SUBFAMILY Y. APIOXIXJE. 85 



Florida. Described from a single male in the Ulke collec- 

 tion. Looks like the European assiniilc. (Fig. 36.) 



104 (- -). Anox iiriio.N Fall, 1898, 159. 



Robust. Black, antennae piceous, the two basal joints and club red- 

 dish-brown; pubescence fine, plentiful, clothing the beak throughout in 

 male, wanting beyond the antenna? in female; densely clothing also the 

 front coxa? and prosternum and forming a whitish fringe partly around the 

 eyes. Beak feebly curved, scarcely dilated, barely longer than thorax, 

 male, finely striate and punctate. Front flat, without a depression near 

 the eyes. Thorax slightly wider than long, sides divergent from apex to 

 middle, thence parallel to base; disc densely and strongly punctate, its 

 basal fovea linear: Elytra one-third longer than wide, broadest behind the 

 middle; striae nearly as wide as intervals, the latter flat. Under surface 

 coarsely and rather closely punctate. Length 2 2.5 mm. 



Known from (Quebec, Ann Arbor, Mich., and Illinois. 



105 (8414). APION VARICORNE Smith, 1884, 60. 



Black, often with more or less bronzed lustre; rather conspicuously 

 clothed with whitish hair, which becomes scale-like in front and beneath 

 and forms a ring about each eye; first joint of antennae pale. Beak nearly 

 straight in basal' three-fourths. Thorax widest before base, finely aluta- 

 ceous, its punctures well separated. Length 1.5 1.9 mm. 



Dunedin, Florida, April 13 November 22. Frequent on the 

 flowers and foliage of huckleberry. Known only from Georgia, 

 Florida, Texas and Oklahoma. Breeds in the flower-heads of 

 Paroscla u urea Nutt. (Pierce.) 



106 (8411). APION SEGKIPES Say, 1831, 6; ibid, I, 264. 



Oval, robust. Black, basal joints of antennae, femora except the knees, 

 and tibiae reddish; pubescence conspicuous, consisting of elongate grayish 

 prostrate hairs. Beak slender, nearly straight, as long as head and thorax, 

 male (Fig. 38, h.~) , longer and more slender, female; finely striate and 

 punctate throughout. First joint of antennae as long as the next two. male, 

 or three, female, second joint not reaching the eye. Front punctate, not 

 channeled. Thorax subconical, slightly wider at base than long, disc coarse- 

 ly and densely punctate, the basal fovea small or obsolete. Elytra nearly 

 parallel in basal two-thirds, striae narrow; intervals wide, flat, each with 

 two irregular rows of minute punctures. Length 2 2.6 mm. 



Frequent throughout Indiana, more so in the northern coun- 

 ties; May 9 August S. Taken from the ripening pods of the 

 goats' rue, ('raced riruhiiaiia L., and by sweeping. Lakehurst, N. 

 J., July. Clayton, Ga., June. Dunedin, Fla., April 3 Nov. 9. 

 Ranges from New England and Ontario to Florida, Kansas and 

 Texas. Breeds also in the seeds of the milk vetch (Astragalus), 



