198 SUBFAMILY X. - CURCULIOXIXJE. 



Knox County, Ind., rare; June 8. Described from Missouri. 

 Known from Kansas and Mississippi. Easily known by the small 

 size, uniform pale color and rather coarse hairs. The above de- 

 scription is that of ntftix as determined by Casey. Bay's descrip- 

 tion is too brief and we are very doubtful Avhether it is his 

 species, as he describes it as an Erirliiiuis says nothing of the 

 femora being toothed, states that the body is covered with num- 

 erous oblong whitish prostrate scales, gives the length as one- 

 tenth of an inch ( ii.5 mm.), and states that "the suture is indented 

 near the scutel, the latter not very obvious, 1 ' characters which do 

 not agree with Casey's nifus. 



269 (10,886). DORYTOMUS FUSCICEPS Casey, 1892, 377. 



Oblong, rather broad, subdepressed. Color given in key; sterna pic- 

 eous; elytra with a few small faint spots of pale hairs. Head densely 

 punctate and with a small frontal fovea. Beak as long as head and thorax, 

 sulcate and punctate; first joint of funicle as long as the next three. 

 Thorax short, three-fourths wider than long, widest at middle, the sides 

 thence feebly converging to base, more strongly so to apex; disc rather 

 finely, very densely punctate. Elytra broad, one-third wider and three 

 times as long as thorax; striae deep, their punctures close-set; intervals 

 flat, finely and densely punctate. Femoral tooth small, acute. Length 

 4 4.3 mm. 



Described from Iowa. Known also from Detroit, Mich., and 

 in the LeConte collection from New York. Larger and broader 

 than the preceding, with the dark stripes of elytra distinct and 

 the subapical constriction of thorax wholly obsolete. 



270 (8536). DOKYTOMTS SQUAMOSUS Lee., 1876, 166. 



Oblong-convex. Uniform, dark reddish-brown, thinly clothed with 

 yellowish elongate, scale-like hairs. Beak as long as head and thorax, not 

 striate, finely punctate. Thorax slightly wider than long, sides broadly 

 rounded, feebly but distinctly constricted behind the apex, very deeply, 

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

 strial punctures rather coarse, each bearing a distinct elongate scale; in- 

 tervals, broad, minutely punctate. Femora rather slender, the tooth 

 minute. Length 2.7 3.5 mm. 



Lake County, Ind., scarce; June 24. Known from Illinois, 

 Kentucky, Kansas, Colorado and Arizona. Breeds in galls which 

 occur on willow. /.Y/r.s-r/nf* (ni</itNt<itus Dietz is a synonym. 



IV. GRYPIDHS Schon., 182<;. (Or., "curved" + "form.") 



Short, broad species having the beak cylindrical, curved; an- 

 tenna 1 inserted at its apical two-fifths, scape slender, not reaching 

 the eye. first two joints of fnnicle snbequal, each as long as the 

 next three united; thorax with feeble ocular lobes; scutellnm 



