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vestiture short and very sparse throughout ; form rather short, the 



elytra barely twice as long as wide kirbyi n. n. 



vittatus Lee. nee Kirby 



Elytra densely pubescent, each elytron with several narrow denuded vittse ; 



beak finely, strongly punctulate and also with coarse somewhat sparse 



punctures, moderately carinate ; pronotum with very coarse more or less 



remote punctures, feebly carinate ; elytra much more than twice as long as 



wide vittatus Kirby 



poricollis Mann. 



var. virgatus Lee. 



Elytra more or less densely squaraulo-pubescent and often sparsely speckled 



with denser spots, the vestiture always denser along the lateral margins 



and forming a conspicuous marginal vitta ; pronotum not carinate. 



Beak gradually and feebly attenuate from base to apex... modest US Mann. 



californicus Mots. 

 pleuralis Lee. 

 Beak parallel or very feebly dilated at apex. 



Vestiture long, dense, pubiform and villose circumductllS n. sp. 



Vestiture short, much less dense, more recumbent and squamiform ; body 

 . cylindrical, strongly convex. 

 Beak compressed above and strongly, narrowly tumid along the middle. 



texanus Lee. 



Beak cylindrical, not at all compressed ; prothorax larger, much more 



finely punctured SUDCyliudricilS n. sp. 



Sec. III. — Second joint of funicle subequal to the first; body subcylindrical, the beak 



extremely short and thick but not noticeably dilated at apex. 

 Pronotum densely and. coarsely granulose graniferus n. sp. 



In the subgenus Stepbanocleonus there are indications of several 

 other species within our territories, but the material is so limited 

 that they cannot be advantageously defined at present, especially 

 in the absence of the unique type of cristatus. It is a question 

 whether our species should be placed in Stepbanocleonus or Plagio- 

 graphus, but this is a matter of but slight importance as the differ- 

 ence between these subgenera appears to be very inconsiderable. 



The above table is somewhat unsatisfactory, owing to my ina- 

 bility to study the orginal types of some of the more inadequately 

 described species, such as californicus and modestus. There seems 

 to be but little doubt, however, that prsepotens is the same as 

 trivitattus, as the size of the body and ornamentation of the elytra 

 vary remarkably in the ample series before me. 



A number of specimens collected in Arizona and Southern Cali- 

 fornia are referred to sparsus, although the prothorax is almost 



