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broader than long, sides very feebly narrowing to a little before middle, 

 then more strongly narrowing to apex, scarcely impressed, surface with 

 large, closely placed punctures, which are confluent at apex, very sparsely 

 clothed with short, stiff bristles. Elytra not impressed laterally below the 

 humeri, which are rounded ; punctures large and closely placed ; intervals 

 feebly convex ; surface clothed with white and pale-yellowish hairs, not 

 forming a fascia or band, with some erect, pale, short bristles intermixed. 

 Body beneath and legs sparsely pubescent; mesosternum flat, feebly rounded 

 in front ; abdomen coarsely and closely punctate; femora with a moderate 

 tooth ; claws cleft, the inner portions touching each other. Length, 



3-5 mm. 



Brownsville, Texas. 



By the cleft claws and erect setae, this species has to be associated 

 with erinaceus, echmatus and hispidiis. From echmatus the toothed 

 femora and the short bristles of thorax and elytra will separate it, and from 

 the other two the shorter setae of the upper surface, the more closely 

 punctate abdominal segments, the stouter and larger form, and the 

 distinctly carinate beak. 



CryptorhynchiiS lacteico/Iis, Champ. — Oblong oval ; elytra blackish- 

 brown, with sparsely placed yellowish scales, and with a number of reddish, 



shining tubercles ; thorax uneven, densely clothed with white scales, 

 on each side of middle of base two distinct darker spots. Head 

 coarsely and closely punctate, with closely placed ochreous and white 

 scales ; front deeply impressed, between the eyes flat and carinate, above 

 each eye a tuberculiform elevation ; beak stout, feebly arcuate, rather 

 coarsely and confluently punctured, finer towards apex ; antennae inserted 

 at about middle of beak, funicle seven-jointed, with the first stouter and 

 shorter than second, club elongate-oval, one-jointed, as long as the 

 preceding five joints, finely pubescent. Thorax twice as wide as long, 

 sides feebly narrowing from base to a little before middle, then strongly 

 narrowing to the distinct subapical constriction ; surface uneven in apical 

 half, on each side of the median carina, the latter starting from the 

 subapical impression to middle, and from here to base is a feeble 

 impressed line ; on each side two more or less distinct tubercles, one at 

 about apical third and one at about basal third ; apical margin at sides 

 feebly emarginate, ocular lobes therefore feeble ; base bisinuate, the feeble 



