260 CURCULIOXID^. 



[LeConte. 



Protliorax about as long as wide; elytral white spot 

 conspicuous ; 



Elytra but little wider than protliorax 1. californicus. 



Elytra much wider than protliorax 2. oculatus. 



Protliorax conspicuously wider than long. Elytra 

 xnucli wider than protliorax 3. subfasciatus. 



1 . P. californicus, n. sp. 



Elongate-oval, black, above irregularly clothed with narrow fulvous 

 scales, mixed at the sides of the protliorax with white; scutellum black; 

 ■elytra with a common sutural spot behind the middle, extending to the 

 "secoiKl stria, and a few scattered dots white. Beak rather stout, finely 

 punctured, feebly carinate near the base; front very narrow; eyes bordered 

 behin-d with pale scales. Protliorax not wider than long, gradually nar- 

 rowed from base to tip, sides straight; disc coarsely densely punctured, dis- 

 tinctly carinate. Elytra very little wider than the protliorax, elongate, 

 humeri oblique, striae well impressed, interspaces flat, finely punctured. 

 Beneath clothed with dirty gray scales; thighs distinctly toothed, hind pair 

 with a black ring; tibiai with a small terminal hook; ungues very small. 

 Length 3 mm. ; . 13 inch. 



Calaveras, California; Mr. Crotch. More elongate than the other two 

 species, and resembling in form Copturus operculatu», though smaller. 



2. P. oculatus. Cryptorhynchus ocul. Say, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sc. iii, 

 308; ed. lee. ii, 173; Copturus nanus\ Dej. Cat. 



Southern and Western States. The sutural white spot is small and ex- 

 tends only to the first stria. The upper surface is thinly clothed with ful- 

 vous hair-like scales, and only slightly mottled. The protliorax is nearly 

 as long as wide, slightl}^ rounded on the sides. The elj'tra are suddenly 

 one-third wider than the protliorax and narrowed behind. Length 3 mm. ; 

 -.13 inch. 



•3. P. suMasciatus, n. sp. 



Ratlier stout in form, black, thinly and irregularly clothed with fine white 

 hair-like scales, forming transverse bands on the elytra; the white spot is 

 therefore not A^ery conspicuous. Beak brown, outer half nearly smooth, 

 base punctured and striate; antennae testaceous, front very narrow. Pro- 

 thorax about twice as wide as long, narrowed gradually from the base, 

 sides feebly rounded behind, and very slightly sinuate near the tip; very 

 coarsely and densely punctured, not carinate; the white scales are thinly 

 placed, and form three broad vittse. Elytra near the base about one-third 

 Tvider than the protliorax, humeri more rounded and less prominent than 

 in P. ocularis; narrowed Ijehind, stri* wide, deep, punctured, interspaces 

 narrow, with lines of white pubescence, so interrupted as to produce three 

 transverse bands; one basal, surrounding a humeral dark spot, one behind 

 the middle, and one near the tip; these bands are also connected along the 

 suture, and at other places. Beneath thinly clothed with gray scales. 



