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Original Description: Fabricius, 177."). p. 150, as Curculio pundatus. 



" punctatus. 119. C. brevirostris, fuscus, elytris punctis, holoscri- 

 ceis elevatis; marginecue flavo. 



"Habitat in Suecia. 



"Major, ovata, Rostrum brevissimum. Thorax gibbus, glaber. Elytra 

 striata punctata, et praeterea punctis elevatis, holosericeis atris adspersa." 



Adult: (Plate XXV). Length 5 to 10 mm. Width 3 to 5.7 mm. 



Stout, black or brownish black. Clothed with blackish brown pale 

 brown, yellow-brown or gray scales which are short broad and emar- 

 ginate at the tips, and with short erect bristles, edge of elytra yellow 

 brown or at least paler than remainder of scales. 



I/cad clothed with short metallic yellowish scales; front not as wide 

 as breadth of eye, densely clothed with dark yellow hairs or scales 

 which extend over two-thirds of the beak, eyes elongate oval, narrowed 

 beneath, rather prominent; beak scarcely two-thirds the length of the 

 prothorax, and one-half thicker at tip than width of front, beneath on 

 the sides and near the tip polished and densely punctate; an elongate 

 impression on dorsal surface above the antennal groove; antennal 

 groove black, deep, punctured; antenna' reddish-black, scape reaching to 

 middle of eyes, not as long as funicle, not greatly enlarged at tip; first 

 joint of funicle distinctly longer than second, enlarged at the apex so 

 that it is about one-half as thick as long, second joint equal to three and 

 four united, joints three to seven regularly shorter and broader, seven 

 as wide as long, club elongate-oval, pointed at tip, antenna' with many 

 fine hairs, those on club very fine and dense. Mandibles polished, dull 

 red, not emarginatc at tip, maxilla? and all the palpi pale brownish-red. 



Prothorax bmader than lung, broader in female than in male, in the 

 female broadly widened in front of the middle, in the male converging 

 mure behind than in female; sides broadly impressed, only slightly 

 swollen; dorsum densely rather coarsely punctured, densely clothed 

 with scales and with many slender pointed hairs; usually with a narrow 

 pale median dorsal line bordered by wide dark, almost black in some, 

 bands of scales which reach to the sides; sides and beneath with dark- 

 yellow scales, generally with a dark spot on sides behind and an indis- 

 tinct dark line running from this spot toward the front. 



Scutellum extremely small, narrowly triangular, clothed with pale 

 scales. 



Elytra very broad, at tip broadly rounded, sides especially in the 

 male nearly parallel, humeri prominent and clothed with darker scales. 

 Suture and alternate interspaces mure strongly elevated than others, 

 deeply striately punctured, striae without setae; each interspace with 

 a single row of black setae pointing backward and partially decumbent, 

 more erect behind; tip of elytra and often the sides with some short 

 white hairs. The coloration of the scales varies from solid gray to black, 

 through various shades of brown yellows. Some specimens are tes- 

 selated with brownish-yellow and black, the tesselation usually on the 

 more elevated interspaces. 



