GO FAMILY III. 



Perry Co., Indiana, rare; May 21. Beaten from oak. New 

 Jersey, "not rare on oak. May July, but local. " Ranges from 

 Ontario and New England south to Florida and west to Missouri 

 and Nebraska. Packard records it as attacking the foliage of 

 willow in June at Brunswick, Maine. 



58 (- -). RIIYXCIIITES PERPLEXUS Blatch., 1916, 95. 



Oblong, subconvex. Above bluish-black, feebly brassy; antenna?, tibias 

 and tarsi piceous; under surface and femora black; pubescence very fine, 

 sparse, prostrate. Beak slightly shorter than thorax, male; one-fourth 

 longer, female; slightly widened and sculptured with coarse, elongate punc- 

 tures in front of antenna?; front bluish, strongly alutaceous, finely and 

 sparsely punctate. Thorax subcylindrical, as wide at middle as long, 

 slightly narrowed in front and near base, densely and rather finely punc- 

 tate, the punctures more or less confluent. Elytra at base one-half wider 

 than thorax, sides subparallel tor four-fifths their length, then broadly 

 rounded to apex; disc feebly but distinctly depressed on basal third; strial 

 punctures coarse, rounded, wider than intervals. Pygidium sculptured like 

 front; side pieces of meso- and metasterna coarsely, rather closely punc- 

 tate; abdomen finely, very sparsely punctate. Length 1.6 1.8 mm. 



Crawford Co., Indiana, June 24. Swept from low herbage. 

 Okefinokee Swamp, Ga., June. New Jersey, District of Colum- 

 bia (Lengcoll.) LeConte Collection, Mass. Easily distinguished 

 from (rratns by its color, shorter beak of male and more feeble 

 elytra! depression. Resembles ci/a-nellits but smaller, darker, beak 

 much shorter and head much more finely punctured. The eyes 

 of the male are round and somewhat larger than the elliptical. 

 more finely facetted ones of female. 



59 (- -). RHYXCHITES ELUSUS Blatch., 1916, 96. 



Oblong-oval. Black, feebly tinged with bronze; antenna? and legs 

 piceous, pubescence gray, very fine and sparse. Beak of both sexes as 

 long as head and thorax, much more finely sculptured than in perplexus ; 

 front bronzed, very finely alutaceous, minutely and very sparsely punc- 

 tate. Thorax shorter and wider than in the two preceding, widest at basal 

 third, its disc finely, deeply and very densely punctate, the punctures not 

 confluent. Elytra at base one-half wider than thorax, sides parallel for 

 half their length, then broadly curved to the rounded apex; disc widely 

 an;l shallowly depressed at basal third; strial punctures smaller, rounded, 

 close-set. Abdomen alutaceous. finely and sparsely punctate. Length 1.8 

 2 mm. 



Dunedin, Florida. March 24 April ]:>. Seven specimens 

 swept from huckleberry blossoms. The much longer and apicaily 

 \vider beak, more finely sculptured front and broader thorax and 

 elytra separate this readily from both <n-<.i1nx and fH'rjtlc.niN. 



