SUBFAMILY XIII. CALANDRIN^. 



886 (8995). SPHENOPHORUS MELANOCEPHALUS Fab., 1801, II, 435. 



Elongate-oval, robust. Black or piceous, densely clothed above with a 



brownish, velvety, artificial clayey coating. Beak 

 two-thirds the length of thorax, strongly com- 

 pressed, finely and sparsely punctate in front of 

 antennae; suddenly swollen, coarsely and densely 

 punctate and feebly grooved above at base. Thorax 

 as wide as long, median vitta represented by a 

 short apical shining carina, slightly dilated be- 

 hind; lateral ones usually absent, sometimes rep- 

 resented by an indistinct line; disc coarsely, 

 rather sparsely and irregularly punctate, each 

 side with a small round shining callosity near 

 front angles. Elytra oval, gradually narrowed be- 

 hind; striae fine, with rather coarse remote punc- 

 tures; intervals flat, finely punctate, the third 

 wider; humeral umbone, subapical callus and 

 scutellum shining. Under surface shining, coarse- 

 ly and sparsely punctate. Length 7 10.5 mm. 

 (Fig. 127.) 



Frequent throughout northern Indiana, 

 scarce in the southern counties; Feb. 6 

 Oct. 9. Taken most commonly from bare 

 sanely areas near ponds and lakes ; hiber- 

 nates beneath logs and rubbish in such 

 places. Rockaway Beach, Brooklyn and 



'vfews^x' t'lAfter Stlltel1 Tsl d> N - Y " J April July. Num- 



Forbes.) erous localities in New Jersey, May July. 



Ranges from New England to Michigan and Kansas, south to 

 Georgia. Nothing distinctive of its food habits is known. 



887 (8996). SPHENOPHORUS SAYI Gyll., Schon., 1838, 943. 



Elongate-oval, slender. Piceous or often reddish with head, beak, 

 thoracic vittaa and sutural intervals black, shining; beneath piceous and 

 reddish. Beak slender, three-fourths the length of thorax, feebly com- 

 pressed, swollen and sparsely punctate above the antenna?, strongly con- 

 stricted at base. Thorax longer than wide, surface between and on sides of 

 vittse rather coarsely, not densely punctate; lateral vittae slender, often 

 obsolete en apical third, when entire curved outward at middle, coarsely 

 punctate; median one abbreviated in front, feebly dilated at middle, then 

 narrowly prolonged toward base. Elytral striae rather finely punctate; 

 intervals feebly alternating, the odd ones slightly the more convex, minute- 

 ly punctate. Under surface rather finely and sparsely punctate. Length 

 6.5 7 mm. 



Lake Co., Ind., scarce in the drift along the beach of Lake 

 Michigan ; May 7 June 16. Anglesea, N. J. ; July. Ranges from 

 New Jersey to Illinois, south to Georgia. 



