Sytiop.tis of the Cnlrnptcroii.i Famihj Cisidac (Cioidae) 15 



(leiiliculato. The first ventral segment has a rounded, finely 

 punctate fovea, with a row of long yellow hairs, springing from 

 its anterior margin and pointing backward over it. Lengtii "iAH 

 to 1-08 mm. The female is smaller and lacks horns and ventral 

 fovea and her ventral segments are pale. Eight sj)ecimens. 

 Cincinnati, Ohio, Kentucky, Alabama and Tennessee. (Cum- 

 berland Gap). Specimens in National Musevun with larvae, 

 from District of Colum1)ia. 



Xestocis moznetiei, n. sp. 



Oblong oval.. Thorax piceous, elytra brown, with a large 

 reddish blotch at humeri and another near apex. Basal joints 

 of antennae 'and legs paler. Punctures dual, the smaller ones 

 bearing short, pale bristles, not serial in arrangement. Head 

 has epistoma emarginate at middle, on each side of which the 

 margin is reflexed into triangular processes. Front with a 

 shalloNN' foveate depression. Prothorax evenly and finely 

 punctured; sides arcuately rounded and strongly margined 

 around base. Elytra twice as long as prothorax, with the 

 larger punctures substriate in arrangement. Beneath the 

 prosternum is strongly tumid between coxae. ]\Iales have a 

 rounded fovea on first ventral segment. The females lack this 

 fovea. Average length i nun. Fifty specimens. Bred from Poly- 

 stictus. Corvallis, Oregon, March 10, 1915. Geo. F. Moznette. 



Xestocis davisi, n. sp. 



]\Iale. Broad, oval. Rather pointed before and behind. 

 Shaped like npalescens. Piceo castaneous in color. Clyi)eus 

 biangulate. Front concave. Prothorax wider than long, 

 finely, closely punctate. Apex produced into a short {)rocess, 

 emarginate at tip. Elytra one and one-half times as long as 

 wide; finely, deeply, punctate. Conjointly pointed behind. 

 Beneath with a fovea on first ventral segment. Length 1-50. 

 A\idth 0-G mm. Fenude lacks fovea and ])rocess of prothorax. 

 Three specimens. Staten I.sland, X. Y. Named in honor of 

 Wm. T. Davis, 'who knows more of the faunae of Staten Island 

 than anv one I know of. 



