SUBFAMILY X. CTRi TLIOXIX.l-:. 



Occurs in Georgia and Florida. Very close to B. bacilli var. 

 curtits, and in case of their identity being later satisfactorily es- 

 tablished the name It u literal is has priority by eleven years. 



B. parvitlens Chitt., from Florida, Alabama and Texas, we have been 

 unable to separate from lutiucraUs. though a better information based on 

 breeding from acorns of live oak and turkey oak might make it possible. 



392 (8959) BALAXIXUS OBTUSUS Blanchard, 1884, 107. 



Short, oval, robust. Piceous-brown, above thickly clothed -with scale- 

 like hairs varying in color from ash-gray to clay-yellow and brown, the 

 ash-gray ones more or less condensed behind the scutellum; thorax with a 

 paler stripe each side; elytra either clay-yellow with scattered brown spots 

 or sooty brown sprinkled with paler spots; under surface with elongate 

 silvery or yellowish scales. Beak of female two-thirds to three-fourths as 

 long as body, that of male slightly shorter. Antennae inserted a little behind 

 middle, female, slightly beyond middle, male; first joint of funicle longer 

 than second. Elytra about three times as long as thorax, their intervals very 

 broad. Appendices of claws broad, nearly or quite rectangular. Male with 

 pygidium thickly clothed with rather long yellow hair; last ventral im- 

 pressed and subglabrous at tip, truncate and slightly emarginate, first and 

 second segments broadly impressed; abdomen of female convex, the last 

 ventral rounded at tip. Length 6 8 mm. (Fig. 77.) 



Common in the northern third of Indiana on hazel ; not taken 



southward ; June 11 28. Ranges 

 from New Hampshire to Texas, 

 westward to Nebraska, always on 

 hazel, usually in June and July. 

 This species is said to be shorter- 

 lived than most others, the beetles 

 dying soon after depositing their 

 ;\ggs. The infested nuts fall early 

 to the ground. 



It seems probable that the in- 

 sect before Sav in 



Fig. 



Hazel-nut weevil. a, Fe- 



describing 



male, X -J : &, head of same from side; nasutltS COllld have been 11O other 

 c head of male from side. (After 



Chittendenj than th e present species. His ar- 



rangement of descriptions from long beaks down to short ones 

 suggests that int*iilnx was his shortest beaked specimen, and his 

 mention of the form and of the white pubescence at scutellum 

 could hardly have been prompted by any other BaJaninus. But 

 in the absence of his type it seems impossible to place his iiasutits 

 without doubt, and unnecessary to disturb the name which Blan- 

 diard assigned to the hazel-nut species. 



The following five forms have not been included in the key 



