88 OTIOKHYNCHID^E. 



[Horn. 



Scape moderate, scrobes long, passing beneath the 



eyes. Scutellum small, triangular CYPHUS. 



Scape short, stout, scrobes short, suddenly arcu- 

 ate. Scutelluin rather large, oval BRACHYSTYLTJS. 



Brachystylus has been placed by Lacordaire among the Ottorhynchim, 

 but the entire structure is that of the Cyphini, notwithstanding the slight 

 irregularity in the form of the scrobes. 



COMP3US Sch. 



Compsus Schonh. Cure. Disp. Meth., p. 109. 



Rostrum as long as the head, slightly dilated at tip which is deeply emar- 

 ginate above and at the sides, above finely sulcate and with a broad trian- 

 gular impression at apex. Supports of deciduous pieces prominent. Scrobes 

 deep, shallower behind, moderately arcuate and terminating above the in- 

 ferior edge of the eye. Eyes oval, sub-acute beneath. Antennae mode- 

 rately long, sub-apical, scape long, passing the eyes behind, feebly clavate ; 

 funicle 7-jointed, joints 1-2 longer, the second longer than the first, joints 

 3-7 nearly cylindrical, feebly decreasing in length ; club elongate oval. 

 Thorax broader than long, narrower in front, truncate at apex, bisinuate 

 at base. Scutellum rounded. Elytra oblong, wider than the thorax, 

 humeri prominent. Anterior tibiae moderately, middle tibiae feebly mucro- 

 nate ; articular surface of hind tibiae cavernous, densely scaly. Intercoxal 

 process rounded at tip, broad. Second abdominal segment longer than the 

 third and fourth together, and separated from the first by a strongly arcu- 

 ate suture. Body densely scaly. 



C. auricephalus Say (Curculio'), Journ. Acad., 1823, p. 310; Boh. 

 Sch. Gen. Cure, i, p. 645 ; auripes Sch. Gen. Cure, vi, 1, p. 183. 



Form elongate, somewhat navicular, surface densely covered with scales 

 varying in color from white to greenish-white. Head and rostrum longer 

 than the thorax, sparsely punctured, densely covered with scales varying 

 in color from white to pale cupreous. Antennas scaly. Thorax wider at 

 base than long, apex truncate, base bisinuate, sides moderately arcuate and 

 converging in front, disc moderately convex with broad median groove 

 wider behind, limited on each side by an obtuse ridge, surface sparsely 

 punctured, densely scaly. Elytra more than twice as wide as long, slightly 

 wider behind the middle, and feebly acuminate at tip, disc moderately con- 

 vex, feebly striate, striae with large distant punctures, alternate intervals 

 sub-costiform, surface densely scaly and with very short scale-like hairs on 

 the costiform intervals. Body beneath and legs densely scaly and with 

 short setae. Length .36-. 48 inch ; 9-12 mm. 



The color of the scales covering the body varies from white to pale 

 green. In the latter case the upper side of the head and the outer side of 

 the legs are pale cupreous. 



Occurs rather abundantly from Georgia to Mexico, also to the north in 

 Colorado. 



