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nate; surface densely squamosa, and with a few very robust erect scales 

 near the eyes. Prothorax nearly one-half wider than long, feebly and 

 broadly constricted in the apical third, cylindrical ; base and apex 

 equal, truncate ; sides feebly arcuate in the middle ; disk very finely 

 and sparsely punctate, having a few erect scales, especially along the 

 apex. Ehjtra [strongly inflated, more than twice as wide as the pro- 

 thorax, one-third longer than wide, rather acuminate at apex ; sides 

 arcuate ; disk convex, finely striate ; striae feebly impressed, very finely, 

 obsoletely, and distantly punctate; intervals feebly convex, each with a 

 very widely spaced row of robust, erect, piceous scales. Legs robust, 

 densely squamose, sparsely setose. Metasternal episternum rather 

 wide ; suture only distinct anteriorly. Length 5.4 mm. 



California (Monterey Co. 1). 



The type specimen, which was taken near the town of Mon- 

 terey, is covered in great part with a scabrous coating, which ap- 

 pears to have been caused by a viscous exudation. The species 

 differs greatly in habitus and ornamentation from Peritelinu& 

 variegatus, having much more globose and inflated elytra. 



PERITELINUS n. gen. (Otiorhynchini). 



P. variegatus n. sp.— Somewhat robust, convex, densely clothed 

 with scales which are rather small, round, and excessively minutely 

 and densely striate ; general color above dark reddish-brown, beneath 

 whitish, broad median area of pronotum brown, very distinctly limited 

 at the sides ; elytra at the sides beneath whitish, the white area 

 crossing the elytra near the apex in a very irregular angular band, 

 edged anteriorly with blackish, the fourth and sixth intervals, near the 

 base, and a spot on the sixth interval, near the middle, also white. 

 Head broad ; beak much narrower than the head, and about equal in 

 length, wider than long, dilated at the apex, separated by a transverse 

 impression, a triangular impressed area at tip glabrous ; eyes rounded, 

 rather large, feebly convex, at nearly their own length from the base ; 

 surface densely squamose, and with sparse, erect, squamiform hairs ;. 

 antennae moderate ; scape slightly arcuate, just attaining the anterior 

 margin of the prothorax, densely scaly, and with short, erect, robust 

 setae ; funicle with the first joint as Ipng as the next two together, 

 setose and sparsely scaly ; scrobes short, deep, superior, not attaining^ 

 the eyes, very feebly convergent. Prothorax cylindrical, one-half 

 wider than long ; sides broadly arcuate ; base and apex equal, trans- 

 versely truncate ; disk slightly shorter than the head and rostrum, 

 rather finely, densely, and deeply punctate, each puncture bearing sl. 

 short, robust, erect fuscous seta. Elytra inflated, two-fifths longer than 

 wide, in the middle slightly more than twice as wide as the prothorax, 

 perpendicular behind ; apex not inflexed, rather acutely angulate ; disk 



