NO. l6 GENUS PANSCOPUS SCHOENHERR BUCHANAN 5 



Type locality. — Round Knob, N. C, June 23, 24, and 26, Hubbard 

 and Schwarz collection ; 4 J'J*, i $. 



Other locality. — Black Mountain, N. C, September 13, Brooklyn 

 Museum collection; 3 J* J*, whose pin label data are same as on 2 

 cotypes of alteniatus; same locality, May 1910, F. Sherman, i $ ; 

 same locality, June and July 191 2, Beutenmriller, 2 J'J', 2 $$ in Casey 

 collection. 



Type—^, U.S.N.M. no. 50831. 



Looks much like alternafus from the same region but with pro- 

 thorax of J* more strongly dilated at sides, pronotal sculpture not so 

 rough, rostrum flatter above, and serial scales of elytra much broader. 

 The rostrum is longer than in criuaccus. There are at hand single 

 females from Pyziton and Wadley, Ala., and a fragmentary male 

 (the last from a toad's stomach) from Thompsons Mill, Ga., which 

 are more or less closely related to thoracicus, but which cannot be 

 definitely associated with any described form. 



PARAPANSCOPUS, n. subgen. 



Body scaly and setose, the setae slender, narrowly truncate at apex 

 but appearing acute in side view. Rostrum stout, upper surface 

 arcuate and broadly discontinuous with front in profile, moderately 

 widened apically, slightly so basally, thicker at middle than at base, 

 nasal plate not sharply elevated, interantennal fovea or groove usually 

 present ; eyes rather small, separated above by basal width of beak, 

 feebly convex, subacute below ; scrobe beginning near apex of rostrum 

 becoming rapidly shallower posteriorly and obsolete some distance 

 before eye, arcuate and directed toward lower part of eye or beneath 

 eye ; scape setose, or scaly and setose, reaching two-thirds to three- 

 fourths across eye at middle ; funicular segments as long as or longer 

 than broad, the first two longer and subequal. Prothorax with feeble 

 ocular lobe ; pronotum without median sulcus, though the tubercles 

 are sometimes nearly wanting along a narrow median line ; pronotal 

 sculpture tuberculate, the tubercles in maculosus indistinct and covered 

 by scales. Elytra of a characteristic ovoid shape, the sides converging 

 posteriorly from a little behind the broadly rounded humeri, intervals 

 with subregular rows of long setae, the serial scales ovate or round, 

 the alternate intervals not costate, the sutural one more or less dis- 

 tinctly vittate, at least on declivity. First abdominal suture arcuate 

 at middle (in female, the male unknown), intercoxal piece wide and 

 subtruncate or slightly advanced at middle, fifth sternite not or very 

 feebly impressed, hind femur nearly reaching apex of abdomen, tibiae 



