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The mandibles are naked and very prominent; the thorax is 

 rounded and its surface is rough and punctured. 

 [Is the type of Panscopus Sch. — Leg.] 



3. B. GRANULATUS. — Brown, thorax obtusely granulated and 

 with a pale vitta. 



Inhabits Indiana. 



Body dull brown with short raised hairs : head impressed be- 

 tween the eyes : thorax with very obtuse granulations, a longitu- 

 dinal slender impressed dorsal line in a dull yellowish vitta : 

 elytra a little elevated on the basal edge, striae concave, much 

 dilated, punctured ; punctures wide, not very deeply impressed, 

 interstitial lines not so wide as the striae, with hairs; suture a 

 little pale. 



Length about one-fourth of an inch. 



The surface of the thorax exhibits the appearance of obtuse 

 little elevated granulations and the profile view shows irregular 

 punctures or interrupted rugae. 



LEPYRUS Germ. 



L. GEMINATUS. — Body dusky : rostrum rather short : antennae 

 a little robust : thorax with a yellowish vitta each side : elytra 

 with the alternate interstitial lines light brown, a small white 

 spot in the middle of each. 



This is the analogue of the L. colon F. of Europe, and so 

 closely allied to it as to be easily mistaken for it. But the body 

 is a little more robust ; the rostrum is a little shorter and the an- 

 tennae are more robust. 



A specimen was sent to me by Mr. Barabino from Louisiana, 

 I obtained one in Missouri. 



HYLOBIUS Germ. 

 II. PALES Herbst; Pissodes macellus Germar Sp. Novae, p. 319. 



PHYTONOMUS Schonh. 



P. TRiviTTATUS. — Blackish brown with numerous scale-like 

 hairs. 



Inhabits North-west Territory. 



Body blackish-brown, with numerous, robust hairs almost re- 

 sembling scales, which are longer in three yellowish metallic, 



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