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body glabrous, often covered with a clayey artificial coat so as to bide 
the sculpture, more rarely with a dense natural glabrous coating; an¬ 
tenna 1 inserted near base of beak, scape long, slender, funicle six-jointed; 
club wedge-shaped, convex in front, the outer third of more sensitive; 
beak shorter than thorax, rather slender, feebly curved, swollen at base; 
antennal grooves very short, fovea-like, located close to eyes; thorax 
longer than wide, its disc usually with elevated smooth lines or spaces; 
elytra usually wider than thorax, their tips separately broadly rounded, 
thus widely exposing the pygidium.” 
The species that we are interested in was described by Olivier in 
1807 as Calandra callosa from “Carolina,” a region of great extent 
and including the greater part of the range ot this species as we know 
it today. Olivier’s description is as follows: 
27 Calandra calleuse, Calandra callosa, Charauson, pi. 28 Fig. 416. C. d un 
noirgris obscurj elytres avec un point calleux lursant. C. obscura cinceias- 
cens, elytris puncto culloso nitido. 
Antennae nigrae apice cinero. Rostrum nigrum basi fusco-cinereum. Tho¬ 
rax fusco-cinereus obscurus dorso cruce vix elevata. Elytra haud striata sub- 
variolosa fusco-cinerae obscura callo postico nitido. Corpus subtus pedesque 
fusco-cinerae obscura. 
Tout le corps de cet insecte est d ’un noircendre obscur. Les antennes sont 
d ’un noir frun, luisant, avec le base condrec, obscura. Le corcelet est inegal 
et un voit a sa portie superceure une elevation en croix pen marquee les 
elytres sont inegales, presque variolees, marquees, vers l’eitramite d 'un 
point calleux presque epineux, noiratie, lursant. 
Elle se trouve dons la Caroline. 
Du cabinet de M. Bose. 
In 1837 Schoenherr redescribes this species in his “Genera et Species 
curulionidum” as follows: 
71 S. Callosus Olivier. 
Ellipticus, niger, opacus, indrimento fusco-cinereo, undique incustatus; 
thorace, inaequali, varioloso-punctato plagis tribus elevatioribus, natato media 
sub-cruciformi, elytris obsolete, remote punctato striatis, callo postico elevata 
nitido. 
Calandra Callosa Oliv. Ent. Y. 83, pp. 92, 27. 
Patria America Septenbronalis. 
This species seems not to have be^n referred to again until 1873, 
when Le Conte and Horn in their Bhynchophora of America JNTorth 
of Mexico unite this species with S. cariosus Oliv., stating their reasons 
for so doing as follows: 
“Hr. Horn has suggested to me that this species and S. callosus Oliv. 
should be united. After careful examination of the specimens in my 
collection, I think this view is correct. Those who are inclined to 
adopt it will place Callosus as the synonym, since it is represented by 
old and abraded specimens.” 
