TRIBE V. HYLOBIINI. 187 



252 (8480). HYLOBIUS CONFUSUS Kirby, 1S37, 196. 



Closely resembles small forms of the preceding. Head more shining, 

 less densely and rather more coarsely punctured. Thorax 

 narrower, less constricted near apex, the punctures less 

 confluent, the surface less plicate. Pubescence very sparse, 

 nearly white. Length 6.8 mm. 



Litclifield, Conn., July 5. Found near New York 

 on blackberry blossoms in June. Ranges from Nova 

 Scotia, Quebec and New England to Lake Superior 



Fig. 64, X 3- 



(After am ] Alaska in the Transition and Boreal Life Zones. 



Brehm.) 



TV. HEILIPUS Germ., 1824. (dr., "bent" -f "daw.") 



Beak longer than thorax, cylindrical and more curved than in 

 HyJobins; antennal grooves ending at a greater distance from the 

 mouth; seventh joint of funicle distinct from the club; tooth of 

 femora much larger and broader; tibia- compressed, bent inwards, 

 much less sinuate on the inner side; first ventral suture deeper 

 and more strongly angulated at middle. The genus is represented 

 by many species in Tropical America, and by a large and hand- 

 some black one in the Southern States. 



253 (8481). HEILIPUS APIATUS Oliv., 1807, 171. 



Oblong. Black, a broad angulated white stripe on each side of thorax, 

 a very irregular one with numerous small white spots on elytra and a 

 row of similar yellowish spots on each side of abdomen; these spots and 

 stripes formed of small, round white scales, not hairs. Eyes approximate 

 in front. Thorax oblong, narrowed in front; disc subdepressed, rather 

 sparsely and coarsely rugose punctate, and with an abbreviated smooth 

 median line. Elytral striae with large distant punctures; intervals strong- 

 ly, transversely rugose. Length 14 16 mm. 



Enterprise, Fla., Sept. 27. Tennessee, on budding shoots of 

 sassafras (Bury). Georgia and Florida, rare, under pine bark 

 (LcConte}. Occurs also in French Guiana. H. sqnamosus Lee. 

 is a synonym. 



V. HYPOMOLYX Lee., 1870. (Gr., "toothed" + "beneath.") 



Beak as long as thorax, rather stout, slightly curved, coarsely 

 punctured with deep, triangular groove on side in front of eyes 

 and three faint carina? above; antennal grooves extending to 

 lower edge of eyes; first and second joints of funicle subequal, 

 longer, 3 rounded, shorter, seventh broader and larger; thorax 

 without postocular lobes; prosteruum as in Pachylobius ; fifth 

 ventral but little longer than fourth ; femora scarcely club-shaped, 

 sinuate near tip, not toothed ; tibia* slender, feebly sinuate, the 

 apical hook strong. One species occurs in the Boreal Life Zone. 



