. The Rhynchophora of America, north of Mexico [microform]. Beetles; Beetles; Coléoptères; Coléoptères. Horn.] PIIYLLOBIINI. 103 JS BVOTUS Lee. EootuH Lee, American Naturalist, 1874, pp. 458-9. Rostrum horizontal, longer than twice the head, narrower, sub-quad- rangular and compressed at base, tip dilated and nearly twice as broad as at middle, , and broadly emarginate; genjc not emarginate. Sub-nientum distinctly pedunculate. Mentum oval, longer than wide, maxillaj slightly visible at the aides. Sorobes visible from above in front and moderately deep, very nearly straight, very shall
. The Rhynchophora of America, north of Mexico [microform]. Beetles; Beetles; Coléoptères; Coléoptères. Horn.] PIIYLLOBIINI. 103 JS BVOTUS Lee. EootuH Lee, American Naturalist, 1874, pp. 458-9. Rostrum horizontal, longer than twice the head, narrower, sub-quad- rangular and compressed at base, tip dilated and nearly twice as broad as at middle, , and broadly emarginate; genjc not emarginate. Sub-nientum distinctly pedunculate. Mentum oval, longer than wide, maxillaj slightly visible at the aides. Sorobes visible from above in front and moderately deep, very nearly straight, very shallow posteriorly, and directed to the lower margin o( the eyes. Eyes oval, slightly oblique and sub-acute beneath. Antenna long, rather slender ; scape graduaUy clavate and attaining the middle of the eye ; funicle 7-jointed, slightly longer than the scape, joints 1-3 longer, the second longer than the first, joints 3-7 obconicjil, the seventh longer than the preceding ; club elongate, oval. Thorax transversely oval, apex truncate, base slightly arcuate. Scutelluni oval. Elytra oval, broader at base than the thorax, humeri obtuse, mode- rately prominent. Metasternum motlerate, side pieces wide, formed as defined for tlie division. Intercoxal process broad, oval at tip. Second segment of abdomen slightly longer than the two following together, separated from the first by an arcuate suture. Anterior and middle tibite mucronate at tip. Articular surfaces of hind tibiie feebly cavernous and glabrous. Tarsi rather slender, third joint deeply bilobed, last joint slender and as long as the first two. Claws moderate, free. This genus lias been defined at greater length than has been the custom in this paper, on account of the very remarkable assemblage of characters it Were it not for the very plain scar on the mandibles it might be suspected to have some affinity with the genera allied to Alophua, etc. B. naso Lcc. (Otiorhi/nchus) Pacif R. R. Hep. p. 56 ; Am. Nat. 1874, p
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