384 SUBFAMILY X. CURCULIONIXJE. 



ton Co.; June 25 July 21. Frequent in southern New Jersey, 

 June September. Kanges from New York to Iowa and Ne- 

 braska, south to Florida and Louisiana. In five of the nine spe- 

 cimens at hand there are three dark spots on each elytron, in 

 two the hurneri are also dark, while one has a faint trace only of 

 the subsutural apical spot, all the others being wanting. 



583 (8938). CENTRIXUS FALSUS Lee., 1876, 315. 



Elongate-oval, convex. Black, legs reddish-brown; rather thinly 

 clothed above with slender yellowish scales, sparse on thorax, closer on 

 elytra, where they tend to aggregate in a broad line along the middle 

 of the intervals; beneath more densely clothed with broader whitish 

 ones. Beak rather stout, cylindrical, as long as head and thorax, dis- 

 tinctly curved near base, strongly punctured, male, more finely, female; 

 second joint of funicle one-half as long as first, as long as the next two. 

 Thorax much wider than long, sides feebly curved in basal two-thirds, 

 then strongly rounded and slightly constricted near tip; disc finely and 

 densely punctate, the median smooth line distinct. Blytral stria? fine, deep; 

 intervals wide, densely punctate, the narrow scales not arranged in 

 rows. Prosternum with a transverse subapical constriction, and a rather 

 narrow, deep sulcus along the middle. Length 3.6- 4 mm. 



Described from the "Middle and Southern states." (LeConte.) 

 Alabama and Iowa. (Casci/.} 



XIV. OnoNTocoRYNus Schon., 1844. (Gr., "tooth" + "club.") 



Oval or snbrhomboidal robust species, having the antennal 

 funicle and club of male modified as mentioned in generic key; 

 basal impression of beak almost obsolete; front cox;p narrowly 

 separated, the prosternnm usually with a deep transversely oval 

 pit behind its front margin. 



KEY TO EASTERX SPECIES OF ODONTOCORYNTS. 



o. Beak nearly similar in form in the male and female; body rhomboid- 

 oval, sparsely scaly, more or less reddish in female, black in male. 



584. SCUTELLUM-ALBUM. 



act. Beak of male compressed, deeply striate and strongly punctate on 

 sides, abruptly bent near base; of female, cylindrical, polished, al- 

 most impunctate and more evenly curved. 

 &. Punctures of elytral stria? bearing inconspicuous scales. 

 c. Larger, 5.2 mm. ; punctures of elytral intervals deep, coarse, 

 rounded, distinctly defined, each bearing a small white scale. 



585. DEXTICORNIS. 

 cc. Smaller, not over 4.7 mm.; form less robust and more parallel; 



punctures of intervals closer and confused. 



fl. Scales of elytral intervals small, white, lying within the punc- 

 tures; antennal club small, oval. 586. SALEBROSUS. 

 fid. Scales of intervals large, yellowish, almost concealing the 



