321 SUBFAMILY X. CURCULIONINJE. 



less interrupted on the seventh interval, which reaches the suture about 

 one-fourth from tip. Beak shorter, broader, more finely sculptured 

 than in scutellaris. Thorax less narrowed in front, finely and densely 

 punctured, and with a short median carina. Punctures of elytral striae 

 finer, close-set; intervals wide, flat, each with a single row of coarse, 

 close-set punctures. Length 2 2.5 mm. 



Marshall County, Ind., scarce; June 11 12. Edgebrook, 111., 

 June 20. Recorded from numerous places in New Jersey, but 

 always rare. Watchogue, Staten Island, Nov. 21. Dunedin, Fla., 

 Feb. 29 March 21. Ranges from Canada and New Jersey to 

 Wisconsin, south to Florida. On oak during June in Pennsyl- 

 vania. (Hamilton.) The black spot of elytra varies much in size, 

 in two Florida specimens being almost obsolete, is usually pale 

 at center and is sometimes represented by two or three dark ir- 

 regular cross bands ending on the sides in a small white spot. 



483 (- -). PIAZORHINUS THORAOICUS Casey, 1910, 128. 



"Form, coloration and vestiture as in pictns but slightly narrower, 

 the beak still wider, barely longer than wide, broad and flat; eyes but 

 feebly convex, separated on the front by fully half their own width; 

 thorax relatively much larger and less transverse, nearly half as long 

 and four-fifths as wide as elytra, the converging sides from base to apex 

 more arcuate; elytra nearly similar in ornamentation, but with striae 

 much finer. Length 2.4 mm." (Casey.) 



Palm Beach, Florida. 



484 ( -). PiAZORirixvs TUBERCULATUS sp. nov. 



Form of scutellaris. Uniform dark reddish-brown, thinly clothed 

 with rather short whitish hairs which are feebly condensed along the 

 median line of thorax and on the scutellum; antennae and legs pale reddish- 

 brown. Beak flat, scarcely longer than wide at apex, rapidly widening 

 from base forwards, almost smooth and glabrous. Thorax shorter and 

 broader than in the other species, one-half wider than long, sides feebly 

 curved from base to apical third, then strongly converging to apex; disc 

 densely and coarsely granulate-punctate. Elytra widest at humeri, their 

 base scarcely wider than thorax, sides broadly and feebly curved from 

 humeri to the separately rounded tips; disc evidently, but feebly, declivous 

 from the tubercles at middle to base; stria? rather coarse, finely and 

 closely punctate; intervals finely and densely punctate. Second, third 

 and fourth ventrals narrower and more convex than in pictus or scutel- 

 laris. their sutures very deep. Length 2 2.2 mm. (W. 8. B.) 



Lake ( )keechobee, Fla., March 7. Taken by sweeping. One 

 specimen is in the Horn collection from Biseayne Bay, Fla. Very 

 distinct in color, short broad beak, tubercles of elytra and form 

 of ventral segments. 



