TRIBE I. CUYI'HAI.IM. 603 



near tip of elytra. Head large, exserted, opaque, with a somewhat seri- 

 ceous lustre from extremely minute striae; front flattened. Tliorax not 

 longer than wide, very convex, rough in front with not more than 10 or 

 12 large, acute elevations, disc finely punctured, and with two small ap- 

 proximate teeth on its front margin. Elytra blackish, with lightly punc- 

 tured stria?, becoming deeper toward sides. Length 1.7 mm. 



Described from Texas. West Virginia, mining in pith and 

 wood of honeysuckle; adults bred April 19. (Hopkins.) Bred 

 from dead fig twigs, issuing all the time from March 12 to June 

 14. (Townscnd.) New Jersey, from hickory and oak. (Smith.) 

 Texas. Swaine adds grapes and Pijrus to food plants. "Closely 

 resembles dissinnlis and differs by the shorter and stouter hairs 

 of elytra, which are almost as in Hypothenemus cruditus." (Le- 

 Conte.) 



952 (- -). STEPHANODERES SCTJLPTURATUS Eich., 1878, 146. 



Jblong. Piceous-black, subopaque, setulose, antenna? and legs testa- 

 ceous. Thorax transverse, semiorbicular, strongly rounded at base and 

 apex, with two closely placed acuminate tubercles at middle of apex; disc 

 gibbous, scabrous with a few tubercles in front, strongly, densely punctate 

 at base and sides. Elytra cylindrical, deeply punctate-striate; intervals very 

 faintly uniseriately punctulate; apex suddenly declivous, convex, rounded, 

 obtuse. Length 1.7 mm. 



Tennessee. Treated as a synonyn of crcctnx by Eichhoff and 

 Schwarz. Retained as distinct, though unseen, by Dr. Hopkins. 



953 (9090). STEPHAXODERES DISSIJIILIS Zimm., 1868, 144. 



Stout, convex. Black, antennas and feet yellow; front clothed with 

 fine silky hair. Hf?ad large, prominent, deflexed; funicle 5-jointed. 

 Thorax not longer than wide, above nearly circular, strongly convex, 

 thickly punctured, finely pubescent, marked before the middle with erect 

 acute spines. Elytra subcylindrical, punctate-striate, finely pubescent 

 with gray hair, rounded at tip; intervals finely and sparsely punctured. 

 Males with spines of front margin of thorax rudimentary, taking the form 

 of tubercles smaller than the discal spines. Length 2 mm. 



Warren, Vermillion, Lawrence and Posey counties, Ind., rare; 

 May 11 June 14. Duuedin, Fla,, frequent; Feb. 17 Dec. 6. 

 Ranges from New York and Quebec to Lake Superior, south to 

 Florida, "Larger and stouter than erectus and Jtixpidulits. with 

 pubescence longer and finer, the apical margin of thorax with 

 two approximate erect teeth/' (LcCon/c.) Breeds in grape and 

 oak in New Jersey, boring with erectus, which may be the other 

 sex, in oak twigs (Smith)', bores in wild cherry i HunilUon I : 

 mining in pith and wood of dead hickory twigs (Ho/thin*) : 

 found abundant in dry twigs of various trees in early spring 

 i -' //,v'i ; found on Piniift ini>s near Washington. I >. T. (Xcliin/r 



