liorn. I 



BKACHYDERIN^r. 21 



broadly oval, and the tip vertical or inflexed, sometimes compressed, like 

 the prow of a vessel. In color the surface may vary to entire cinereous or 

 even in great part fuscous. 



E. formidolosus Boh. Schon. Gen. Cure, vi, 2, p. 284. 



Body ovate. Rostrum feeijly sulcate at middle, pre-ocular impressions 

 A^ery faint, vertex with impressed puncture ; surface sparsely punctured and 

 densely clothed with pale cinereous scales. Thorax conical, sides feebly 

 arcuate, shorter than broad at base, surface sparsely punctured, densely 

 scaly. Elytra broadly oval, sub-inflated, but little longer than -wide, with 

 rows of moderate punctures not closely placed, surface densely scaly with 

 very short semi-erect scale-like hairs in the intervals. Body beneath and 

 legs densely scaly. Length .16-26 inch ; 4-6.5 mm. 



The depth of the median rostral groove varies greatly in the specimens 

 before me. The elytra continue very nearly in their curve the line of the 

 sides of the thorax, and their color above is almost precisely that of the 

 preceding species. Two specimens before me are totally cinereous, and 

 two others fasciate. The erect scale-like hairs of the intervals while very 

 distinct in the present species, are very indistinct in the preceding, so thai 

 no special mention is made of them. 



The specimens before me are from Georgia and Florida, 



ANOMADUS n. g. 



Rostrum as long as the head and not narrower, sub-cylindrical, slightly 

 dilated at tip ; tip triangularly emarginate and witli a smooth space. Scrobes 

 deep, arcuate, passing slightly in front of the eye. Antennai sub-terminal, 

 long ; scape gradually clavate ; funicle 7-jointed, joints 1-2 moderately 

 long, nearly equal, joints 3-6 short, equal, joint 7 slightly longer and 

 distant from the club which is elongate oval. Ej^es oval, slightly longitu 

 dinal. Thorax cylindrical, sides moderately arcuate. Scutellum very 

 small. Elytra regularly oval, conjointly emarginate at base, not wider 

 than the thorax, humeri rectangular. Legs moderate, femora slightly 

 clavate, tibiae straight. Cotyloid cavities of hind tibite internal, scaly, tip 

 of tibia truncate. 



The supports of the deciduous mandibular pieces are much more promi- 

 nent in this than in any other genus in the tribe. Following the system of 

 Lacordaire one would be compelled to call this genus Artijnts. This latter 

 cannot however be placed in the present "tribe, or even in this first division 

 as the form of the meso- and metasternal side pieces agree with the genera 

 allied to Cyphus as will be seen further on. 



A. obliquus, n. sp. 



Body oblong, narrower at middle. Rostrum very sparsely punctured, 

 densely clothed with scales of pearly lustre, darker at the sides, with few 

 erect scale-like hairs. Thorax slightly longer than wide, moderately convex, 

 cylindrical, truncate at apex and base, sides arcuate, surface coarsely but 

 sparsely punctured densely scaly, at middle pearly, at sides fuscous. Elytra 



