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to (iroup I>. As .already noted, their status is in doubt, due to 

 scanty material and absence of information as to food plant. 



B. proprius Casey, 1910, 121. Short, stout, convex. Piceous-black, 

 antennae paler; vestiture pale gray, variegated on elytra with large brown- 

 ish clouds. Beak of female not longer than elytra; thorax relatively large in 

 size (as compared with obtusiis. confusor, etc.). Length 6.2 mm. De- 

 scribed from a female without locality label, but probably taken in Indiana. 



B. aitctiis Casey. 1910, 124. Elongate-oval. Body deep black; scales 

 brown, yellowish on sides of thorax and in small scattered spots on elytra. 

 Beak more than half as long as body; femoral teeth large and very acute; 

 fifth ventral segment not notably modified. Length 7 mm. Described from 

 a single male from Buffalo, N. Y. 



B. ordinatus Casey, 1910, 124. Described from a male with beak more 

 than half as long as body; femoral teeth large and acute; fifth ventral 

 feebly impressed. Length 7.2 mm. Tennessee. 



B. appalachius Casey, 1910, 125. Beak more than half as long as 

 body; femora with strong, acute teeth, the peduncle of front ones notably 

 short and thick; fifth ventral feebly impressed, clothed with finer, more 

 transverse hairs. Length C.7 mm. Described from two males from West 

 Virginia. 



B. parvicollis Casey, 1910, 125. Rather stout, oval. Rufo-piceous, 

 rather densely clothed with elongate, tawny scales, which are sparser and 

 more hair-like in the brownish, transverse spots of elytra. Beak of male 

 longer than half the body; femoral tooth large, very acute; fifth ventral 

 net modified, except that the tip is distinctly sinuate. Length 5.7 6.2 

 mm. New Jersey. 



Tribe XII. ANTHONOMINI. 



Our members of this large tribe are distinguished from others 

 of the subfamily Cureulionime by having the thorax contiguous to 

 the elytra, not strongly narrowed behind, its hind angles rectan- 

 gular; front coxa' contiguous; ventral sutures deep, straight; 

 tarsal claws toothed or appendiculate (except in the first four 

 genera); pygidium partly exposed except in a few species. In 

 addition they have the mandibles two-notched and therefore 

 three-toothed at tip; beak cylindrical, usually more or less curved, 

 long and slender; antennal grooves extending to the middle or 

 lower edge of the eyes, directed beneath in a few genera. An 

 tenme usually long and slender, inserted far behind the tip of 

 the beak; scape slender, generally reaching some point on eye; 

 funicle r> 7 jointed, the first joint stout, generally elongate; 

 club elongate-oval, pointed, usually entirely pubescent, the first 

 joint glabrous in a few species. Eyes rather large, rounded, and 

 distant from the thorax, widely separated above except in Or- 

 r//r.v/r.s- and a few species of Aittlionoiitiix. Thorax wider than 



