BLOSl'RODES. 



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autennjB resembling those of Blosijrus, while the side-pieces of the 

 sternum are fused as in Blosijrodes ; this fusion has also beguu lu 

 Blost/rus iniequalis, Boh. 



Keif to the Species. 



1 (12) Forehead not carinate. 



2 (7) Elytra without tubercles on the disk 



and with regular punctp.te striaj 

 throughout. 

 .3 (6) Upper surface clothed with scales ; 

 tlie suture separating the head 

 from the rostrum not augulated 

 in the middle ; the head with a 

 narrow longitudinal impression on 

 each side of the central furrow. 



4 (o) Rostrum not angularly dilated at 



the apex, its sides straight ; pro- 



thorax granulate quudrinodosus, Jek., p. -39. 



5 (4) Rostrum angularly dilated at the 



apex, its sides sinuate ; prothorax 



punctate varieyatus, Redt., p. 40. 



6 (3) Upper surface without scales, but 



clothed with fine recumbent pu- 

 bescence ; the suture separating 

 the head from the rostrum augu- 

 lated in the middle; the head 

 Avithout lateral nnpressions pubescens, sp. n., p 41. 



7 (2) Elytra with prominent rounded 



tubercles on the disk. 



8 (11) Elytra with irregular deep punc- 



tures on the disk, the shoulders 

 rounded and without a prominent 

 humeral tubercle. 



9 (10) Elytra globose, with two shallow 



regular sulci ou the intlexed mar- 

 gins, the juxta-sutural tubercles 

 on the declivity conical ; rostrum 

 with a bare central carina and an 

 indistinct oblique carina on each 

 side; of it vernicosus, sp. n.. p. 41. 



10 (9) Elytra oval, with three deep sulci 



on the intlexed margins; rostrum 



with a single carina ttibemsus, sp. u., p. 42. 



11 (8) Elytra subquadrate, with regular 



punctate striae on the disk, the 

 shoulders oblique and with a pro- 

 minent humeral tubercle ; rostrum 

 very finely tricarinate nodulosus, sp. n., p. 43. 



12 (1) Forehead with a central carina . . nodulipenms, Boh., p. 43. 



8. Blosyrodes quadrinodosus, Jelc 



Blosijrodes quadrinodostis, Jekel,* Col. Jekel. 1875, p. 159. 

 Blosyms depressus, Faust,* Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1886, p. 129 (n. syu.). 



Colour black, with dense brown scaling, obscurely variegated 

 with paler scales. 



