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Scutellum minute, triangular, clothed with pair scales 



Elytra one-third wider than prothorax at their widest point, back of 

 the middle, at base scarcely one-quarter wider; humeri distinctly 

 clothed with jet Mack scales; interspaces elevated, each with a mon o 

 less complete row of white or brownish-white setae, processes of the 

 31 ales more slender and elongate, causing the pubescence to lap over the 

 , where the stria! punctures can he seen they contain very shorl 

 pale seta.-; the type specimen has beautiful pearl-gray scales intermixed 

 with brown and black scales to form an almost completely tesselated 

 surface; other specimens seen possess the tesselation on parte of elytra, 

 costal edge of elytra of all specimens seen covered with paler scales. 



Venter with gray or brownish gray scales and short white setae, on 

 the abdomen the scales are arranged in transverse rows; mesosternal 

 process between the middle coxa; somewhat elevated, linear, apparently 

 with a triangular point (very densely covered with scale); intercoxal 

 process of third abdominal segment broadly truncate. 



Legs with femora and coxa' black, tibia' and tarsi dark brown or 

 reddish brown, femora clothed in front with scales, cslcwhcre the legs 

 are covered with hairs; tibial crown of spines pale. 



Distribution: Type locality "Canada" 1 specimen, Mus. 

 Comp. Zool.; also Aweme, Manitoba, 24-vi-09 (N. Criddle). 



All the specimens seen are males. Life history is not known. 

 The species is very closely related to P. trivittatus Say and to 

 the European P. viciae. 



Phytonomus pubicollis Leconte. 



Phytonomus /<»/>;< ollis: 



[876: Leconte: Rhj A V America, p. 125, no. 5, p. 415. 



1885: Henshaw, Cat. Coleop. Am. X. of Mex., p. 137, no, vj:j-_>. 

 Hypera pubicollis: 



1880: Austin: Supp. Checl i ileop. N. Am., p. 45, no. 8886 



Adult: (Plate XXIX, figs.10 12). Length3.2 4.5 mm. Width 1.5mm. 



Black or reddish black, rather stout, clothed with fine 

 brownish gray pubescence of scales and hairs; legs black. 



Head clothed with gray or yellow-brown hairs; front narrow, not as 

 wide as one of the eyes; a distinct fovea between eyes on front: eyes 

 oval, not prominent: beak two-thirds as Long as prothorax, polished near 

 the tip, sparsely punctured, a groove above the insertion of the antenna-, 

 not carina tc. projections above tip of antenna! groove more evident than 

 in any species but seriatus; antenna! groove black, polished; antenna 

 rufous or piceous, scape reaching to the margin of the eyes, but not 

 longer than the funicle, first funicluar joint much longer than second, 

 or as long as second ami third united, second nearly twice as lone as 

 third, the funicle joints arc darker from the third on and the club is 

 dark, densely pubescent with tine hairs, oval, pointed. 



Prothorax almost quadrate, a little wider in the middle and narrowed 

 anteriorly, never nearly as wide as elytra at base, clothed with brown, 

 gray and white hairs and intermixed scales; the scales are deeply, 



