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Larger species, broader, more depressed, pale ochreous-testaceous, the head 

 and beak piceous-black, also with a feeble indefinite subsntural cloud on 

 each elytron from before the middle nearly to the apex ...21 f usciceps 

 Coloration dark. 



Pronotum very coarsely, deeply punctate ; coloration nearly uniform. 



22 brevicollis 



Pronotum finely, densely punctate, paler along the base and apex ; each 



elytron with a blackish cloud in the middle toward base and another 



toward apex 23 stlbsignatlis 



IS— Beak pale, blackish toward apex 24 loiiglllus 



14 — Pronotum with a broad densely squamose vitta at each side. 



25 squamosus 

 Pronotum with four median spots forming a transverse rectangle, the two 

 anterior continued each feebly to the apex, the two posterior to the base, 

 also with a small spot at each side between the rectangle and the lateral 

 margin, the spots composed of long robust hairs ; elytral vestiture squami- 

 form and strongly marmorate 26 111 a rill ore US 



There are two other species, apparently belonging to this genus 

 and recently described by Dietz (Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, XVIII, 

 pp. 262, 265) 1 under the names Aly codes dubius and Elleschus 

 angustatus. I have not studied the types of these species, but 

 dubius seems to be allied to the normal eastern forms such as 

 indifferens ; angustatus is almost certainly closely related to squa- 

 mosus, a small narrow species, with the femoral teeth very small, 

 the anterior alone distinct. 



In regard to Erirhinus lutulentus and rutilus of Boheman, but 

 little can be stated positively. The description of the latter seems 

 to apply very well, however, to Anthonomus nubilus Lee, while 

 E. lutulentus may possibly be the same as Anchodemus angustus 

 Lee. 



It is more than probable that the true affinities of Elleschus lie 

 strongly in the direction of Dorytomus, and that the toothed claws 

 form an exception of no more relative importance than the simple 

 claws of certain of the Anthonomini. It will in fact be found 



1 It should be stated in passing, that the genus Euclyptus of Dietz (1. c. p. 

 271) seems to be identical with Phyllotrox Sch. This genus is widely distri- 

 buted throughout North America and at least the northern part of South America, 

 also in the intervening islands. To the nine species mentioned in the Munich 

 Catalogue, should be added nubifer and ferruyineus Lee, and testuceus Dietz; 

 there are several other species in my cabinet still undescribed. Phyllotrox is 

 one of the characteristically American genera of true Erirhinini, and is decidedly 

 out of place in the Anthonomini. 



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