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(266) 1. * Cleonis vittatus. Striped Cleonis. 



C. f vittatus J linearis, pilcso-incanus ; rostro subcarinato ; prothorace elytrisque vittis tribus nigricantibus. 



Striped Cleonis, linear, hoary from pile; rostrum obsoletely ridged; prothorax and elytra with three blackish stripes. 



Length of the body 3-| — a lines. 



Several specimens taken in the Expedition. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Body narrow, black, clothed with decumbent hoary pile. Head thickly covered with hairs, but 

 on each side from the eye to the insertion of the antenna?, the hairs are less dense, which gives the 

 appearance of a blackish stripe ; rostrum thick, shorter than the prothorax, obsoletely ridged, punc- 

 tured : prothorax obsoletely ridged, punctured with rather large scattered punctures, often concealed 

 by the hairs, with three blackish stripes, produced as in the head by the hairs being thinner : the 

 elytra also have three similar stripes, and are punctured in rows : the abdomen underneath appears 

 as if dotted with black from the same cause. 



Family PHYLLOBIDiE. Phylkbidans. 



CIII. Genus MACROPS. Kirb. 



Body oblong, winged. Rostrum shorter than the prothorax, subcylindrical, somewhat arched, 

 having a dorsal longitudinal ridge ; bed of the scape of the antennas oblique reaching from near the 

 apex of the nostrum to the middle of the eye ; antenna? apical, longer than the head, eleven-jointed ; 

 scape as long as the remainder of the antenna?, incrassated at the apex, reaching the eye ; two next 

 joints longer than the subsequent ones, obconical ; the following four very short, top-shaped ; the 

 four last forming a subovate knob ; eyes lateral, subimmersed, long, forming, in some measure, an 

 isosceles triangle with the base rounded, and the vertex downwards : r ' prothorax subglobose ; ante- 

 pectus emarginate, sides obsoletely lobed : scutellum very minute, triangular ; coleoptera oblong : 

 thighs unarmed ; tibia? armed with a very minute incurved spine or spur ; tarsi not dilated, penul- 

 timate joint bipartite. 



At first sight the species of this little group would be set aside as belonging to Sitona Germer, 

 with which they possess many characters in common ; a closer inspection, however, will satisfactorily 

 prove that they belong to different genera. In the genus just named, the rostrum is shorter, thicker, 

 and channelled ; the knob of the, antennae consists only of three joints, the bed of the scape turns 

 below the eye ; the eye inself is round : the antepectus is not emarginate, or lobed ; the tibia? have 

 no incurved spine. 



I cannot find this genus in Schonherr. 



r ' Plate VIII, Fig. 4, a. 



