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closely indeed, that if Wollaston (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1873) 

 did not repeatedly state that the antennal funicle in that genus is 

 fi-jointed, I should be inclined to regard them as identical. 



Besides the entire lack of eyes, thick fossorial legs, deeply ex- 

 cavated and bicarinate prosternum, excessively short sterna of 

 the hind body and very elongate abdomen, with the fourth suture 

 fine and almost obsolete, Schizonotus is remarkable in having the 

 deflexed prothorax non-conformable with the elytra at base, the 

 base of the former being truncate or even apparently somewhat 

 sinuate, while that of the latter is deeply emarginate, the two bases 

 being always widely separated and exposing a large part of the 

 mesonotum. 



It is not altogether surprising that Wollaston made the mistake 

 of assigning these genera to the Cossonina?; they certainly have a 

 cossonide facies in some respects. The rostral, antennal, and pro- 

 sternal characters, however, prove them to be aberrant members of 

 the bagoide series. 



S. caPCUS 11. sp. — Rather dark red-brown throughout, polished, sparsely 

 covered with short pale bristling setje, which form single series on the elytral 

 intervals. Head finely, the beak more coarsely, sparsely punctate through- 

 out, the beak not quite as long as the prothorax, inflexed in direction, making 

 an acute angle with the plane of the elytra. Prothorax rather longer than 

 wide, the sides broadly arcuate, constricted at the sides just before the basal 

 margin, the apex broadly arcuate and scarcely three-fifths as wide as the base ; 

 disk perfectly even, feebly convex above, finely but deeply, very sparsely 

 punctate, without median line. Elytra elongate-oval, more than twice as 

 long as wide and two and one-half times as long as the prothorax, in the 

 middle nearly one-half wider than the latter ; sides parallel and nearly 

 straight in the middle, convergent and rounded toward base, convergent and 

 straight or feebly sinuate in apical third, the apex narrowly rounded ; basal 

 margin acute laterally ; disk with unimpressed series of rather small but 

 deep, somewhat distant punctures, becoming coarse and deep on the inflexed 

 flanks ; punctures of the intervals toward the suture nearly as large as those 

 of the series, the latter becoming almost obsolete toward apex. Abdomen very 

 sparsely punctate but strongly so toward base. Length 2.0-2.1 mm. ; width 

 0.7-0.75 mm. 



California. 



A most interesting species, apparently the only completely blind 

 curculionide thus far recorded from North America ; as might have 

 been anticipated it has revealed itself in the subasiatic fauna char- 

 acterizing our Pacific Coast. 



