216 SUBFAMILY X. CURCULIONINJE. 



299 (8561). SMICKONYX SQUAMULATUS Lee., 1876, 173. 



Oblong-oval. Dark reddish-brown, above very densely clothed with 

 rather large, dark brown scales; elytra with base of third interval and 

 humeri whitish, the disc mottled with numerous small, ill-defined whitish 

 spots; beak, antennae and legs paler reddish-brown. Beak of male scarcely 

 as long as head and thorax, slender, nearly straight, shining at tip, punc- 

 tured and pubescent at base; of female, one-third longer, very sparsely cloth- 

 ed with linear scales on basal half. Second joint of funicle two-fifths 

 longer than third. Thorax one-fourth wider than long, sides feebly 

 rounded, disc narrowed in front, its punctures hidden by the scales which 

 are intermixed with numerous inclined brownish seise. Elytra oblong, 

 one-third wider than thorax, humeri rounded, prominent; sides parallel 

 for two-thirds their length; striae fine, deep, their punctures concealed; 

 intervals flat, each with a row of fine but distinct suberect brownish seta?. 

 Length 22.3 mm. (Fig. 66, e.) 



Steubeu and Lawrence counties, Indiana, scarce; July 29 - 

 August 1. Described from Detroit, Mich. Recorded from Wood- 

 bury, Atco and Anglesea, X. J. ; June August. Known also 

 from Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. Treated by Casey as a 

 synonym of coniinilutus, which it closely resembles, but differs 

 in the maculate elytra, paler antenme and more distinct setae of 

 both thorax and elytra. Dietz (1894, 177) mentions it as un- 

 known to him but "probably a variety of corniculatus" His 

 types show, however, that he had described it (1894, 162) as tf. 

 colunt~bianu8, and also (p. 165) as varieties & and d of cornicu- 

 latus. 



GROUP III. 



Our ten species of this group have the elytra much longer than 

 wide, not wider near the middle, the scales distinctly uneven in 



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size, the larger ones forming small spots which are arranged in 

 more or less wavy transverse bands, which are usually most dis- 

 tinct on the median third. The majority of the species belong to 

 Dietz's so-called cinereiis group, distinguished by having the 

 "tarsal claws very small, not divergent, connate at least to the 

 middle, and the prosteruum silicate in front of the coxa*, the 

 sulcus limited by antecoxal ridges." 



KEY TO EASTERN SPECIES OF GROUP 111. 



a. Elytra more or less reddish, at least toward the sides; the vestiture 



sparse and uneven in distribution. 



l>. Thorax distinctly constricted near apex, its punctures round, deep; 



head dull red; larger scales of elytra yellow. 300. CONGESTUS. 



bl>. Thorax not or feebly constricted, the punctures reniform or lunate 



and sides strongly rounded; head black or piceous; larger scales 



of elytra gray. 



c. Punctures of thorax sparse, their intervals polished, not reticu- 

 late or with rugae. 301. TYCIIOIDES. 



