North American Rhynchophora. 243" 



tubercles, the first at the apex, the second at the sides and at 

 posterior fourth ; intervals very coarsely, moderately, and irregularly 

 ruguloso-foveolate, with small, robust very sparse recumbent setae,, 

 under surface and legs densely squamose and with short, white 

 subrecumbent setae. Length 6.5 mm. 



California (Los Angeles Co. 2). 



Differs from effrada in three very important points of struc- 

 ture. The front in effrada is distinctly concave, the median 

 sulcus interrupted by the concavity and with the prominences 

 over the eyes much more marked. The scutellum in that 

 species is very minute, elongate, acute and indistinct. The 

 general surface sculpture in effrada is very much coarser, and 

 the tubercles of the elytra almost doubly prominent. The size- 

 of scutellata is decidedly greater than that of effrada. 



The scales in this genus are very large, nearly circular and are 

 not at all strigose, but feebly and finely granulose. 



AMOTUS n. gen. (Ophryastini). 



This genus belongs among the Strangaliodes in the immediate 

 neighborhood of Mimetes. 



Beak rather slender, twice as long as wide, much narrower than the 

 head from which it is separated by a strong transverse impression,, 

 truncate at apex ; alae rather large, dilated; scrobes very deep, strongly 

 arcuate, passing beneath at a distance before the eyes nearly equal to 

 their own length ; antennae rather robust, finely and not densely 

 pubescent, the funicle with sparse, erect setae in addition ; scape robust, 

 gradually clavate, extending to the middle of the eye, shorter than the 

 funicle ; first joint of the latter much longer than the second, outer 

 joints slightly wider, seventh obconical, scarcely as long as wide ; club 

 oval, finely pubescent, three-jointed ; mandibular scar not prominent. 

 Metasternum long ; episterna very narrow ; suture very distinct and 

 deeply impressed. First ventral suture very strongly sinuate in the 

 middle half ; second segment long, in the middle nearly twice as long 

 as the next two together. Anterior tibiae not distinctly denticulate ; 

 posterior with obsolete terminal spur, the cotyloid surfaces cavernous ^ 

 claws robust, divergent. 



The ocular lobes are obsolete and in one species are replaced 

 by a row of exceedingly short, scarcely visible setaB, and in the 

 other by a shorter row of longer vibrissae. The eyes are 

 rounded, rather large, very convex, prominent and coarsely 

 granulated. 



It may be possible that this is the genus identified by Dr. 



