. The Rhynchophora of America, north of Mexico [microform]. Beetles; Beetles; Coléoptères; Coléoptères. ] BARINI. 299 tliomx, s riie narrow, deop, impunctured; interspaces flat, each willi a row of exlrt'inuly small piincluies; tliiril intersi)ace clothed for one-tiftli the l(!n;;ili with while scales. Benualh strongly punctured; sides of the last thre;'ventral segments clothed with whitL' scales, .^ength 2-3 mm.; .08 inch. Enterprise, PMorida; Messrs. Hubbard and Schwarz. The specimens are somewiiat abraded, but in one of them I observe scattered whi e scales re- myiining on the
. The Rhynchophora of America, north of Mexico [microform]. Beetles; Beetles; Coléoptères; Coléoptères. ] BARINI. 299 tliomx, s riie narrow, deop, impunctured; interspaces flat, each willi a row of exlrt'inuly small piincluies; tliiril intersi)ace clothed for one-tiftli the l(!n;;ili with while scales. Benualh strongly punctured; sides of the last thre;'ventral segments clothed with whitL' scales, .^ength 2-3 mm.; .08 inch. Enterprise, PMorida; Messrs. Hubbard and Schwarz. The specimens are somewiiat abraded, but in one of them I observe scattered whi e scales re- myiining on the and elytra. It is quite probable, therefore, that well preserved individuals are marked as in the next species, from which it dillers chierty l)y the larger size, brown color, smooth dorsal stripe on the proth )rax, and tine piin(;turcs of the interspaces of the elytra. (). P. T-si^num (IJoh.*, Sch. Cure, viii, 1st. 154. (IlaritUiix). Sou h Carolina, Zimnurmann; Florida, Hubbard and Schwarz. Muclj small'r and still narrower than 7*. nii/rtiKt. Head finely punctidate, beak stout, stringly curved, as long as the prothorax, punctured, frontal con- stri(!lion feeble. Prothorax scarcely longer than wide, sulMjuadrate, sides not oblique, fVel)ly rounded forthrei'-fourihsthe length, then more suddenly rounded and narrowed to the tip, densely and strongly punctured, without dorsal lint;. Elytra wider than the prothorax, humeri oblicjuc, distine;; stria' deep, interspaces flat, each with a row of line but distinct punctur>'s; a sh irt liiu; of wlii v. scales at the base of the third interspace, (and a small si)ol behind th(! middle, probably rubb(;d oil" in the si)ecimen before me), metastenial side pieces and of the last ventral segments clotluul with small white scales. Prosternum not so wide between the coxtc as in tin- other species, l)roadly and less deeply sulcate in front, clid)of the antenuic rather larger than usual. Length mm.; .085 inch. In well pr
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