(165) 
infuscato. Prothorax subovatus, prope basin subdilatato-rotun- 
datus, antrorsum angustatus , ante medium utrinqué sinuatus, 
subconstrictus ; longitudine parum latior, basi truncatus, angulis 
posticis (desuper intuenti) obtuse subrectis, in margine apicali 
tuberculis 6 vel 8 prominulis notatus; dorso piceo-brunneus uni- 
color, subnitidus, tenue setulosus, leviter convexus, medio 
utrinque manifeste oblique impressuüs, anterius tuberculis nume- 
rosis late exasperatus, posterius fortiter subgranulate punctatus ; 
punctis profundius impressis quam in priore. Elÿtra cylindrica, 
latitudine thoracis et illo fere duplo longiora, lateraliter sub- 
recta, a triente postico ad apicem obtuse rotundata; supra fusco- 
brunnea, subnitida, fortiter punctato-striata, striis manifeste 
impressis ; suturae proxima sequentibus paulo profundiore, prae- 
cipue anterius prope basin; punctis valde dilatatis; interstitiis 
inde angustis leviter convexis, transversim rugulosis, subtilis- 
sime uniseriatim punctulatis et setis ereclis incrassatis, griseis 
veluti pulvere inspersis; apice valde oblique declivi, leniter 
convexe rotundato. Corpus subtus fusco-nigrum. Pedes fusco- 
testacel. | 
Patria : America meridionalis, Venezuela (Bahia, Teapa), 
insula St. Domingo. (h 
21. S. ARECCAE, Horn. 
Oblongo-subovalis, piceo-niger, subnitidus, setis erectis albidis 
adspersus, thorace rufo-ferrugineo, semi-elliptico, margine apicali 
tuberculis compluribus prominulis notato, dorso anterius late 
tuberculato-scabro, posterius subtiliter rugulose punctato, elytris 
cylindricis, transversim subrugulosis, tenuissime striato-pun- 
clalis, interstitiis uniseriatim selosis. 
Long. vix 1 mm. 
Bostrichus Areceae, * HoRn., S{eit. ent. Zeit., 1842, II, p. 115. 
? Hypothenemus eruditus, Wesrw., Trans. ent. Soc., 1, 1854, p. 54. — 
Reore., Fn. Aust., ed. 2, 1I, p. 374, 
Var. Corpore toto ferrugineo-testaceo. 
