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oval, female, longer and slightly separated at tip, male; humeri obtusely 

 rounded, disc feebly striate, striae with rather small punctures; intervals 

 slightly convex. Length 8 9 mm. 



Dunedin, Fin., scarce; March 25 Dec. 28; Lake Okeechobee, 

 March 3; Lakeland. Nov. !) ; Enterprise, Sept. 15 Oct. 1 ; Jack 

 sonville, April 14. Occurs in Georgia, Florida and Texas, hiber- 

 nating beneath boards in dam]) localities. 



154 (8312). TAXY.MKCTS CONFERTUS Gyll.. Schn., 1834, 88. 



Elongate-oblong. Piceous-brown, above rather sparsely clothed with 

 grayish and cupreous scales; elytra irregularly mottled with brown; under 

 surface and legs densely scaly. Head and beak nearly as long as thorax, 

 densely and finely punctate. Thorax subcylindrical, longer than wide, sides 

 in front feebly rounded; disc densely and finely punctate. Elytra oblong- 

 oval, wider at base than thorax; disc subconvex, feebly striate, the striae 

 with rows of large, deep punctures. Length 5 7 mm. 



Southern half of Indiana, common; Lake and Starke counties 

 only in the north; January 1 December 12. Hibernates beneath 

 logs and other cover. Taken in early spring- by sifting' and later 

 swept in numbers from low herbage along roadsides and rail- 

 roads. Frequent near New York City, June September. Occurs 

 everywhere east of the Rocky Mountains. The scales on the 

 thorax are so arranged as to give its surface a striped appear- 

 ance, while the coppery ones on elytra are so placed as to cause 

 them to appear mottled. Kiley (1882, 010) states that both this 

 and the next species are "polyphagus without preference for any 

 particular plant," while according to Hamilton it breeds in wild 

 sun-flowers (HcUanthus). Brunei' records it as an enemy of 

 sugar beets, and also as feeding on cocklebur, pigweed and smart- 

 weed. Hamilton found it breeding and hibernating in stems of 

 Ambrosia trifi<l<i L., becoming a beetle without entering the 

 ground. 



XVII. PAXDELETEIUS Schonh., 18.'U. ( Gr., ''very cunning.") 



Beak slightly shorter than head, feebly compressed, the nasal 

 plate usually very small or lacking; antennal grooves on the 

 sides rather dee]), well defined, slightly curved and usually pass- 

 ing immediately beneath the eyes; scape gradually clavate, reach- 

 ing hind border of eye; funicle it- or 7 -jointed, joints 1 and 2 

 elongate, 5 7 very short, moniliform; eyes small, slightly oval; 

 scutellum small, triangular; front legs longer than the others, 

 their femora stouter. Eleven species have been described from 

 the United States, only two of which occur with us. 



