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206 Coleopterological Notices, III. 



squamiform, with small and Tridely dispersed denser nuclei, fine and evenly 

 distributed on the median parts of the pronotum, cinereous throughout. Head 

 and beak very sparsely pubescent, finely but very deeply and strongly, densely 

 punctate, the beak very short, scarcely three-fourths as long as the prothorax, 

 slightly arcaate, distinctly flattened above and with an extremely fine and 

 feeble median carina in basal two-thirds ; antennse inserted just beyond the 

 middle, the scrobes extending rather beyond apical third. Prothorax but little 

 wider than long, the apex subtruncate, nearly two-thirds as wide as the base, 

 the latter broadly and obtusely angulate ; sides distinctly convergent from 

 the base to apical fourth, the apex slightly constricted ; disk very densely, 

 rather strongly punctulate and also somewhat densely, moderately coarsely 

 punctate, feebly, narrowly impressed in the middle toward base. Elytra 

 between two and three times as long as wide, three times as long as the pro- 

 thorax, and, behind the middle, a little wider than the latter ; sides sub- 

 parallel, the apex gradually somewhat narrowly rounded and with a distinct 

 angulate sutural notch ; disk feebly impressed in the middle toward base, 

 with unimpressed rows of deep, rather distant punctures which are coarse 

 toward base but fine near the apex. Abdomen with longer hair, denser on the 

 last three segments. Ler/s short but not very stout, sparsely pubescent, the 

 femora subannulate with longer and denser pubescence at apical third. 

 Length 7.8 mm. ; width 2.4 mm. 



Texas. 



A rather small species allied to mixtus, but differing in its nar- 

 rower form, convergent sides of the prothorax and finer, denser, 

 less variolate punctuation of the pronotum. In mixtus the sides 

 of the prothorax are parallel and rather distinctly arcuate, the apex 

 being rather abruptly and strongly constricted, somewhat as in 

 Sylvius and scrohicollis ; the elytral vestiture is long and hair-like, 

 with intermixed erect setse in that species, while in sobrinus it is 

 very short, sparser and squamiform, without trace of intermixed 

 setae. The single specimen before me is of uncertain sex, but judg- 

 ing by the short beak, is probabl}^ a male. 



20 L.. Sylvius Boh. — Sch. Gen. Cure, VII, 1, p. 430 ; scrobicollis Lee. nee 

 Boh.: Proc. Am. Phil. Soc, XV, p. 159. 



Kentucky; Georgia; " Carolina et Pensylvania" — Bohem. A 

 rather small, widely diffused species, readily distinguishable by its 

 very long slender beak, parallel form of body, strongly constricted 

 apex and extremely coarse remote and variolate punctures of the 

 prothorax. In all of these characters it agrees rigorously with the 

 long description of Boheman, who states that in the female the beak 

 is as long as the head and prothorax. The expression " thorace re- 

 mote profunde varioloso-punctato" could not be applied in any sense 



