r>44 srr.FAMiLY x. CURCULIOXIX.K. 



516 (8495). Lixrs TKIIMIXALIS Lee., 1876, 157. 



Elongate, rather slender. Above reddish-brown, shining, head and 

 thorax usually darker, sparsely clothed with very short, scale-like gray 

 hairs and small, widely scattered tufts of longer white ones; beneath 

 fuscous black, thickly clothed with long, prostrate white hairs; antennae 

 and legs reddish-brown, femora fuscous. Beak stout, cylindrical, finely and 

 rather densely punctate; front with a large, deep, elongate fovea. Thorax 

 about as wide at base as long, sides converging from basal third to apex; 

 disc, uneven on the sides, median impression beginning near apex, 

 gradually widened behind, much deeper near base. Elytra with a large, deep 

 sutural notch at apex, the tips separately subacute. Length 8 11.5 mm. 



Common throughout Indiana; April 20 Oct. 24. Frequent 

 on elm leaves in spring;; mating- thereon May ol. Snake Hill and 

 Ramsey, X. J. ; West Farms and Bronxville, X. Y., .June and July. 

 Ranges from Xew England to Iowa and Kansas, south to Florida. 

 Bred from the stems of smart \veed, Poli/f/oniini jicimxt/lrftniciini 

 L.. by Forbes. 



517 (10,858). Lixrs SKXUALIS Casey, 1891, 212. 



Elongate, slender, broader behind. Reddish-brown, very sparsely 

 clothed with minute gray hairs; beneath darker, the hairs longer. Beak 

 cylindrical, slightly broadened and flattened near tip, finely and sparsely 

 punctate and with a more or less distinct but fine median carina. Thorax 

 about as long as wide at base, sides feebly rounded, disc densely punctate 

 with small and larger punctures intermixed, the median impression nar- 

 row in front, wider and gradually deeper behind. Elytra as wide at base 

 as thorax; sides feebly diverging to apical third, thence strongly converg- 1 

 ing to the separately rounded tips; diecal punctures very large, close-set, 

 separated by narrow cross-ridges. Length 6.5 7.5 mm. 



Sarasota, Fla., March 2. Frequent beneath dead stems of 

 smartweed in bed of a recently dried up pond. Described from 

 Austin, Texas. The Georgia specimen, mentioned by LeConte 

 under his description of L. tcrminalis, is probably this species. 



Tribe XVI. STERNECHIXT. 



This tribe is represented with us by a single genus, sfcrnc- 

 cJuiK. constituting "Group I) Sternichides" of Lacordaire, and re- 

 ferred by him to Hylobiides, despite the subconnate larsal claw. 

 a character common to most of the ("leonini, near which it seems 

 best placed, according to Champion (Biol., IV, Pt. 4, 11)02, ll.'li. 

 Some of the species greatly resemble those of the ('"ryptorh.vnchid 

 genus (']iiiJc<xl<'riiiiin. Our species are small, oval, very convex, 

 having the beak shorter than thorax, thick, cylindrical : scape 

 slender, enlarged at apex, reaching- base of beak, first joint of 

 nmicle but slightly shorter than the next three united; elytra 



