Eupagoderes squalidus Sharp & D. 1891

Hab.MEXICO (Sallé), Esperanza (Höge).

Fusco-griseus; prothorace nitido, subtransverso, parce obsoleteque punctato, medio tenuiter canaliculato; elytris subtiliter striatis, striis remote minus fortiter punctatis.
 
Long. 10 millim.

Rostrum with a deep median channel, extending quite to its base, and with broad, well-marked, lateral grooves. Thorax with only a few obscure and distant punctures, and with an obsolete median channel. Elytra with fine striæ separated by broad flat intervals, and bearing remote, moderately large, not deep punctures.
 
In this species the scales are very closely fastened to the surface, and, though dense, the outline of each is quite distinct; on the disc of the thorax they have a peculiar shining appearance, and are but little variegate, but on the rostrum and the sides of the thorax are much paler than elsewhere, nearly white in fact. E. squalidus is at first sight very similar to E. cinereus, but it has a rather larger thorax, which is obsoletely punctured, a longer and deeper median channel on the rostrum, and the lateral channels are parallel with this, not convergent above. Two specimens.