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and rostrum also with rather long erect hairs intermixed. Eostrum about as long as the prothorax, 

 feebly curved, closely punctate to near the tip, the antennae inserted far beyond the middle, the funiculus 

 6-jointed. Prothorax transverse, densely punctate. Elytra much wider than the prothorax, com- 

 paratively short, punctate-striate, the interstices punctulate. Legs short ; femora unarmed ; tarsal claws 



with a long tooth. 

 Length lf-lf, breadth f 



1 millim. ( g .) 



Hab. Salvador, San Salvador (Solari). 

 Two specimens, apparently males, one 



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of them presented to us by 



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They were captured in May 1898. The only 



Central-American form kno 



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P. hispidus ( 



p. 198), which has a much longer, arcuate, 



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rostrum, more parallel, subgibbous 

 darker, and the erect setse much sh 

 vestiture in the present species. 



and longer legs, the vestiture sparser and 

 The sculpture is almost hidden by the close 



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l. Macrorhoptus sphsBralcise. 



Macrorhoptus estriatus, antea, iv. 4, p. 200 (nee Leconte) \ 



Macrorhoptus spharalcice, Pierce, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxxiv. p. 173 (1908) 2 . 



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 Pedro Coahuila (Dr. Palmer). 



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M. estriatus was wrongly identified by me, and the Juarez specimen referred to it, 

 and others now before me from Coahuila, doubtless belong to M. sphceralcAce, Pierce. 

 They are densely clothed above with elongate pallid scales intermixed with scattered 



small decumbent curlec 



of Sjphceralcea angustift 



The Texan examples were bred from the fruit-capsul 



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THYSANOCNEMIS (p. 203). 



4 (a)- Thysanocnemis exclamationis, sp. n. (Tab. VIII. figg. 26, 26 «, 2 .) 



Broad-ovate, piceous, the under surface in part black, the rostrum, antennae, and legs (the middle of the 

 femora excepted) ferruginous ; thickly clothed with very small reddish-brown hair-like scales, the elytra 

 with a faint sinuous, transverse, yellowish, postmedian fascia, a few widely scattered, intermixed, semi- 



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erect, setiform, white scales, and a broad velvety-black sutural stripe (extending from about the basal 

 fourth to near the apex), the latter interrupted at the middle of its length by a tuft of coarser semierect 

 narrow ochreous scales ; the under surface sparsely set with decumbent whitish hairs. Head densely, 

 finely punctate ; rostrum considerably longer than the head and prothorax, curved, moderately stout, 

 shining, very sparsely punctate, smooth along the middle, carinate at the base. Prothorax strongly 

 transverse, rounded at the sides anteriorly, much narrowed in front ; closely punctate, subcarinate down 

 the middle, the interspaces densely minutely punctate. Elytra broad, subtriangular, transversely 

 depressed at the base ; with rows of rather coarse punctures placed in almost obsolete stride (the first, 





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