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strife fine, punctures very small, approxiiuate, interspaces flattene'l, alternately a 

 little more convex and more prominent, rugulose, a cruciform scutellar spot and 

 a curved line each side, of condensed white, or yellowish scales, rest of surface 

 less conspicuously mottled; pygidium densely punctured; presternum deeply 

 and rather widely emarginate. emarginatiou limited by ante-coxal ridges, which 

 are curved outwardly and more approximate at the apex; underside of body 

 densely punctured and scaly throughout; femora annulate with white scales. 

 Length :5.0 mm. ; 0.12 inch. 



% . Last ventral segment with a large, oval, not deeply imi)re,ssed fovea. 



Hab. —New York, Illinois, Wushington (Taconia), South Caro- 

 lina, Georgia, Pennsylvania. 



This would seem to indicate its occurrence over the whole Atlantic- 

 slope, except the Northern States. A specimen in my coll. from 

 Tacoma, Wash., has the elytral interspaces equal ; the white elytra! 

 markings are easily abraded. 



C liturutus n. sp. PI. xiv, figs. 34, 34rt, 34'>. — Very similar in appearance, 

 less roliu-st. and a trifle smaller than the preceding species, and with which it also 

 agrees in coloration and the scaly vestiture. It differs as follows: Prothorax 

 fully one-fourth wider than long, sides straight and parallel in their basal half, 

 feebly rounded in front, narrowly and not distinctly constricted at the apex, 

 scarcely impressed before the middle, tubercles and apical cusps smaller, without 

 tuberosity each side of the dorsal channel, the latter almost interrupted at the 

 middle. Elytral interspaces equal, the cruciform scutellar spot differs in that the 

 transverse bar is somewhat oblique ; a spot on the seventh interspace represents 

 the oblique lateral line of the jjreceding species, another spot on the third inter- 

 space near the apex; prosternum very deeply and less widely emarginate, sides 

 of the emargination sti'aight, i)arallel, without ante-coxal ridges; pectus densely 

 clothed with large white scales. Abdomen le.ss densely clothed with piliform 

 scales. Legs as in zimmenminni, but more slender. Length 2.75 nmi. ; 0.11 inch. 



Hub. — Detroit, Mich., Illinois. 



Two female specimens, Mr. Dike's and my own collection. This 

 species very closely resembles Perigaster obscurus in form and ar- 

 rangement of the elytral .spots, but aside from the difference in the 

 form of rostrum and the sci-obes has the anterior cusps of the pro- 

 thorax less prominent and the last joint of the tarsi less elongate. 

 The cruciform spot on the elytra is absent in Mr. Hike's specimen 

 and rei)resented by the basal spot in the third interspace only. 



Group II. Phytobii veri. 

 The genera and species comprising the Phytobii veri present an 

 appearance peculiarly their own. The eyes are more or less promi- 

 nent and not or only partially concealed in repose. The beak stout 

 and short, rarely slightly elongate (^P/nitohiit.i), scrobes oblique, 

 directed beneath the eyes. 



TKANS. AM. KNT. SOC. XXIII. (58) DKCEMBER, 1896. 



