222 SUBFAMILY X. CURCULIONIN^E. 



reaching the back part of the eyes; fimicle 7-joiuted, first joint 

 longer and stouter, the others, short, closely united ; eyes large, 

 round, coarsely granulated; elytra much wider than thorax; 

 ventral segments 1, 2 and 5 very large; fourth joint of tarsi as 

 long as the two preceding, claws slender, divergent. 



310 (8577). STENOPEI,MUS RUFIXASUS Gyll., Schn., 1836, 469. 



Short, ovate, convex. Black, densely clothed with a crust of grayish- 

 white scales; apical half of beak, antennae, tibiae and tips of femora red- 

 dish-brown; tarsi fuscous. Thorax subcylindrical, as wide at base as long, 

 sides almost straight, disc closely punctate, slightly carinate. Elytra 

 twice as wide as thorax, distinctly punctate-striate, intervals almost flat, 

 alutaceous. Under surface with the scales distinct, dense, almost white. 

 Length 1.8 mm. 



Lake Co., Ind., July 11. One specimen from the beach of Lake 

 Michigan. Enterprise, Indian River and Bartow, Fla. "Southern 

 and western states to California, where it was found abundantly 

 at San Diego." (LeConte.) 



XI. BRACI-IYBAMUS Germ., 1824. (Gr., "short" + "feet.") 



Small oblong species, having the first joint of fimicle stout, as 

 long as the next three, second narrower, subconic, 3 f> very 

 short, transverse; beak cylindrical, rather stout, as long as head 

 and thorax, densely and finely punctate ; eyes round, partly cov- 

 ered by large ocular lobes; scutellum invisible; elytra but slightly 

 wider than middle of thorax. Last joint of tarsi very short and 

 with but one claw, a character occurring in but two other genera 

 of Rhynchophora, (Mononyclius and Bdi-ncptoii) in our fauna. 



311 (85G5). BRACHYBAMUS ELECTUS Germ., Schon., 1836, 330. 

 Elongate-oblong, subcylindrical. Black, densely clothed with a crust 



of gray and fuscous-brown scales, the brown ones forming a median stripe 

 on thorax, and a broad, common sutural stripe and a humeral spot on 

 elytra; beak, antennae and legs reddish-brown, club fuscous. Thorax one- 

 third wider than long, sides feebly rounded, disc finely channeled along 

 the middle, distinctly constricted behind the apex, densely, deeply and 

 rather finely punctate, the intervals between the punctures minutely alu- 

 taceous. Elytra oblong, their bases conjointly broadly emarginate, sides 

 parallel for four-fifths their length, thence strongly converging to an ob- 

 tuse apex; intervals subconvex, each with a row of minute white setae. 

 Length 2.32.7 mm. 



Lake County, Indiana, frequent on arrow-head (Sagittaria) ; 

 May 28 30. Frequent near New York City, May to August, on 

 palustral plants. Dunedin, Fla., Jan. 24 Dec. 1!). Recorded 

 also from Massachusetts, Connecticut and District of Columbia. 



Brachybamus inceratus Boh. (1843 Pt. 2, 186), was described as dif- 

 fering from elect us in having the form more oblong-oval; beak more 



