300 SUBFAMILY X. CURCULIONINJE. 



dd. Smaller, 1.8 2.2 mm., and less robust; second joint of funicle 

 scarcely longer than third; thorax not strongly rounded on 

 the sides. 



7?.. Clothed above with pubescence only; pitchy black, elytra red- 

 dish-brown, suture darker. 438. MUSCULUS. 

 hh. Thinly clothed with broadly oval scales, intermixed with fine 

 pubescence; yellowish-brown, each elytron with two black 

 spots. 439. coxcixxrs. 

 cc. Color uniform reddish-brown or nearly so; frontal fovea very 



small. 



i. Hind femora not toothed; elytra each with three smal] rounded 

 white spots; length 1.8 2 mm. 440. SEXGUTTATUS. 



ii. Hind femora slender, minutely toothed; elytra without white 

 spots; length 2.2 2.4 mm. 441. UNIFORMIS. 



bb. Front either sulcate or without fovea or sulcus. 

 j. Hind femora toothed; form oval; front sulcate. 



A\ Pitchy black; pygidium not freely exposed; thoracic punctures 

 rather small; length 1.6 1.8 mm. 442. SULCIFROXS. 



kk. Elytra dark red, base and suture darker; pygidium freely ex- 

 posed; thoracic punctures coarse; length 2.7 3 mm. 



443. MI.EPHONTS. 



././. Hind femora not toothed; form elongate-oval; front not foveate 



or sulcate; color black; length 1.8 2 mm. 444. SIMIOLUS. 



aa. Elytral intervals alternately wider; black, pubescence very fine and 



scant above; length 2 2.5 mm. 445. INTERSTITIALIS. 



434 (8638). AXTIIOXOMUS SICXATUS Say, 1831, 25; ibid, I, 293. 



Oval, robust. Piceous, thinly clothed with whitish pubescence, con- 

 densed on median line of thorax and scutellum; elytra dark red, the de- 

 nuded fascia and scutellar space darker; antennae dull yellow, club darker; 

 legs piceous. Beak longer than head and thorax, slender, feebly curved, 

 striate and punctate on the sides, carinate above. Thorax wider at base 

 than long, sides feebly rounded, narrowed toward apex; disc densely and 

 rather coarsely punctate. Elytra one-fourth wider at base than thorax, 

 one-half longer than wide; stria? rather deep, their punctures large, close- 

 set; intervals convex, finely punctulate. Length 2 3 mm. (Fig. 85.) 



Common throughout Indiana; Apr. 21 June 17. Taken by 



sifting and on flowers of red-bud, Cercis 

 cunadcnsis L., in early spring; by beating 

 and sweeping later. Occurs throughout 

 New Jersey, more commonly in the south- 

 ern comities; May August. Common in 

 Massachusetts on flowers of blackberry and 

 Vaccinia in in June, cutting off the pedi- 

 cels of blackberry buds and boring into 

 Vaccinia in corolla. (Frost.) Ranges from 

 Canada and New England to Wisconsin, 



Fig. 85. The strawberry SOlltll to Florida and Texas. Varies COll- 

 weevil. X 1- (After Chit- 



siderablv in size and coloration from pale 



