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wider than thorax at base, humeri absent; sides widening a little behind base, thence 

 subparallel to apical fourth; apically rounded; sutural angles separately rounded. 

 EH-tral striae very finely punctate, impressed, but almost concealed by pubescence; 

 interspaces densely pubescent, faintly convex. Pygidium rounded, broadly oval, 

 densely pubescent, with median line more condensed pubescent. Undersides densely 

 pubescent. Outer spur of posterior femora slightly, longer than the inner; posterior 

 femora moderately incrassate; claws strongly toothed beneath. 

 Type. — Cat. No. 18447, U. S. National Museum. 



The species approaches very closely the Peruvian S. haeri Pic, 

 from which it seems to differ in size, color of pubescence, and minor 

 details. It may prove identical, but the description of that species is 

 too inadequate to enable a correct identification. The species also 

 appears to be near S. obscurus Sharp and S. Jioffmanseggi Schonherr. 



Family BRACK YRHINID.E. 

 Subfamily BRACHYRHININ.E. 

 Tribe PLATYOMINI. 

 Genus EUSTYIOMOilPHUS, new genus. 



Rostrum stout, not longer than head, not dilated anteriorh-, strongly impressed 

 between the raised margins of the scrobes, with median line sulcate; nasal plate 

 crescentiiorm, sparsely squamose; genas triangularly excised; scrobes entirely \isible 

 from above, short, directed at eyes, squamose behind and not reacliing eyes. An- 

 tennae squamose; scape reaching prothorax, clavate; funicle 7-jointed; club 4-jointed, 

 not much wider than funicle. Eyes oval, slightly truncate in front. Prothorax 

 transverse, bisinuate at base, truncate at apex. Scutellum small, broadly rounded 

 behind. Elytra elongate, parallel sided, striate punctate, 10-striate; outer striae 

 entire; humeri prominent, rounded. Front coxae contiguous, middle coxae narrowly 

 separated, posterior coxae widely separated. Anterior tibiae minutely armed at apex. 

 Posterior tibiae with terminal inclosed area; articular siuface ascending, squamose. 

 Body winged, densely squamose. 



The genus is to be placed next to Eustylus Schonherr in the tribe 

 named by Champion Platyomina. 



Eustylomorphus squamipunctatus, nev/ species. 



(PI. II. fig. 1.) 



Described from four specimens which issued from lots of cotton 

 -quares at Pima, Peru, collected by C. H. T. Townsend and bearing 

 his numbers 22010 and 11009. 



Length, 4.75-5.5 mm.; breadth, 1.75-2 mm. 



Color of integument i*eddish piceous; body throughout densely squamose with flat 

 scales; polygonally crowded pavement scales of differing shapes and sizes above, 

 and rounded overlapping scales below; scales of upper surface interspersed with 

 sparser short whitish setae, often cleft at apex, and of under surface with long white 

 setae; vestiture faun color mixed with bro^-n above, and almost white beneath. 

 Head a little longer than beak, densely clothed with flat pavement scales, sparsely 

 setigerous, the setae arising from punctures; median line sharp from base to a point 



