166 Journal New York Entomological Society. H'oi- xxviii. 



Described from ii specimens swept from low herbage along the 

 margins of tidal lagoons at Key West, March i to 3. The color varies 

 somewhat, some specimens having the disk of thorax, beak and basal 

 half of elytra blackish like the head. The scales are easily abraded, 

 in one or two specimens being almost absent. Belongs under a of 

 Group III (p. 216). Differs from 5". congcstus, its nearest ally, in its 

 shorter, relatively stouter beak, its longer, narrower thorax, and 

 especially in the shape and arrangement of its scaly vestiture. 



304. Smicronyx apionides Casey. — A single specimen of this very 

 distinct and prettily marked species was swept from herbage in a low 

 moist woodland in Knox County, Ind., Oct. 5, 191 7. The first record 

 for the State. 



Bagous pictus new species. 



Elongate-oblong. Reddish-brown, densely clothed with grayish-brown and 

 snow-white scales, the latter forming a narrow median and a broad stripe each 

 fSide of thorax, the lateral stripes forking in front of middle; the white scales on 

 elytra covering the humeri and fifth, sixth and seventh intervals to beyond the 

 middle ; basal portion of third interval and a common spot on second and third 

 at apical third also white. Beak stout, as long as thorax, strongly deflected, 

 densely scaly. Head without frontal fovea. Thorax nearly as broad as long, 

 constricted near apex, densely granulate. Elytra oval, one-third wider than 

 thorax, humeri oblique ; intervals feebly convex, without tubercles on or near 

 the declivity. Length, 2.8 mm. 



Two specimens taken at Cape Sable, Feb. 24, by sweeping low 

 herbage along the edge of the beach. Allied to obliquus Lee, but 

 stouter, without declivity tubercle and with a different and very strik- 

 ing arrangement of the white scales on elytra. 



360. Paragoges minimus Blatch. — A half dozen specimens of this 

 minute Tychiid, which was described from a unique from Ft. Myers, 

 were taken at Key West, March 3. They were swept from low herb- 

 age near the old fort. 



361. Erodiscus tinamus Lee. — This was a common species at Cape 

 Sable where it occurred on dead branches in the hammocks, especially 

 on those of the saffron plum, or seaside oak, Bnmclia angustifolia 

 Nutt. 



367. Otidocephalus dichrous Lee. — This peculiarly colored species 

 has been taken on several occasions in June at porch light near Dun- 

 edin ; also by beating the foliage of bay in a dense hammock. 



