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srr.FAM ILY X. CURCULIONINJE. 



748 (8733). CONOTRACIIELUS COROXATUS Lee., 1878, 430. 



Blackish, thinly clothed with very fine brownish-gray pubescence and 

 scattered pale clavate bristles, with markings of dense, fine white scales 

 forming a narrow white stripe each side of thorax, which extends from apex 

 to base and connects with a short white line at base of third elytral inter- 

 val; forming also a large marginal spot on elytra behind the humerus and 

 a band composed of spots behind the middle. Beak very stout, bent be- 

 yond the middle, not longer than head and thorax, deeply and broadly 

 striate, carinate above. Thorax as long as wide, sides straight, disc rough 

 and bearing a lateral, four apical and two median tubercles. Elytra with 

 the alternate intervals interrupted, forming black tubercles bearing re- 

 clined clavate bristles. Beneath very coarsely punctured. Femora with a 

 single acute and prominent tooth. Length 3 mm. 



Described from Enterprise, Fla. 



749 (8734). CONOTRACIIELUS TUBEROSUS Lee., 1876, 233. 



Short, ovate. Dark reddish-brown, thinly clothed with very fine, short 

 yellowish pubescence; thorax with pale lines as mentioned in key; elytra 

 with a narrow transverse yellowish band on apical third; antennae, tibice 

 and tarsi pale reddish-brown. Beak curved, rather stout, as long as head 

 and thorax, strongly striate. Thorax longer than wide, sides feebly round- 

 ed, disc densely, rugosely punctured, opaque, with two very narrow crests 

 or raised lines running from apex to middle. Elytra with rows of rather 

 large, rounded punctures; carinae of intervals interrupted as in C. nenu- 

 phar. Length 2.5 3 mm. 



riummers Island, Md. ; June 21. Recorded from Ohio, Illi- 

 nois, District of Columbia and South Carolina, Occurs on 

 Urtica. (Ulkc.) A handsome, well marked little species, re- 

 sembling a small (inayh/pticus. 



750 (8735). CONOTRACHELUS AXAGLYPTICUS Say, 1831, 18; ibid, I, 282. 

 Broadly ovate, subdepressed. Piceous or dark reddish-brown, very thin- 

 ly clothed with short, fine yellowish hairs, 

 condensed to form two narrow lines each 

 side of thorax, a broad oblique humeral spot 

 or stripe on elytra and a broad band on 

 apical half of femora; elytra also with a 

 faint whitish band behind the middle. 

 Beak scarcely as long as head and thorax, 

 stout, strongly striate, carinate above. 

 Thorax slightly longer than wide, sides 

 nearly straight, disc very densely, rather 

 finely reticulate-punctate and with two in- 

 distinct crests on apical half. Base of ely- 

 tra twice as wide as thorax, truncate, hu- 

 meri almost rectangular, sides converging 

 from base to the obtusely rounded apex; 

 strial punctures large, quadrate, close-set; 



alternate intervals rather strongly costate, the second costa widely inter- 

 rupted at basal third. Abdomen coarsely and sparsely punctate. Length 

 3.54.7 mm. (Pig. 107.) 



Fig. 107. X 8. (After Felt.) 



