436 SUBFAMILY X. CURCTJLIOXIN.-K. 



March 27. Ranges from Canada and New England to Washing- 

 ton, south to Florida and Mississippi. Occurs on miscellaneous 

 vegetation near water. (Harrington.) Easily known by its 

 small size, coppery lustre and truncate metas ternum. 



VI. PELENOSOMUS Dietz, 1806. (Gr., Peleuomus + "body.") 



The only known species of this genus closely resembles certain 

 forms of Pch'innnns but differs by the longer beak, the pectoral 

 groove extending onto the niesosternum and the strongly toothed 

 claws. From Aiilciitcs, to which it is closely related, it is sepa- 

 rated by the great irregularity of the thorax, the tufts and crests 

 of erect scales on the elytra and the dense scaly covering. 



673 ( ). PELENOSOMUS CEISTATUS Dietz, 1896, 411. 



Oval. Dark piceous, antennae, tibias and tarsi reddish-brown; above 

 densely clothed with small grayish- white and brown scales; elytra with 

 crests of erect seal-brown scales interrupted by spots and short lines of 

 white depressed ones, a basal line on sutural interval of very dark velvety 

 scales, and an ill-defined brownish oblique fascia extending from humerus 

 to behind the middle. Beak slightly shorter than thorax, gradually widened 

 from base to apex, densely punctured and pubescent. Thorax about as 

 long as wide, dorsal channel distinct; disc densely, not coarsely punctate, 

 with two small cusps on front margin and a ridge and oblique groove on 

 each side. Elytra two-fifths wider at base than thorax, sides straight and 

 parallel to near middle, then obliquely narrowed to apex; striae fine, 

 feebly impressed, their punctures hidden by a row of scales; intervals 

 flat. Under surface rather coarsely punctured, sterna densely scaly. 

 Length 1.82.2 mm. (Fig. 101, B.) 



Mobile, Ala., March 28; one specimen in Leng collection taken 

 by Loding. The type, a male from the District of Columbia, is 

 in the Ulke collection. 



VII. HYPOCCELIODES Faust, 1896. (Gr., "sub" + Cceliodes.) 



Broadly oval, very convex species having the hind femora 

 greatly enlarged;* beak stout, curved; pectoral groove extending 

 ii] ton the nietasternum ; second ventral shorter than the two fol- 

 lowing united, prolonged backwards at sides ; hind coxa 1 widely 

 separated; femora deeply grooved for the tibia 1 in repose; tarsal 

 claws with a long acute tooth. Faust's name antedates OrcJics- 

 tomcrus Dietz bv a few months. 



*Champion says this perhaps indicates saltatorial powers and mentions that the 

 European Rhinoncus perpendicularis, with less thickened femora, can jump a consider- 

 able distance. Hypoc'ccliodes is well represented in Mexico, where fresh specimens are 

 often more or less coated with a waxy fulvous secretion as in Li.i'iis. 



