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transversim impresso, rostro tliorace longiore, tenui punctulato ad apicem lrevi, pone medium 
paulo dilatato ; tliorace latitudine sesqui longiore, ad medium paulo rotundato, ad apicem 
subtubulato, grosse punctato, postice canaliculato, elytris elongatis subovalibus, convexis, striis 
crenatis interstitiis rugosis biseriatim subtilissime punctulatis ; antennis pone rostri medium 
insertis. Long. '08. 
San Francisco. The elytra are twice as wide as the thorax, and are almost regularly oval; 
more than twice as long as their greatest width. 
Sitones Germ. 
S. vittaius, elongatus niger, dense cinereo squamosus, fronte sulcato, rostro extrorsum late 
concavo, tliorace latitudine longiore, fusco bivittato, subcanaliculato punctato, elytris striatis 
interstitiis 2 ; 4, 6 et 8vo fuscis, reliquis cinereis uniseriatim setulosis ; oculis parum pro- 
minulis. Long. '17. 
San Francisco and San Diego. Of the size, shape, and sculpture of S. seniculus, but differs 
by the regular vitt^e of the elytra, and by the entirely black antennae ; the rostrum is concave 
only beyond the extremity of the frontal groove. 
S. sordidus, longiusculus niger, dense sordide squamosus, fronte sulcato, rostro ad apicem 
concavo, tliorace latitudine baud longiore, punctato vix vittato ; elytris striatis interstitiis 
alternis uniseriatim setulosis; antennis ad basin ferrugineis; oculis parum prominulis. 
Long. '2. 
With the preceding. Larger and less slender than S. seniculus, and distinguished by the 
rostrum being slightly narrowed at base, and flat above as far as the end of the frontal groove, 
and then concave to the apex. In S. seniculus the rostrum is concave for nearly its entire 
length, and is not at all narrowed at the base. The color of the scales is cinereous in S. seni¬ 
culus, and dirty yellowish brown in the present species. 
Alophus Schonh. 
A. didymus , niger, ochreo fusco subtiliter dense pubescens, rostro canaliculato, thorace dense 
punctato, latitudine vix breviore, antice profunde constricto, lateribus antice paulo rotundatis 
tenuiter canaliculato, vitta utrinque sublaterali pallidiore ; elytris thorace sesqui latioribus, 
dense subtiliter rugose punctulatis, ochreo nigroque subtesselatis, gutta utrinque ante medium 
alteraque ad dodrantem densius pallide pubescentibus. Long. '48. 
Lee. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sciences 7, 20. 
Oregon, Dr. Townsend. Smaller and narrower than A. alternatus Say, and readily distin¬ 
guished by the different form of the thorax, and by the absence of elytral strife. 
A. constrictus. On comparing a specimen from Sitklia, sent me by Baron Chaudoir, and one 
collected by Dr. Cooper on the journey from Vancouver to Yokolt, with A. alternatus Say, 
found at Lake Superior, I find them entirely different. The species from Oregon and Bussian 
America has the sides of the thorax subserrate and the apex strongly constricted ; the body is, 
also, more elongate, and the thorax is much smaller. A. didymus approaches it more nearly; 
the thorax of that species is not at all narrowed towards the base, and the sides are not serrate. 
