146 Journal New York Entomological Society. t^'°^- xxviii. 



"Enterprise (Florida): one specimen. Easily recognized bv the 

 small size, large head, not narrower than the prothorax and by the 

 latter not being narrowed in front." 



Head and pronotum shining with short, white pubescence. Elytra 

 sinuate, smooth, feebly punctate striate. Ventral surface with short 

 sparse hairs; abdominal vestiture arranged in transverse lines. 



Localities. — Haw Creek, April 6 (Schwarz), Florida. Coden. 

 June 9 (Loding), Alabama. 



This species is quite distinct and readily recognized from the orig- 

 inal description. It appears to be local and by no means plentiful, 

 being represented in only a very few collections. 



Taphrocerus gracilis (Say), 25-252, Plate VI (Fig. E). 

 alboguttaUis (Mannerheim), 37-120. 

 cylindricollis Kerremans, 96—312. 

 {f) texanus Kerremans, 96-312. 



(Original description.) 



" Oblong blackish : elytra with regular series of punctures. Body rather 

 slender, oblong, blackish-brassy ; head a little concave, but not profoundly so ; 

 thorax inequal, with a slight impressed line before, and a wide indented space 

 occupying half the thorax behind ; on each side is a rai&ed, arcuated, obtuse 

 line, extending nearly from one angle to the other ; scutel moderate ; elytra 

 with regular series of rather large, profoundly impressed punctures which are 

 obsolete at tip. Length, less than three-twentieths of an inch. 



" A comparatively slender species. I found it on a myrtle bush at 

 Senipuxten Island, in September. It exhibits an unusual regularity 

 in its series of punctures.'' (This is the type of Taphrocerus Sol.; 

 the name under which it was known to him is the synonym Brachys 

 albognttata Lap. and Gory.-Lec.) 



On fresh and unrul)I)ed specimens there are two distinct fascia 

 of white pubescence on the apical half of the elytra and occasionally 

 a spot on either side at the base, but, in most cabinet specimens, there 

 is but one band, often reduced to a mere spot. The variation in the 

 sculpture of the elytra seems unlimited. The commonest form is 

 punctate striate, the punctures being rather unevenly arranged, coarse 

 at the base becoming obsolete after the first fascia. However, some 

 specimens are almost smooth while others, chiefly those from the 



