FREDERICK BLANCHARD 
dark or blackish on the thorax and elytra except as mentioned. The apical 
white hairs are sometimes indistinct. Antennae and palpi piceous, the former 
serrate. Length 2.5 to 3.25 mm. 
Occurs in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida 
(Biscayne and Key Largo) and Arkansas. 
4. Drapetes quadripustulatus Bonvouloir 
Piceous black, shining, very sparsely pubescent, each elytron with a sub- 
humeral and subapical reddish spot, the latter smaller. Length 2.75 to 4 mm. 
“Wisconsin to Florida” according to Horn: Kansas (Snow). 
Specimens are known to me from Maryland, North Carolina, 
Florida, Ohio, Missouri, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. 
5. Drapetes ecarinatus Schaeffer* 
Elongate, subparallel, convex, entirely black except a small humeral area 
extending upon the epipleura, which is bright red; upper surface glabrous 
and shining, the head sparsely hairy, and a few w'hitish hairs along the sides 
of the thorax, and with underside and legs finely pubescent. Head very 
sparsely, irregularly punctate, the punctures a little closer at the sides; eyes 
not prominent, feebly convex, antennae strongly serrate, entirely black, basal 
joint rather coarsely punctate. 
Prothorax a little wider at base than long and as wfide as the base of the 
elytra, sides shghtly narrowing from base and feebly sinuate, thence strongly 
arcuate to anterior angles, which are somewhat more produced than the middle 
of the upper margin, so that the apex is broadly emarginate and scarcely more 
than half as wfide as the base; convex with the sides tumid so that the fine 
lateral margin is inferior and hidden from above; punctures fine anteriorly, 
at middle and sides, becoming coarser behind, sparser and more irregular on 
the disk and at the middle of the base, closer and more regularly placed towards 
the sides behind, a marginal series bearing short hairs; a faintly elevated, 
smooth line at middle of basal third; base broadly lobed and feebly sinuate 
at middle, strongly obliquely sinuate each side, the hind angles acute, pro- 
duced behind a little further than the basal lob^. Scutellum equilateral, 
feebly arcuate in front, more strongly at sides, acute behind. Elytra finely, 
sparsely, subseriately punctate, punctures becoming finer at base and at the 
sides anteriorly, convex, nearly twice longer than wide, subparallel, feebly 
wider behind the humeri and broadly arcuate, apex obtuse. There is a fine 
subsutural stria reaching neither base nor apex; submarginal striae carinate 
in front. Prosternum bicarinate each side to base of lobe, finely sulcate each 
side at basal half, the sulci disappearing before and succeeded by two or three 
punctures each side; there is also a line of distinct hair-bearing punctures just 
*Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc., 1916, p. 62. [1 give herewith Mr. Blanchard’s 
detailed description, replacing the specific name used by him by that under 
which Mr. Schaeffer has receiitly described the species, H. C. F.] 
TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC., XLIII, 
