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida 

 and Texas. The only previous Florida record is that of Barber 

 of a specimen taken by Engelhardt at Key West in November. 

 First described by H.-Schaeffer as Cydmis rugifrons, then by 

 Uhler (1877, 384) as Pangceus rugifrons. That specific name 

 being preoccupied it was changed to uhleri by Signoret. 



III. Geotomus Mulsant & Rey, 1866, 34. 



Small oblong-oval or elliptical subdepressed species having 

 the head broad, subdeclivent, its apex broadly rounded; cheeks 

 as long as tylus, their margins very narrowly reflexed and bear- 

 ing a few remote bristles ; antennae reaching base of pronotum, 

 the joints subequal or gradually increasing slightly in length, 

 third subclavate, fourth and fifth subf usiform ; beak reaching 

 middle coxae, its joints gradually decreasing in length ; pro- 

 notum subquadrate, wider than long, front margin deeply con- 

 cave, without impressed anteapical line, side margins nearly 

 straight, narrowly recurved, hind one truncate ; scutellum 

 elongate-triangular, strongly narrowing towards apex, tip 

 acutely rounded, overlapping the inner angle of corium ; costal 



