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of the beak. Prothorax longer than wide, rounded on the sides, 

 densely punctured, with a faint smooth dorsal line. Elytra one- 

 half wider than the prothorax, coarsely punctured, punctures 

 arranged in rows near the base. Length 2 mm's; 0,8 inch. 



Detroit, Michigan, and Capron, Florida. — Nord- Amerika. 



76. Au. laticoUis. 



Auletes laticoUis Casey, Ann. N. York Ac. IV, 1888, p. 233. 



Three-fourths longer than wide, convex, pale yellowish 

 throughout, except the antennae and metasternum, which are 

 piceous-black; pubescence sparse, short, semi-erect, whitish in 

 color. Head short and robust, much wider than long, broadly 

 evenly convex, coarsely, not densely, and very feebly punctate 

 toward the sides, impunctate in the middle, feebly convex between 

 the eyes; the latter large, convex and prominent; sides behind thern 

 very short, parallel and nearly straight; beak twice as long as 

 the head and scarcely one-third as wide, arcuate, cylindrical, with 

 a very few coarse, feeble punctures at the sides; lateral sulcations 

 moderate, almost impunctate, scarcely at all visible from above; 

 Upper surface with an elongate fovea between the antennae; the 

 latter rather robust, as long as the beak, inserted just beyond the 

 basal third of the latter; club robust; basal joints but slightly 

 thicker than the funicle. Prothorax widest at basal third, nearly 

 one-half wider than long ; sides strongly arcuate toward base, more 

 strongly convergent and straighter toward the apex; the latter 

 broadly, very feebly arcuate, three-fourths as wide as the base; 

 the latter broadly, evenly, and feebly arcuate; disk evenly and 

 feebly convex, finely, feebly, sparsely, and somewhat unevenly 

 punctate. Elytra somewhat dehiscent at apex, two-fifths longer 

 than wide, nearly one-half wider than the prothorax ; sides parallel 

 and nearly straight; humeri narrowly rounded; disk convex, 

 feebly impressed along the suture toward base, coarsely, feebly 

 and sparsely punctate. Length. 2,8 mm. 



Süd-Kalilornien. 



77. Au. rufipennis. 



Auletes rufipennis Pierce, Proc. U. S. Nation. Mus. 37, p. 327. 



Length 2 mm, Three-fourths longer than wide, slightly 

 convex; black, with elytra, except a wide band along the suture 

 and lateral edges, reddish brown, and with antennal funicle, tip 

 of beak and legs more or less piceous, or testaceous; punctuation 

 fine; pubescence sparce, short, semierect, whitish. Head with 

 occiput wider than long, convex; feebly convex between the eyes; 

 occiput finely , transversely , lineolately rugose ; punctuation 

 between the eyes shallow, sp rse, several of the median punctures 

 open in front; eyes large, convex, and prominent. Beak as long 

 as thorax and occiput, one-third as wide as head, slightly arcuate 

 behind base of antennae, somewhat flattened above and below, 

 medianly shallowly sulcate, laterally punctato-sulcate; scrobes 

 deep, beginning in a point et above middle and almost as wide 



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