434 APPEI^DIX. [LeConte. 



the head and thorax, slender, ahnost filiform, arcuated, slightly dilated 

 over the origin of the antennae, piceous, minutely and remotely punctured. 

 Antennae inserted behind the middle of the rostrum, piceous, club rufous ; 

 third joint (second of the funiculus), two-thirds the length of the preced- 

 ing, and twice the length of the following joint, Thorax in the middle, 

 longitudinally elevated, or almost carinated, covered with linear-lanceo- 

 late scales, which converge from the sides towards the central carina. Ely- 

 tra with acute, remotely punctured stria-, and flat interstitial lines, each one 

 of which is covered with large superticial confluent punctures, and three or 

 four series of linear-lanceolate scales ; an oblique elevation or callus before 

 the tip of each elytron. Body beneath more densely covered with whiter, 

 shorter oval scales. Breast, before the anterior legs, widely indented, not 

 canaliculate, unarmed. 



22. Balaninus porrectus Boh., Sch. Cure, vii, 2d, 292. 



Ovatus, niger, squamositate griseo-olivacea dense tectus ; rostro tenui, 

 longitudine elytrorum, subrectc ; thorace angustiore. confertim punctulato, 

 intra apicem constricto ; elytris tenuiter punctato-striatis, interstitiis planis 

 subtiliter coriaceis ; femoribus anticis obsolete dentatis, posterioribus 

 muticis. 



Missouri, Americae borealis, Dom. Say, Mus. Sch. 



Biilanino cerasorum vix latior, sed nonnihil longior. Caput parvum, 

 subglobosum, subtilissime punctulatum, nigrum nitidum, glabrum ; oculi 

 subrotundati, depressi, nigri ; rostrum longitudine elytrorum, tenue, cylin- 

 dricum, subrectum, piceo-nigrum vix punctatumbasi griseoolivaceo-squa- 

 mosum. Antennae thoracis medium attingentes, piceae, parce pilosae ; clava 

 parva, ovata, subobtusa. Thorax latitudine postica fere longior, apice trun- 

 catus, anterius nonnihil angustior, intra apicem constrictus, lateribus paulo 

 rotundato-ampliatus, basi bisinuatis, supra convexus, subtiliter crebre punc- 

 tulatus, niger, squamis depressis griseo-olivaceis dense vestitus. Scutellum 

 parvum, subtriangulare, nigrum, dense griseo-squamulosum. Elytra an- 

 tice subtruncata, thoracis basi. nonnihil latiora, humeris vix elevatis, obtuse 

 rotuudatis ; lateribus non ampliata, apicem versus angustala, apice con- 

 junctim obtuse rotundata, thorace duplo longiora, supra parum convexa. 

 tenuiter punctato-striata., interstitiis planis, subtilissime coriaceis ; nigra, 

 squamulis depressis, griseo-olivaceis, dense vestita. Corpus subtus subtiliter 

 crebre punctulatum, nigrum, squamulis tenuioribus, cinereo-albidis undique 

 sequalirer obsitum. Pedes validiusculi, rufo-picei, cinero-squamulosi ; 

 femoribus clavatis, anticis obsolete dentatis, posterioril)us muticis, tibiis 

 tere-tibus, rectis. 



The reference to this genus seems to me doubtful, especially as the 

 species is immediately followed by B. consiricUis, which has no resemb- 

 lance to Balaninus, but is an Erivldnine (p. 168). It is quite possible, that 

 this insect, on renewed study of the type in Stockholm, may prove the 

 same as my Desmoris scapalis, which is congeneric with D. constrictus. 



23. Brenthus peregrinus Herbst, vii, 190, pi. 108, f. 1. 



This is evidently a species from Tropical America, either with an in cor- 



