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declivity ; apical declivity obliquely deflexed, the margins at sides dis- 

 tinct and slightly gibbose posteriorly, with sutural striae depressed 

 and punctuate on anterior part ; the sutural margins strongly gibbose 

 and expanded below middle of declivity, the margins not tuberculate 

 but the sides perpendicular, lateral margins not thickened or elevated. 



Abdomen beneath finely, shallowly punctate or granulose, sparsely 

 clothed with short, recumbent, whitish hairs; last visible sternite 

 rounded at apex, with rather distinct lateral grooves. 



Female. — Differs from the male in having the last visible abdominal 

 sternite angularly emarginate at the apex, and with the lateral grooves 

 obsolete. 



Length 2.25-4.5 mm., width 1-1.5 mm. 



Type locality. — Of chevrieri, unknown to writer. Of foveicollis, 

 Sicily ; type probably in the Rene Oberthiir Collection. Of pustidata, 

 southern Tyrol; type was in the Miinchen Museum. Of capillata, 

 Lombardy, Italy ; location of type unknown to writer. 



Distribution. — This species is widely distributed throughout the 

 Mediterranean region, both in southern Europe and northern Africa. 

 Adults were intercepted at New York, July 18, 1927, in roots from 

 Italy, and also were reared from hardwood strips binding bales of 

 cork received from the Mediterranean region, and stacked along the 

 railroad at Nicholson, Miss. So far as known, this species has not 

 become established in the United States. 



Hosts. — This species is recorded in the literature as attacking the 

 following plants: fig (Ficus sp.), mulberry (Morus sp.), green oak 

 (Quercus ilex L.), laurel, mastic tree (Pistacia lentiscus L.), English 

 oak (Quercus robur L.), evergreen oak (Quercus coecifera L.), birch 

 (Betida sp.) , fox grape (Vitis labrusca L.) , and pomegranate (Punica 

 gramatum L. ) . 



SCOBICIA BARBATA ( Wollaston) 



Enneadcsmus barbatus Wollaston, 1860, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., (ser. 3), 5: 



359-360. 

 Xylopertha barbata Wollaston, 1865, Coleopt. Atlantiduru, p. 231, app., pp. 38-39. 

 Scobicia barbata Lesne, 1901, Soc. Ent. de France Ann. (1900) 69: 586, 591, 



figs. 428, 430; 1901, Abeille 30: 102, 104, pi. 3, figs. 67-68, 1938, in Junk (pub.), 



Coleopt. Cat. pt. 161, p. 57. 



Female. — Dark reddish brown, basal area of pronotum and elytra, 

 antennae, palpi, and legs paler. 



Head flat, and finely, densely punctate on front, convex, with long, 

 longtitudinal, parallel costae on occiput, rather densely clothed with 

 very long, erect, brownish-yellow hairs, which are shorter at middle 

 in front of clypeus; clypeus flat, depressed at middle along posterior 

 margin, densely, finely punctate or granulose ; clypeal suture sinuate, 

 obsolete toward sides ; eyes large. 



Pronotum slightly wider than long, widest at basal third: sides 

 broadly rounded posteriori}^, strongly converging anteriorly, with a 

 small, broad, arcuate tooth at apical angles; posterior angles broadly 

 rounded; surface sparsely clothed with short, recumbent, inconspicu- 

 ous hairs, with a few long, erect, yellowish hairs along sides anteriorly, 

 very sparsely, finely punctate on basal half, finely, densely granulose 

 at middle along anterior margin, densely, irregularly dentate on 

 apical half, the teeth broad, semierect, variable in size, and rasplike. 



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