24 MISC. PUBLICATION 417, U. S. DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE, 
emarginate, and impressed in middle area; transverse impression broad, not deep, 
rather indefinite, scarcely arcuate; surface subopaque, finely, very densely © 
granulate-punctuate; vestiture of fine, short, erect, very inconspicuous hairs. © 
Kye finely granulate, twice as long as wide, not strongly widened above, inner — 
margin entire. Antenna with first segment of club slightly longer than other 
three combined. 
Pronotum slightly narrower than elytra, about 1.24 times as long as wide, | 
widest near middle; sides distinctly arcuate, moderately broadly rounded in |. 
front; posterior outline feebly bisinuate, posterior angles rounded, surface shin- 
ing between the coarse, moderately deep, close punctures (distinctly coarser and. 
somewhat rougher than in tenuis), not granulate on disk; punctures smaller and 
denser in front, distinctly rugose-granulate at sides, side margin not acute be- 
hind; median line distinctly elevated, not broad; vestiture of short, fine, erect 
hairs on disk, slightly longer on sides. 
Elytra slightly wider than pronotum, about 1.95 times as long as wide; base 
of each sinuate; sides subparallei on anterior three-fourths, then narrowed, at 
first abruptly, then more gradually, with extreme tip rather broadly rounded; 
surface moderately shining; striae impressed, first and second more deeply so,. 
punctures deep, close, moderately coarse (Slightly finer than in tenwis) ; inter- 
spaces subequal to striae in width, convex, densely, finely rugose-granulate; 
strongly convex and finely, confusedly granulate on declivity ; vestiture of mod- 
erately short and fine hairs, somewhat longer and stouter than in tenuis, | 
arranged irregularly on disk, longer and slightly irregularly arranged on | 
declivity, with shorter, recumbent hairs at sides of each interspace. Last abdom- § 
inal sternite somewhat convex, rather narrowly rounded behind, finely, closely, | 
rather roughly punctured, with rather short, fine hairs. 
Male.—Smaller than female and slightly stouter, about 2.9 times as long as 
wide; pronotum much narrower than elytra, but with sides arcuate as in female = 
last abdominal sternite shorter, more broadly rounded behind, more finely and 
closely punctured, devoid of median groove and of special pubescence. | 
Type locality —¥ lorida. 
Host—Unknown. 
Holotype and allotype.—U. S. National Museum No. 54036. 
Remarks.—The holotype is from “Enterprise, Fla., 26-5” and the 
allotype from “Baldwin, Fla., 10-6.” Both are from the Hubbard and 
Schwarz collection. They are almost certainly two of the three speci- 
mens mentioned by Schwarz in “Coleoptera of Florida” and erro- 
neously listed as ewilis Chapuis. These two specimens were compared 
by J. M. Swaine with a type of ewtlis and found to be different. 
HYLASTES PARVUS, new species 
Female.—Reddish brown, 2.63 mm. long, about 3.06 times as long as wide; 
allied to tenuis but slightly smaller. more slender, and more finely punctured. 
Frons very broad between eyes, frontal rectangle nine-tenths as long as wide; 
piceous brown above, reddish brown below; epistoma moderately impressed at 
each side, with a narrow middle area somewhat elevated, but not carinate; 
epistomal margin somewhat thickened and liplike, its median lobe rather broad, 
short, broadly impressed in middle, with free end emarginate; transverse im- 
pression wide but shallow, scarcely arcuate; surface moderately shining, very 
finely and closely punctured, subgranulate at sides and below; vestiture of small, 
inconspicuous hairs, longer on epistoma. Eye finely granulate, about twice as 
long as wide, widest above; inner line entire. Antenna with first segment of 
club longer than the other three combined. 
Pronotum distinetly narrower than elytra, about 1.32 times as long as wide; 
posterior outline feebly arcuate; posterior angles slightly rounded, subequal in 
width near posterior border and in front of middle, with intervening portions 
of sides subparallel, feebly sinuate, narrowed to the broadly rounded front 
margin; surface shining, closely, rather finely punctured, interstices finely reticu- 
late, not granulate on disk, minutely, densely punctured in front, granulate- 
punctate at sides; side margins behind more acute than in tenuis; median line 
rather wide, elevated, brightly shining; vestiture of very fine, short, suberect 
hairs, inconspicuous except in profile. 
