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[LeConte. 



beak is more strongly striate; the protliorax is longer than wide, slightly 

 rounded on the sides; densely, rugosely punctured, opaque, with two acute 

 crests running from the tip to the middle; each side are two narrow, white 

 lines, crossed by a curved one in front of the middle. The elytral striae are 

 composed of large, quadrate punctures, and the costse are interrupted almost 

 exactly as in C. nenuphar; the pubescence is very fine, short and fulvous, 

 condensed into a narrow, transverse band just behind the middle. Antennae, 

 tibiae and tarsi ferruginous. Length 3 mm.; .13 inch. 



South Carolina; Dr. Zimmermann; Illinois, Dr. Horn. There are scarcely 

 perceptible rows of short bristles on the elytra. 



20. O. anaglypticus Fahrseus, Sch. Cure, iv, 418 ; Gryptorhynchui 

 anagl. Say, Cure. 18; ed. Lee. 283. 



Massachusetts to Kansas; Georgia, Texas; abundant. I have one very 

 small specimen in which the color is concealed by a uniform dirt-colored 

 crust; it is C. ineditus\Dej. Cat. 



21. C. leucophseatus Fahraeus, Sch. Cure, iv, 417. 



Described first from Mexico, but not rare in Texas. Allied to C. 

 anaglypticus, but larger, (nearly 5 mm.; .20 inch), with the sculpture of 

 the prothorax coarser, the crests more evident, and a short median carina; 

 the elytral costie are less elevated, and the surface is in great part covered 

 with white pubescence to withinonefourthof the tip, which is dark brown 

 and mottled; the base for a short distance is clothed with fulvous pubescence. 



Division III. Sp. 23. 



This division contains but a single species of ordinary form, with the 

 elytra covered in great part with very fine, short pubescence, not mixed 

 with longer hairs, or with bristles. The beak is rather stout and slightly 

 curved; the front coxae are contiguous, the thighs obtusely toothed, and 

 sinuate beneath near the knee; the claws are cleft at tip, and less approxi- 

 mate than in the next division. The antennae are inserted about one-fifth 

 from the end of the beak. The mesosternum is not very wide; the hind 

 part is obliquely declivous; the fi'ont part perpendicular. 



22. C. flssunguis, n. sp. 



Dark brown, nearly black. Beak stout, as long as the head and pro- 

 thorax, punctured, shining towards the tip, then carinate and coarsely 

 striate. Prothorax coarsely and deeply cribrate, towards the tip with longi- 

 tudinal ridges, the middle one of which is more distinct; scarcely longer 

 than wide, slightly rounded on the sides, then more strongly rounded and 

 narrowed to the apex, which is feebly constricted at the sides. Elytra one- 

 half wider than the prothorax, base truncate, humeri prominent, nearly rec- 

 tangular; sides parallel, then obliquely narrowed to the tip; striae composed 

 of large, distant punctures; surface densely covered with short, yellow 

 pubescence, which is darker on the posterior fourth; a denuded transverse 

 band about the middle. Beneath coarsely punctured; thighs annulated 

 with yellow pubescence. Length 5-5.5 mm.; .30-.22 inch. 



Louisiana, three specimens. 



