NOTES ON MACROPS AND ANTHONOMUS. 



llv Ci. W. J. AxcF.i.i.. 



Macrops schauppii, sp. nov. Oblong, moderately stout, lufopiceous ; 

 densely covered with yellowish and dark brown scales. Rostrum stout, suban- 

 gulate at sides, about equal in length to thorax, narrowed at middle, dilated at tip ; 

 tricarinate, lateral margins sulcate, each sulcus bearing a row of stout bristle-like 

 seta:. Surface rather sparsely covered with pale squamiform hairs, a dense patch 

 of rounded, concave scales near base. Scrobes very deep, directed toward lower 

 half of eves. Head short, trapezoidal, moderately convex, densely clothed with 

 pale filiform scales, with many larger rounded scales intermixed. Thorax about 

 as wide as long, narrowed at base and apex, sides strongly arcuate, not indented, 

 transversely impressed near apex ; rather convex and covered with rounded 

 scales, with many stout, erect set?e intermixed, a narrow median vitta and sides 

 paler, enclosing a darker spot, lobes prominent. Elytra about one half wider than 

 thorax, sides very slightly narrowed for three-fourths their length, then rather 

 abruptly constricted and bisinuate, apex broadly rounded. Stride very strongly 

 impressed, punctures large but not approximate, intervals subequal, convex, 

 each bearing a row of stout, erect, bristle-like seta^ ; surface mottled with dirty 

 brownish, glutinous appearing scales. Beneath rather sparsely scaled. Legs 

 moderately robust, clothed with flattened scales and a few recumbent squamiform 

 hairs. Anterior tarsi dilated. Last ventral with a large, concave impression 

 occupying nearly the whole surface of segment. Length .4.5 mm.; .17 inch. 



A single abraded specimen, evidently a male, collected by 

 my friend Mr. K. d. Schaupp, in honor of whom I have named it. 

 The distance of the scrobes, shape of the elytra, and strongly 

 setigerous intervals woiUd place the species in the hirtcllus group 

 of Dr. Diet/. (Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. ^^)l. xvi, page 45). It 

 bears a most deceptive resemblance to ichiiiatiis Dietz, from 

 which species it tlilTcrs in its larger elytral puncttn"es and sexual 

 characters. 



Macrops laramiensis, sp. nov. Oblong, piceous ; antenns; rufopiceous, 

 club darker. Beak slightly longer than thorax, rather slender, somewhat flattened ; 

 widest at base, gradually tapering and slightly compressed at tip. Rostrum not 

 carinate ; clothed with filiform, cupreus scales, intermixed with others having a 

 jiearly lustre, scales becoming more bristle-like at tip. Antenna: moderately stout, 

 second joint of funicle slightly longer than fust, but much more slender, scrobes 

 directed toward superior margin of eyes, superocular sulcus deeply impressed. 

 Head conical, densely clothed with cupreus and pearly scales ; lobes moderate, 

 anterior thoracic suture well-marked. Thorax subquadrate, rather convex, 

 strongly narrowed and constricted anteriorly, sides arcuate, hind angles broadly 

 rounded. Surface densely clothed with cuprocinereous and silvery white scales, the 

 pakr ones forming a narrow median vitta and a submarginal vitta on either side, 

 the latter angulated at middle and then divergent toward the base. Thorax with a 

 few large punctures, irregularly placed, and many recumbent hair-like scales. 



