4-~S SIT.FAMILY X. Cl'RCULIOXINJE. 



Frequent throughout Indiana; April IT August 19; also 

 throughout Xew Jersey on smartweed, Polyyoiuun, in low ground; 

 April August. Occurs at Ottawa, Canada, and throughout the 

 United States east of the Rocky Mountains, south to Georgia and 

 Alabama. 



712 (- -). PKI.KNOMUS ASPERULUS Dietz, 1896, 464. 



Form of suh-icollis but smaller. Above nearly uniformly clothed with 

 grayish-brown scales, the white ones of elytra very few, forming indistinct 

 spots and bands. Second and third joints of funicle equal. Head deeply 

 concave between the eyes. Thorax with lateral tubercles small, acute, its 

 dorsal groove almost obsolete. Intervals of elytra feebly convex, the alter- 

 nate ones more strongly so, finely rugose, each with a row of very small, 

 acute granules, more evident on sides than disc. Second ventral of male, 

 with a round and rather deep impression, bordered in front by a pale, 

 elevated pubescent scale or margin. Length 2 2.3 mm. 



Lake, Posey, Clark and Perry counties, Tnd., rare,; April 22 

 May 10. Known elsewhere only from Massachusetts, southern 

 Illinois and Detroit, Mich. Differs from siih-icollis by its smaller 

 size, less distinct dorsal channel and by the peculiar margined 

 impression of second ventral of male. 



713 (- -). PELEXOMUS GRISETJS sp. nov. 



Rather narrowly oval, convex. Black, everywhere thickly and uniformly 

 clothed with grizzly-gray scales; elytra with a small oblong post-scutellar 

 spot of white scales; tibia? and basal joints of antennas reddish-brown; 

 club, tarsi and middle of femora more or less fuscous. Beak longer than 

 head, rather slender, finely and densely punctate, scaly except near tip: 

 second and third joints of funicle subequal, slightly longer than 3 6. 

 Thorax with disc narrower than in sulcicoUis, its apical cusps and lateral 

 tubercles prominent, acute, dorsal channel represented by a deep concavity 

 between the cusps and a small impression at base. Elytra more than one- 

 third wider at base than thorax, humeri rounded, sides subparallel to apical 

 third, then broadly rounded to apex; stria? very fine; intervals feebly 

 convex, the outer five or six each with a row of obtuse granules. Fourth 

 joint of tarsi longer than second and third united. Length 2.4 mm. 

 (W. 8. B.) 



Type in Ptlanchard collection at Cambridge, labelled "Mass.," 

 also "I'cJciHHiuts sp. nov." in his handwriting. Very distinct by 

 the uniform gray vestiture and narrow disc of thorax as above 

 described. 



714 (8858). PELEXOMUS SQUAMOSUS Lee., 1876, 281. 



Smaller than sitlcicollis. Black, above densely clothed with grayish- 

 white and brown scales, the former covering the sides of thorax and form- 

 ing distinct mottlings en elytra; beneath clothed with paler scales; an- 

 tennae and legs pale reddish-brown. Beak scarcely longer than head, stout, 



