286 SUBFAMILY X. CURCULIOXIXJK. 



IX. AXTIIOXOMOPSIS Dietz, 1891, (Or., "Anthonomus-like.") 



Beak slender, cylindrical, punctured, strongly striate, about 

 as long as head and thorax, male, one-third longer, female; an- 

 tenna 1 stout, funicle 6-jointed, first joint stout, as long as the next 

 two, second slightly longer than third; abdomen flattened, first 

 ventral longer than the meta sternum, second nearly as long, 3 5 

 relatively short, subequal (Fig. TO, c) ; pygidium feebly exposed 

 at tip in male, wholly concealed, female; all the tibia? hooked at 

 apex. One species, usually listed under AntJionoinus, forms the 

 type of the genus. 



412 (8667). AxTiiONOiioPSis MIXTUS Lee., 1876, 206. 



Elongate-ovate. Reddish or pitchy brown, thinly clothed with coarse, 

 variegated pubescence; elytra with a humeral and a large discal spot 

 behind the middle paler; a transverse band before the middle, another on 

 the discal spot and a third near apex of dense, whitish pubescence; an- 

 tenna? and legs reddish-brown, club and tip of beak fuscous. Head with a 

 deep frontal fovea. Thorax smaller than usual, narrowed from the base, 

 constricted near apex, disc densely and coarsely punctured. Scutellum white, 

 pubescent. Elytra about one-fourth wider at base than thorax, gradually 

 feebly widened behind to middle; stria? coarsely punctured; intervals wide, 

 slightly convex, nearly smooth. Femora all armed with a small tooth. 

 Length 2.5 3.2 mm. 



Posey County, Indiana, rare; May 11. On the Atlantic coast 

 the records are not numerous. Litchfield, Connecticut, August 

 20. New Jersey, July; on the cockspur thorn, Cratwrjiis crusgalli 

 L. Beaten abundantly from wild plum in Ohio. (Durij.) Ranges 

 from Connecticut to Iowa and Nebraska, south to Missouri and 

 Texas. 



N. NAXOPS Dietz, 1891. (Or., "small" + "eye.") 



Beak as long as thorax, robust, cylindrical, curved; antenna? 

 inserted at middle, scape short, funicle 6-jointed (Fig. 78, k), first 

 joint long and stout, second slightly longer than third ; club ovate, 

 loosely jointed; legs rather short and stout; femora not toothed; 

 all the tibia? with a small hook at tip. 



413 (11,031). NANOI-.S SCUWAKZII Dietz, 1891, 256. 



Elongate, narrow, subparallel. Pitchy brown, sparsely clothed with 

 rather long, white pubescence which, on the elytral intervals, arises from 

 a single row of fine punctures; elytra a little darker along the suture. Beak 

 alutaceous, neither punctured nor striate. Head impunctured, alutaceous 

 Thorax scarcely narrower in front than at base, sides rounded, disc moder- 

 ately, not closely punctured. Elytra elongate, scarcely wider at base than 

 thorax; stria? impressed, their punctures rather remote. Length 1.4 mm. 



