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punctate, bristling squamigerous. Eyes, black, finely granulate; 

 separated by less than half the breadth of the beak at base. Beak 

 in male as long as head and pro thorax, lightly arcuate, piceous black; 

 rugoso-pimctate, finely squamose and medianly carinate to middle; 

 from middle to apex shining and finely punctulate; antennae inserted 

 just behind the middle; scrobes diagonal, reaching to eyes. Female 

 beak more slender, as long as head and thorax on median Une, almost 

 impunctate from insertion of antennae to apex; antennae inserted a 



Fig. 2.— Adult leiomeeus granicollis. 



httle nearer the base than in the male. Antennae with scape slender 

 clavate; funicle seven-jointed, sparsely pubescent, the first three 

 joints longer than wide, the last four moniliform; club, one-jointed, 

 elongate, cyhndrical, a httle longer than the last five funicular joints, 

 very finely griseo-pubescent. Prothorax transverse, five-sevenths 

 as long as wide, bisinuate at base, convexly produced at apex, round- 

 ingly enlarged at sides to middle, thence strongly narrowed, and 

 emarginate near apex, apex subtubulate, lateral margin rough, gran- 

 ulate at least in male; ocular lobes strong, with short vibrissae; sur- 

 face coarsely gi^anulato-punctate, medianly strongly carinate, closely 

 clothed with broad, striate brownish scales, and more sparsely with 



