494 SUBFAMILY X. CURCULIONIN^B. 



Frequent throughout Indiana; Jan. 6 Sept. 25. Taken by 

 sweeping and beneath rubbish, usually near water. Throughout 

 New Jersey, March July, not rare. West Point, N. Y., on eve- 

 ning primrose. Black Mountains, N. C., June August. Lake 

 Okeechobee, Fla., March 2. Ranges from Canada and New Eng- 

 land to Michigan and Iowa, south to Florida and Texas. Occurs 

 on plants growing in bogs. (Ulke.) The punctures of elytral 

 rows in most specimens at hand extend to the middle or beyond. 



773 (- -). TYLODERMA PUXCTATA Casey, 1884, 57. 



Elongate-oval, strongly convex. Black with a strong bronzed lustre, 

 polished, glabrous. Thorax as long as wide, sides almost converging from 

 base to apex, slightly curved on middle third; disc almost impunctate, 

 the upper portion toward the base with minute sparse punctures; a trans- 

 verse area just behind apex, distinctly and confusedly punctate; the punc- 

 tures becoming large and deep in a still narrower and more apical line in 

 the constriction of the sides. Elytra with rows of coarse, unimpressed, 

 remote punctures, becoming obsolete behind the middle. Length 3.5 -4 mm. 



Southern two-thirds of Indiana, scarce; May 8 Oct. 0. Taken 

 beneath oak bark in May, and in a decaying fungus at the base of 

 a red oak stump in October. Irvington and Lakehurst, N. J., 

 June 21 July 12. Peekskill, Nyack and Youkers, N. Y. Dune- 

 din, Fla., Jan. 15. Ranges from New England to Illinois, south 

 to Florida. Larger than cerea and with very different punctua- 

 tion of thorax. A small form, 2.3 3 mm. in length, with both 

 thorax and elytra almost impunctate, occurs abundantly in 

 winter, mating in February and March, beneath boards along the 

 margins of lakes and ponds near Duuedin and other points in 

 Florida. 



IX. MICRALCINUS Lee., 1876. (Gr., "small" -(- Analcis.) 



Here belongs a single small southern species having the post- 

 ocular lobes prominent; elytra not suddenly wider than thorax 

 but regularly oval, their base emarginate; mesosternum protu- 

 berant and perpendicular in front, femora slender, sinuate be- 

 neath, not toothed ; claws small, divergent, simple. 



774 (8740). MICRALCINUS CRIBRATUS Lee., 1876, 236. 



"Oval. Blackish-brown, shining, sparsely pubescent; elytra mottled 

 with small spots of fine gray hair and with patches of a brown color to- 

 ward the tips; antennae reddish-brown. Beak rather stout, scarcely as 

 long as thorax, deeply grooved and punctured. Thorax as long as wide, 

 rounded on sides, narrowed in front, cribrate with large, deep punctures 

 and with a small, smooth callus at middle. Elytra one-third wider than 

 thorax, humeri rounded; striae composed of large deep punctures, becom- 



