220 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Vol. xvi. 



funicle about as long as the first ; club small, the first as long as the remaining joints. 

 Eyes oval, separated by about one fourth of their own width. Head densely covered 

 with ochreous scales. Prothorax longer than wide, convex; sides broadly rounded, 

 feebly constricted at apex ; disk very coarsely and densely punctate, a small narrow 

 smooth space at middle, continued half way to the apex as a narrow carina ; surface 

 clothed densely at base with narrowly oval scales, which extend rather sparsely to 

 apex ; near the side margins the scales are larger and white or yellowish white. 

 Elytra wider than the thorax at base ; humeri rounded ; sides feebly arcuately nar- 

 rowing to apex ; near apex sinuate ; apices conjointly rotundate-truncate ; surface 

 deeply striate, intervals flat and coarsely punctate ; the basal region densely clothed 

 with oval whitish scales, another white fascia of pale scales below middle but not as 

 dense as the basal fascia ; apex covered with ochreous scales : between the basal and 

 submedian fascia and below the latter and apex the surface is black with a few scat- 

 tered ochreous scales. Body beneath covered with oval, white scales, which are nar- 

 rower and more elongate along the middle. Mesosternal excavation deep, metaster- 

 num declivous in front. Legs short ; femora not sulcate and unarmed. Length 4.25 

 mm., width 2 mm. 



Huachuca Mts. , Arizona. 



The genus Eulechriops is closely allied to Lechriops (Gelus Cas., 

 Piazurus Lee.) from which it differs principally by the unarmed, non- 

 carinate femora. 



From a specimen sent him as Copturus minutus by Professor Wick- 

 ham, Mr. Champion * placed Zygomicrus doubtfully as a synonym of 

 Eulechriops. He was apparently not certain of the correctness of the 

 identification, probably misled by Major Casey's statement that the 

 mesosternum in Zygomicrus is not excavated. In minutus and sobrinus 

 the mesosternum is distinctly excavated, the femora unarmed and not 

 carinate, which places these two species plainly in the genus Eulech- 

 riops, of which Zygomicrus, described a year later, is a synonym. 



SCOLYTIDiE. 



Chramesus asperatus, new species. 



Form of ico?-ice, black, tarsi and antennpe testaceous ; elytra with more or less 

 distinct rows of small, narrow scales and each interval with a row of longer, stouter, 

 erect scales. Head in the male broadly impressed, very finely reticulate ; in the 

 female flat, feebly, transversely elevated between the antennal insertion. Prothorax: 

 wider than long ; sides broadly arcuate ; apex scarcely constricted ; surface indis- 

 tinctly reticulate, with rather large, not densely placed muricate punctures, which 

 become strongly asperate towards the sides, each puncture bearing a moderately long, 

 semi-erect, scale-like hair. Elytra as wide as the thorax at base; sides almost 

 parallel ; apex broadly rounded, punctate-striate ; strife scarcely impressed ; intervals 

 feebly convex. Abdomen sparsely clothed with pale hairs. Length 1.75-2 mm. : 

 width 1-1.2 mm. 



*Biol. Cent. Am., Vol. IV, pt. 5, p. 113. 



