T82 Goleopterological Notices, VI. 



South Carolina. Tlie specimen described above is probably a 

 male, but the sexual characters are ver^- feeble, the hind femora 

 being scarcely at all dilated. This is the smallest species of the 

 genus, but is more allied to nuhifer than to any other. 



3. Z. subfasciatus Lee. — Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, 1875, p. 176 (Xylo- 

 philus). 



Rather stout and convex, suboval, polished, pale flavo-testa- 

 ceous throughout, except the head, which is piceous-black and a 

 transverse interrupted submedian fascia, slightly dilated at the 

 sides, of black ; pubescence long, coarse and conspicuous. Head 

 transverse, finel}', sparsel}' punctate, the ej'es large, separated by 

 about three-fourths of their own width ; antennae slender, filiform, 

 slightl}' incrassate near the apex, one-half as long as the bod}' in 

 the male, perceptibly^ shorter and stouter in the female. Pro- 

 thorax slightly narrower than the head, parallel, fully one-third 

 wider than long, broadly arcuate at apex; disk convex, scarceh' 

 uneven, very broadl}- and obsoletel}" impressed along the median 

 line, strongly but not ver}' closely punctate. Scutellum very large, 

 broadly triangular, narrowly- truncate and feebh' bidentate at 

 apex. Elytra barely one-half longer than wide, nearl^^ twice as 

 wide as the prothorax; sides parallel and broadl}' arcuate, nar- 

 rowed and rounded in apical third ; disk somewhat convex, more 

 or less impressed along the suture especially near the apex, the 

 oblique impression from the humeri subobsolete ; punctures rather 

 coarse and deep but well separated. Under surface somewhat 

 coarsely but not densely punctate. Length 1.5-1.15 mm.; width 

 0.7-0.8 mm. 



Rhode Island, District of Columbia and North Carolina (Ashe- 

 ville). This is one of the few species of the family which are at all 

 common ; it is allied somewhat to signatu^, hwi differs in. its more 

 broadly oval form, subobsolete elytral impression and in colora- 

 tion. 



\. Z. Iiii1>1>ai'<1i n. sp. — Somewhat narrow, conve.v, polished, piceons- 

 bluck, the under surfaee pale, except the basal parts of the abdomen, which 

 are piceous; legs pale flavo-testaceous throughout; antenna; black, piceo-testa- 

 ceous toward base, the apical joint testaceous; elytra pale flavo-testaceous 

 with a median black fascia as wide as one-fifth of the length, broadly pro- 

 longed posteriorly along the suture for a short distance; base also black except 

 at the tips of the humeri; pubescence long, coarse, not dense but conspicuous. 

 llvad transvei-se, finely, not densely punctate, the eyes large, separated by 



