TRIBE I. BRACHYDERINI. 99 



&&. Suture separating first and second ventrals curved; tips of hind 

 tibiae partly enclosed, surrounded by a double row of spinules. 



III. BARYNOTUS. 



I. EPICURUS Schon., 1834. (Gr., "upon" + "fit time.") 

 Rather large, robust species having the beak stout, longer 

 than head, which is not constricted behind the eyes; support of 

 deciduous piece of mandible short, conical and truncate; au- 

 tennal grooves deep, very oblique; joints of fimicle conical, the 

 last distant from club; articular faces of hind tibia? glabrous; 

 tarsi pubescent. Males with the body more cylindrical, elytra 

 not inflated, thorax broadest at middle, apical declivity of elytra 

 straight or convex; females with abdomen and elytra inflated, 

 thorax broadest at base, apical declivity generally concave. 



KEY TO EASTERN SPECIES OF EPICURUS. 



a. Frontal fovea round, not merging into a sulcus; beak smooth on me- 

 dian line but with two broad sulci at sides; elytra of male distinctly 

 longer than wide; larger, 7.5 or more mm. 126. IMBRICATUS. 



aa. Frontal fovea elongate, merging into median sulcus of beak; elytra 

 but slightly longer than wide at the middle; smaller, not over 6.5 

 mm. 127. FoimiDOLOSus. 



126 (8233). EPIC.ERUS IMBRICATUS Say, 1824, 317; ibid, II, 178. 



Robust, more or less elongate, pyriform. Surface, when fresh, densely 

 clothed with small grayish and fuscous scales, the pale ones usually form- 

 ing a median stripe on thorax, the dark ones arranged to form three irreg- 

 ular bands subbasal, submedian and subapical across the elytra, the 

 scales on under surface and legs nearly white. Beak smooth on median 

 line, sulcate each side; front with a small round fovea. Thorax subcyl- 

 indrical, not wider at base than middle, narrowed in front, disc with coarse, 

 deeply impressed punctures, usually hidden by the scales. Scutellum small, 

 triangular. Elytra with rows of large round, deep punctures which are al- 

 most as wide as the intervals. Length 7.5 11.5 mm. (Fig. 44.) 



Three in &tein collection labelled "Indiana" are probably from 

 Posey County. Flatbush, X. Y. ; rare near Xew York City. 



Ranges from Xew York, Xew 

 Jersey and Michigan west and 

 south to Colorado and Texas. 

 Known in economic literature as 

 the "imbricated snout-beetle," 

 and recorded by Chitteuden 

 ( ISflO-a, 0207) as attacking the 

 foliage of young apple trees, po- 

 tatoes, onions, cabbages and 

 us. -my other vegetables also 



Fig. 44. a, Female; b, same from side. 



3. (After chittenden.) clover arid grasses. The best 



