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PANSCOPUS (PANSCOPUS) ALTERNATUS Schaeffer. 



Five specimens from Round Knob, North C'arolina, June 24, 26 

 (Hubbard and Scliwarz), are undoubtedly this species. 



PANSCOPmros, new subgenus. 



Tliis new subgenus is erected to contain two species of which squam- 

 osus is the type. It most nearly approaches Neopanscojms m facies. 

 The definition m the table is sufficient. 



PANSCOPUS (PANSCOPIDIUS) SQUAMOSUS, new species. 



Described from a single specimen from Hilgard, Oregon (Wickliam' 

 collection). 



Length 7 mm.; width 2.7 mm. Piceous black, densely clad with 

 golden or brownish scales and set^; appendages reddish piceous. 



Beak longer than head, with sides parallel from eyes to alse, alse 

 promment; nasal plate ogival, strongly medially depressed, apically 

 angulately emarginate. Head and beak very coarsely rugulosely 

 punctate, coarsely clad with elongate squamiform set«. Scrobes 

 deep, strongly visible from above at alse, laterally becoming rapidly 

 evanescent; scape elongate, reaching posterior margin of eyes, 

 densely setose with decumbent golden setae; funicle closely setose, 

 the first two joints elongate, the others monUiform; club oval, about 

 equal in length to the three preceding joints. Eyes lateral, pointed 

 below, and very little convex. 



Prothorax about as long as wide, apically and basally truncate, 

 laterally strongly convex, widest in front of middle, transversely 

 finely impressed just behind apex; median line impressed; ocular 

 lobes small; surface very rough with punctured tubercles, most of 

 which bear a squamiform seta in the puncture. Scutellum minute. 

 Elytra with rounded humeri, sides parallel to the posterior dechvity 

 and hardly wider than thorax at its widest point ; alternate intervals 

 faintly more prominent, intervals wider than striae; striae not 

 impressed, punctures large, rounded, separated by own diameter, 

 each filled with a large oval, striate scale; intervals densely clothed 

 with smaller oval, striate scales, and with more sparsely placed 

 striate, squamiform setse. Under sides more finely and more sparsely 

 clothed, coarsely punctate. Metasternal side pieces not visible. 

 First abdominal suture straight; second segment hardly longer 

 than either the third or fourth. Femora clavate, lightly punctate, 

 lightly squamose; tibise mucronate, the posterior denticulate; pos- 

 terior corbels oblique. The anterior tibiae are very obscurely 

 denticulate. 



Type.— Cat. No. 14640, U.S.Nat.Mus. 



