264 CUKCULIOXID^E. 



[LeConte. 



coarsely and densely punctured, clothed with large brown scales, and 

 sprinkled with paler, with two large basal spots of dirty white. Elytra 

 with deep punctured striae, clothed with yellow and gray scales, with a 

 curved band, extending from the humeri to behind the middle, then curv- 

 ing forwards and meeting the suture at the middle, thus forming on each 

 an oblique lunule of dark brown. Beneath densely clothed with large, 

 yellowish and grayish scales, legs slightly speckled with dark; thighs as in 

 the other species, unarmed. Length 2..j mm.; .10 inch. 



California; one specimen, collected by W. H. Pease, probably at San 

 Francisco. 



9. O. minutus. Eccoptus minutus Lee, Ann. Lye. Nat. New York, i,. 

 171, pi. 11, fig. 8. 



Easily known by the small size and difierent style of coloration, which is 

 Avell represented in the figure given by my father, as above cited. 



The beak, antennae, legs and elytra are reddish brown, the latter with 

 deep striae, and lines of white narrow scales, forming a broad basal band, 

 an oblique band behind the middle, and a narrow apical margin; the suture 

 is also white, but interrupted about the middle. Beneath and legs rather 

 thinly clothed with narrow white scales. The head and prothorax are 

 darker than the elytra, the latter is deeply punctured, with a lateral vitta 

 and a small ante-scutellar spot of white scales. The eyes are very large, 

 the front extremely narrow. Length 2 mm. ; .08 inch. 



Southern States. Difl'ers from all the preceding by the second join! of 

 the funicle of the antennae not longer then the third. 



AOOPTUS n. g. 



This genus differs from Copiunis 1)y the ventral surface being nearly 

 horizontal, the segments much less unequal, and the sutures nearly straight, 

 as in Zygops. It is essentially difl^erent from that genus by only the first 

 joint of the funicle of the antennse being elongated, and by the pygidium 

 being covered by the elytra. The mesosternum is long, flat, and slightly 

 declivous. 



The second, third and fourth ventral segments are nearly equal, and the 

 fifth is sliglitly longer, and broadly impressed in the specimen examined. 



1. A. suturalis, n. sp. 



Elongate, subcylindrical, black, sprinkled with small whitish scales,, 

 forming two very indefinite bands upon the elytra. Beak as long as the 

 prothorax, cylindrical, curved, punctured, slightly carinate l^ehind, without 

 scales, except at the base; eyes very large, front extremely narrow, linear; 

 head clothed with scales. Prothorax wider than long, slightly rounded on 

 the sides, narrowed in front, where it is broadly constricted; densely punc- 

 tured; dorsal line elevated, reaching neither base nor tip. Elytra a little 

 wider than the prothorax, impressed near the base; striae deep, interspaces 

 flat, densely punctured; scales scattered, more condensed in two transverse 

 bands, in front and behind the middle; scutellum and sutural line as far as 



