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YuccAEORus, Lec. 



V. lentiginoses, ii. sp. — Rather narrowly elongate-oval, convex, black, 

 shining, the elytra dull and with many of the punctures of ihe intervals 

 surrounded by a pale yellowish-white modification of the surface, the 

 punctures along each side of the pronotuni also so affected; beak slender, 

 parallel, straight, four-fifths as long as the prothorax, the. antennae inserted 

 just beyond the middle, where there is a slight lateral s,welling ; punctures 

 coarse and subconfluent ; antennte thick, the glabrp'us polished base of 

 the club extending beyond the middle on the ./Compressed sides, but 

 confined to the basal parts on the narrow sides,,''the scape attaining the 

 eyes, which are coarsely granulated, the individual facets very convex ; 

 prothorax not quite as long as wide, the sides rounded ; apex much 

 narrower than the base, transverse, feebly sinuate at the middle, the base 

 rectilinearly truncate ; punctures coarse, deep and rather close-set, 

 polygonally crowded toward the sides.| elytra a fourth wider than the 

 prothorax, and more than twice as long, the sides parallel and straight, 

 converging and rounded in apical third; humeri rather widely exposed at 

 base, the angles rounded ; striae not very coarse, feebly impressed, 

 coarsely and strongly punctured toward base, finely toward apex, the 

 intervals each with a single ur>even series of fine punctures ; abdomen 

 strongly and sparsely but only moderately coarsely punctate, strongly 

 impressed in the middle near the base in the male; legs moderate, shining, 

 punctate. Length, 8.5-9.5 mm.; width, 3.0-3.7 mm. 



Texas (Brownsville), Mr. H. F. VVickham. 



There is no described species in our fauna closely allied to this, as 

 may be gathered from the table previously published by the writer (Ann. 

 N. Y. Acad. Sci., VI., 688). but it belongs with grossus rather than with 

 frontalis, though very much smaller than that species, and less coarsely 

 sculptured. The singular small pale spots of the elytra are a distinctive 

 feature ; they are irregularly distributed over the entire surface. 



Notes. 

 I have recently received a Guatemalan species of Centrinus, which 

 cannot be distinguished from lineellus, described by LeConte from a 

 unique, said to have been taken in California. While drawing up a 

 redescription of this species (Ann. N. V. Acad. Sci., VI., p. 592), it was 

 ini|)'ossible to avoid a suspicion of some mistake in the locality, because 

 ^ the tropical appearance of the species and its apparent lack of harmony 



