52 COLEOPTERA RHYNCHOPHORA. 



the next two, which are mutually equal and fully as long as wide- 

 Prothorax strongly transverse, sides moderately convergent from the 

 base and nearly straight for two-fifths their length, then rapidly arcu- 

 ately narrowed to the apical constriction ; punctuation dense and moder- 

 ately coarse, the punctures in mutual contact or very nearly so. Elytra 

 three-fifths wider than the prothorax, one-sixth longer then wide, 

 sides parallel in basal half, striae rather finely impressed, moderately 

 punctate ; intervals nearly flat, about three times as wide as the striae, 

 sparsely punctulate and moderately shining. Second ventral segment 

 distinctly longer than the third, the latter just visibly longer than the 

 fourth, fifth as long as the third. Legs black, tarsi becoming piceous 

 brown; all the femora apparently unarmed. Length, 2.3 mm. ; width, 

 1.4 mm. 



Type.— From Ormsby County, Nevada (Baker). 

 The type is a 9 , and with it I place a cf from the same 

 locality which is almost surely identical ; it is a little less 

 robust, the vestiture a trifle sparser, the pronotal vittae obso- 

 lete, and the short elytral vittae while evident, are much less 

 conspicuous ; the front thighs have a barely visible obtuse 

 tooth, the hind tibiae are slightly incurved at apex, but 

 scarcely enough to throw the species into the subgenus 

 Cnemoscyllus. If it were so referred, however, it is at once 

 distinguishable from any of the species with 7-jointed funi- 

 cle by its stouter form and sparser vestiture. The species 

 seems best referred to the sguamostis group, from all of which 

 it differs by its stouter form. The vestiture is sparser than 

 in any of the species with nearly unarmed femora ; murimis 

 approaches it in this respect, but in this latter the scales are 

 unicolorous. 



A. appositus n. sp.— Rufopiceous ; legs, beak and antennae ru- 

 fous ; body densely clothed with pale ochreous to brown, and whitish 

 scales, the latter forming three conspicuous vittae on the prothorax, 

 covering the scutellum, the fourth and sixth elytral intervals for the 

 greater part of their length, intervals 8-10 in great part ; there are also 

 numerous white scales on the sutural interval, and those of the under- 

 surface are mostly of this color. Beak (cf ) longer than the head and 

 prothorax, rather densely punctate and striate throughout ; dull and 

 squamose basally, more shining apically. Eyes separated by a little 

 less than the width of the beak. Antennae inserted at about the apical 

 two-fifths of the beak in the cf, a little beyond the middle in the 9 ; 

 funicle 7-jointed, second joint twice as long as wide, nearly twice as 

 long as the third and subequal to the third and fourth united. Pro- 

 thorax a little wider than long, sides moderately arcuate and strongly 



