Coleopterological Notices, VI. 821 



As the supports of the deciduous pieces of the mandibles are 

 very prominent, I am disposed to place this genus near Diamimus. 

 It however differs greatl>' in having no vestige of a transverse 

 depression separating the head from the beak. 



M. scapalis n. sp. — Narrowlj' ovoidal, black, the antennaj and tarsi not 

 paler; bodj' densely clothed above and beneath with rather small, oval, slightly 

 overlapping and strongly strigose scales, which are pale brownish in color but 

 becoming indefinitely whitish along the flanks and beneath, and very feebly 

 variegated with a slightly paler tint at the base and near the apical declivity 

 of the elytra, the scales intermingled throughout with numeroiis short, stout, 

 erect and brownish hairs which are unevenly arranged on the elytra. Head 

 scarcely one-half as wide as the prothorax, the eyes prominent and separated 

 by two and one-half times their own width; beak short and broad, one-fourth 

 longer than wide, two-thirds as long as the protliorax and distinctly longer 

 than the head, broadly impressed along the middle toward apex but not cari- 

 nate or otherwise modified; antennal scape densely clothed with narrow 

 whitish scales and bristling with sparse erect setae, the funicle equally bristling 

 and also clothed denselj^ with short stout appressed whitish hairs, the club 

 equally densely clothed with stout brown hairs and with a few short erect 

 setae. Prothorax not quite as long as wide; apex and base rectilinearly trun- 

 cate, the former distinctly' the narrower; sides evenly and distinctlj^ arcuate; 

 disk densely squamose, finely, sparsely punctate and with a feebly and indefi- 

 nitely impressed median line. Elytra three-fourths longer than Avide, not 

 quite three times as long as the prothorax and fully one-half wider; sides par- 

 allel, evenly and broadly arcuate, the apex rather narrowly rounded; base 

 strongly sinuate, the humeri obsolete, the basal edge not prominent but also 

 not rounded at the sides; disk with scarcely impressed series of rather small 

 deep and distant punctures, each bearing a slender whitish strigose scale; in- 

 tervals equal, almost flat, flnely, sparsely punctate, densely squamose, each 

 puncture bearing a stout erect hair. Abdomen densely griseo- squamose and 

 with short sparse and whitish erect hairs; fifth segment parabolic in outline. 

 Length 8.5 mm. ; width 3.25 mm. 



Arizona. 



The sex of tlie single type specimen is not determinable at 

 present. The posterior declivity of the elytra is rather deep and 

 nearly straight and vertical in profile, but the summit is not 

 prominent and joins the general outline of the upper surface by a 

 broadly rounded arc. 



CURCULIONID^]. 

 LEPYRIJS Schonh. 



The species of Lepyriis are moderately numerous in the colder 

 parts of the North American continent, and are mutually dis- 



