Coleopterological Notices, IV. 581 



total width, abrupt, prominent and rounded ; disk with coarse oblique parallel 

 wavy rngse, and with a narrow subcarinate itnpunctate line in basal two- 

 thirds. Scutellum glabrous, small, subquadrate, broadly emarginate at apex 

 and deeply impressed along the middle. Elylra at the large and somewhat 

 prominent humeri, conspicuously wider than the prothorax, distinctly more 

 than twice as long as the latter, the sides rapidly convergent from base to 

 apex and feebly arcuate, the apex narrowly rounded ; disk with moderately 

 coarse, deep, abrupt, finely and remotely punctured strise, the intervals flat, 

 three times as wide as the grooves, coarsely, not densely punctato-rugulose. 

 Length 3.S mm. ; width 2.0 mm. 



Texas. 



The single specimen is a male and agrees nearly in prosternal 

 structure with modestus, the surface being very broadly and feebly 

 impressed, except just behind the apical margin, where there is a 

 large and transversely oval, extremely deep excavation. The cox» 

 are much more widely separated than in modestus, the interval 

 being equal to fully one-half of their own width, and the form of 

 the body is more narrowly oval ; it also differs greatly in pronotal 

 sculpture, the latter being finer and in the form of long oblique 

 rugfe. In the male the middle of the anterior margin of the ante- 

 rior acetabula has a small feeble cusp-like elevation as in modestus. 



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6 Ceiltl'illUS picilinnus Herbst — Kafer, VII, p. 30 (Curculio); oliva- 

 criis Gyll. : Sch. Cure, III, p. 7(J3; sutor Harris : Trans. Hart. Nat. Hist. Soc, 

 I, p. 81 (Centrinus). 



Somewhat broadly oval, convex, black throughout, densely and 

 uniformly clothed above with long more or less narrow lineate 

 squamules, pale ochreous-yellow to whitish in color, a little paler, 

 denser and much wider beneath. Beak similar in the two sexes, a 

 little longer in the female, very strongly arcuate, fully one-half as 

 long as the body; antennae inserted well behind the middle, the 

 second funicular joint but slightly elongate, not one-half as long as 

 the first and one-half longer than the third ; club abrupt, moderate, 

 oval, densely pubescent, nearly as long as the four preceding together 

 and with its basal joint composing nearly one-half of the mass. 

 Prothorax fully one-half wider than long, conical, with the sides 

 feebly arcuate, feebly constricted near the apex, the squamules 

 denser and broader on the small but prominent basal lobe. Elytra 

 a little wider than the prothorax and nearly twice as long. Pro- 

 sternum in the male narrowly, extremely deeply excavated along 



