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  PROCEEDINGS 
  OF 
  THE 
  NATIONAL 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  nent, 
  especially 
  apically, 
  terminating 
  abruptly. 
  In 
  porosus 
  the 
  apical 
  

   plates 
  are 
  somewhat 
  larger 
  in 
  proportion, 
  more 
  twisted 
  out 
  of 
  hori- 
  

   zontal, 
  the 
  inner 
  apical 
  angle 
  of 
  each 
  is 
  sharper, 
  and 
  the 
  dorsal 
  keel 
  

   is 
  smoothly 
  rounded 
  as 
  seen 
  from 
  the 
  side, 
  not 
  term^inating 
  abruptly 
  

   apically. 
  

  

  Figure 
  69. 
  — 
  Ophryastes 
  porosus 
  LeConte: 
  a. 
  Female 
  genital 
  tube, 
  dorsal 
  view; 
  h, 
  female 
  

   genital 
  tube, 
  ventral 
  view; 
  c, 
  female 
  genital 
  tube, 
  lateral 
  view. 
  

  

  Type 
  locality. 
  — 
  "Near 
  Chihuahua." 
  

  

  Specimens 
  of 
  this 
  species 
  have 
  been 
  seen 
  from 
  the 
  following 
  lo- 
  

   calities: 
  "Cal." 
  Arizona, 
  Chiricaluia 
  Mountains 
  (Hubbard 
  and 
  

   Schwarz). 
  Colorado, 
  Denver 
  (H. 
  Soltau); 
  Otero 
  County. 
  "Neb." 
  

   Canada, 
  Medicine 
  Hat, 
  Alberta 
  (F. 
  S. 
  Carr). 
  

  

  OPHRYASTES 
  COLLARIS 
  Champion 
  

  

  Ophryastes 
  collaris 
  Champion, 
  1911, 
  p. 
  319. 
  

  

  No 
  specimen 
  of 
  this 
  species 
  has 
  been 
  seen. 
  The 
  following 
  is 
  a 
  copy 
  

   of 
  the 
  original 
  description: 
  

  

  Moderately 
  elongate, 
  black; 
  densely 
  clothed 
  with 
  chalky-white 
  or 
  pale 
  brownish 
  

   scales, 
  the 
  head 
  with 
  a 
  small 
  patch 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  above 
  the 
  eyes, 
  the 
  prothorax 
  

   with 
  three 
  spots 
  at 
  the 
  apex, 
  and 
  the 
  elytra 
  with 
  various 
  irregular 
  scattered 
  patches, 
  

   infuscate, 
  the 
  intermediate 
  and 
  posterior 
  femora 
  also 
  fusco-annulate 
  in 
  front; 
  

   the 
  surface 
  also 
  set 
  with 
  minute, 
  short, 
  scattered 
  hairs. 
  Rostrum 
  very 
  broad, 
  

   without 
  definite 
  transverse 
  depression 
  at 
  the 
  base, 
  deeply 
  trisulcate, 
  the 
  lateral 
  

   grooves 
  converging 
  posteriorly, 
  the 
  flattened 
  inter-ocular 
  poi'tion 
  of 
  the 
  head 
  also 
  

   shallowly 
  trisulcate. 
  Prothorax 
  strongly 
  transverse, 
  laterally 
  bilobato-dilatate 
  

   (the 
  posterior 
  lobe 
  prominent 
  and 
  the 
  prothorax 
  here 
  nearly 
  or 
  quite 
  as 
  wide 
  as 
  

   the 
  elytra), 
  constricted 
  just 
  before 
  the 
  base, 
  the 
  groove 
  in 
  front 
  of 
  the 
  basal 
  ridge 
  

   deeply 
  impressed 
  laterally 
  and 
  obsolete 
  in 
  the 
  middle; 
  the 
  depressed 
  narrow 
  basal 
  

   portion 
  angularly 
  produced 
  backwards 
  in 
  the 
  middle; 
  the 
  surface 
  vmeven, 
  sparsely, 
  

   coarsely 
  punctate. 
  Elytra 
  convex, 
  oblong-oval, 
  with 
  a 
  short, 
  neck-like 
  constric- 
  

   tion 
  at 
  the 
  base; 
  coarsely 
  punctate-striate, 
  the 
  interstices 
  convex. 
  

  

  Length 
  9-12^5, 
  breath 
  4%-5^ 
  millun. 
  

  

  [Type 
  locality. 
  — 
  Not 
  definitely 
  stated 
  in 
  original 
  description.] 
  

  

  Hah. 
  North 
  America, 
  Texas 
  {coll. 
  Fry. 
  — 
  Mexico, 
  Nuevo 
  Laredo 
  in 
  Tamaulipas 
  

   {Hoge). 
  

  

  Two 
  specimens, 
  assumed 
  to 
  be 
  male 
  and 
  female, 
  the 
  Texan 
  example 
  ( 
  ? 
  ) 
  being 
  

   much 
  broader 
  than 
  the 
  other. 
  Near 
  0. 
  tetralobus, 
  but 
  with 
  the 
  median 
  groove 
  of 
  

  

  