140 LENG AND HAMILTON. 



vitta on each side grayish white ; eyes narrowly separated above ; 

 anteiinse slender, longer than the body, reddish testaceous, fuscous at 

 the articulations ; scutelluni minute, triangular ; elytra a little nar- 

 rowed posteriorly, a})ices separately rounded, rather coarsely and 

 closely punctured near base, sparser toward apex ; legs not clavate. 



L.. calif'ornica Horn, 1885. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. sii, 194. 

 Length 9 mm. ^= .3() inch. Ilabitdt.San Diego (California). 



[This species lias not been seen, but is represented by the describer 

 as resembling fuscata, but differing in the form and punctuation of 

 the thorax.] " Ham." 



ZAPL,OUS Lee. Group ZAPLOt. 

 Z. hiibbardi Lee, 1878. Proc. Am. Phil. Soc. xvii, p. 415. 



Lengtli 3 5 mm. = .12-.20 inch. Habitat. — Florida. 



" Brown, clothed with short, prostrate, yellowish gray pubescence, somewhat 

 mottled by unequal distribution. Prothorax very densely, rather finely punc- 

 tured. Elytra more strongly and less densely punctured ; antennae annulated 

 with black, finely punctulate and pubescent, without mixture of large punctures ; 

 frequently beaten from old vines in May."— LeConte's description. 



Tribe X. Desmiphorini. 



Contains only one species of the genus Demdphom, viz. : 



D. ine.xicrtiia Thom.. 1830, Class. Longic. p. 75. 

 Length 15 mm. = .60 inch. Hdbitat. — Mexico, Texas. 



"This insect is remarkable for being covered with very dense 

 brown pubescence, with lines and crests of veiy long, fine whitish 

 hairs looking like mold. Beneath it is very prettily variegated with 

 darker spots, each surrounded with a white line" ("Class." j). 828}. 



Tribe XI. Onciderini. 

 Eyes not very finely granulated, lower lobe elongate ; antenna^ slender in both 



sexes, vertex fiat Onoideres. 



Eyes very finely granulated, lower lobe not elongate; antcnnsv with Joints 1-4 



thickened and liairy in % ; vertex deeply concave Taricaiiiisi. 



OX<;iI>ERES Serv. 

 [Thorax witli a distinct lateral spine. 

 Thorax with a transverse glabrous elevated space; surface densely brownish 

 pubescent, elytra with denuded spots, tuberculiform at l)a.se. flat poste- 

 riorly jmsl iilal us. 



Thorax without discal callosities te.xaiiii»». 



Thorax with or without distinct lateral spine; three callosities on the disc in a 

 transverse row, sometimes absent ciiigiilatust. 



O. |»U!*itulatHS Lee, 1854. Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phil, vii, 82. 



Li'iiglli 19 mm. = .75 inch. Ilitbitat. — Texas (Laredo. Brownsville). Kare. 



