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Elytra shorter, not more than twice the length of the prothorax : species 



smaller (length not more than 2£ mm.). 

 Body somewhat convex, nigro-piceous ; prothorax relatively narrower . . vercecrucis, sp. n. 



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1. Caulophilus latinasus. (Tab. II. fig. 8.) 



lihyncholus latinasus, Say, Descr. N. Am. Cure. p. 30 (1831) *; Complete Writings, i. p. 299 : 



(nee Boheman). 



Caulophilus latinasus, Lee. Proc. Am. Phil. Soc. xv. p. 340 (1876) 3 ; Champ. Ent. Monthly Mag 





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Mader. p. 315, t. 6. figg. 4-4 a-c (1851) 



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Cossonus pinguis, Horn, Proc. Am. Phil. Soc. xiii. p. 412 (1873) 6 . 

 Cossonus picipennis, Sturm, in )itt. 7 . 



, Hab. Noeth America, Georgia 4 6 , Florida 1 2 4 6 , Southern States 3 . — Mexico (Salle 

 ex coll. Sturm 6 ; Mus. Brit.), Toxpam, Vera Cruz (Salle), Amula in Guerrero (H. II, 

 Smith)-, Guatemala, DueSas (Champion). — Madeira 5 . 



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face is black, opaque, and very closely punctate (except along the very narrow 



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is sometimes, but not always, distinctly narrower than the elytra. The first ventral 

 segment is depressed down the middle in the male. A specimen from Toxpam is 

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2. Caulophilus COStatus, sp. n. (Tab. II. figg. 9, 9 a.) 



8ubfusiform, moderately shining, nigro-piceous, the head, antennae, rostrum, elytra, and legs piceous or 

 rufo-piceous. Head and rostrum very sparsely, finely punctate, the rostrum cylindrical, stout, feebly 

 curved, about half the length of the prothorax, the eyes large, the head transversely depressed and 

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conical, gradually narrowing forwards to the subapical constriction; closely punctate, the narrow 

 interspaces alutaceous, the disc with an incomplete median line. Elytra considerably wider than the 

 prothorax, subparallel in their basal half and rapidly narrowing thence to the apex; punctato-snlcate, 

 the interstices convex, costate at the apex (fig. 9 a\ somewhat rugulose, each with an irregular row of 

 scattered minute punctures. Legs stout. 



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Hab. Mexico, Motzorongo in Vera Cruz (Flohr). 



One specimen. Nearly related to C. latinasus, differing from it in the smoother 

 rostrum, the somewhat conical prothorax (due to the sides being less rounded), and 

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