4(1' SUBFAMILY X. rUIN.'ULIOXIXJK. 



Fairfax Co., Ya., June. South Orange and Ft. Lee, N. J., 

 May June. Recorded also from Ohio, District of Columbia, 

 Louisiana and Florida. Larva? were found in fallen hickory nuts 

 in Louisiana in June. {Pierce.} Liable to be confused with 

 juf/liiinlix, being of the same size and quite similarly marked; 

 however, the median costa is not so high, color darker and elytr.il 

 fascia not white. 



733 (8716). CONOTRACHKLUS SEMCULUS Lee., 1876, 227. 



Oval. Dark brown, antenna?, tibia? and tarsi paler; thorax with a 

 straight, oblique line of yellowish pubescence each side, the two united at 

 tip; elytra thinly clothed with grayish pubescence which is condensed in 

 a faint transverse band behind the middle. Beak "as long as thorax, stout, 

 curved, strongly punctured and seriate. Thorax at base slightly wider than 

 long, constricted in front, rounded on sides, strongly rugosely punctured. 

 Elytra with alternate intervals carinate, the third interrupted in two 

 places, the fifth at the pubescent band; strial punctures large, distant, 

 quadrate, each with a very short gray seta. First ventral segment more 

 sparsely punctured than the others. Length 3.7 4.8 mm. 



< Vmimon throughout southern Indiana ; Starke County only 

 in the north; April 10 Oct. 12. At various localities in south- 

 ern New Jersey ; May 31 August. Lake Okeechobee, Fla., March 

 G. Ranges from Quebec and New England to Michigan and Kan- 

 sas, south to Mississippi and Florida. Beaten from plum and 

 peach. (Pierce.} 



734 (8718). COXOTKACIIELUS ELECIANS Say, 1831, 18; ibid, I, 283. 



Form and size of seniciilus. more thinly pubescent; the thoracic lines 

 narrow, curved, not meeting in front; elytra with large blackish discal 

 space, their pubescence more yellow, less mixed with gray. Beak distinctly 

 longer than head and thorax, less curved, strongly striate, punctate. Thorax 

 narrower, longer than wide, densely and coarsely punctate, very feebly 

 carinate, faintly tuberculate. First elytral carina twice interrupted, the 

 second not interrupted behind. Femoral teeth small, acute, nearly equal. 

 Length 3.8 4.5 mm. 



Throughout Indiana, but scarce; beaten from hickory; May 

 6 Aug. 11. Krown County, locally common on apple trees; 

 April 20. Throughout New Jersey, May September. West 

 Point, X. Y. Ranges from Massachusetts to Michigan and Mis- 

 souri, south to Florida. The larva feeds on underground stems 

 of the rough pigweed, Aniaraiitliiix rctroflc.rus L. (CJtittcn<lcn.} 

 Oviposits in partly rolled up leaves of {tig-nut hickory, cutting 

 off the leaves during the process. (Packard.} Common on 

 hickory, on the leaves of which the larva' live." (Hamilton.} 



*The contradictory biological notes in this genus may lie due to varying intxi- 

 pretations of tlie older clrscri]ilicnis. 



