. The Rhynchophora of America, north of Mexico [microform]. Beetles; Beetles; Coléoptères; Coléoptères. LeOonto.] KRiuiiryiNi. 17 o Beak slender, curved, longer than tlie nrolhonix. sjiiirsely iMUiotured. eyes smaller, prominent; head ptinetured. I'rothorax scarcely longer than wide, gradually narrowed in front, feehly rounded on the sides, slightly constricted near the tip, strongly not densely punctured. Klylra wider than tlie prothorax, luuneri rounded, strise deeper and uKU-e strongly i)unc- tured than in the preceding, interspaces more convex and less punctulale. Body beneath coarsely
. The Rhynchophora of America, north of Mexico [microform]. Beetles; Beetles; Coléoptères; Coléoptères. LeOonto.] KRiuiiryiNi. 17 o Beak slender, curved, longer than tlie nrolhonix. sjiiirsely iMUiotured. eyes smaller, prominent; head ptinetured. I'rothorax scarcely longer than wide, gradually narrowed in front, feehly rounded on the sides, slightly constricted near the tip, strongly not densely punctured. Klylra wider than tlie prothorax, luuneri rounded, strise deeper and uKU-e strongly i)unc- tured than in the preceding, interspaces more convex and less punctulale. Body beneath coarsely punctured. Length nun.; .00 inch. One specimen, Florida; collected by Dr. E. Brendel. Group IV. Oyiitopii. In this group the bodj' is densely clothed with scales, forming usually a shining crust; the beak is cylindrical and curved, not se|iarated from the head by a transverse imjiression ; the antennal grooves comniencc about one-third from the end, and run directly towards the eyes which are lat- eral, oval, transverse, coarsely granulated and not api)roximate beneath. Funiculus of the antenuic in some genera G-jointed ; first joint long, the others short, increasing gradually in breadth, and sometinu's passing insen- sibly into the club, which is rather large, oval, anntdated ami juiljcscent. Prothorax with broad postocular lobes, front coxa- large, prominent, con- tigvious, prosteruinu transversely, very deeply impressed but not excavated in front of the coxa', or deejtly emarginate. The legs are not very slender, the thighs moderately clavate, the tibia> sinuate on the inner side, as long as the thighs, truncate and nuicronate at tip, with the articular surface ter- minal ; the front tibiic sub-serrate from the middle to the tip. Tarsi broad with the fourth joint short, variable in form (absent in the European Ano- â plus), third joint broad deeply bilobed. Elytra with ten entire striie. Last joint of tarsi broad, claws distant 2. " narrow, with one c
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