310 SUBFAMILY X. CURCULIONINJE. 



Lake Co., Ind., May 30. Described from Wisconsin and Mis- 

 souri. Smaller than tcctits with shorter, more robust beak and 

 Insinuate tibiae 



456 (11,007). AXTIIOXOMUS MOLOCHINUS Dietz, 1891, 231. 



Elongate-oval. Dark reddish-brown, clothed with small, pale scales 

 intermixed with very fine brown pubescence; the scales forming indistinct 

 pale median and lateral lines on thorax, covering the scutellum and part 

 of suture and forming a short basal stripe on sixth interval and a short 

 one near middle of fourth interval of elytra. Beak piceous, long and 

 slender, punctured, carinate above. First and second joints of funiclp 

 elongate, slender. Thorax at base nearly twice as wide as long, strongly 

 narrowed in front, disc densely, finely and shallowly punctate. Elytra 

 oval, nearly one-third wider at base than thorax; striae fine, their punctures 

 large, rounded, rather distant; intervals nearly flat, punctured. Length 3 

 mm. 



Franconia, New Hampshire, Sept. 2; P>lanchard collection; 

 taken from wild asters by Mrs. Slosson. Ottawa, Canada, June 

 14. Described from Montana. 



457 (8659). AXTIIONOMUS RLTIPES Lee., 1876, 204. 



Oval, robust. Black or piceous, above thinly clothed with grayish 

 scales intermixed with fine hairs, beneath more densely clothed with 

 larger scales; antennae and legs reddish-brown, club dusky; scutellum 

 white. Beak rather short and stout, feebly curved, punctured, sparsely 

 pubescent, distinctly carinate and striate. Frontal fovea small, elongate. 

 Thorax at base one-half wider than long, sides strongly rounded; disc fine- 

 ly, densely and deeply punctured. Elytra oval, scarcely wider at base than 

 thorax; striae with coarse, round, rather close-set punctures; intervals 

 feebly convex, finely wrinkled. Length 3 3.2 mm. 



Batavia, N. Y. ; July 25 Aug. <i. McGregor, Towa, July 15. 

 Recorded from Delaware, New York, Illinois and Iowa. 



458 (8658). ANTIIONOMUS DISJUNCTUS Lee., 1876, 204. 



Oblong-oval. Dark brown to piceous, not densely clothed above with 

 pale cr brownish scales, beneath more densely with paler scales; scape, 

 basal joints of funicle and legs reddish-brown; thorax with three dorsal 

 lines of white scales; scutellum, basal half of sixth and middle third of 

 fourth intervals of elytra also with white scales. Beak longer and more 

 slender than in rufipes, shining, finely punctured and striate. Thorax 

 slightly wider lhan long, gradually narrowed from base to apex, sides 

 feebly rounded, disc coarsely and deeply punctured. Elytra oval, not wider 

 at base than thorax; strial punctures coarse, intervals feebly convex. 

 Length 3.23.5 mm. 



Various points in New Jersey and at Charlotte and Montauk, 

 N. Y. ; July 1G Sept. 23. Ranges from New York to Illinois, 



