BEETLES OF THE GENUS RENOCIS — BLACKMAN 395 



RENOCIS CRIDDLEI (Swaine), new combination 



Pscudocryplialus criddici Swaine, Canada Dept. Agr., Ent. Branch, Bull. 14, pt. 

 1, p. 21, 1917; pt. 2, p. 58, 1918. 



"This species is very closely allied to hrittaini; with the same size, 

 form, and colour; but it is apparently distinct through the very 

 feebly impressed elytral striae, and the small, very closely placed 

 strial punctures. ^ ^ 



"Series of 108 specimens from Aweme, Man., Prunus virgtmana; 

 collected by Mr. Norman Griddle." 



Swaine's original description is quoted verbatim. The writer has 

 seen no specimen of this species. 



Type and paratypes are in the Canadian National Collection, 



Ottawa, Canada. 



RENOCIS PENICILLATUS Bruck 



Figures 17, m; 18, ; 



Renocis penicillatus Beuck, Can. Ent., vol. 65, p. 239, 1933; Bull. Southern 

 California Acad. Sci., vol. 35, pt. 2, p. 120, 1936. 



Female.— PiQ^ows with cinereous scales and hairs; with two pencils 

 of long setae just behind front margin of pronotum; 1.14 to 1.6 mm. 

 long, about 1.8 times as long as wide. 



Frons with a median point on epistomal margin ; with a fringe of 

 nearly white setae covering basal halves of mandibles ; nearly flat, 

 feebly impressed just above epistoma and in median line; surface 

 piceous, shining, finely and closely punctate-granulate; clothed with 

 coarse, moderately long, testaceous setae, slightly longer at sides and 

 above. Eye slightly more than 3 times as long as wide, finely granu- 

 late, inner margin sinuate. Antenna (fig. 17, m) with club not 

 much longer than funicle, slightly more than twice as long as wide, 

 with distal end subacute, with three nearly straight annulate-setiger- 



ous sutures. i,- i, • 



Pronotum 1.57 times as wide as long, widest near base, which is 

 very broadly, rather deeply emarginate in median half; sides strongly 

 arcuate posteriorly, strongly narrowed in anterior half; transversely 

 impressed just behind anterior margin, which is broadly rounded, 

 sinuate in median area; surface piceous, shining, very finely granu- 

 late-punctate, with less numerous, coarser, but still fine punctures m- 

 terspersed ; at each side with three groups of high, rather slender asper- 

 ities or teeth, each group consisting of 2 or 3 teeth, posterior group just 

 behind middle, second group just behind transverse impression, an- 

 terior group, smaller and occasionally lacking, on anterior margin; 

 surface clothed with small cinereous scales, consisting of numerous 

 narrow, recumbent ones, and less numerous (from coarser punctures), 

 broad, suberect, cinereous scales; with a group of long cinereous hairs 

 each side of median line, just behind anterior margin. 



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