Horn.] 



PHYLLOBIINI. 105 



P. calcaratus Fab. (Curculio) Ent. Syst. i, 2, p. 485 ; Gyll. Sch. Gen. 

 Cure, ii, p. 435. 



Oblong, black, moderately, densely covered with bhiish-green piliform 

 scales, legs reddish. Head and i-ostrum longer than the thorax, densely 

 punctured, sparsel}^ scaly. Thorax broader than long, slightly consti'icted 

 and narrower at base than apex, sides rather strongly arcuate, disc convex, 

 moderately densely punctured, not densely scaly. Elytra oblong, parallel, 

 acuminate posteriorly, nearly three times as long as wide, striate, striae 

 with moderate punctures, intervals feebly convex, densely punctured and 

 moderately, densely scaly. Body beneath very sparsely covered with 

 piliform scales. Legs rufous, sparsely hairy, femora strongly dentate. 

 Antennifi rufous. Length .30 inch ; 7.5 mm. 



One specimen from Canada. 



The Catalogus of Gemminger and Harold gives glaucus Scop, as an 

 older name. As the species is introduced and hardly concerns our f\iuna, 

 I adopt the name used by English entomologists, leaving bibliography to 

 those more intimately concerned. 



CYPHOMIMUS n. g. 



Rostrum a little shorter and narrower tlian the head, sub-cylindrical» 

 alae slightly divergent, genie not emargiuate, tip feebly notched. Head 

 moderately prolonged beliind the eyes. Scrobes cavernous in front, 

 suddenly flexed, passing beneath at some distance from the eyes. Eyes 

 round, moderately prominent. Antenna? rather slender. Scape slender, 

 gradually thicker to tip and nearly attaining the margin of the thorax ; 

 funicle 7-jointed, first joint nearly as long as the two following, 2-7 obconi- 

 cal, gradually decreasing in length ; club elongate, oval. Thorax cylin- 

 drical, slightly narrower in front. Scutellum small, triangular. Elytra 

 wider at base than the thorax, humeri moderately prominent. Metaster- 

 num moderate. Intercoxal process oval at tip. Second segment of 

 abdomen longer than the two following, first suture arcuate at middle. 

 Tibiae not mucronate, articular surfoce of hind tibia? terminal, glabrous. 

 Claws connate at base. Marginal elytral stria free. 



In form and general appearance the only species composing the genus 

 resembles Brachystylus acutus but with a longer head and rostrum. 



C. dorsalis, n. sp. 



Form oblong, oval, narrowed in front, surface densely scaly. Head and 

 rostrum as long as the thorax, surface densely covered with whitish scales, 

 a dark stripe on the vertex and behind each eye, and with erect, short 

 hairs. Thorax cylindrical, slightly wider than long, narrower and feebly 

 constricted in front, apex obliquely, base squarelj^ truncate, sides feebly 

 arcuate, apical margin above slightly thickened, surface sparsely punctured 

 and with short, erect hairs, densely covered with cinereous scales, and 

 with three longitudinal stripes darker. Elytra nearly twice as wide as the 

 thorax, humeri prominent, sides slightly divergent, surface striate, striae 

 punctured, intervals flat, with a single row of short black hairs, densely 



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