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row of long erect scales which take tlie color of the surface 

 vestiture. 



Ill the general character of elytral ornamentation, this species 

 bears a great resemblance to Peritelinus vai'iegahcs, but the 

 beak and abdomen are quite different. 



ORTHOPTOCHfJS n. gen. (Otiorhynchini). 



Beak scarcely as long as the head, slightly narrowed toward apex ; 

 eyes large, slightly longitudinally oval, slightly convex ; inter- 

 ocular surface nearly flat, with a short median canaliculation ; beak 

 transversely and feebly impressed at base, the channel being posteriorly 

 arcuate, finely carinate in the middle anteriorly ; scrobes superior, 

 slightly convergent, rather distant, deep anteriorly, gradually becoming 

 obsolete near the eyes ; antennae rather slender ; scape long, very slen- 

 der, feebly arcuate, extending distinctly beyond the anterior margin of 

 the prothorax, sparsely setose, not at all scaly, fully as long as the 

 funicle ; the latter slender, first joint scarcely more robust, nearly as 

 long as the second and third together, second distinctly shorter than 

 the third and fourth combined, three to seven shorter, equal, longer 

 than wide, not increasing in thickness, all coarsely setose ; club 

 elongate-oval, pointed, finely pubescent, as long as the three preceding 

 joints together. Elytra inflated. First abdominal suture straight ; 

 second segment fully as long as the next two together. Legs moderate ; 

 tibias feebly dilated internally at apex, very minutely mucronate ; coty- 

 loid surfaces of the posterior glabrous. Claws connate at base. Meta- 

 sternal episterna extremely narrow ; suture nearly obsolete. 



This genus belongs near Paraptochus, if we regard the shape 

 of the first ventral suture as of primary importance ; it differs 

 from Peritelopsis in its straight sutures, also in being squamose, 

 with larger erect scales intermingled. 



O. squamiger n. sp.— Oval, moderately robust, convex, extremely 

 densely covered with moderate, generally slightly transverse scales of 

 a nearly uniform, very dark reddish-brown or castaneous color, much 

 sparser on the abdomen, and absent toward the apex of the latter ; ab- 

 domen clothed rather densely with long, robust, subrecumbent hairs. 

 Head and beak conical, the sides convergent from base to apex ; front 

 densely squamose, and with a few large erect scales between the eyes ; 

 apex glabrous, and with but slight trace of a defined angular impres- 

 sion, feebly rugulose. Prothorax slightly shorter than the head and 

 beak, two-fifths wider than long, subcylindrical, very feebly narrowed 

 toward apex ; sides broadly arcuate or subangulate ; base transverse ; 

 apex broadly, very feebly arcuate ; disk convex, covered with a dense 

 uniform mass of scales, with a few short, robust and erect, not percep- 



