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A dnotatio. — Huie insecto affinis Cryphalus dentiger Leconte 
(Syn. Scol., app., p.154) est, quare auctoris descriptionem afferam. 
C. dentiger : Slender cylindrical not very shining, nearly gla- 
brous, dark brown posterior half of prothorax, antennae and feet 
brownish-yellow ; head flat, opake, finely punctured; prothorax 
nearly one half longer than wide, parallel on the sides, obtusely 
rounded in front, finely roughened in front of the middle, nearly 
smooth behind; elÿtra very indistinetly and sparsely punctulate, 
posterior declivity slightly concave, elevated margin acute below, 
then rising into a small acute cusp, then becoming thick and 
retuse for a short distance, then armed near the suture with 
another smale acute cusp or small spine; the suture is not ele- 
vated and near it on each side, about the 2" third of the decli- 
vily is a small rounded subacute tuberele. 
Long. 2 mn. 
California. (This species is of the same size and form as C. mali, 
but differs in the posterior declivity of the elytra, as above des- 
cribed, being concave and broadly retuse at its lateral margin.) 
9. P. LAEVIGATUM, Eichh. 
Oblongum, cylindricum, piceo-brunneum, subnitidum, gla- 
brum, thorace oblongo postice elytrisque sublaevibus, his apice 
late sulcalo-retusis, singulo calloso-elevato, tuberculis duobus a 
sulura remotis. 
Long. 2,5 mm. 
Mas : Elytris apice nitido, sublaevi, antennis capilulo fasciculate 
piloso. 
Fem. : Ælytris apice opacv, punctato, antennis capitulo immuni. 
Pterocyclon iaevigatum, * Eicux., Bert. ent. Zeit., 1868, p. 278. 
Antecedente majus, praecipue latius, elytris apice profundius 
et latius sulcato-retusis, dentibus a sutura remotioribus etc. 
distinctum. Caput nigro-piceum, convexiusculum, profundius 
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