174 STBFAMILY X. CURCULIONIXJE. 



distinct; sides almost straight, slightly divergent from base to middle, the 

 latter subangulate. Elytra feebly emarginate at base. Last ventral of 

 female with a broad transverse excavation, not emarginate. Length 4 

 mm." (Dietz.) 



Described from District of Columbia and Texas. Eecorded 

 from Brooklyn, X. Y., in Smith's New Jersey List. The seta 3 of 

 thorax in the only specimen at hand are much more numerous 

 and prominent than in either rotiin<J'u:olll$ or sparsns. Fall con- 

 siders ohxciircllits a synonym of sparsus, but the alternate inter- 

 vals are not elevated as in that species and all the intervals are 

 distinctly setose throughout their length. 



230 (10,838). HYPERODES ECIIIXATUS Dietz, 1889, 46. 



Broadly oblong. Piceous or reddish-brown; above and thorax beneath 

 densely clothed with grayish-white and brownish-yellow scales which are 

 especially large upon the elytra; the pale ones forming a narrow median 

 line and lateral stripes enclosing a dark spot on thorax, and scattered 

 spots on elytra; antennae and legs reddish-brown. Beak stout, broad, its 

 median carina feeble, the others obsolete. Thorax slightly wider than 

 long, base and apex of almost equal width; sides feebly rounded, ocular 

 lobes rather prominent; disc densely scaly, impressed and feebly con- 

 stricted near apex, finely and densely granulate-punctate and with scat- 

 tered short erect setae. Elytra one-half wider than thorax, slightly nar- 

 rowed from humeri for three-fifths their length, thence gradually nar- 

 rowed to tips; intervals convex, each with a row of pale, erect, rather stout, 

 prominent seta?. First and second ventrals coarsely, not densely, last 

 three more finely, punctate. Last ventral of female emarginate at tip and 

 with a large quadrilateral concavity. Length 4.4 4.5 mm. 



Dubois and Spencer counties, Indiana, rare; May 32 24. 

 Taken by sweeping. Evanston, 111., Oct. 14. Orange County, N. 

 Y., April 2. Ranges from Massachusetts and Michigan to Colo- 

 rado, south to Mississippi, Texas and Arizona. Breeds in the 

 roots of ^cnccio and Plantayo. (Pierce, 1916.) 



231 (- ). HYPERODES NOVELLUS sp. nov. 



Elongate-oblong. Piceous, above thickly clothed with dark brown and 

 ash-gray scales, those of elytra not as large as in echinatus ; the pale ones 

 forming a narrow median line and lateral stripes on thorax and covering 

 the humeri and the greater portion of the sides of elytra. Beak stout, 

 shorter than thorax, very strongly tricarinate, the median carina arched, 

 the sulci deep, each with a row of short setae. Thorax subquadrate, 

 scarcely as wide as long, sides almost straight, feebly rounded near base 

 and apex, disc finely and densely granulate-punctate and with numerous 

 erect setae. Elytra at base nearly one-half wider than thorax, sides par- 

 allel to apical fifth, then strongly converging to apex; striae deep, their 

 punctures fine, close-set; intervals all evenly and strongly convex, each 



