376 srill'A.MILY X. - CURCULIONIN^S. 



Described from southern Florida. Recorded by Chittenden 

 (1902-b, 69) as boring in and injuring tobacco stalks near Quincy. 

 Pla. ; also by Hamilton (Can. Ent., XXVII, 321) as abundant on 

 ground cherries (Phyxdlix) near Lake Worth, Fla., April 10. 



XII. OirraoRis Lee., 1876. 



Elongate-oval, rather slender pubescent species, having the 

 beak slender, nearly straight, antennae inserted just behind the 

 middle, female, at apical two-fifths, male; prosternum short, im- 

 pressed at middle, narrowly prolonged between the coxae which 

 are almost contiguous. In form and vestiture the species re- 

 semble those of Orcliestes rather than their allies among the 

 Barids. 



573 (8866). ORTHORIS CROTCHTI Lee., 1876, 286. 



Elongate-oval, subdepressed. Black, subopaque, rather thickly 

 clothed with grayish prostrate hair-like scales; antennae and tarsi brown. 

 Beak slightly longer than thorax, male; one-half longer, female. Thorax 

 conical, as long as wide, sides straight, converging from base to apex; 

 disc rather finely and densely punctate. Elytra one-third wider at base 

 than thorax, sides straight to apical third, the apex broadly rounded; 

 striae deep; intervals feebly convex, sparsely, finely and confusedly 

 punctate. Length 3 3.7 mm. 



Ottawa, Canada; May 4. Described from California. Known 

 also from Texas and Nebraska. Pierce (1907, 283) records it as 

 breeding in the pods of Mentzelia mida Pursh. at Clarendon. 

 Texas, in August, a large number breeding in cadi pod, and being 

 attacked by several species of hymenopterous parasites. 



Subtribe II. CEXTHIM. 



The members of this subtribe have the elytra conjointly round- 

 ed at tip or nearly so, thus covering the pygidium which is nearly 

 horizontal, or at most somewhat oblique and never vertical ; last 

 ventral regularly rounded, never truncate or emarginate at tip ; 

 claws of tibia? less developed than in Subtribe T, sometimes al- 

 most obsolete; beak and an ten me usually longer and more slender 

 than there. 



KEY TO KASTI- ];X CKXKltA OF SI MMMMi: CKNTHINI. 



o. Body without erect bristles (except in Zaglyptus) ; mandibles normal, 



their plane of motion horizontal. 

 I). Tarsal claws two, free and divergent. 



c. Mandibles prominent, not crossed near tip when closed. 



<1. Mandibles with inner edges devoid of denticles or emargina- 

 tions; form rhomboidal or broadly oval; surface usually 



