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outer two are white, the others black setose; scutellum oviform, 
with scattered, minute, white scales on each side on posterior 
part; elytra more than one and one-half times longer than broad, 
broader than prothorax, the basal margin on each side hardly 
produced, the striz formed by oblong punctures, mostly covered 
by scales; second interval at base, fourth on apex, convex, there 
with denser and more divergent bristle scales; prosternum en- 
tirely, mesosternum and metasternum white as is the first ster- 
nite, except its sides, remainder of abdomen dark brown, with 
much-dispersed white scales; legs prevailingly dark-scaled and 
erect-setose; femora with an indistinct tooth, the posterior ex- 
tending hardly beyond second sternite, the anterior whitish on 
basal half, as are also the anterior tibie on apex. 
Genus NANNOCOLOBODES novum 
Ithyporidarum olim 
Corpus squamosum ac erecte squamoso-setosum. Rostrum sat 
robustum, scrobibus lateralibus, apice deorsum visibili. An- 
tennae prope rostri apicem insertae. Prothorax antice produc- | 
tus, in dimidia parte apicali attenuato, lobis ocularibus obsoletis. 
Scutellum distinctum, glabrum. Elytra oblonga, prothorace la- 
tiora, basi truncata. Femora linearia, minute dentata, tibiae 
rectae, margine interno in medio subdilatato. Coxae anticae 
contiguae, intus planatis, intermediae distantes, posticae meta- 
episternis tangentes. Metasternum inter coxas intermedias vix 
declive. Prosternum excavatum. 
This genus may be placed to the best advantage in the Ithy- 
poridz and belongs to the few exceptions of “Curculionides pha- 
nerognathes apostasimérides” *® that have the anterior coxee 
contiguous and that share the other characters, even the ap!- 
cally inserted antennz, with Amphialus Pasc., *° the eyes being 
small, the ocular lobes wanting, the scutellum distinct, and the 
first joint of hind tarsi shorter than the claw joint. 
Nannocolobodes mus sp. nov. 
Niger, antennis rufescentibus, cinereo-, elytris parte basali, 
semicirculari (post convexo) maculaque minuta, apicali, ochra- 
ceo-, rostro capiteque albido-squamosis, setis erectis, nigrican- 
tibus, parce obsitis; rostro latitudine plus duplo longiore, dorse 
subcarinulato; prothorace longitudine paulo latiore, lateribus 12 
“” Lacordaire, Gen. Col. 7: 1. 
” Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. V 11 (1883) 127. 
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