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tibly punctate. Elytra inflated, convex, twice as wide as the prothorax, 

 one-third longer than wide ; sides arcuate ; together rather pointed 

 behind, very finely, feebly striate, not visibly punctate ; intervals 

 nearly flat, each with a single row of very widely spaced, short, robust, 

 erect scales. Length 3.7 mm. 



California (exact locality not known). 



I have before me but a single specimen of this small species, 

 the characters of which appear to necessitate the creation of a 

 new genus. 



PERITELODES n. gen. (Otiorhynchini). 



Beak very short, scarcely as long as the head ; sides parallel, slightly 

 dilated at apex ; scrobes narrow, deep, very widely separated, very 

 feebly convergent, not attaining the eyes ; the latter rather large, 

 widely distant, feebly convex, at their own length from the prothorax ; 

 front flat, separated from the beak by a transversely sinuate, very 

 feeble impression ; antennae moderate ; scape densely squamose, setose, 

 rather robust, strongly arcuate, not quite attaining the prothorax, and 

 distinctly shorter than the funicle ; the latter slender, nearly equal 

 in thickness throughout, setose, sparsely squamulose toward base, basal 

 joint nearly as long as the next two together, second nearly as long as 

 the third and fourth combined, outer four joints much longer than 

 wide, equal in length ; club elongate-oval, finely pubescent. Prothorax 

 cylindrical. Elytra strongly inflated. First abdominal suture very 

 feebly arcuate in the middle ; second segment as long as the next two 

 together. Legs robust ; posterior tibiae with two fixed approximate 

 terminal spurs which are truncate at apex ; cotyloid surface glabrous. 

 Claws strongly connate at base. 



This genus differs from Peritelinus, to which it is otherwise 

 very closely related, in having two fixed terminal spurs to the 

 posterior tibiae ; the first ventral suture is much more feebly and 

 less broadly arcuate in the middle, and the second segment 

 slightly shorter than in that genus. 



P. obtectus n. sp. — Rather robust, convex, densely clothed with 

 dark-brown scales which are whiter on the fianks and along the median 

 line of the prothorax, and with a few white scales irregularly scattered 

 over the elytra ; scales rather convex, wider than long, oval, finely and 

 rather distinctly strigate ; abdomen more sparsely squamose, scarcely 

 more sparsely so toward apex, and with rather robust white setae, scales 

 white. Head and beak distinctly longer than the prothorax ; the latter 

 scarcely as long as the head and slightly wider than long, having at 

 apex a short, broadly angular impressed glabrous area, bounded posteri- 

 orly by a raised carina, and having its apex broadly, angularly emargi- 



