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and scattered smaller spots on the elytra; antennae and tarsi reddish brown. 

 Beak not longer and as wide as head, sparsely punctured, broadly concave. 

 Thorax short, cylindrical, nearly twice as wide as long, sides feebly curved, 

 base and apex truncate, disc coarsely and sparsely punctate. Elytra broadly 

 oval, strongly convex, not broader at base than thorax at middle, finely 

 striate, strife with fine distant punctures; intervals flat, each with a row 

 of short, white, suberect bristles. Length 3.5 4 mm. 



A compact and handsome little species known only from 

 Georgia and Florida. Dunedin, Jacksonville, Gainesville, San- 

 ford and Pnnta Gorda. Fla., Jan. 26 Nov. 14. Taken frequently 

 at Dnnedin in March and April by sweeping herbage and beating 

 oak, and common in autumn on the heads of a yellow flowered 

 Composite, Helianthus dcbilis Nutt. 



XI. CERCOPEUS Schonh., 1843. (Gr., ''deceitful.") 



Beak slightly longer and narrower than head, feebly curved, 

 truncate at tip; mandibular scar very feeble; scape reaching 

 front margin of thorax; eyes small, rounded, surrounded by a 

 distinct groove; elytra oval, slightly narrowed behind, humeri 

 broadly rounded ; front and middle tibire feebly mucronate ; 

 tar-sal daws free. 

 146 (8305). CERCOPEUS CHRYSORHCEUS Say, 1831, 13; ibid., I, 274. 



Oval, strongly convex. Dark reddish-brown, densely covered with min- 

 ute, dirty yellow or pale brown scales; disc of elytra often with a large, 

 darker, heart-shaped area; antenna? and tarsi pale reddish-brown; sides of 

 thorax and basal half of elytra in fresh specimens with a narrow sinuous 

 line of gray scales. Thorax semiglobose, slightly wider than long, apex and 

 base truncate, sides strongly curved; disc densely punctured, the scales 

 closing the punctures somewhat sparse. Elytral striae very fine, feebly punc- 

 tured; intervals flat, each with a single row of short inclined bristles. 

 Length 3 5 mm. 



Throughout Indiana but scarce; May 1 June 5. Taken by 

 sifting and beneath chunks in dry localities. Cold Spring, N. J., 

 April 14, under boards. Kanges from Massachusetts to Michi- 

 gan, south and southwest to Georgia and Missouri. Probably 

 hibernates as imago. Eecorded as attacking wild and cultivated 

 grapes and sometimes called the "grape curculio," but that name 

 properly belongs to Craponius ittcrqitnlis Say. 



XII. OII.TJTECHUS Horn, 1876. (Gr., "setae" -f "to have.") 



Here belongs also a single small species having the beak stout, 

 quadrangular, its tip truncate; antennae stout, inserted near its 

 middle, scape reaching the thorax, joints 1 and 2 of funicle long, 

 the first much stouter, 3 7 moniliform ; scutellum indistinct; 

 second ventral segment longer than either third or fourth, the 

 first suture feebly curved. 



