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3. Tarsal claws minutely and indistinctly toothed 4. 



Tarsal claws distinctly provided with a more or less slender tooth 6. 



4. Prothoracic carina sinuate, broadly rounded at middle 5. 



Prothoracic carina regularly but shallowly convex sparsus, new species. 



5. Prothoracic carina strongly arcuate; vestiture of elytra tessellate. 



pusillus LeConte. 



Prothoracic carina feebly arcuate; elytra with posterior half clad with 



darker vestiture approximatus LeConte. 



6. Antennae light yellowish or reddish throughout and very long and slender; 



elytra with a dark transverse fascia at about the middle. 



fasciatus LeConte. 

 Antennae partly dark 7» 



7. Antennal funicle light reddish or brownish, club much darker 8» 



Antennae dark throughout, except sometimes the basal joints 11, 



8. Prothoracic carina not very near to base at middle 9. 



Prothoracic carina very near to base at middle 10, 



9. Femora light only at base ; tibiae and tarsi light except at tips ; elytra with 



a dark sutural spot at middle quercus Schaeffer. 



Legs light except at tips of tibiae and tarsal joints, which are darker; 

 elytra mottled irroratus Schaeffer. 



10. Legs reddish except at tips of tibiae and tarsal joints, which are darker; 



elytra with two dark basal and two dark median spots. 



quadrimaculatus, new species. 



Legs dark, reddish; elytra marmorate with a faint indication of two basal 



dark spots eusphyroides Schaeffer. 



11. Antennae black 12, 



Antennae with first joint light; elytra darkening at base and with two 



dark lateral spots at middle mitchelli, new species. 



12. Elytra brovm or black with a prominent white sub-basal fascia curved on 



each elytron to meet scutellum albofasciatus Schaeffer. 



Elytra with two dark basal spots and two discal dark transverse fasciae. 



submetallicus Schaeffer. 



13. Thoracic carina broadly rounded sextuberculatus Schaeffer. 



Thoracic carina narrowly rounded victoriensis, new species. 



TOXOTROPIS SIMPLEX, new species 



Described from a single specimen in the Hubbard and Schwarz 

 collection from St. Catherine Island, Georgia, April 20. 



Length, 2 mm. Dark reddish brown with gray pubescence. 

 Beak flat, punctate, densely pubescent. Antennal joints longer 

 than broad, diminishing in size, club distinctly three jointed. 

 Eyes slightly emarginate. Prothoracic ridge very broadly arcuate 

 behind, sinuate towards sides. Vestiture very fine, sparse and more 

 or less irregular. Elytral strial punctures distinct. Tarsal claws 

 divaricate, slender and simple. 



Type.— C^t. Ko. 41359, U.S.N.M. 



TOXOTROPIS PUSILLUS LeConte 



Toxotropis pusillus LeConte, Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc, 1876, vol. 15, p. 898. 

 Occurs at Key West, Florida, in April. 



