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Found in numbers by Hoge at Tapachula, in the Pacific-coast region, and 



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the island of Grenada. The nearest allies of this remarkable 



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Sect. Rhyncolides. 



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colini, Leconte. 



Under this section are placed the various genera resembling Hylastes (one of which, 



ips, has a 5-jointed funiculus), Maerancyloides, and Rhyncolus; but the Central- 



merican representatives of the latter are doubtfully congeneric with the type, an 



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RHYNCOLUS. 



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Rhyncolus, Germar, Ins. Spec. nov. p. 307 (1824) ; Schonherr, Gen. Cure. iv. p. 1056 ; Wollaston, 



Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1873, pp. 439, 498, 585, 645; Horn, Proc. Am. Phil. Soc. xiii. 

 pp. 436, 444; Leconte, op. cit. xv. p. 341. 



various American species referred to this genus, the type of which is the 

 Palsearctic R. ater, L. (=chloropus, F.), require a thorough revision. Of the three 

 Central-American forms here provisionally included in it, R. elumbis, Boh 





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brmis, Woll.), and the insects described below under the names R. 



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R. montivagus, would perhaps be better placed in Stenancylus, Casey *, their mor 



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+ ; the fourth, B. lauri, Gyll 



to me. These verv small, narrow, elongate forms approach Macraneylus, Lee. (Haioxewu 

 Perkins) J, and Rhamphocolus, Casey, both of which have a basally widened rostrum, & 

 Z. protractus, Horn, a species found under oak -bark in California, incorrectly referrc 

 Maerorhiincolus, Woll., by Leconte, is also not unlike R. elumbis and Stenancyl 



'colomboi. 



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% Khyncolus elumbis. (Tab. III. fig. 29.) 



s elumbis, Boh. in Schonh. Gen. Cure. iv. p. 1062 l 



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nnvncolus fusiformis, Woll 



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. Mexico, Jalapa (Hoge), Motzorongo (Flohr), Teapa (H. II. Smith) ; G\ 

 u and San Juan in Alta Vera Paz, Las Mercedes, El Reposo, El T 



Cerro Zunil (Champion), Cacao near Trece Aguas (Schwarz & Barber, in U.S. Nat 



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Colombia, Remedios x ; Brazil, Bahia and Rio Janeiro 2 ; Cuba, Cayam 



s, in U.S. Nat. Mus.); Grenada (Mus. Brit.). 



* Ann. New York Acad. Sci. vi. p. 693 (1892). Type, S. colomboi, Casey. Specimens of this species from 

 Cayamas, Cuba, and Jamaica have been sent me by the U.S. Nat. Mus. for determination, with co-types from 



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upiter and Biscayne Bay, Florida. Mr. H. H. Smith has also taken it in St. Vincent. 



f A variable character in Fentarthrum. 



M. linearis, Lee. ( = H. immigrans, Perk.), lives on the sea-shore; it occurs in Florida, the "West Indies 

 stique I., Grenadines, and Grenada), and the Hawaiian Is. Eutornus littoralis, Broun, from New Zealand, 







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