NORTH AMERICAN BOSTRICHIDAE 99 



anterior margin, densely, coarsely granulose on front (except concave 

 area, which is nearly smooth) , and with short, longitudinal, parallel 

 costae on occiput : clypeus flat, opaque, with short, longitudinal ridges 

 along anterior margin, densely, very finely punctate, very densely 

 clothed with short, erect, yellowish hairs; clypeal suture distinct. 



Pronotum quadrate, strongly convex, widest near middle, strongly 

 deflexed anteriorly, deeply, arcuately emarginate in front; sides 

 broadly rounded, more strongly converging anteriorly, with a large, 

 broad, unciform horn at apical angles; posterior angles broadly 

 rounded: surface densely imbricate-punctate on basal half, densely. 

 irregularly dentate on apical declivity, the teeth broad, semierect. 

 variable in size, and rasplike. 



Elytra at base subequal in width to pronotum at middle, truncate 

 at base: sides vaguely expanded posteriorly, conjointly broadly 

 rounded at apices, the margins sinuate, thickened, and strongly ele- 

 vated along apical declivity; sutural margins slightly, broadly, uni- 

 formly elevated on apical declivity ; surface coarsely, densely, irregu- 

 larly punctate on basal two-thirds, finely, sparsely punctate on apical 

 declivity, with two or three coarse punctures on each side along sutural 

 margin: each elytron with two long tubercles along anterior margin 

 of apical declivity, the tubercles rather acute at apices, and the lateral 

 one slightly arcuate. 



Body beneath densely, finely punctate, densely clothed with rather 

 long, recumbent, yellowish hairs; last visible abdominal stemite 

 broadly rounded at apex. Anterior and posterior tarsi with long 

 hairs on underside. 



Female. — Differs from the male in having the pronotum truncate 

 in front and not produced into a horn at apical angles, the apical de- 

 clivity arcuately deflexed, coarsely, and densely punctate, and the 

 apical margins scarcely elevated, but sinuately rounded with a small 

 tooth at the sutural angles, and without tubercles along the anterior 

 margin of the declivity, and the anterior and posterior tarsi without 

 long hairs on the underside. 



Length 8-14 mm., width 3-4.5 mm. 



Type locality. — Choa, Abyssinia : type in the Paris Museum. 



Distribution. — This species has been recorded from Abyssinia and 

 Egypt. One specimen was intercepted at Xew York, July 23, 1938, 

 in a wooden toy supposed to have come from Trinidad. 



Host*. — Nothing has been recorded on the habits of this species. 



Bostrychopsis PARALLELS (Lesne) 



Bostrychus parallelus Lesne, 1895, Soc. Ent. de Franco Ann. 64: 174; 1897, Soc. 



Ent. de Belg. Ann. 41 : 18. 



Bostrichus parallelus Stebbing, 1903. Notes on Insects that Affect Forestry 

 (India), No. 2, pp. 174-175, pi. 8, fig. 2. 



Bostrychopsis parallela Lesne. 1S99, Soc. Ent. de France Ann. (1808) 07: 532, 

 534-536. figs. 148-153: 1004. Mission Pavie Indo-Chine. Ent. Ser. 3: 106; 

 Lefroy. 1909, Indian Insect Life, p. 316; Stebbing, 1014. Indian Forest Insects, 

 pp. 145-146. fig. 93 ; Snyder. 1027, U. S. Dept. Agr. Bui. 1490. p. 30. flg. 32a : 

 Gardner, 1933, Indian Forest Rec. Ent. Ser. IS (9) : 13, 14. pi. 4. figs. 50, 51 

 (larvae) : Beeson. 1035, Indian Forester 61 ( -i) : 253: Beeson and Bhatia, 

 1037, Indian Forest Rec. Ent. (n. ser.) 2: 225. 220. 232. 310. 313. 318, 

 Lesne, 1938, in Junk (pub.) , Coleopt. Cat., pt. 161, p. 30. 



Male. — Uniformly black, sometimes with a slight reddish tinge, the 

 palpi and antennae reddish brown ; dorsal surface of body glabrous. 



