208 SUBFAMILY X. CURCULIOXIN.E. 



rare near New York City in June. Occurs throughout Canada, 

 New England, the Southern, Middle and Western States. Found 

 on wild plum (Vlke] ; said to attack cranberry, laying its eggs in 

 the bud, the larva living in the fruit. (Liif/f/cr.] The red apical 

 blotch varies in extent, but always leaves the suture and scutel- 

 lar space black. A. cri/tJiroptcnts Say is a synonym. 



431 (8646). ANTHOXOMITS FLAVICORNIS Boh., Schn., 1843, Pt. 2, 231. 



Oblong-ovate. Black, shining; above sparsely, beneath more densely 

 clothed with whitish hairs; antenna 3 pale brownish-yellow, club dusky; 

 scutellum and a small spot near humerus on each elytron densely white 

 pubescent; tarsi piceous. Beak rather stout, slightly longer than head and 

 thorax, opaque, striate, sparsely punctured. Head nearly smooth, front 

 with a deep elongate fovea. Thorax two-thirds wider than long, sides 

 broadly rounded; disc transversely impressed and constricted near apex, 

 rather coarsely, not densely punctured. Elytra at base one-third wider 

 than thorax, one-half longer than wide, sides nearly straight, separately 

 rounded at apex; striae fine on the disc, more deeply impressed on sides, 

 their punctures small, oblong, remote; intervals wide, feebly convex, finely 

 rugose. Length 2.5 3 mm. 



Steuben and Posey counties, Ind., scarce; probably through- 

 out the State; May 11 June fi. Rare near New York City in 

 July. Ranges from Ottawa, Canada, Pennsylvania and Mary- 

 land to Florida and Texas. Found by Schwarz inhabiting the 

 globular galls of a mite on the leaves of a night-shade, Solanum 

 elceagnifoliuiii Cav. in Texas, and by Hamilton on St. Johns 

 wort, dogwood and hawthorn in Pennsylvania. 



A. morulus Dietz (Smith's List of New Jersey Insects), is probably 

 an error of identification, this species being known only from Califor- 

 nia. 



432 (8649). ANTHONOMUS coKvt'Lus Lee., 1876, 201. 



Oval, robust. Black, strongly shining, thinly clothed with rather long 

 and easily removed pubescence; antennae dark reddish-brown, paler at 

 base; scutellum white pubescent. Beak as long as head and thorax, 

 feebly curved, striate, coarsely punctate. Head minutely sparsely punctate, 

 frontal fovea small. Thorax at base one-half wider than long, sides strong- 

 ly rounded, narrowed at apex; disc coarsely and rather sparsely punctate. 

 Elytra one-fourth wider at base than thorax, sides slightly widened to be- 

 hind the middle; striae wide, deeply impressed, coarsely punctate; intervals 

 convex, finely, rather remotely punctate. Length 1.5 2.2 mm. 



Steuben, Marshall and Posey counties, Tnd., scarce; May 8 

 June 10. Swept from huckleberry. Rare near New York City in 

 May. Somerset, Mass., June 4. Duiiedin, Fla., Feb. 20; beaten 

 from a species of dogwood. Ranges from Nova Scotia, Canada 

 and New England to Wisconsin, south to Florida, Texas and 

 Arizona. Occurs in Massachusetts on flowers of dogwood, Pni- 

 nus and Viburnum in May and June; in Pennsylvania on the 



