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sparsely and rather finely punctate. Elytra oblong, their tips subacumin- 

 ate; disc feebly striate, strise with coarse punctures; intervals feebly con- 

 vex, each with a single row of minute appressed hairs. Last ventral seg- 

 ment rounded in male, acutely triangular in female. Length 7.5 9 mm. 



Southern half of Indiana, frequent; Kosciusko County only 

 in the north; May 12 August 11. Beaten from persimmon and 

 hickory and swept from low herbage. Known as the "gray per- 

 simmon weevil." Ranges from New York to Missouri, south to 

 Georgia and Mississippi, and probably wherever the persimmon 

 grows. Riley states that it feeds only on persimmon, but that 

 tree does not grow in Kosciusko County, and unfortunately no 

 habitat record was made of the half dozen specimens taken there 

 on Auust 11. 





XX. ARTIPUS Sahlberg, 1823. (Gr., "not halting.") 



Beak not longer than head, robust, finely grooved above; an- 

 tennal grooves narrow and deep in front, broader and evanescent 

 behind, the lower border strongly curved downward; antenme in- 

 serted near tip, joints 1 and 2 of funicle subequal, longer than 

 3 7 which are also subequal ; inner wings present. One species 

 occurs in Florida. 



159 (S320). ABTIPUS FLORUITS Horn, 1876, 92. 



Elongate-oblong. Piceous, everywhere densely clothed with white or 

 pale greenish-blue scales, those on head and beak often with a coppery lus- 

 tre; the larger punctures of elytra surrounded by a darker area. Thorax 

 cylindrical, as wide as long, sides almost parallel, apex and base truncate; 

 disc sparsely marked with unequal punctures and with a fine interrupted 

 median line. Elytra nearly twice as long as wide, sides parallel for three- 

 fourths their length; stria? with rows of fine and a few very coarse punc- 

 tures; intervals flat, each with two rows of very short, scale-like hairs. 

 Length 5 6.5 mm. 



Widely distributed in Florida; Little River, March IT. Many 

 other localities recorded by Pierce; January 3 July 1. Injurious 

 to the orange. Mentioned by Ashmead (1880, 62) as feeding on 

 the same plants as does P<icJi turns opal UK, and by Schwarz as 

 feeding on leaves of oak and juniper. "Known in Florida as the 

 'rose bug,' and, though polyphagous, it seems to have a special 

 fondness for citrus fruits, particularly the lime, destroying the 

 blossoms and young fruit and nipping the margins of the leaves, 

 which then become white, giving the tree a stunted, frosted ap- 

 pearance. Many of those feeding on live oaks are of a brilliant 

 verdigris-green color, instead of the creamy-while of those feeding 

 on citrus."* 



*Hamilton Can. Ent., XXVI, 256. 



