*?00 Coleopterological Notices, IV, 



specimens were labeled Phloeophagus apionides, but the latter is 

 evidently a widely different species, with the " lateral striae entire ;" 

 in P. parvicollis, the ninth and tenth striae are united behind the 

 humeri, as in all the species of this genus. 1 



P. piceilS n. sp. — Cylindro-cuneate, strongly convex, glabrous, piceous, 

 the elytra polished ; pronotum feebly alutaceous and minutely reticulate. 

 Head and beak minutely and sparsely punctate, the latter parallel, convex, 

 one- half as long as the prothorax, separated from the head by a broad, trans- 

 verse impression, which is foveate in the middle ; scrobes deep, widening be- 

 hind ; antennae inserted behind the middle, the basal joint of the funicle 

 large, two to five transversely obconical, subequal in length, the second par- 

 tially concealed within the apex of the first as usual ; club rather large, oval, 

 fully as long as the four preceding joints combined. Prothorax fully as long 

 as wide, the sides subparallel, broadly arcuate, convergent and very feeblv 

 sinuate toward apex, more abruptly rounded convergent and constricted at 

 base, the apex broadly, feebly arcuate, nearly four-fifths as wide as the base ; 

 punctures small, sparse, separated by twice their own diameters ; median 

 line obsolete. Elytra distinctly wider than the prothorax and more than 

 twice as long, gradually slightly wider behind, the sides straight ; humeri 

 feebly prominent, narrowly rounded ; striae deeply impressed, rather coarsely 

 but not very closely punctate ; intervals narrow, strongly convex, twice as 

 wide as the strial punctures, each with a single series of scarcely perceptible, 

 remote punctures. Under surface finely, sparsely punctate. Length 2.6 mm. ; 

 width 0.9 mm. 



Florida. 



One specimen, apparently a female. The head is not much more 

 sparsely punctate than the beak, but is almost impunctate toward 

 base and has a small, feebly impressed frontal fovea. This species 

 may be known at once by its fine punctuation and piceous-brown 

 color. 



P. atrolucens n. sp. — Narrow, feebly cuneate, strongly convex, pol- 

 ished, black and glabrous throughout, the legs slightly piceous, the apical 

 margin of the prothorax feebly rufescent. Head and basal half of the beak 

 finely and very sparsely punctate ; beak longitudinally, convex, very short, 

 two fifths as long as the prothorax, narrowly impressed along the middle in 

 basal half, more closely punctate in apical half; antennae inserted just be- 

 yond basal third ; eyes rather nearer the prothorax than the tip of the beak. 

 Prothorax as long as wide, the sides subparallel and almost straight from be- 

 fore the base nearly to apical third, then more convergent and quite distinctly 

 constricted to the apex, the latter rather narrow, three-fourths as wide as the 



1 It is probable that Phloeophagus apionides Horn, should constitute a new 

 genus, but I cannot distinguish P. minor from the true Rhyncolus. 



