NO. l6 GENUS PANSCOPUS SCHOENHERR — BUCHANAN / 



surface ; head with a group of erect setae above eye, frontal fovea 

 absent ; scape clothed from near base to apex with inclined setae and 

 prostrate scales, the latter setalike and sparser basally, broader and 

 covering derm apically. Funicular segments elongate, the seventh 

 longer than broad. Prothorax transverse (5 to 4), widest a little 

 before middle, base wider than apex, sides distinctly rounded, scarcely 

 constricted apically ; pronotal tubercles at sides obscured by the scales, 

 all the tubercles covered by appressed scales (usually 5 or 6), which 

 do not close the seta-bearing puncture at the summit, the setae slender 

 and posteriorly inclined in general. Elytra one-third longer than 

 wide, wider than prothorax (4 to 3), sides progressively more 

 strongly convergent from about basal fifth to apex, disk moderately 

 declivous from about middle to the broadly emarginate base, surface 

 densely clothed with striated scales, the discal intervals faintly and 

 subequally convex, the third and fifth near base slightly more promi- 

 nent, each interval with a single row of long, slender, inclined setae, 

 the serial punctures not entirely closed by the small, rounded scales. 

 Beneath and legs setose and densely scaly ; tibiae rather slender and 

 denticulate on ventral margin, hind pair obsoletely so. 



Type locality. — " Hamilton, Canada " (undoubtedly province of 

 Ontario) ; i $. 



Tv/'r.— U.S.N. M. no. 50646. 



F. ovatipcnnis looks much like some specimens of erinaceus, but 

 there the sides of the elytra are more nearly parallel, the beak wider 

 and flatter, the pronotal tubercles less distinct, the alternate elytral 

 intervals with more setae than the even ones, the elytra sinuate 

 laterally at humerus, etc. 



PANSCOPUS (PARAPANSCOPUS) OVATIPENNIS VERRUCOSUS, n. subsp. 



Length, 5.7 mm ; width, 2.8 mm. Derm rufopiceous (perhaps im- 

 mature) ; body densely scaly, general color dark brown, with small 

 paler blotches here and there on elytra, a vague pale line on sides of 

 prothorax behind eyes, and a pale sutural vitta on declivity of elytra, 

 the prothoracic scales in part iridescent ; prothorax feebly rounded at 

 sides, the disk with small, closely set but isolated, setigerous tubercles. 



Rostrum about twice as long as thick, shorter than prothorax, upper 

 surface broadly and rather strongly discontinuous with front in pro- 

 file, transversely convex and densely scaly in basal two-thirds, sub- 

 planate and sparsely scaly apically, the median carina distinct and 

 extending from the groovelike interocular puncture to the interanten- 

 nal fovea, nasal plate obsolescent, surface behind it subglabrous and 

 roughly punctate, the erect brown setae arranged in two irregular 



