TRIBE XXI. CRYPTORHYNCHINI. 481 



Common throughout Indiana; May 12 July 5. Taken from 

 asters and at electric light. Throughout New Jersey, May to 

 Sept., under moist bark and on various bushes. Dunedin, Fla., 

 Feb. 27 March 17. Abundant from New England to Michigan 

 and Iowa, south to Florida and Texas. "Breeds in the fruit of 

 hickory. (Juglans.)" (&Y/7/. ) Beaten from quince. (Kuiyht.) 

 One specimen from Palos Park, 111., has the pubescent markings 

 of thorax, elytra and femora snow-white instead of yellowish. 



751 (8736). COXOTRACHELUS LEUCOPH.EATUS Fahr., Schon., 1837, 417. 



Oval, robust. Piceous, rather thickly clothed with small oval, dark 

 brown and whitish scales, the latter covering in great part the elytra and 

 femora and forming two irregular lines each side of thorax; the former the 

 disc of thorax, basal third and tips of elytra; antennas, tibiae and tarsi red- 

 dish-brown. Beak about as long as head and thorax, cylindrical, curved, 

 carinate and striate on basal half. Thorax as wide at base as long, sides 

 deeply sinuate; disc coarsely and roughly punctate, the median carina 

 short, distinct. Elytra one-half wider at base and three times as long as 

 thorax, humeri obtusely angulated; strial punctures rather small, deep; 

 alternate intervals feebly costate, the first costa interrupted behind the mid- 

 dle, the second near base. Length 4.5 5 mm. 



Lake County, Ind., rare; May 28. New Jersey, rare; Sept. 

 23. Described from Mexico; abundant in Texas; recorded from 

 Kansas and Colorado. Pierce (1907, 275) states that at Dallas, 

 Texas, it breeds in the stems of pig-weed, Atitorauthus, and those 

 of the flowering spurge, Euphorbia corollata L., the larva 1 being- 

 found throughout the summer. Taken also on cotton, corn and 

 oak. 



GROUP V. (FISSUNGUIS GROUP.) 



This group contains a single species,- having the beak stout, 

 slightly curved, as long as head and thorax, shining near tip, 

 carinate and coarsely striate on basal two-thirds; antennae in- 

 serted one-fifth from its tip; elytra partly clothed with very 

 fine short pubescence, the intervals each with a row of very 

 short bristles ; femora with a short dull tooth ; tarsal claws cleft 

 at tip. 



752 (8737). CONOTRACHELUS FISSUNGUIS Lee., 1876, 234. 



Broadly oval, robust, convex. Dark brown; elytra in great part densely 

 clothed with short yellow pubescence, darker near apex, a short denuded 

 blackish band crossing the suture about the middle; femora annulated 

 with yellow pubescence; antenna?, tibia? and tarsi paler. Thorax as long 

 as wide, sides slightly rounded, feebly constricted near apex; disc very 

 coarsely and deeply punctured and with longitudinal ridges near the tip, 

 the middle one more distinct. Elytra at base one-half wider than thorax, 



