Baring 455 



lines, dense and white on the small scutellum; white scales of the 

 under surface distinctly separated; beak in the male thick, feebly 

 arcuate, sculptured and not quite as long as the head and prothorax, 

 the antennae at four-sevenths; prothorax with the sides just visibly 

 converging and virtually straight, gently rounding in about apical 

 third to the feebly constricted apex, which is much more than half 

 as wide as the base; elytra short, only three-sevenths longer than 

 wide, much wider than the prothorax and four-fifths longer, with 

 rather prominent but small humeral swellings, parallel and nearly 

 straight sides to behind the middle, then subevenly rounded through 

 the apex; intervals subequal, fully twice as wide as the moderate 

 striae, each with a series of small though distinct and well spaced 

 punctures; male abdomen but feebly modified. Length (cf ) 2.3 

 mm.; width 0.8 mm. Alabama (probably from near Mobile). 



alabamae n. sp. 



Prothorax distinctly shorter than wide, more narrowed at apex 24 



24 — Body subcylindric, feebly shining, black, the legs obscure rufous; 

 squamules above throughout very nearly as in the preceding, the 

 lateral vitta of the pronotum a little wider, a fifth the total width: 

 white scales of the under surface well separated, denser on the met- 

 episterna; beak in the male nearly as in the preceding but much 

 longer, being distinctly longer than the head and prothorax and with 

 the antennae near three-fifths; prothorax fully a fifth wider than 

 long, the subparallel sides very feebly arcuate but distinctly, grad- 

 ually rounded in about apical fourth to the very feebly constricted 

 apex, the latter much more than half as wide as the base; elytra 

 scarcely one-half longer than wide, only a little wider than the pro- 

 thorax and almost twice as long, with small and feeble humeral 

 swellings; sides parallel and straight in three-fifths, then rounding 

 to the narrowly subobtuse apex; intervals twice as wide as the 

 moderate striae, each with a series of small but evident punctures; 

 male abdomen distinctly impressed and semi-nude along the middle 

 basally and also in the middle of the fifth segment. Length (c^) 

 2.8 mm.; width i.o mm. Kentucky (locality unrecorded). 



piceipes n. sp. 

 Body subcylindric but less convex, deep black, with rufo-piceous legs, 

 slightly shining, the slender pronotal squamules as in the preceding 

 but even more obliterated along the median line, similarly whiter 

 and more conspicuous in very even single interstitial lines on the 

 elytra, but with the squamules more separated longitudinally, the 

 under surface similar; beak in the female moderately slender and 

 sparsely sculptured, cylindric, less arcuate distally and longer than 

 the head and prothorax, the antennae just visibly be^'ond the middle; 

 prothorax rather short, a third wider than long, the subparallel 

 and nearly straight sides rounding gradually from slightly before 

 the middle to the unconstricted apex, which is much more than half 

 as wide as the base; elytra only slightly wider than the prothorax 

 and distinctly more than twice as long, slightly more than one-half 

 longer than wide, the humeral swellings obtuse and moderately 

 prominent; sides subparallel, gradually arcuate about the parabolic 



