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the middle and reaching the eyes. Antenme robust, inserted about 
the middle of the rostrum ; scape short, incrassate towards the distal 
end ; funicle 6-jointed, first joint long and stout, the second a little 
longer than the third, club ovate, rather loosely articulate and pu- 
bescent. Eyes large, round and flattened, somewhat approximate 
upon the front, which is finely sulcate. Frothorax wider than long, 
scarcely narrower in front than at the base, rounded on the sides ; 
base feebly bisinuate. Elytra scarcely wider at the base than the 
jirothorax, elongate and a trifle wider behind the middle; striae im- 
pressed, punctures moderate and rather remote ; mesosternum almost 
parallel between the coxae ; metasternum rather short, scarcely as 
long as the first ventral segment at middle; first and second segment 
connate, former a little longer than the latter, third and fourth grad- 
ually shorter, fifth as long as the fourth in the male ; pygidium fully 
( S ), or partially ( 9 ) exposed. Legs rather short and stout ; femora 
moderately clavate, not toothed ; tibiie rather short, widened from 
base to apex, all unguiculate at the apex ; tarsi moderately stout ; 
first and second joints ecpial, not elongate; third joint broadly bi- 
lobed ; claws armed with a short basal tooth. 
The vestiture consists of fine pubescence ; but one species is known 
to me. 
IV. u. sp. Plate v, fig. 31. — I have but little to add to the above 
generic descriptiou. Elongate, suhparallel ; pitchy brown, sparsely clothed with 
rather long, white pube.scence, which, on the elytral interspaces, arises from a 
single row of fine punctures; the beak is alutaceous, neither punctured nor 
striate. Head impunctured, alutaceous; the prothorax is moderately and not 
closely punctured. Elytra a little dai-ker along the suture. Long. 1.4 mm. ; 
.56 inch. 
Hab. — Florida. Coll. E. A. Schwarz, H. Ulke and F. Bowditch. 
It gives me pleasure to dedicate this species to my friend, jMr. E. 
A. Schwarz, of Washington, D. C. 
EPIME<’HIIS gen . uov. 
Beak long, cylindrical and curved ; scrobes commencing about the 
middle of the rostrum, directed against the lower segment of the 
eyes, which are more or less flattened. Anteniue rather slender; 
funicle 6- or 7-jointed, front with a linear impression. Prothorax 
wider than long, narrowed in front, base bisinuate. Elytra wider 
at the base than the prothorax, elongate, striate and punctured ; 
underside as in Anthonomiis. The pygidium is entirely uncovered 
TR.\NS. AM. KNT. ,SOC. XVIII. 
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SEPTEMBER. 1891 . 
