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COPTURUS SOBRINUS n. Sp. 



Piceous, elytra, legs and beak castaneous. Rostrum 

 and sides of head with broad white scales, eyes contigu- 

 ous on the front. Thorax a little broader at base than 

 long, slightly narrower in front, feebly constricted at apex, 

 sides feebly arcuate, disc slightly convex, coarsely, deeply 

 and closely punctate, at sides with broad white scales, at 

 middle a short line from the base with narrower scales. 

 Elytra deeply striate with elongate punctures, intervals 

 subcostiform and imbricately sculptured, color castaneous 

 ornamented with short lines of white scales on the in- 

 tervals forming in a general way a basal band, a humeral 

 lunule extending inward at middle, a white area on the 

 suture near the apex, another at sides near apex, the scales 

 otherwise are brownish. Body beneath and legs densely 

 clothed with white scales, broad on the body, narrow on 

 the legs. Length, .08 inch; 2 mm. 



Closely related to minutus in color, form and markings, 

 but it is readily known by the form of elytral intervals. 

 In miniitns the intervals are flat and decidedly wider than 

 the striae, the intervals of sobrinus are subcostiform and 

 narrower than the striae. The antennae are similar in that 

 the second joint of the funicle is scarcely visibly longer 

 than the third. 



La Paz, Sierra San Lazaro, Sierra El Taste. 



Zascelis oblonga n. sp. 



Oblong, form of irrorata, dark brown, dull, sparsely 

 clothed with dull white, slim, erect hairs, with more erect 

 short black setce intermixed. Rostrum very coarsely 

 cribrate, at base slightly expanded, forming al« over the 

 scrobes. Head coarsely and deeply perforate punctate. 

 Thorax a little wider at base than long, sides obliquely 

 convergent at apical third, posteriorly parallel, disc mod- 



