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Pronotum coarsely, sparsely punctate, the punctures feebly tending to 

 coalesce obliquely; body obese 4 inodestlis 



Pronotum completely impunctate, but with long deep and oblique rugae 

 throughout; body much narrower 5 tortliosus 



Subgenus II. 



Body robust, rather less densely clothed above with elongate slender squam- 

 ules, which are generally ochreous-yellow in color, occasionally a little 

 wider and nearly white ; basal joint of the anlennal funicle almost as 

 long as the next four together in the female 6 piciIinilllS 



Body smaller and narrower, rather more densely clothed above with broader, 

 oval, white scales ; basal joint of the funicle shorter, about as long as the 

 next three in the female ; beak a little shorter 7 albotectus 



Subgenus III. 

 Beak long, slender, thicker toward base, especially in the female and gener- 

 ally about one-half as long as the body. 

 Vestiture of the upper surface consisting of paler and darker squamules, 

 confusedly intermingled, with two small subapical quasi-denuded spots. 

 Paler scales ochreous-yellow in color ; slightly smaller and stouter spe- 

 cies, the presternum perfectly flat in the female 8 neglectllS 



Paler scales whitish ; prosternum broadly, feebly impressed in both sexes ; 

 beak in the female much more strongly, but not very abruptly, inflated 



toward base 9 grisescens 



Vestiture of the ujiper surface dense and uniform throughout ; subapical 

 dark spots totally obsolete. 

 Integuments black, densely clothed with white or yellowish-white squam- 

 ules. 

 Scutellum minute. 



Scutellum flat, sparsely squamose ; beak in the female but very 

 feebly and gradually thicker toward base ; vestiture cinereous- 

 white 10 perscillus 



Scutellum polished, with a broad deep glabrous impression along 

 the middle, the apex emarginate ; beak in the female very much 

 thicker and more arcuate toward base, but gradually so; prothorax 

 much shorter than in perscUlus; vestiture uniform ochreous yellow 



or whitish 11 finitiiniis 



Scutellum much larger, flat, densely squamose ; vestiture white ; beak in 

 the female abruptly and strongly inflated behind the point of antennal 



insertion, extremely slender thence to the apex 12 Iiospes 



Integuments pale testaceous, the vestiture ochreous-yellow ; legs still 



paler, rufous 13 claresceiis 



Beak decidedly short and thick in both sexes, cylindrical and nearly equal in 

 diameter from base to apex, barely as long as the head and prothorax ; 

 integuments rufous or rufo-piceous ; antennae with the funicular jt>ints 

 two to seven much shorter. 



