86 OTIORHY]S^CHIDiE. 



PANDELETEJUS Scla. 



[Horn. 



PandeleUius Schonh. Cure, ii, p. 129. 



Rostrum not as long as the head, slightly compressed, quadrangular, 

 slightly grooved above, tip entire and Avithout smooth space or feebly 

 emarginate with small smooth space. Vertex feebly convex. Scrobes 

 lateral, moderately deep, well defined, slightly arcuate and passing im- 

 mediately beneath the eyes. Eyes small, slightly oval. Antennae mode- 

 rate, slender, scape gradually clavate, attaining nearly the posterior margin 

 of the eyes ; funicle with joints 1-2 elongate, 3-7 very short, moniliform ; 

 club elongate oval. Thorax cylindrical, broader than long, with sides 

 arcuate, apex obliquely, base squarely truncate. Scutellum small, trian- 

 gular. Elytra wider at base than the thorax, humeri moderately promi- 

 nent, form oblong. Intercoxal process moderately broad, oval at tip. 

 Second abdominal segment longer than the two following together, sepa- 

 rated from the first by a feebly arcuate suture. Anterior legs longer than 

 the others, their femora stouter, and their tibite denticulate within. Articu- 

 lar surface of hind tibiiB terminal, not cavernous. Body winged, surface 

 densely scaly. 



Lacordaire places this genus among the Naupactides, having entirely 

 overlooked the fimbrioe at the side of the thorax behind the eyes. No 

 mention is made of the separation of the anterior coxsk. As has been 

 already mentioned Polydceris is closely related to Pandeletejus ; the 

 anterior coxne are in it also separated, and the sides of the thorax have dis- 

 tinct vibrissse composed, however, of scales. I think these two genera 

 should make but one. 



Two species occur in our fauna : 



Tip of rostrum entire, without smooth space hilaris. 



Tip of rostrum emarginate, with smooth space cinereus. 



These two differ also in the form of the thorax. In the latter, the 

 thorax is dilated only at the middle, so that the cylindrical portions in front 

 and behind the dilatation are equal. In the former, the dilatation is pyri- 

 form, and the anterior narrower part much shorter than the posterior. 



P. hilaris Hbst. {Curculio) Ktifer, vii, p. 58, pi. 100, fig. 7-8 ; (Hadro- 

 merus) Say, Descr. Cure. p. 10 ; pauperculua Gyll. Schonh. Gen. Cui'c. ii, 

 p. 130. 



Form moderately elongate, denselj' covered with cinereous scales, disc 

 of elytra darker and with an oblique median fascia entering the darker 

 space. Rostrum nearly squarely truncate at tip, and without smooth space, 

 surface densely scaly, sparsely punctured. Thorax longer than wide, 

 cylindrical, sides dilated, and broader behind the middle, anteriorly with 

 a cylindrical constriction, posteriorly with shorter constriction ; disc 

 moderately convex, densely and coarsely punctured, densely covered with 

 cinereous scales, a broad median line and the sides darker. Elytra trun- 

 cate at base, oblong, broadest behind the middle ; ten -striate, striae closel}- 

 punctured, intervals slightly convex, surface densely scaly. Body beneath 



