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S S. Legs red-yellow. 



Short ovate. Pitcli-brown, scantily covered with white 

 scales and short bristles ; rostrum reddish-brown ; legs 

 red-yellow. Eostrum as long as half the body, thin, curved, 

 very finely striate, sliiny ; thorax very short, deeply con- 

 stricted before apex, with an indistinct tubercle on each 

 side, anterior margin much raised ; elytra much broader 

 than tliorax, scarcely longer than broad, very convex, with 

 deep punctured striae, interstices narrow, somewhat 

 wrinlded, shoulders raised, obtusely angular. L. J 1. Eare. 



G. pumilio, Gyll. 



&. Elytra black, with apex reddish. 



Black, with gray pubescence ; apex of elytra, tibiae and 

 tarsi yellow-red ; base of suture of elytra with a spot of 

 white hairs. Eostrum long, thin, curved, very finely 

 striate, shiny ; thorax short, deeply constricted toward apex, 

 with indistinct tubercles on each side, middle of anterior 

 margin raised ; elytra with rather deep crenate striae ; 

 interstices transversely wrinkled. L. 1^ 1. Not uncommon. 



C. terminatus, Herbst. 

 -B. Femora toothed. 



a. Anterior margin of thorax notched at sides ; inter- 

 stices of elytra roughened throughout. 



Pitch-black ; elytra, antennae and legs red-brown. Elytra 

 with feebly punctured striae, interstices raised and bearing 

 long white and black upright bristles and spines. L. If 1. 

 Moderately common. C. horridus, Fab. 



b. Anterior margin of thorax simple ; elytra roughened 

 at apex only. 



I. Thorax with three longitudinal gTay lines ; elytra 

 without white spot at scuteUum. 



1, Eostrum unicolorous. 



A A, Forehead without white spot. 

 Lighter or darker brown ; covered with grayish scales 

 beneath ; antennae and legs reddish-yellow-brown ; tliorax 

 without lateral tubercles and with three lines of white 

 scales ; elytra usually with blackish suture, upright whitish 

 bristles on the interstices and some small spines before 

 apex. L. 1 1. Common. C. troglodytes, Fab. 



C. Chevrolati, Bris. (MS.) is a variety of C. troglodytes 

 distinctly striped and banded with white. 



