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Staten Island, N. Y., May 31 July 8. Fraiuingham, Mass., 

 April 19, one specimen. (Frost.) Horn gives its range as Canada 

 to Pennsylvania. Pierce states that the specimens in the U. S. 

 Museum collection are from New Hampshire; Buffalo, X. Y., 

 Washington, I). C. ; Maryland and Virginia. Smith records it 

 as occurring in New Jersey in salt meadows in March and on 

 wild grape in June and July. LeBaron states that he took P. 

 erinaceus abundantly in Michigan under the chips placed as 

 traps for the plum curculio. but his specimens may have been P. 

 macidosus below described or one of Pierce's new species. 



133 (- -). PANSCOPUS ALTERNATUS Schseff., 1908, 214. 



Form and color of erinaceus ; body more slender. Beak narrower, finely 

 carinate behind the antennae. Funicle longer, all its joints, especially 1 and 

 2, more slender. Thorax shorter, its disc densely covered with small round- 

 ed tubercles, each bearing a suberect seta. Elytra less convex, the alternate 

 intervals more strongly elevated than in any of the other species, the flat 

 ones wholly without setae. Length 6 7 mm. 



Round Knob and Balsam, X. C., June 24 July 8; beaten 

 from oak. Black Mountain, N. C., by sifting old leaves in Sep- 

 tember. Pineville, TV. Va., found by sifting. Clayton, Ga., June. 



134. (- 



-). PANSCOPUS MACULOSUS sp. nov. 



Oblong-ovate, robust. Color of erinaceus, the brown scales paler, the 



silvery ones more abundant 

 on head and beak and forming 

 entire lateral stripes on thor- 

 ax and numerous irregular 

 spots on elytra. Beak twice as 

 long and distinctly narrower 

 than head, finely carinate; 

 front with a narrow linear 

 rovea between the eyes. Scape 

 slender, passing the middle of 

 eyes; joints 1 and 2 of 

 funicle elongate, equal, 3 7 

 obconical, slightly longer 

 than wide. Thorax one-third 

 wider than long, sides strong- 

 ly rounded, disc with a faint 

 median impressed line, dense- 

 ly covered with small, round- 

 Fig. 45. x 9- (Original.) ed, scaly tubercles, each of 

 which bears a short pointed, prostrate yellowish hair. Elytra oval, 

 slightly wider at base than thorax, humeri rounded, sides parallel only on 

 median third; strue wide, concave, marked with large, round, distant punc- 

 tures, each filled with a round, pale scale; intervals narrower than the 

 stria?, feebly and equally convex, each with a row of rather long, inclined 

 yellowish seta?. Length 5.5 7.5 mm. (W. 8. B.) (Fig. 45.) 



