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3. B. erinaceus, Rather slender ; thorax rounded, somewhat distant from the 

 abdomen. 

 Inhab. U.S. 



Body covered with very minute, oppressed, orbicular, dark brown scales: ros- 

 trum robust, moderate ; mandibles exerted arquated simple, acute, unarmed, 

 nearly half as long as the rostrum : thorax rough, the scales & their intervals 

 exhibiting the irregularity of a sanded surface ; hairs numerous ; interval be- 

 tween the thorax & abdomen widely contracted .- elytra with punctured striae 

 and rigid equi-distant black hairs on the interstitial lines ; posterior declivity 

 nearly vertical. 



Length over one-fifth of an inch. 



The mandibles are naked &; very prominent ; the thorax is rounded & its 

 surface is rough & punctured. 



3. B. ^ranulalxLs, Brown, thorax obtusely granulated and with a pale vitta. 

 Inhab. Indiana. 



Body dull brown with short raised hairs .• head impressed between the eyes .• 

 ^/toraa: with very obtuse granulations, a longitudinal slender impressed dorsal 

 line in a dull yellowish vitta : elylra. a little elevated on the basal edge, striae 

 concave, much dilated, punctured ; punctures wide, not very deeply impressed, 

 interstitial lines not so wide as the striae, with hairs ; suture a little pale. 



Length about one-fourth of an inch. ' 



The surface of the thorax exhibits the appearance of obtuse little elevated gra- 

 nulations and the profile view shews irregular punctures or interrupted rugae. 



LEPYRUS, Germ. 



L. geminatus, Body dusky ; rostrum rather short .• antennae a little robust .• 

 thorax with a yellovvish vitta each side; elytra with the alternate interstitial 

 lines light brown, a small white spot in the middle of each. 



This is the analogue of the L. colon F. of Europe, and so closely allied to it as 

 to be easily mistaken for it. But the body is a little more robust ; the rostrum 

 is a little shorter and the antennae are more robust. 



A specimen was sent to me by Mr. Barabino from Louisiana, I obtained one 

 in Missouri. 



HYLOBIUS, Germ. 

 H. pales, Herbst, Pissodes macellus, Germar Sp. Novae p. 319. 



PHYTONOMUS, Schoenh. 



P. trh'ittatus, Blackish brown with numerous scale like hairs. 

 Inhab. North West Territory. 



jSodj/ blackish-brown, with numerous, robust hairs almost resembling scales, 

 which are longer in three yellowish metallic, thoracic vittae of which the lateral 

 ones are broader and terminate in a spot on the humerus ; the vittae and spot, 

 are pale brownish cinereous; a?(;ermae rufous ; elytra with large costal spots^ 

 interstitial lines obsoletely alternating with blackish and pale brown-cmereous ; 

 suture behind the middle also pale brown cinereous ; thighs beneath near the tip 

 emarginate ; anterior tibiae a little incurved at tip. 



Length one-fifth of an inch. 



2. P. comptus, Elytra with subquadrate, brown spots. 

 Inhab. U.S. 



Body cinereous-olivaceous, covered with small scales; rostrum shorter than 

 the head and thorax, rather narrower at base : antennae and feet rufous ; thorax 

 somewhat rounded, with a much dilated, brown, somewhat metallic vitta ; 



