LeC'onte. 



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narrow scales. Protliorax scarcely" wider than long, sides obliquely 

 rounded, feebly constricted at tip; disc densely punctured; scales hair-like, 

 directed transversely, dorsal line obsolete Elytra scarcely wider than the 

 prothorax, gradually narrowed from the humeri, tips conjointly rounded; 

 strijie deep and wide, interspaces flat, densely punctured. Beneath covered 

 with oval scales; antennae and legs brown; presternum as wide between 

 the coxae as in C. perscillwi, emarginate in front of the mesosternum; side 

 pieces of metasteraum wide; fifth ventral scarcely longer than the fourJi. 

 Beak long, slender, curved, shining and sparsely pubescent, distinctly 

 punctured; second joint of funicle nearly as long as the first. Length 2.5 

 mm.; .10 inch. 



Louisiana and Kansas, four specimens. The prosternum is broadly but 

 less deeply impressed; in the (^ the horns are very short ; in the 9 tlit-' 

 prosteruum is flattened, but not concave. 



9. C. capillatus, n. sp. 



Similar in size and form to 0. perscillus, but only thinly clothed with 

 hair-like white scales on the upper surface, intermixed with oval scales on 

 the under surface. Beak as long as the head and prothorax, slender, 

 abruptly curved near the base, then nearly straight, shining, smooth, 

 sparsely punctured near the base, frontal constriction ver^'^ feeble; head con- 

 vex, sparsely punctured. Prothorax wider than long, sides oblique, very 

 slightly rounded, tip feebly constric:ed ; disc densely punctured, scales 

 directed transversely; base bisinuate, scutellar lobe rather large, truncate. 

 Elytra somewhat wider than the prothorax, narrowed behind froui the 

 humeri, separately (though very slightly so) rounded at the tips ; pygidium 

 not exposed; striae deep and broad, interspaces flat, densely puncLured, 

 •ach with two rather regular rows of hair-like scales. Proslernum not 

 rery wide between the coxae, hind margin truncate ia front of the meso- 

 sternum, not at all emarginate ; side pieces of metathorax wide ; fifth ven- 

 tral longer than the fourth; antennae with the first joint of the funicle 

 long and slender, second two-thirds as long, equal to the third and fourth 

 united. Length 3 mm.; .12 inch. 



(^. Prosternum broadly and feebly concave ; horns reduced to a small 

 slender cusp; ventral surface flattened, fifth segment as long as the third 

 and fourth united. 



9- Prosternum slightly convex, without horns; ventral surface convex, 

 fifth segment a little longer than the fourth. 



Texas, Belfrage, three speciniens. 



10. C. picumnus. Curcidio j)ic. Herbst, Kafer, vii, 30; Tab. 99, f. 9; 

 Baridius pic. Say, Cure. 17; ed. Lee. i, 281; Centritius olivaceus Gyll., 

 Sch. Cure, iii, 763; Centrinus siUor Harris, Trans. Hartford Nat. Hist. 

 Soc. i, 81. 



Abundant throughout the Atlantic region. Rather broader, and more 

 regularly oval, densely clothed with narrow, ochreous scales, which are 

 broader and paler on the under surface. Beak long, slender, regularly and 



