186 SUBFAMILY X. CURCULIOXIXJE. 



Lake and Yigo counties, hid., rare; May 20 September 19. 

 Not rare in the pine barrens of New Jersey, May to October; 

 Yapliank, Long Island. Ormond, Sanford, Sarasota and Dnnedin, 

 Fla., Jan. 14 April 4; one on flower of thistle Feb. 14. Ranges 

 from Labrador. Ontario and New England to Arkansas and 

 Florida. Known as the "pitch-eating weevil," the larvae boring 

 into the inner bark of stumps and roots of recently felled 

 dying and injured pine. Often found at light. Htjloliius stupid us 

 Boh. is a synonym. 



III. HYLOBIUS Germ., 1817. (Gr., "wood" -j- "to live in.") 



Beak stout, cylindrical, feebly curved; antenna! grooves di- 

 rected toward the lower part of eyes; mandibles normal in form; 

 antennae stout, scape barely reaching the eye, joints 1 and 2 of 

 funicle distinctly longer than the others, the first longer than tlie 

 second, 3 G moniliform, seventh much broader, forming part of 

 club; eyes large, coarsely granulated, transverse, separated by 

 their own diameters; prosternum as in PacJu_/1obins; tibire rather 

 slender, sinuate on the inner side, corbels narrow, terminal hook 

 strong; second and fifth ventral segments each as long as the 

 .third and fourth united, suture in front of second broadly an- 

 gulated at middle. 



251 (8479). HYLOBIUS PALES Hbst, 1797, 31. 



Oblong, robust. Dark reddish-brown; elytra with scattered small tufts 

 of rather long gray or yellowish hairs, those behind the middle arranged to 

 form two oblique cross-bars. Head sub-opaque, densely though not coarsely 

 punctured. Thorax much as in Pachylobius. somewhat shorter and more 

 depressed, sides slightly more rounded; disc more coarsely punctured and 

 wrinkled. Disc of elytra distinctly flattened, striae with large, oblong 

 punctures; intervals rather narrow, flat, rugose-punctate. Abdomen sparse- 

 ly and rather finely punctate. Length 7 10 mm. 



Lake and Marion Counties, Ind., rare; July 3 August 1G. 

 Ranges from Nova Scotia, Quebec and Xew England to Lake 

 Superior, south to Florida. Occurs in and beneath the bark of 

 pine, the larvie destroying the inner bark and the tender, newly 

 formed wood beneath, thus often doing much damage to pine 

 forests. Harris (18G2, 70) states that in Massachusetts the adults 

 "may be found in great abundance, in May and June, on board 

 fences, the sides of new wooden buildings, on the trunks of pine 

 trees and under the bark of the pitch pine." It also comes to 

 light. 



