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PHAENITHONINI, NEW tribe 



TABLE OF GENERA OP NORTH AMERICAN PHAENITHONINI 



1. Beak apically truncate, quadrate 2, 



Beak obliquely rounded at apical angles Griburiosoma Schaeffer. 



2. Club small, solid, joints very indistinct (fig. 17) Ormiscus Waterhouse. 



Club distinctly three jointed Toxotropis LeConte. 



Genus ORMISCUS Waterhouse 



Ormiscus Wateehouse, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 1845, vol, 16, p. 37. Type.-^ 



variegatus Waterhouse, monotype. 

 Hormiscus Gemmingee and Haeold, Cat. Col., 1872, vol. 9, p. 2738 (emendation). 



TABLE OF NORTH AMERICAN SPECIES OF ORMISCUS 



1. Scutellar carina angulate at middle 2. 



Scutellar carina arcuate at middle (figs, 21, 22) solidus, new species. 



2. Scutellar carina more sharply and narrowly angulate (figs. 17-20) . 



saltator LeConte. 

 Scutellar carina broadly angulate (figs. 14-16) angulatus, new species. 



ORMISCUS ANGULATUS, new species 



Described principally from a specimen collected at Dallas, Tex.. 

 April 15, 1908, by Hunter and Pratt. 



Length, 2.1 mm. ; breadth 1 mm. Color black with gray 

 pubescence arranged in fasciae. 



Head convex, beak transversely broadly impressed; head and 

 thorax closely punctate and pubescent. Funicular joints of 

 antennae longer than broad, diminishing in size to seventh which 

 is about as broad as long. Club compact, slightly longer than last 

 three funicular joints, three jointed. Eyes slightl}" emarginate. 

 Pronotum convex, sharpely angulate at apices of scutellar carina, 

 which is broadly angulate at center and does not extend forward 

 on the sides. (Fig. 14.) 



The pleural suture is represented by a distinct sinuate smooth 

 line, as illustrated. (Fig. 15.) The centrosternal piece is distinct 

 and triangular. (Fig. 16.) The pronotum is strongly and densely 

 punctate and pubescent, the hairs being concolorous with the body 

 except at the anterior corners and on each side of the scutellar 

 carina. Elytra with two transverse bands of whitish pubescence, 

 one dividing the elytra into three subequal brownish areas; the 

 anterior band is connected with the base by sutural and humeral 

 white areas. Scattered white areas on posterior declivity. The 

 metasternum is medially impressed behind. The abdominal seg- 

 ments are strongly arched forward. The pygidium is grooved at 

 base. Tarsal claws toothed. 



Type.— Cat No. 41357, U.S.N.M. 



