Sept., 1922. 1 Blatchley: Notes on Rhynchophora. 117 



are Centrinus picumnus, peniccllus and perscitus Hbst., C. falsus Lee. 

 and C. albotectus and clarescens Casey. He describes as new, with- 

 out key. 31 species of the genus, six of them from the territory cov- 

 ered by the Rhynchophora. 



Centrinaspis repens Casey, Memoirs, IX, 1920, 396. 



Two specimens are at hand, one beaten from oak at Dunedin, Fla., 

 Nov. 9, the other taken September 15 on blossoms of horsemint 

 (Monardo) near Gainesville by Watson. Casey's type was from Gulf- 

 port, Fla. Of it he says: "The shining black upper surface, with 

 rather sparse white vestiture, long basal funicular joint, small oval 

 antennal club, and the rather broadly suboval outline of body, are the 

 most striking external features." 



Centrinaspis rhomboida new species. 



Broadly rhomboid-oval. Black, densely clothed above with coarse 

 elongate white scales, those on the thorax all arranged transversely ; under 

 surface similarly clothed, the scales on meso- and metasterna and abdomen 

 shorter and more oval than those on prosternum ; antennae reddish-brown, 

 the club pale brown. Beak of female slender, as long as head and thorax, 

 scaly at base, glabrous, finely and sparsely punctate, narrowed and com- 

 pressed beyond the antennal insertion which is at the middle. Antenna 

 slender, scape not reaching eye; first joint of funicle as long as the next 

 two, second one half longer than third. Occiput glabrous, alutaceous, mi- 

 nutely and sparsely punctate. Thorax one third wider at base than long, 

 sides almost straight from base to middle, then rounded and converging to 

 the subtubulate apex, the disk with small, very dense ocellate punctures. 

 Elytra widest just behind the humeri, their sides thence strongly converging 

 to apex, their length only one fifth more than their greatest width ; striae 

 deep, intervals each with three rows of coarse, close-set alternating punc- 

 tures, each of which bears an elongate prostrate scale. Length 4 mm. 



One female, taken at San ford, August 3, on a species of Cassia. 

 I at first thought this to be a form of C. perscilla Gyll., but sent it to 

 Col. Casey, who passed upon it as follows : " Belongs to the perscilla 

 group but is broader and more rhomboidal than that of any of our 

 allied species. Resembles the Mexican podogrosa Champ, very closely 

 in size, form and sculpture, but lacks the four small denuded elytral 

 spots of that species." The scales are paler, coarser and more 

 loosely placed, and the antennal club larger and paler than in examples 

 of perscilla at hand. 



