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Pityophthorus coniperda n. sp. Body cylindrical, less elongate, shin 

 ing, sparsely beset with rather long, erect and serrate hairs ; color black, 

 mouth-parts, antennae, and tarsi reddish testaceous, tibiae often reddish. 



Head more or less retracted into the thorax, very shining, furnished, 

 in both sexes, with but a few hairs, sculpture varying according to sex, 

 but always with a broad, smoother median space; eyes large, acutely, but 

 not deeply emarginate in front; antennal scape straight, gradually thick 

 ened apically ; funicle 5-jointed : first joint obconical, slightly longer than 

 wide at tip, second joint as long as wide, arising from a very thin base, 

 joints 3-5 transverse, extremely short and closely connate; club large, 

 ovate, longer than the funicle, on both sides shining and sparsely pubes 

 cent, fringed with moderately long hairs, and divided by two nearly 

 straight sutures into three nearly equal parts. 



Thorax almost as wide as long at base, greatly narrowing apically (when 

 viewed from above), front margin obliquely truncate each side, but not 

 angulate at middle, base straight, margined, side margin acute from the 

 base to apical third ; surface much more densely hairy than the head, the 

 hairs mostly suberect, anterior half rather densely but not very strongly 

 tuberculate, concentric arrangement of the tubercles not much evident; 

 median tubercle obsolete; posterior half strongly and densely muricately 

 punctured, a smooth median line of larger or smaller width extends from 

 the middle to near the base. 



Elytra at base as wide as the thorax, conjointly rounded at tip, pubes 

 cence sparse, long and erect, sculpture consisting of regular rows of mod 

 erately coarse, not closely-set, punctures, the first row, and often one or 

 two of the outer rows, slightly impressed posteriorly; first and second in 

 tervals very sparsely uniseriately punctured, sometimes nearly smooth, the 

 other intervals with regular series of punctures so that the interstitial 

 series can hardly be distinguished from the stria?; narrow basal margin 

 of elytra irregularly punctured; declivity moderately steep, at middle 

 slightly flattened, hardly retuse and not sulcate, smooth, very shining, trav 

 ersed by a fine, elevated subsutural stria, which is either crenulate or 

 slightly tuberculate, and limited externally by a tuberculated ridge which 

 is the continuation of the second elytral interval and which is accom 

 panied, internally, by a row of punctures. 



Anterior tibiae with a narrow base and more strongly dilated apically 

 than in the typical Pityophthorus, without tarsal groove, outer edge fringed 

 with rather long, moderately dense hairs and furnished, at apical third, 

 with two strong teeth, the outer one being terminal ; middle and hind tibiae 

 with the teeth less strong and fringed with hairs on inner and outer edges. 



Male : Head smooth, except scattered punctures near the eyes, and with 

 a flattened tubercle on the clypeal margin which is continued posteriorly 

 for some distance as a feebly elevated ridge. 



Female : Head with small scattered punctures which become stronger 

 and denser at the sides; without clypeal tubercle and elevated ridge. 



Length : 2.7-3.3 mm - 



