201) SU1.5FAMILY X. CU1K 'rLIOXIX.K. 



apex; strife as in scapalis ; intervals flat, each with three of four rows of 

 alternating but not overlapping gray scales, these often in part abraded. 

 Length 2.83.4 mm. 



Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, July 21. Palos Park, Illinois, May 

 30. Recorded from Dakota, Kansas and California. These 

 records include those of D. iiiccrtus Dietz, an examination of the 

 type of the latter showing the two species to be identical, as sur- 

 mised by their author. 



281 (10,898). DESMORIS FLORIDANUS Dietz, 1894, 126. 



Oval, robust, convex. Piceous, above rather sparsely clothed with 

 small oval, grayish-white scales; elytra with humeri and base of third in- 

 terval paler, the disc with dark brownish scales intermixed; under surface 

 densely scaly; legs paler. Beak of male rather stout, coarsely punctate 

 and scaly from base to insertion of antennas, smoother and subcarinate be- 

 yond. Thorax slightly wider than long, sides rounded; disc densely and 

 rather coarsely punctured and with an abbreviated median smooth line. 

 Elytra one-third wider at base than thorax; strial punctures distinct; 

 intervals flat, equal, finely rugose-punctulate. Length 3.7 mm. 



Described from two males from Florida in the TJlke collection. 



282 (8546). DESMORIS CONSTRICTUS Say, 1823, 313; ibid, II, 176. 

 Oblong-oval, robust. Dark reddish-brown to piceous, above rather 



sparsely, beneath densely clothed with oblong grayish scales; antenna?, 

 legs and tip of beak usually dark reddish-brown, often black in male. 

 Beak of male stout, finely punctate, as long as head and thorax, scaly from 

 base to insertion of antennas; of female as long as elytra, polished through- 

 out, glabrous, except near base. Thorax subglobose, as wide as long, widest 

 at middle, sides broadly rounded, disc densely and rather finely punctate, 

 with a more or less abbreviated smooth line at middle. Elytra one-third 

 wider at base than thorax, two-thirds longer than wide, humeri rounded, 

 sides parallel to middle, then gradually rounded to apex; disc feebly but 

 distinctly impressed behind the humeri; striae fine, deep, obsoletely punc- 

 tate; intervals flat, each with a single row of minute inclined seta?. Length 

 3.53.7 mm. 



Lake, Starke, Martin and Posey counties, Indiana, scarce; 

 June 4 August 23. Smith's list contains New Jersey records 

 by Diet/, and Bischoff. Ranges from New Jersey to Iowa, Texas, 

 New Mexico ;m<l California. Known as the "sunflower weevil," 

 the larva: 1 breeding in the seeds of sunflowers and pupating in 

 the ground. The beak of female is much longer and less scaly 

 at base than in iterrixiix; tin 1 elytra are shorter and the humeri 

 less prominent than there. 



283 (8559). DESMORIS SORDIDUS Lee., 1876, 173. 



Oblong-oval, convex. Dark reddish-brown to piceous, densely clothed 

 with rather large oval grayish scales, those of under surface silvery white; 

 antenna?, legs and tip of beak reddish brcwn. Beak of male scarcely as long 



