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KHYNCHOPHOEA. 



the broad, flattened, 



5. Sphenophorus multipunctatus, sp. n. (Tab. VII. figg. 34, 34 a, 6 .) 



S Elongate, subfusiform, ratber broad, flattened above, opaque, black, tbe tarsi piceous, the coarse punctures 

 on the upper and under surfaces and legs filled with a pale b-wnish incrustation. Rostrum a little 

 shorter than the prothorax, moderately stout, subcylindrical, depressed in front of ' ' 

 sulcate, coarsely punctate basal portion, the apical portion more sparsely punctured, the peduncle of the 

 submentum rounded in front. Prothorax much longer than broad, subcylindrical, abruptly constricted 

 in front, and narrowed at the base, the base and sides feebly sinuate ; sparsely punctate, the punctures 

 becoming coarser and more crowded along the sides and down the slightly depressed oblong space at the 

 base. Scutellum rather small, oblong-subtriangular. Elytra a little longer and wider than the pro- 

 thorax, subcordate, somewhat uneven ; with rows of subcontiguous, rounded, foveiform punctures placed 



the fine striae, the interstices flat, similarly punctured, 1, 3, and 5 becoming irregularly biseriate- 

 punctate anteriorly. Pygidium and under surface very coarsely, closely punctate ; metasternum and 

 first two ventral segments broadly and shallowly sulcate down the middle, the punctures each bearing a 

 fine hair, the fifth segment with a very large, deep, pyriform excavation, bordered on each side by 

 a crenate ridge. Femora and tibiae sparsely fringed with long hairs, the tibiae curved and with a very 

 long apical claw, the subapical tooth at the inner apical angle almost obsolete. Third tarsal joint 

 widened and with a narrow spongy-pubescent space on each side beneath. 



Length 12A, breadth 4^ millim. 



along 



Hab. Mexico, Tepenistlahnaca in Oaxaca (Salle). 









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One 



A remarkable form, with the coarse punctures of 





of the striae, the elytra themselves h 





the proth 



ally long and subcy 



the 



bise curved, and the 



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pyriform excavation of the fifth ventral segment of the male bordered on each side by 







a crenate ridge. 



6. Sphenophorus cariosus. (Tab. VIII. figg. 2, 2 a, c? .) 





Culandra cariosa, Oliv. Ent. v. no. 83, p. 91, t. 28. fig. 415 



C 1 



Sphenophorus cariosus, Horn, Proc. Am. Phil. Soc. xiii. p. 420 2 ; Chittend. Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. 





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vn. p 



177 





Calandra larvalis, Germ. Ins. Spec. nov. p. 301 4 



Rhynchophorus cicatricosus, Say, Descr. N. Am. Cure. p. 22 5 ; Complete Writings, i. p. 289 

 Sphenophorus flexuosus, Gyll. in Schonh. Gen. Cure. iv. p. 940 7 . 

 Sphenophorus scu/ptilis, Uhler, Proc. Ac. Phil. 1855, p. 416 





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Hab. N 



{Edge 



Middle and Gulf States 2 . — Mexico (Mus. Brit.\ Cordova 



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definite loc* 

 State of V 



Cru 



conspicuous N.-American species from 

 its distribution to as far south as the 

 S. cariosus may be known by three more or less polished 





Mexico 



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longitudinal flattened ridges on the prothorax (the median one diamond-shaped and 



posteriorly, the others long, sinuous, and complete), and the basally raised 



hairy 



each side at 



fifth also somewhat prominent. The male 

 apex, the ventral excavation long and deep 



has 



the third 



joint of the anterior tarsi slightly widened, A specimen from Cordova is figured 





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