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Abdomen beneath coarsely, densely punctate, densely, finely granu- 

 lose between punctures, densely clothed with long, recumbent and erect, 

 whitish hairs; last visible sternite broadly rounded at apex. Poste- 

 rior tibiae with semierect hairs on outer surface. Posterior tarsi 

 without long, fine hairs. 



Length 3.5-5 mm., width 1.2-1.5 mm. 



Type locality. — Southern France; type in the Paris Museum. 



Distribution.— This species is distributed throughout the western 

 Mediterranean region. Four specimens were intercepted at New York, 

 Xovember 8, 1934, in bamboo from Italy. 



Hosts. — Perris (1877) reported the larvae in bamboo. Chobaut 

 ( 1891) reported the species as mining in the giant reed (Arundo donax 

 L.) in France. This species also lives in the wild grape. 



MlCRAPATE SCABRATA (EricllSOn) 



Bostrichus scabratus Erichson, 1847, in Wiegmann, Arch. f. Naturgesch. 13 (1) : 



87. 

 Bostrychulus scabratus Lesne, 1S99, Soc. Ent. de France Ann. (1898) 67: 596, 



612-613, fig. 221. 

 Micrapate scabrata Lesne, 1938, in Junk (pub.), Coleopt. Cat., pt. 161, p. 46. 

 Bostrichus vitis Blanchard, 1851, in Gay, Hist. Chile 5 : 433-434 ; Germain, 1892, 



Soc. Sci. de Chili, Actes 2(2): 259. 

 Rhizopertha vitis Philippi, 1887, Cat. Coleopt. Chile, p. 105. 



Male. — Dark reddish brown, sides and disk of pronotum, sides of 

 elytra, and underside of body (except legs) blackish, the antennae and 

 palpi brownish yellow. 



Head densely, coarsely punctate, sparsely clothed with moderately 

 long, recumbent, whitish hairs on front, with long, longitudinal, par- 

 allel costae on occiput ; clypeus smooth and shining at middle, finely, 

 densely, rugosely punctate posteriorly and at sides, clothed with a few 

 long, recumbent, whitish hairs, arcuately emarginate in front, anterior 

 angles acute; clypeal suture obsolete; labrum rather finely, sparsely 

 punctate. 



Pronotum quadrate, widest at basal third ; sides broadly rounded, 

 more strongly converging anteriorly, with a short, rather acute, semi- 

 erect tooth at apical angles ; posterior angles broadly rounded ; surface 

 sparsely clothed with yellowish hairs, which are short and erect on 

 apical half, and long, recumbent toward posterior angles, vaguely, 

 longitudinally grooved at middle, densely, finely punctate on basal 

 half, densely, finely granulose, with numerous broad, semierect, 

 rasplike teeth on apical half, the teeth rather acute at apices. 



Elytra at base slightly narrower than pronotum at basal third ; sides 

 parallel, conjointly broadly rounded at apices; apical contour (when 

 viewed from above) broadly rounded; surface broadly depressed 

 along sutural margins on apical declivity, coarsely, densely punctate, 

 rather densely clothed with moderately long, recumbent, yellow hairs ; 

 sutural margins on apical declivity very strongly gibbose but not 

 expanded laterally at middle of declivity, dentate on dorsal surface, 

 sides abruptly deflexed, the gibbosity obtusely angulated when viewed 

 in profile. 



Body beneath rather densely clothed with long, recumbent, whitish 

 hairs; mesosternum and metasternum sparsely, coarsely punctate; 

 abdomen densely, coarsely punctate, last visible sternite broadly 

 rounded at apex. 



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