412 SUBFAMILY X. CURCULIONIN.T:. 



suleate; scntellnm small, glabrous or nearly so; body always nn- 

 eveuly and more or less densely scaly; tarsal claws connate for 

 at least half their length. 



KEY TO EASTERN SPECIES OF BARINUS. 



a. Body glabrous above but with two wide, abruptly limited stripes of 

 large, pale, densely placed scales; form elongate-oval. 



637. BIVITTATUS. 

 act. Body unevenly scaly above. 



I). Scales of upper surface forming lines on the elytral intervals. 

 c. Elytral punctures fine; sixth interval with a broad, dense line 

 of scales, abruptly terminating at basal fourth; white scales of 

 second interval not extending beyond apical fifth. 



638. CRIBRK'OLLIS. 



ce. Elytral punctures coarse and dense; sixth interval with a line of 

 large white scales extending fully to middle, then with nar- 

 rower, sparser and darker scales, nearly to apex; second inter- 

 val broadly clothed with large white scales from base to apex. 



639. SQUAMOLINEATfS. 



1)1). Scales of elytra not lineate in arrangement, but more or less de- 

 nuded. 



(1. Body more broadly oval; front coxa? separated by nearly one-half 

 their own width. 640. CVRTICOJ.LIS. 



(1(1. Body narrow and linear. 



e. Scales of thorax broadly and abruptly dense towards the sides, 

 the median glabrous area about one-third the whole width. 



641. ALBESCEXS. 



ee. Scales of thorax sparse and nearly evenly distributed, not at 

 all condensed on sides. 642. LIXEAKIS. 



637 (8955). BAUI.M s IMYITTATUS Lee., 1878, 431. 



Elongate-oval, convex. Black, shining, with a faint violaceous lustre; 

 legs dark reddish-brown; vestiture above very minute except a broad stripe 

 each side, extending from apical margin of thorax to elytral apex, of large, 

 broad, densely placed yellowish-white scales; sterna beneath and margins 

 of abdomen similarly clothed. Beak stout, cylindrical, three-fourths as long 

 as thorax, coarsely punctured toward base. Thorax slightly wider than 

 long; sides near apex rounded and broadly and feebly constricted; disc 

 coarsely, not densely punctate, the smooth median line narrow, entire. 

 Elytra as wide and twice as long as thorax; striee fine, deep, not punctate; 

 intervals flat, their punctures very fine, sparse and confused. Tarsi very 

 broad, the hind ones as long as the tibiae, scaly above, densely pilose be- 

 neath. Length 5 5.3 mm. 



"Northern Forida." Punta Gorda and I law Creek, Fla. St. 

 Catherine Island, Ga. Occurs on K<t</il/<iri<i. i XcJnfarz.) 



638 (8953). BARI.M s CRIIIUICOLLIS Lee., 1876, 422. 



Elongate-oval, convex. Black, shining; legs slightly piceous; thorax 

 with a stripe each side composed of large white, densely placed scales; pale 

 scales of second and sixth elytral intervals as described in key, also arrang- 

 ed on third interval for a short distance behind the middle, and on fourth 



