90 FAMILY III. CURCULIOXID.JE. 



II. PODAPION Riley, 1883. (Gr., "foot" + "pear.") 



Here belongs a single large species of gall-making Apiouid 

 having, in addition to the characters named in generic key, the 

 beak joining the head abruptly; elytral stria 1 wide; legs short, 

 robust; coxa? narrowly separated; tarsi strongly dilated, the 

 joints wider than long, the third much the widest (Fig. 39, e) ; 

 claws simple. Larger and more elongate than any of our species 

 of Apinii, at first sight resembling a Magdolift but possessing the 

 characters of the subfamily Apioninre. 



119 (8426). PODAPION GALLICOLA Riley, Bull. Brook. Ent. Soc., VI, 1883, 62. 



Elongate, subcylindrical, parallel. Black, opaque, antennae and tarsi 

 piceous; pubescence very sparse, rather long, whitish. Head broad, front 

 rugosely punctate; eyes large, prominent; beak of male as long as thorax, 

 slender, not dilated, sparsely and very finely punctate; of female, slightly 

 longer, more slender and almost devoid of punctures. Antennag as long as 

 beak, inserted close to its base; first joint clavate, as long as the two follow- 

 ing united, 2 8 gradually decreasing in length. Thorax subcylindrical, as 

 wide as long, widest at middle, constricted near apex; disc finely and dense- 

 ly punctate, without median line or fovea. Elytra elongate, sides parallel 

 to near apex, stria 1 deep, wide, with an apparently double row of irregular 

 close-set punctures; intervals flat, slightly wider than striae, finely alu- 

 taceous. Under surface scabrous and finely punctate. Length 3 4.5 mm. 

 (Fig. 39, /.) 



Duuedin, Fla. ; March 31 ; one specimen swept from Ericads. 

 Washington, D. C. ; May 27. Ranges from New England to 

 California, south to Arkansas and Florida. Riley doc. cit.) first 

 found the species forming galls on the Jersey or scrub pine, 

 Finns virginiana Mill. The gall formed on the two-year old twigs 

 is spherical or ovoid, rarely elongate, 6 18 mm. in length and 

 smoother but of the same color as the twig. Its interior is hard, 

 woody, and usually with an abundance of liquid resin. The adult 

 beetle, known as the "pine gall weevil," emerges in May or June, 

 but one developing in each gall. As the fresh galls are found 

 only in spring, it is probable that the egg is laid in the one-year 

 old wood in June, and that either the egg or the larva remains 

 in the twig without producing the gall until the following spring. 

 Blanc-hard found the adult on the pitch pine, P. rigida Mill., in 

 Massachusetts, and Harrington both galls and beetles on the red 

 pine, P. rrsinosa Ait., near Ottawa, Canada. 



Subfamily VI. ALLOCORHYNIN/E. 



Beak very slender, cylindrical, slightly curved, somewhat 

 longer than head and thorax, female; antenna? straight, inserted 

 dose to the eyes on the under side of the beak, with a very loose, 



