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interval has a single series of small distant punctures, especially 

 visible toward base. 



C. graiiiferilS. — Cylindrical, convex, black, moderately sliining, the 

 vestiture consisting of small recumbent robust hairs, rather sparse on the 

 elytra but denser in narrow feeble vitt?e occupying the alternate intervals 

 especially toward apex, also dense in a broader marginal vitta on the pro- 

 notum and elytra. Head finely punctured, very sparsely along the middle 

 where there is a deep elongate fovea between the eyes ; beak robust, parallel, 

 cylindrical, extremely short, scarcely more than one-half as long as the pro- 

 thorax, sparsely punctured, not at all carinate but broadly tumid along the 

 middle, separated from the head by a deep arcuate transverse groove just 

 before the eyes ; surface almost glabrous, narrowly, feebly impressed and 

 rugulose along the sides of the tumid portion, and with a deep elongate 

 median fovea between the antennae ; scape of the latter very short, not more 

 than one-half as long as the remainder, the scrobes strongly convergent be- 

 neath but widely separated at apex. Prothorax nearly as long as wide, the 

 apex broadly arcuate, four-fifths as wide as the base, the latter broadly, feebly 

 cusped and feebly bisinuate ; sides very feebly, evenly arcuate throughout ; 

 disk nearly glabrous except along the sides, not at all impressed except feebly 

 along the basal margin, not carinate, densely covered with small irregular 

 shining tubercles or grannies. Scutellum small but distinct. Elytra nearly 

 two and one-half times as long as wide, just visibly wider than the prothorax ; 

 sides parallel and nearly straight ; broadly parabolic and minutely notched 

 at apex; humeri feebly oblique; disk finely, densely punctulate, coarsely 

 tuberculose and rugulose toward base, with unimpressed series of deep moder- 

 ately coarse punctures. Abdomen densely, finely punctate, rather sparsely 

 clothed with much longer pubescence. Legs short, not very stout, rather 

 sparsely punctate and pubescent, the femora strongly emarginate beneath 

 near the apex. Length 12.0 mm. ; width 3.8 mm. 



Georgia. 



The prosternum is deeply, broadly emarginate anteriorly, the 

 ocular lobes being moderately developed and fringed with very 

 short vibrissfe, which come far from attaining the eyes. This spe- 

 cies differs from any other in our fauna in its peculiar sculpture and 

 very short robust beak, as well as in the structure of the antennse ; 

 it might for these reasons be quite appropriately placed in a sepa- 

 rate subgenus. 



I>IXUS Fabr. 



Eliminating viodestus Mann, {pleuralis Lee.) and texanus from 

 our representatives as tabulated by LeConte (Proc. Am. Phil. Soc, 

 XV, p. 154), and transferring them to Cleonus, with which they 



