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838 (9033). STENOMIMUS PALLIDUS Boh., Schon., 1845, 279. 



Linear, strongly depressed. Pale reddish-yellow, shining. Beak 

 sparsely punctured and with an impressed point between the eyes. Thorax 

 oblong, sides gradually divergent from apex, base slightly narrower and 

 feebly curved; disc depressed, finely and rather sparsely punctured. Elytra 

 at base as wide as thorax, sides parallel to apical fifth; disc subdepressed, 

 stria? fine, their puctures rather coarse, close-set; intervals moderately con- 

 vex, each with a row of very minute punctures. Beneath sparsely punc- 

 tured. Length 1.5 mm. 



Vigo County, Ind., Jan. 7 ; a dozen or more gregarious beneath 

 the bark of a dead walnut snag. Riverside, 111., Apr. 25. Ranges 

 from Pennsylvania and Ohio to Illinois and southward. Eight 

 examples were taken at one time, on May 11, near Cincinnati, 

 Ohio, in a wounded part of a living hickory, and on another occa- 

 sion adults and larvae were numerous in the moist fibres beneath 

 the bark of the black walnut, Jucjhins nlgra L. (Dun/.} 

 IX. CAULOPIIILUS Woll., 1854. (Gr., "stalk" + "to love.") 



Small, convex, subcyliudrical, deeply sculptured species having 

 the beak broad, cylindrical, feebly curved ; eyes large, convex ; an- 

 tennse inserted at middle of beak, their grooves oblique, descend- 

 ing; scape reaching front of eyes, funicle slender, its outer joints 

 gradually wider (Fig. 117, &) ; scutellum distinct. 



839 (9034). CAULOPIIILUS LATINASUS Say, 1831, 30; ibid, I, 299. 



Elongate, rather robust. 



Fig. 117. a, Beetle X 12 '> b, 



Reddish-brown or piceous, feebly shining. 

 Beak longer than half the thorax, sparsely 

 punctured, with a faint elongate fovea 

 between the eyes. Thorax as broad as 

 long, moderately constricted near apex, 

 sides strongly curved, base slightly nar- 

 rowed, feebly bisinuate; disc rather finely 

 and evenly punctured, with a broad, faint 

 impression en basal third. Elytra sub- 

 cylindrical, not wider than middle of and 

 more than twice as long as thorax, moder- 

 ately convex; strife deep, rather coarsely 

 and closely punctured on basal half, more 

 finely or obsoletely near apex, the seventh 

 and eighth united behind the humerus as 

 in AUomlmus ; intervals convex, indis- 

 tinctly punctulate. Under surface sparsely 



tenna; c, hind leg. (After Chit- punctured. Front tibise sinuate within. 



Length 3 mm. (Fig. 117.) 



Dunedin, Fla.. Mar. 20; beaten from oak. Recorded from 

 South Carolina, Georgia and Florida; also West Indies, Mexico 

 and Guatemala. Known as the "broad-nosed grain weevil," 



