Baring 445 



deep; intervals flat, finely, loosely and confusedly punctate. Length 

 (9) 3.8 mm.; width 1.4 mm. Florida (locality unrecorded). 



parallelus n. sp. 

 Body nearly as in parallelus but a little smaller, deep black, with rufous 

 legs; squamules above white and slender, not much more distinct 

 toward the pronotal sides, conspicuous and in two uneven series on 

 the strial intervals, the scutellum not transverse, densely albido- 

 squamose; under surface with dense white scales; beak not quite 

 as long as the head and prothorax, arcuate, more slender and less 

 strongly sculptured in the female; antennae inserted at four-sevenths 

 (9 ) or three-fifths (cf ); prothorax not a third wider than long, the 

 sides parallel and arcuate, more rounding before the middle; punc- 

 tures moderate, dense and partially coalescent; elytra fully two- 

 thirds longer and barely wider than the prothorax, elongate-para- 

 bolic, with very feeble humeri; grooves deep and rather coarse; 

 intervals flat, finely, loosely and confusedly punctate; male with 

 the abdomen narrowly and feebly impressed and a little less squam- 

 ose medio-basally. Length (cf 9) 2.7-3.6 mm.; width 1. 15-14 



mm. Florida (Haw Creek). Three specimens decipiens Lee. 



Body very short and broadly oblong-oval, convex; color deep black, the 

 surface somewhat alutaceous throughout, the legs not paler; vesti- 

 ture above white, fine and sparse on the pronotum but more distinct 

 toward the sides, coarse and dense on the transverse scutellum and 

 adjacent thoracic lobe, distinct in about two irregular lines on each 

 strial interval; beak in the female unusually long, smooth, arcuate, 

 as long as the elytra, the antennae barely beyond the middle; pro- 

 thorax fully one-half wider than long, the evenly and strongly 

 arcuate sides becoming parallel at base, the apex faintly subtubulate, 

 half as wide as the base; punctures very moderate and not dense, 

 the smooth median line visible in part; elytra short, but little longer 

 than wide, three-fifths longer than the prothorax and but very 

 little wider, parabolic, the striae deep and unusually coarse; man- 

 dibles differing somewhat from the typical, being more gradually 

 narrowed, straighter externally, the inner edge with a minute denticle 

 near the base. Length (9) 3-3 mm.; width 1.5 mm. Florida 



(Capron) contractus Csy. 



Body broad, subrhomboid-oval, only moderately convex above, deep 

 black, the tarsi piceous; linear squamules of the upper surface 

 white, dense along the pronotal apex and in an abrupt lateral vitta, 

 also in a large medio-basal spot, elsewhere almost wanting; on the 

 elytra they are dense, except along the suture, broadly toward base 

 and surrounding the rounded and densely squamose scutellum, 

 also nearly wanting broadly along the sides; under surface strongly 

 convex and densely albido-squamose; beak in the female cylindric, 

 feebly arcuate, sparsely punctulate, longer than the head and pro- 

 thorax, the slender antennae inserted at four-sevenths; prothorax 

 nearly one-half wider than long, the sides slightly converging and 

 evenly, just visibly arcuate nearly to the apex, there rapidly round- 

 ing inward, the apex scarcely at all constricted and more than half 

 as wide as the base; punctures coarse, deep and very dense but well 



