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Rather closely allied to maritimus and semivittatus, but 

 differing conspicuously by the perfectly uniform vestiture 

 which shows no trace of condensation at any point, and by 

 the slightly more robust form with the relatively somewhat 

 wider prothorax, with sides more nearly continuous with 

 those of the elytra. 



DINOCLEUS Csy. 



D. hystrix n. sp. — Oblong oval, not very robust, black, very 

 densely clothed above with nearly white recumbent hair and numer- 

 ous long fine, erect white setae, which on the elytra are subserially 

 arranged on the interspaces; sides of beak, a broad dorsal thoracic 

 stripe which is narrowed in front and finely divided, an elongate 

 spot on the flanks, and several small elytral spots, subdenuded and 

 blackish. Beak stout, not as long as the prothorax, dorsum flattened 

 with vestiture so dense as to conceal the sculpture, but apparently not 

 or but feebly carinate ; front broadly rather deeply concave. Pro- 

 thorax nearly square, sides straight and parallel to the abrupt apical 

 constriction, the angles not tuberculiform, punctures moderately coarse, 

 deep and close. Elytra three-eighths wider than the prothorax and 

 two and one-half times as long, nearly twice as long as wide, sides 

 straight and parallel to apical two-fifths; serial punctures almost com- 

 pletely concealed except the sutural row, not very coarse, larger in the 

 small denuded spots which occupy the usual positions ; alternate inter- 

 spaces not perceptibly more prominent. Beneath densely pubescent, 

 finely speckled with black points ; legs bristling with longer hairs. 

 Length, 8.5 mm. ; width, 3 mm. 



Type. — From Pasadena, California. Two examples col- 

 lected by Dr. Fenyes in February. 



This is one of the most distinct species in our fauna by its 

 dense white vestiture abundantly bristling with long erect 

 hairs. In pi losus Q.nd. jacobinjis the elytral setae are long, but 

 the alternate intervals are very strongly costiform in the 

 former, while in the latter the setae are sparser and shorter 

 and the vestiture generally darker, while in both the form is 

 distinctly stouter and more oval. 



PHYLLOTROX Sch. 



In the Rhynchophora of North America* Dr. LeConte 

 describes two small species which he doubtfully refers to P/iy/- 

 lotrox. Whether either of these is a true representative of the 



* Proc. Am. Philos. Soc, XV, p. 174. 



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