I!)!' SUBFAMILY X. - CURCULIONIXJE. 



258 (8710). DERELOMUS P.ASA i. is Lee., 1876, 222. 



Oblong, slender, subdepressed. Pale brownish-yellow, head and 

 beak slightly darker; thorax rarely with a broad dorsal brown stripe; 

 elytra each usually with an oblique dark band commencing near base of 

 third interval and running to suture. Beak slender, curved, finely punc- 

 tured. Thorax slightly longer than wide, strongly constricted near tip, 

 finely alutacecus, minutely and rather sparsely punctate. Elytra with 

 rows of fine, unimpressed punctures; intervals more finely and rather 

 densely punctate. Male with beak as long as thorax, the sides of latter 

 with a distinct cusp in front of middle. Female with beak longer, more 

 slender, the sides of thorax more strongly converging, not angulate in 

 front of middle. Length 1.6 1.8 mm. 



Abundant through central and northern Florida; Ormond, 

 Stanford, Dnnedin and Sarasota, Jan. 10 Dec. 3. Mobile, Ala- 

 bama, June 13. Tybee and Honey Islands, Georgia, April 20 

 June 1. Occurs on the blossoms of the cabbage and saw pal- 

 mettoes, and especially on those of a dwarf pa paw, 

 ifJorfi Miehx.. in February and March. 



IT. EUCLYPTFS Dietz, 1801. (Or., "well" -f "sculptured.") 



Beak slender, about as long as head and thorax, strongly 

 curved, neither striate nor carinate; antenna 1 grooves linear, di- 

 rected against the middle of eyes; fnnicle pubescent, first joint 

 clavate, as long as the next four, second slightly longer than 

 third, 3 7 wider than long; club obovate, its first joint larger 

 than the others combined ; ventral segments very unequal, first and 

 second rather long, third and fourth very short, combined 

 scarcely equalling second, fifth as long or longer than third and 

 fourth united (Fig. 65, & c. ) Fall, who has recently reviewed the 

 genus (1013, 43), ascribes to it six species, two of which are 

 known from our territory. 



KEY TO EASTERN SPECIES OF EUCLTPTUS. 



a. Larger, 2 mm.; fifth ventral as long as second and third united; 

 elytra separately rounded at apex, the pygidium freely exposed. 



259. TESTACETJS. 



00. Smaller, 1.5 mm.; fifth ventral shorter, as long as third and fourth 

 united; pygidium feebly exposed. 260. FEI;IU"GIXEUS. 



259 (11,045). ErcLYi-Ti-s TESTACEI s Dietz. 1891, 272. 



Elliptic. Pale brownish-yellow, almost glabrous. Beak shining, 

 finely and very sparsely punctate. Thorax slightly flattened, wider than 

 long, sides and base broadly rounded, disc with an ill-defined smooth 

 dorsal line, rather closely and finely punctured. Elytra elongate, wider at 

 base than thorax, striae impressed, punctures moderate, close-set; intervals 

 scarcely convex, slightly roughened. Length 2 mm. 



