June, 1922.] Blatchley: Notes ON Rhynchophora. 103 



Pseudotychius watsoni new species. 



Uniform dark reddish-brown, thickly clothed with long, yellowish, pros- 

 trate hairs. Occiput convex, as wide as apex of thorax, impunctate. Thorax 

 campanulate, the apex less than half the width of base, disk smooth, sides 

 not margined, base with a very narrow margin. Elytra oval, strongly con- 

 vex, as wide at base as thorax, sides converging from near the base to a 

 narrowly rounded apex, leaving the pygidium almost wholly exposed ; disk 

 rather deeply striate, striae impunctate, intervals strongly convex. Other 

 characters as given under the generic heading. Length 2.3 mm. 



This, the genotype, is described from one specimen, probably a 

 female, taken July 7 by Prof. J. R. Watson while beating shrubs in a 

 high hammock near Gainesville, Fla. Named in honor of the collec- 

 tor, who is doing much to make better known the insect fauna of 

 Florida. 



360. Paragoges minimus Blatch. 



Several specimens of this small Tychiid were beaten from clumps 

 of the twining milkweed, Metastelma scoparia Nutt., at Chokoloskee, 

 Fla. Hitherto known only from Ft. Myers and Key West. 

 Tychius armatus Green, Ent. News, XXXI, 1920, 198. 



Allied to sordidus Lee, but having all the femora toothed ; length 

 3.8 mm. Described from six specimens taken on Graybeard Mountain, 

 N. Car., by Beutenmiiller. 



Genus Nanodactylus 1 new genus. 

 Small, oval or pear-shaped, very finely pubescent species having the 

 beak slender, as long as thorax ; eyes large, not prominent, subcontiguous 

 above; antennae inserted at apical third, scape slender, not reaching eye, it» 

 apex but slightly enlarged; funicle 5-jointed, first joint rather stout, oblong, 

 second slender, obconical, two thirds the length of first, 3-5 subglobose, sub- 

 equal ; club joints loosely united, clothed with erect hairs, the basal joint 

 globose, second one half wider, subglobose, terminal one conical, as long as 

 the other two united. Thorax campanulate, its apex half or less the width of 

 base. Elytra conjointly oval and subinflated, about one third longer than 

 wide, their tips separately rounded, partly exposing the small pygidium. 

 Ventral segments very unequal, the second raised above, overhanging and 

 almost concealing the third, its angles prolonged backward to fourth, the 

 fifth segment as long as but much narrower than the second, bluntly conical 

 in shape, its apex subtruncate. Femora slender, unarmed, tibiae as long as 

 femora ; tarsal claws connate throughout, appearing as a single claw, but 

 just visibly cleft at tip. 



1 Gr. " small " + " claw." 



