20 SUBFAMILY X. CURCULIOXIXJE. 



from Texas shows it to have the scales much brighter yellow, 

 more dense and nearly evenly distributed than in either nebulosus 

 or iiHtciildtiix. It probably does not occur in our territory. 



307 (10,942). SMICROXYX MACULATUS Dietz, 1894, 162. 



Oblong, oval, robust. Dark reddish-brown to piceous, above rather 

 densely clothed with small oval pale brown scales, mottled with oblique 

 or subtransverse, irregular bands of larger yellowish ones; legs reddish- 

 brown; beneath clothed with dirty gray scales, those of the sternal side 

 pieces much larger than those of abdomen. Beak of male slender, curved, 

 slightly longer than head and thorax, subopaque, punctured and sparsely 

 scaly in basal half; of female, more slender, one-fourth longer, less punc- 

 tured and more shining. Second joint of funicle nearly twice as long as 

 third. Thorax one-half wider than long, sides strongly rounded, feebly 

 constricted near apex, disc densely and coarsely punctured. Elytra at 

 base less than one-third wider than thorax, sides nearly straight to behind 

 middle, then gradually curved to apex; stria? deep, finely punctate; in- 

 tervals flat, their setae short, indistinct. Hook of hind tibiae very distinct. 

 Length 3 3.5 mm. 



Steuben County, Indiana ; June 18. Described from Alle- 

 gheny Co., Pa., and Dakota. Known also from the District of 

 Columbia. 



308 (10,916). SMICROXYX PEKPUSILLUS Casey, 1892, 405. 



Oblong-oval, convex. Blackish-piceous; above rather sparsely clothed 

 with oval white scales; beneath more densely, with smaller rounded white 

 ones; legs rufous, the tarsi darker. Beak of female distinctly longer than 

 head and thorax, evenly curved, minutely punctulate near apex, punctate 

 and sparsely scaly on basal half. Thorax about as long as wide, sides 

 broadly and evenly curved, the punctures small, shallow and not dense. 

 Elytra at base one-half wider than thorax, one-half longer than wide, 

 sides straight on basal half, then converging to an acutely rounded apex; 

 striae fine, deep. Length 1.6 mm. 



Described from Florida. "Known by its small size and white 

 scales, the latter close-set but generally not quite contiguous." 



( Casey. ) 



309 (- -). SMICROXYX IXTERRUPTUS sp. nov. 



Oblong-oval. Dark reddish-brown to piceous; above rather densely 

 clothed with small piceous and larger clay-yellow scales, the latter con- 

 densed along the sides and median line of thorax and in large irregular 

 wavy blotches across the elytra; beneath with very small gray scales over 

 the entire surface; antennae and legs reddish-brown, the former piceous 

 in male, base of femora darker. Beak of male piceous scarcely as long as 

 head and thorax, stout, tapering, polished and glabrous near tip; of female, 

 reddish-brown, one-third longer, slender, cylindrical, polished and naked 

 throughout. Funicle stout, second joint one-half longer than third. 

 Thorax as long as wide, widest at middle, sides feebly rounded, not con- 

 stricted near apex, which is two-thirds as wide as base; postocular lobes 



