200 SrilFAMILY X. CURCULIONINJE. 



Lake, Laporte, Yigo and Perry counties, Ind., scarce; May 3 

 August 26. Taken on the arrow-arum, Pvltandra virginica L. 

 Found near New York City at Snake Hill, March, April ; on salt 

 meadows early in spring, and at various localities from May to 

 September. Ithaca, Batavia and Portage, X. Y. ; March 10 June 

 21. Fraininghain, Mass., common under stones along meadows, 

 April. Ranges from Newfoundland and Quebec to Minnesota, 

 north of the Ohio River. "Breeds in swamps" (Hamilton} ; per- 

 haps in the Pcltandra above mentioned, which is a swamp plant. 

 Webster (Insect Life, YII, 200) has recorded it as attacking 

 cabbages, gouging great cavities in the stems of young plants and 

 later attacking the bases of the larger leaves from beneath. 



273 (8542). NOTARIS ^THIOPS Fab., 1792, I, 405. 



Oblong-oval. Dark reddish-brown; head, basal half of beak and great- 

 er part of under surface piceous. Beak as long as head and thorax, slender, 

 feebly curved, finely and rather sparsely punctate. Thorax one-half wider 

 than long, sides strongly rounded; disc sparsely, deeply and rather 

 coarsely punctate and with a narrow entire median line. Elytra one-third 

 wider than thorax, striae deep, intervals feebly convex, each with numerous 

 scattered minute punctures. Under surface finely and densely punctured. 

 Length 5.7 6 mm. 



Mt. Washington, New Hampshire, July 6. A circumpolar 

 species occurring in Europe, Asia and Canada, ranging from 

 New England to Lake Superior and Wyoming. N. mono Maun, 

 is a synonym. 



VI. PROCAS Steph., 1831. (A proper name.) 



Close to Xotaris. Beak less slender, not longer than thorax, 

 swollen at tip; antennae inserted at apical fifth, joints 1 3 of 

 funicle obconical, gradually decreasing in length, 4 7 rounded, 

 equal ; club long, pointed ; prosternuni and postocular lobes as in 

 Notaris; tibiae strongly pubescent, truncate at tip, the hind one 

 with two small terminal spines. 



274 (8544). PROCAS LECOXTEI Bedel, 1879, p. XVIII. 



Oblong-oval. Black, opaque, slightly mottled with spots of fine gray 

 pubescence; antennae, tibi* and tarsi reddish-brown. Head and beak very 

 densely punctured. Thorax rather small, subglobose, slightly wider than 

 long, sides strongly rounded, disc narrower and slightly constricted in 

 front, finely and very densely punctured. Elytra oblong, one-third wider 

 at base than thorax, humeri rounded, sides parallel to apical third; striae 

 deep, catenate with distant punctures; intervals wide, flat, finely and 

 densely rugose and subgranulate. Length 5 5.3 mm. 



