TRIBE XII. - AXTIIOXOM INI. 



VI. KLLKsrnrs Stephens, 18:51. 



Small, elongate species having the beak short, robust, cylin- 

 drical, nearly straight, its antennal grooves wide and deep, di- 

 rected against the lower border of eyes; fnnicle T-jointed, club 



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oval, pubescent; ventral segments unequal, th.ird and fourth short, 

 united equal to second, fifth long, rounded, carinate near tip in 

 the males (Fig. 7!>, f) ; tibia- with strong claws at apex, femora 

 not toothed, the hind ones not greatly enlarged; tarsal claws ap- 

 pendiculate. The E. (in<iitxhitux of Pietz, described from Ken- 

 tucky and Arizona, is, according to Fall, only a variety of Dory- 



Lee. 



KEY TO SPECIES OF ELLESCHUS. 



a. Elytra each with an isolated denuded spot or fascia. 



I. Pitchy black, the fascia faint; second joint of funicle longer than 



third. 407. BiprxcTATUS. 



bl>. Reddish-brown; elytra fasciate and vittate (Fig. 81, o.) ; second joint 



of funicle equal to third. 408. SCAXICUS. 



aa. Elytra with a common denuded fascia, crossing the suture just be- 



hind the middle; reddish-brown, thickly clothed with pale yellowish 



hairs. 409. EPHIPPIATUS. 



407 (8682). ELLESCHUS IJIPU.XCTATU.S Linn., 1758, 380. 



Elongate-oval. Piceous-brown, rather densely clothed with coarse, 

 appressed, grayish hairs, diverging from a median line on thorax; elytra 

 each with a faint, irregular partly denuded spot behind the middle, reaching 

 from the second to fourth interval; antennas and legs reddish-brown. Beak 

 shining, shorter than head and thorax, finely and sparsely punctate. 

 Thorax one-half wider than long, widest at middle, sides feebly rounded, 

 disc finely and densely punctate and with a faint smooth elevated line on 

 middle third. Elytra, at base one-half wider than thorax, sides nearly paral- 

 lel for three-fifths their length, thence gradually rounded to tip; striae 

 fine, their punctures coarse, close-set; intervals feebly convex, minutely 

 punctate. Length 3 mm. 



Starke County, Ind., frequent locally on a dwarf willow; May 

 '.). Snake Hill, X. J. A European species known also from Canada 

 and Michigan. Occurs on willow when in blossom. (Harring- 

 ton.) 

 408 (11,039). ELLESCHUS SCAMCUS Payk, 1800, 251. 



More robust than bipunctatus. Reddish-brown, clothed with grayish- 

 white or brownish pubescence; elytra with an irregular oblique fascia 

 about the middle, extending from the second interval to the sides, third, 

 fourth and sixth intervals for a short distance near the base and also a 

 subapical spot, almost denuded, very thinly covered with fine brownish 

 pubescence. Thorax finely, not densely punctured, the median smooth line 



