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coarsely punctured area at the base ; the punctate-sulcate elytra, with the interstices 

 flattened and very finely, irregularly seriate-punctate ; the more or less produced outer 

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Sphenophorus angustus, Boh. in Schonh. Gen. Cure. viii. 2. p. 250 \ 



20. Sphenophorus angustus. (Tab. VIII. figg. 8, 8 



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<$ . Anterior coxae with a long, narrow, oblique tuft, and the intermediate coxae with a smaller tuft, of coarse, 



matted, ochreous hairs ; anterior and intermediate femora clothed with short hairs along their lower 



face ; posterior tibiae closely, and the other tibiae, more sparsely, ciliate within ; ventral excavation very 



long and deep, coarsely, closely punctate, each puncture bearing a small ochreous scale, the fifth segment 

 unimpressed. 



$ . Anterior and intermediate femora and coxae each with a small tuft of hairs, the posterior tibiae less closely 



ciliate. 

 Length 7i~9|, breadth 2|-3^ millim. (c? 2 .) 



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This insect belongs to Horn's Group I. of the genus. It has the prothorax com- 

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 of the base, where there is a cluster of coarser impressions) and narrow ; the rostrum 



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third tarsal joint narrow. The elytra are sometimes castaneous. I have seen six 



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pies of S. angustus (which is incorrectly treated by Chevrolat as synonymous 



S. cicatripennis), including the type. The two males before me agree perfectly 





The long narrow streak of dense matted hairs on the 



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Group CALANDRINA 

 PHRYNOIDES. 





Phrynoides, Chevrolat, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1885, p. 94. 



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This remarkable Tropical-American genus is said by Chevrolat to be related to 

 idotus (of the Group Sphenocorynides of Lacordaire), but it seems to me to be 



better placed amongst the " Calandrides vrais," near Eugnoristus and Calandra. It 





has the rostrum almost straight; the eyes contiguous beneath; the antennal club 

 oderately long, cylindrical, obliquely truncate at the tip, and with the basal joint 









* Abhandl. Mus. Dresden, 1889, p. 55. 



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biol. CENTR.-AMER., Coleopt., Vol. IV. Pt. 7, October 1910. ZZ 











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