270 AMERICAN COLEOPTERA. 



reac-hiiig to the bind angles of thorax, basal, joints pale, tlie otbers piceous. An- 

 tebasal ridge of protborax broadly rounded. Metasternuni moderately deusely 

 clotbed witb wbite hairs, abdomen more sparsely and with shorter hairs. Legs 

 pale, except tibiae at apex and partly the tarsi blackish, claws deeply cleft, the 

 inner portions of the cleft claws touching each other. Length 2.5 mm. 



Enterprise, Florida, collected by the late Ottomar Dietz. 



By the deeply cleft claws this species has to be placed with irrora- 

 tus and submetallicus, from which and from all our other .species it 

 will be easily known by the tuberculate third elytral interval. The 

 basal tubercle is the largest, the second is situated slightly behind 

 middle and the third near apex. 



Toxotropis euspliyroides n. sp. — Pale brown, head, thorax and ely- 

 tra intermixed with yellowish cinereous pubescence, forming a more or less well 

 defined median line on the thorax with some more or less confluent spots at 

 sides, on tbe elytra a broad basal, a post median and apical fascife, these fasciae 

 more or less confluent, leaving a basal, a large median spot, the latter of irregu- 

 lar outline and an apical transverse band dark. Head convex; eyes oblique, 

 emarginate; beak slightly narrower at base than at apex, the latter feebly emar- 

 ginate; antennal fossae not visible from above; antennae pale, club darker, joints 

 three to eight decreasing in width, club somewhat loosely formed. Prothorax 

 wider at ba.se than long, sides gradually narrowing to apex, antebasal ridge 

 broadly arcuate at middle, very near the base of elytra, hind angles prominent. 

 Elytra nearly parallel-sided, striae moderately closely punctured. Body beneath 

 moderately densely pubescent. Femora darker than the tibite, the latter and 

 the first tarsal joint black at apex ; claws cleft, the inner portion smaller than 

 the outer and convergent. Length 2.25-2.5 mm. 



Brownsville, Texas, July. 



The more prominent hind angles of thorax and the general form 

 suggest Eusphyrus. The position of the antebasal carina is in this 

 species closer to the elytral base than in the other species, except 

 quercus, from which the form of claws, the more prominent basal 

 angles of thorax and the coloration will easily separate it. In 

 general appearance and coloration it resembles very much Eusphy- 

 rus walshii. 



Toxotropis quercus n.sp. ^Blackish brown, inclining to reddish brown 

 in some parts; head, thorax and elytra with cinereous hairs intermixed, the pale 

 hairs forming on the elytra a broad basal fascia, leaving on each side at middle 

 of base two darker spots, suture and apex also with cinereous hairs. Head con- 

 vex, eyes oblique, emarginate, beak strongly transverse, feebly emarginate at 

 apex. Antennal joints pale at base, the outer darker, gradually decreasing in 

 length. Thorax at base as wide as long, sides nearly parallel behind to about 

 middle, then feebly arcuately narrowing to apex ; antebasal carina broadly but 

 not strongly lobed at middle and not very far from the base of the elytra, not 



