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474 SUBFAMILY X. CURCULIONINJE. 



736 (8721). CONOTRACHELUS CRAT^GI Walsh, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., IX, 

 1863, 311. 



Broadly ovate. Brownish-piceous, densely and finely clothed with clay- 

 yellow and ash-gray scales, the latter forming a 

 double line of paler pubescence each side of thorax, 

 the lines meeting in front of the middle and in 

 fresh specimens, passing backward onto humeri 

 and across the basal third of elytra; body beneath 

 thinly clothed with yellowish pubescence. Beak 

 .. punctured, deeply striate, carinate above. Thorax 



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Fig. 1 06. a, Side view; broadly, transversely impressed in front, elevated 

 b, dorsal^ view^ v 3- a t m iddle, strongly carinate, coarsely punctured. 

 Elytra with third, fifch, seventh and ninth intervals strongly carinate, with 

 broad furrows between the carinse, each with two rows of coarse, quadrate 

 punctures; humeri obliquely truncate, with outer angles dentiform. Body 

 beneath sparsely find very coarsely punctured, third and fourth ventral 

 segments more sparsely, fifth more densely punctured. Thighs armed with 

 a large, not very acute tooth. Length 4 6 mm. (Fig. 106.) 



Frequent throughout Indiana ; much more so in the southern 

 counties; May 11 August 11. Beaten from ('ratcrytis. Locally 

 throughout New Jersey on quince, sometimes injurious; June- 

 August. Batavia, N. Y., July 10 25. Ranges from New England 

 to Michigan and Iowa, south to Georgia. Known as the "quince 

 curculio," the adult eating a little hole in the fruit in which the 

 egg is deposited ; the larv?e liying in the fruit till fall, when they 

 leave it and burrow into the ground, pupating in early spring. 

 (Banks.) Li yes also in the fruit of Crata-f/iis. 

 737 (8722). COXOTRACIIELUS SERPENTINUS Boh., Schn., 1837, 402. 



Elongate-oval, rather robust. Blackish-brown, thinly clothed, but scarcely 

 mottled, with coarse, pale brownish hairs. Beak rather stout, one-third 

 longer than head and thorax, brown, shining, scarcely punctured, striate 

 each side; head strongly punctured. Thorax as long as wide, widest at 

 base, feebly constricted at apex; disc very deeply, coarsely and densely 

 punctured, its elevated dorsal line narrow. Elytra at base one-half wider 

 than thorax, humeri rounded; striae composed of coarse punctures; inter- 

 vals not costate at base, but third and fifth becoming gradually acute be- 

 hind the middle, seventh acute for whole length, united in front at a sharp 

 angle with ninth, which is also acute throughout, the two united forming 

 the humeral margin. Length 6 7 mm. 



Biscayne Bay and Enterprise. Fla. Schwarz (1890, 233) states 

 that it is found exclusively on tlie red bay, ] > <-rx<'<i borhoiini L.. 

 the larva' probably living in the galls of a psyllid, Trio~<i HHI</- 

 Ashm. ('. rcntnilix Lee. (ISIS, 428) is a synonym. 



738 (8724). CONOTRACHELITS BELFRAGEI Lee., 1876, 419. 



Oval, rather robust. Black or piceous, clothed with short brownish-red 

 hairs and oval white scales, the latter forming a large, irregular white 



