SUBFAMILY XIII. CALANDRIN^E. 



571 



Gloucester, N. J., May 27. Sarasota and Utopia, Fla., March 

 2 5; frequent beneath decaying plant stems in recently drained 

 ponds. Recorded elsewhere from Louisiana, Georgia, Texas and 

 St. Lucie, Fla. Reared by Koebele from roots of pickerel weed, 

 Pontedcria cordato L. Distinguished from venatus (placMus] 

 by its naked body, long cylindrical beak, longer legs and broader 

 thoracic vittae. (CMttenden.) The subapical fossa of thorax is 

 divided in only one of eight specimens at hand. In two the fossa 

 itself is represented only by two short rows of punctures. 



891 (8998). SPHENOPHORUS VENATUS Say, 1831, 22; ibid, I, 290. 



Elongate-oval, comparatively slender. Black or reddish-piceous, feebly 



shining. Beak three-fourths as long as 

 thorax, sparsely and finely punctate, more 

 coarsely and distinctly grooved above at 

 base. Thorax slightly longer than wide, 

 feebly constricted near apex; disc coarsely 

 and irregularly punctate; median vitta 

 dilated behind the apical fossa, then nar- 

 rowed and prolonged backwards toward 

 base; lateral vittse usually joining the 

 median in front, their oblique branch fee- 

 ble or wanting. Elytra oval, evenly nar- 

 rowed from base to apex; strias fine, 

 coarsely punctured; intervals flat, slight- 

 ly alternating in width and elevation, the 

 narrower ones with very fine widely re- 

 mote punctures, the wider with a single 

 row of rather close ones which are slight- 

 ly confused on the third. Length 6 10 

 Fig. 128. X 5- (After Forbes.) mm. (Pig. 128.) 



Throughout Indiana but scarce; March 12 July 19. Occurs 

 beneath rubbish in sandy localities near water. Various localities 

 near New York City ; April August. Common along the sea- 

 shore of New Jersey ; May July. Dunedin and Sarasota, Fla. ; 

 Feb. 14 18; taken beneath seaweed on the Gulf beach. Ranges 

 from Maine to Wisconsin, south to Florida and Texas. Easily 

 known among our northern species by the forked or Y-shaped 

 median vitta of thorax. Usually known as placidus Say, but 

 Chittenden states the two are the same, venatus having priority 

 of description in the same work. 



892 (- 



-). SPHENOPHORUS VESTITUS Chitt, 1904, 134. 



Closely related to venatus, more robust, beak shorter, more curved and 

 compressed, with the basal dilated portion normally coated; surface coat- 

 ing of body dense, rather thin, more or less olive-tinted or brown, covering 



