(155) 
parallela, a triente postico obtuse rotundata, apice convexe rotun- 
dato-declivi, integro; supra cylindrice convexa, piceo-nigra, 
opaca, densissime subrugulose punctata et subtilissime obsolete 
at perspicabiliter striato-punctata, pilis tenuibus, brevissimis, 
depressis setisque incrassatis, obtusis, squamulaeformibus, seria- 
is adspersa. Corpus subtus nigrum, punctulatum, subpubescens. 
Pedes antiei ferruginei, posteriores obseuriores subinfuscati, tarsis 
lestacels. | 
Patria : America septentrionalis (Mexico). Habitat in radice 
jalappae, navibus saepius in Europam introductus. 
In hoc genus verosimile adhuc pertinent Cr. pilosellus Erichs. 
hispidulus Lec., comatus Zimm., Bostrichus sidneyanus Noerdi. 
Quare diagnoses auctorum verbotenus affere liceat. 
15. C. PILOSELLUS, Erichs. 
Wiegm. Arch., 1842, VIL, I, p. 212. 
f'uscus, nitidulus, subtilissime cinereo-pubescens, pilosellus, 
thoracis disco punctis elevatis sparsis scabro; elytris fortiter 
punctato-striatis. 
Long. 1 ‘}, lin. (2,5 mm.) 
Cryphalo tiliae triplo major, fuseus, nitidulus, pube brevis- 
sima subtili, fugace leviter obductus, pilisque erectis longioribus 
vestitus. Antennac fusco-testaceae. Caput retractum, nigricans. 
Thorax latitudine paullo brevior, basi truneatus, lateribus et 
apice rotundatus, convexus, crebre subtiliter punctulatus, spatio 
dorsi anterioris rhombo punctis sat fortibus elevatis, haud in 
series lransversas digestis asperatus. Coleoptera thoracis latitu- 
dine, eodemque duplo longiora, convexa postice convexo-diclivia, 
licet secundum suturam depressiuseula, sat fortiter punctato- 
striata, interstitiis vage subtilissime punctatis obsoleteque trans 
versim rugulosis. Pedes laete testaceae. 
Patria : Insula Vandimensland. 
