SUr.FAMILY X. CURCULIONINJE. 



emarginate, humeri rounded, scarcely prominent; sides parallel, narrowed 

 toward tips, striae fine, the punctures rather coarse; intervals even, each 

 with a row of short, pale setse. Length 5 6 mm. (Fig. 61.) 



Putnam and Franklin counties, Ind., scarce; April 11 June 

 1, A if 11. Reaver Dam, Wis., May 26. Ithaca, X. Y., 

 June 25. Ormond and Dunedin, Fla., March 

 22 Dec. 23. The above is a description of the 

 specimen bearing the label litt'utxcitlus in the 

 LeConte collection. Of it he said: "I refer 

 this name to a species which occurs in the 

 Middle or Southern States, and is b\ no 

 means rare." The type was from Pennsylvania. 

 Ranges from Quebec, Xew England and Michi- 



Fig 61 X S- 



(After Chittenden.) gaii, west and south to Colorado, Kansas and 



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Georgia. Breeds in the stalks and seed heads of the broad-leaved 

 arrowhead, tffiyitt<iri<i latifolhi Willd., the eggs being laid in 

 bunches of five to ten on the leaf stalk, and covered with bits of 

 epidermis chewed up by the mother beetle.* Known also as the 

 "parsley-stalk weevil," the larv;e boring in the roots and steins of 

 parsley causing the tops to turn yellow and wilt. Bisulphide of 

 carbon or kerosene emulsion applied about the roots will serve 

 as a remedy.* 

 210 ( -). LISTROXOTUS RUDIPEXXIS sp. nov. 



Elongate-oblong. Black, above densely clothed with round reddish- 

 yellow scales having a more cr less pronounced coppery tinge, those of 

 thorax slightly larger than on elytra, distinctly concave and ocellate; 

 antenna? and legs reddish-brown. Beak slender, subcylindrical, as long as 

 head and thorax, finely carinate at middle, not sulcate, frontal fovea evi- 

 dent but shallow. Thorax short, as wide as long, sides feebly rounded, 

 disc finely and densely punctate. Elytra at base one-third wider than 

 thorax, humeri oblique, sides parallel to apical fourth, then feebly con- 

 verging to the obtusely rounded apex; strias fine, their punctures small. 

 rather distant; intervals wide, flat, each with a row of minute white 

 setae, the fifth with evident callus at declivity. Un4er surface and legs 

 rather thickly clothed with scale-like cupreous hairs. Length 5.8 6.3 mm. 

 (W. S. B.) 



Lake County, Indiana, May '> June II). Oregon, Illinois; 

 Pawpaw Lake, Mich., and St. Louis, Mo., July S August 1 ; Lii 

 jeblad collection. LeConte collection from Indiana, labeled erro 

 ueously /,. Niilcirostris. Comparatively longer and more robust 

 than latiiiwiilitN with the scales all paler and uniform in color, 

 those of thorax more distinctly ocellate; humeri more oblique and 

 intervals all flat. 



f lns. Life, III, 83; Bull. 82, U. S. Bur. lint., 1909, 19. 



