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sides subparallel, widest before middle and with well-rounded 
apex; narrowly margined, basal margin very distinct; humeri 
with a tiny notch at outer angle; striae consisting of rows of 
coarse punctures, the first row converging from angle of scu- 
tellum to suture and joining suture at basal fifth, remaining 
striae becoming less convergent and more parallel to suture; 
between these coarse rows of punctures on the interspaces another 
indistinct and sparsely placed series, all punctures bearing very 
inconspicuous short pale recumbent hairs only visible under high 
powered lens. Body beneath shining, punctate, more coarsely 
on metasternum, and with fine, short pubescence. First ventral 
segment about twice as long as second, second, third and fourth 
gradually decreasing in length, last wider and well rounded. 
Legs slender, rather short, tibiae gradually dilated to apex, tarsi 
pentamerous, first three segments of tarsi very pubescent, the 
fourth segment being short, narrow and inconspicuous. An- 
terior tarsi of males (?) dilated and even more pubescent. 
Length: 2. 6-3. 8 mm. Width 1-1 . 4 mm. 
Type: Cat. No. 40796, U. S. N. M. 73 paratypes. 
Type locality : Homestead, Florida. 
Other localities: Larkins, Haw Creek, Crescent City, Bis- 
cayne, Naranja, Punta Gorda, Lake Worth, Miami, all in Florida. 
Food plant: Reared from flowers of Zamia floridana A: DC. 
by E. A. Schwarz. 
The type of the genus, Pharaxonotha kirshi, now known 
from Texas, Mexico, and Central America, was described by 
Reitter in 1875, having been found in drugs sent to Silesia from 
Mexico. The generic name suggests the character that differen- 
tiates this from allied genera, — the short, deep, impressed lines 
at the base of the prothorax. Hapalips sculpticollis Champ, also 
has impressed lines on the prothorax, and Grouvelle 4 in writing 
of H. sculpticollis states that he has not included this species in 
his table because he believes it ought to be put in another genus. 
H. sculpticollis, the only known specimen of which is before me, 
differs from the present species by having much longer im- 
pressions on the pronotum, very deep basally and connected by 
4 Memoirs Entomologiques 2, 1919, p. 91. 
