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island and Flatbush, N. Y. ; Ramsey and South Orange, N. J. ; 

 Red Rock, Pa., June to September ; Ithaca, N. Y., June 15 ; West 

 Roxbury, Mass., May 5. Ranges from New England and Mon- 

 treal, Canada, south and west to Washington, D. C., and Iowa. 

 Smith records it as occurring very rarely beneath stones in early 

 spring and Bury states that the two specimens secured at Cin- 

 cinnati were taken by sweeping weeds in a cemetery. Each tu- 

 bercle of thorax has a small central puncture bearing a prostrate 

 golden hair. One of the most handsome of snout beetles. 



III. BARYXOTUS Germ., 1817. (Gr., "heavy" + "back.") 

 Rather large robust species having the beak stout, subcylin- 

 drical, longer and slightly narrower than head, deeply sulcate 

 above; antenna! grooves deep, slightly curved, passing immedi- 

 ately beneath the eyes; scape reaching middle of eye, joints 1 and 

 2 of funicle subequal, longer than the others, joint 3 conical, 4 7 

 rounded; femora club-shaped; tarsi pubescent beneath, claws free. 



129 (8236). BARYXOTUS SCHCEXHERRI Zetterst., 1828, 187. 



Oblong-ovate. Piceous, above densely clothed with pearly-gray scales, 

 which are mixed on the elytra with cupreous and greenish ones. Head and 

 beak as long as thorax, coarsely, deeply and sparsely punctured. Thorax 

 subquadrate, widest at middle, apex truncate, base broadly curved, disc 

 deeply and coarsely punctured with finer punctures intervening, more 

 coarsely at sides, median line finely impressed. Elytra oval, moderately 

 convex, slightly broader at base than thorax; striae with rows of rather 

 coarse punctures; intervals wide, feebly convex, each with a row of short, 

 pale inclined set*. Body beneath sparsely pilose, coarsely, densely and 

 deeply punctured. Length 8.2 8.7 mm. 



A European species which has been found in Newfoundland 

 and at St. John, New Brunswick, in July; at Sydney, Nova 

 Scotia, in August, from beneath logs or driftwood near ballast 

 heaps. Single specimens have also been taken at Wales, Me., 

 June 19, and Framinghain, Mass., May 21. 



Tribe II. OPHRYASTINI. 



In our members of this tribe the beak is subcylindrical, not 

 sulcate above; antennae with scape at least reaching the eye, 

 funicle 7 -jointed; eyes narrow, oval or acute below, partially or 

 not concealed by the ocular lobes; second ventral segment with 

 its front suture straight; third tarsal joint deeply bilobed and 

 wider than second. 



KEY TO EASTERN GENERA OF OPIIRYAST1M. 



a. Antennal grooves on sides of beak not visible from above; second ven- 

 tral segment not longer than the two following united 



