PACHYRHINCHimE. 203 



Family PACHYRHINCHIDiE. 



CVI. * Genus PACHYRHYNCHUS. Kirb, 



TjCtbrum subemarginate, subdistinct. 



Mandibles armed with two teeth at the apex. 



Labium nearly square. 



Palpi conical. 



Antennae short, inserted in a roundish lateral cavity near the apex of the rostrum, eleven-jointed : 

 scape short, as long as the third joint, somewhat incrassated at the apex ; pedicel obconical, 

 as long as the fourth joint ; third joint obconical elongated ; the following five joints grow- 

 ing gradually shorter and wider ; knob ovate acute. 

 Body oblong pear-shaped. Rostrum almost as wide as the head, subcylindrical, a little wider at 



the tip, ridged between the eyes and antenna?, an angular impression between the former ; eyes 



round, prominent : prothorax subcylindrical, rather narrowest anteriorly : antepectus not emarginate 



nor lobed : coleoptera oblong, depressed at the apex : thighs clubbed, unarmed ; tibia? unarmed ; 



penultimate joint of the tarsi bipartite. 



(271) 1. * Pachyrhynchus Schonherri. Schonherr s Pachyrhynchus. 



P. ( Schonherri j piloso-incanus : prothorace obsolete albido trivittato, scutello alho : elytris seriebus quatuor punctorum nigrorum. 

 Schonherr's Pachyrhynchus, hoary from pile : prothorax with three faint whitish stripes ; scutellum white : elytra with four 

 rows of black dots. 



Length of the body 5 — 7 lines. 



Taken in Canada by Dr. Bigsby. Also in Georgia ? by Mr. Abbott. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Body thickly covered, especially underneath, with hoary pile. Antenna? shorter than the head ; 

 eyes brown : prothorax with three faint whiter stripes : scutellum white : elytra with nine rows of 

 punctures, and at the base of the lateral margin is a portion of a tenth row, between the second and 

 third ; in the sixth, seventh, eighth, and ninth rows the pile is thicker than in other parts of the 

 elytrum, so as to form three white stripes, on these stripes there are also four rows of distant black 

 dots on each elytrum. 



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