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Type locality. — Provence, France; type probably in the Paris 

 Museum. 



Distribution. — This species is widely distributed throughout the 

 Mediterranean Region of Europe, Africa, and Asia Minor. One speci- 

 men was intercepted at Xew York. June 1. 1938, in dried roots from 

 Turkey. 



Hosts. — This species lives in grape. Lycium. and Tamarix. and Rev 

 (1877) recorded the larvae living in the trunks of Tamarix and reduc- 

 ing them to dust. 



Amphicerus (Schistoceros) teres Horn 



Amphicerus teres Horn, 1878, Airier. Phil. Soc. Proc. 17: 547, 548; Casey, 1898, 



N. Y. Ent. Soc. Jour. 6 : 70. 

 Schistoceros teres Lesne, 1899, Soc. Ent. de France Ann. (1898) 67: 508-509, 



522-523, figs. 132-133. 

 Amphicerus {Schistoceros) teres Lesne, 1938, in Junk (pub.), Coleopt. Cat., pt. 



161, p. 42. 



Male. — Elongate, cylindrical, shorter than hamatus. uniformly dark 

 reddish brown to brownish black, the antennae and palpi brownish 

 or reddish yellow. 



Head much narrower than pronotum. broadly, transversely flattened 

 behind eyes, with an arcuate carina between flattened area and occi- 

 put, finely, densely granulose, with a number of larger granules and 

 densely clothed with long, erect, yellowish hairs on clypeus and con- 

 vex area behind clypeus, vaguely punctate and granulose on trans- 

 verse flattened area, with long, longitudinal, parallel carinae on occi- 

 put ; clypeal suture not distinct, sometimes vaguely indicated at 

 middle: labrum finely, densely punctate; first segment of antennal 

 club subtriangular, truncate at apex ; eyes small and oval. 



Pronotum quadrate, vaguely emarginate in front, widest just be- 

 hind middle, strongly deflexed anteriorly ; sides very broadly rounded, 

 more strongly converging anteriorly, produced into a small, broad 

 tubercle at apical angles; surface with numerous short, longitudinal 

 costae at middle of basal half, densely tuberculate on apical half, some 

 of the tubercles broad, semierect, and rasplike, with four or five larger 

 tubercles on each side along lateral margin, sparsely clothed with long, 

 erect, inconspicuous hairs on apical half and toward sides. Scutellum 

 nearly glabrous. 



Elytra at base slightly narrower than pronotum near middle, trun- 

 cate at base, without tubercles or callosities on apical declivity ; sutural 

 margins thickened and strongly elevated at middle of apical declivity ; 

 sides slightly expanded posteriorly, truncate or subtruncate at apices, 

 margins not elevated; surface coarsely, deeply, densely, irregularly 

 punctate, sparsely clothed with rather long, erect, yellowish hairs. 



Abdomen beneath finely, densely, shallowly punctate, rather densely 

 clothed with long, recumbent, yellowish hairs ; metasternum and meso- 

 sternum sparsely, finely, shallowly punctate, sparsely clothed with 

 short, recumbent, yellowish hairs. 



Female. — Differs from the male in having the pronotum rounded or 

 subtruncate and unarmed at apical angles, the sides of the elytra par- 

 allel, and the eyes large and round. 



Length 6-8 mm., width 2-2.5 mm. 



Type locality. — Fort Yuma, Calif.: type in the Horn Collection in 

 the Academy of Xatural Sciences of Philadelphia. 



