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The pronotum is much as in affaber Mannh., widest behind 

 and narrower towards the front; the sides usually curved, but 

 sometimes nearly straight for a short distance. The pronotum 

 of both sexes is more distinctly granulate than in the male of affaber; 

 the whole upper surface is strongly granulate. The prothorax 

 is margined behind. 



The elytra are very closely, deeply and coarsely punctured 

 in rows. The strise are not impressed, and the punctures of the 

 interspaces are as large and about as numerous as those of the striae. 

 The punctures of the first interspaces are confused behind. The 

 declivity has the first two striae impressed, as usual, but the suture 

 is not raised, so that the declivity appears from above as quite 

 distinctly flattened. The punctures of the declivity are coarse 

 and very numerous. The densely and coarsely punctured declivity 

 distinguishes this species from others described from North 

 America. 



The pronotum and elytra are rather densely clothed with long, 

 erect, yellow hairs. 



The type bears the labels; Col., Cornell U., lot 302, sub. 37. 

 189, type 9 . 



Dryocoetes confusus, n. sp. — Length, 3J^ mm. Dark red to 

 nearly black, front densely hairy, and elytral interspaces con- 

 fusedly punctured; pubescence long, erect, straight, and rather 

 dense on the pronotum and on the elytra. 



The front of the female is almost entirely covered with a very 

 dense, circular brush of short, yellow hairs, with the marginal hairs 

 longer and thicker; a fine median carina is visible. The frontal 

 hairs are very much denser than in eichoffi Hopk. The front of the 

 male is densely, coarsely, roughly punctate and sparsely clothed with 

 long hairs, with a shallow impression below and a fine medium carina 

 above. The eyes are emarginate and the antennal club obliquely 

 truncate as usual. 



The pronotum is slightly longer than wide, widest behind the 

 middle, about as wide as the elytra, gradually narrowed cephalad 

 of the posterior third, broadly rounded in front and very broadly 

 rounded behind. The entire surface is roughened, but the aspera- 

 tions are finer and closer behind the middle. The smooth median 

 line is nearly obsolete. The pronotum is sparsely pubescent, 

 wdth long hair on the sides and in front, and the disc nearly gla- 

 brous. 



The elytra have the sides nearly parallel, slightly wider behind, 

 with the declivity somewhat flattened from the depth of the first 

 two striae. The striae of the disc and sides are hardly impressed 

 except the suturai striae which are rather distinctly impressed, 



