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middle ; disk very finely, rather evenly, and very densely punctate, 

 without trace of median impressed line. Elytra at base as wide as the 

 prothorax, broadly, feebly emarginate, elongate-oval, twice as long as 

 wide, strongly declivous, but not perpendicular behind, acute at apex, 

 slightly less than twice as wide as the prothorax ; sides feebly arcuate ; 

 humeri very broadly rounded and obsolete ; disk convex, finely but 

 distinctly striate ; striae finely and rather closely punctate ; intervals 

 feebly convex, equal. Legs and antennae fuscous ; body black. 

 JLength 5.5-6.0 mm. 



California (Duncan's Mills, Sonoma Co. 2). 



The female is much more robust than the male, the pro- 

 thorax being slightly more transverse and the elytra much more 

 strongly inflated ; the above description is taken from the male. 



It may be possible that Stamoderes is the same as Mimetes 

 Sch., but in the species here described the beak is much longer 

 than the head, the elytra distinctly wider than the prothorax, 

 and the setae of the elytral series very small, robust, subrecum- 

 bent, and altogether inconspicuous. In the male, there is an 

 extremely feeble, broadly impressed transverse depression at the 

 base of the beak, which is completely obsolete in the female. , 



OPHRYASTES Schonh. 



O. Shufeldti n. sp. — Elongate-oval, very convex, very densely 

 clothed throughout with a cinereous squamose indument, dark brown 

 toward the sides of the pronotum, elytra with feeble mottlings of paler 

 brown. Head moderate; front distinctly convex, very broadly and 

 feebly impressed in the middle ; beak one-half longer than wide, 

 abruptly dilated at apex, strongly trisulcate ; basal transverse impres- 

 sion rather strong, slightly in advance of the eyes ; median sulcus 

 narrow, very deeply impressed, just visibly crossing the transverse 

 impression ; lateral deep, narrow, ending at the transverse 

 impression ; antennae sparsely setose, densely clothed with a closely 

 adherent crust of very minute elongate scales ; first joint of funicle as 

 long as the next two together. Prothorax slightly shorter than the 

 head and beak, one-half wider than long, abruptly constricted at the 

 sides near the base and more feebly so at a short distance from the 

 apex ; sides most prominent at basal third, rather strongly convergent, 

 very feebly arcuate and not at all notched thence nearly to the apex ; 

 base and apex broadly subtruncate, the former broadly, very feebly 

 sinuate in the middle, one-third wider than the apex ; disk slightly 

 uneven, very coarsely, deeply, not very densely, and somewhat unevenly 

 punctate; median groove deep, narrow, and entire. Elytra oval, 

 slightly less than one-half longer than wide, nearly one-half wider 

 than the prothorax, widest before the middle, perpendicular behind, 



