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SUBFAMILY X. CURCULIONINJE. 



I. GELUS Casey, 1897. (Without meaning.) 



This genus, proposed by Casey for the species usually listed 

 under Piazurus, is consolidated with Lechriops in the Biologia. 

 It comprises small, robust, subrhouiboidal forms having the beak 

 longer than head and thorax, rather shallowly and coarsely punc- 

 tate; antennae inserted near its middle, funicle 7-jointed, the 

 seventh joint subrotund, distinctly stouter than the sixth; club 

 slender, cylindrical, its basal joint as long as the next two com- 

 bined; elytra in our species much wider than thorax, narrowed 

 behind and rather thickly clothed with narrow oblong-oval scales; 

 leu's short and stout. 



KEY TO EASTERN SPECIES OF GELUS. 



a. Thorax about as long as wide. 



b. Elytra with a small but conspicuous white sutural spot; second 

 joint of funicle scarcely longer than first; length 2.3 3.1 mm. 



647. OCULATUS. 



bl). Elytra without sutural white spot; second joint of funicle twice 

 as long as first, equalling in length the four following united; 

 length 5.5 mm. 648. FLORIDANUS. 



aa Thorax nearly twice as wide as long; white spot of elytra incon- 

 spicuous; length 1.7 mm. 649 SUBFASCIATUS. 



647 (8809). GELUS OCULATUS Say, 1824, 308; ibid., II, 172. 



Short, oval, subdepressed above. Black, rather thickly clothed with 

 rusty brown, white and black scales; the white ones 

 condensed to form a small spot each side of thorax 

 and a larger sutural spot behind the middle which, 

 however, extends only to first stria; a few scattered 

 scales across basal margin of elytra and a row of 

 very narrow ones in each stria also white; the 

 black scales form two rounded spots on base of 

 thorax and often a crossbar at its middle, also a 

 few scattered mottlings on sides of elytra; antennae 

 and tarsi pale reddish-brown. Thorax with sides 

 feebly rounded, disc densely and coarsely punctured, 

 the sculpture hidden by scales. Elytra suddenly 

 one-third wider than thorax, gradually narrowed 

 from base to tips, umbones prominent; striae narrow, 

 coarsely punctured; intervals wide, flat, coarselv 



l-ig. 98. A, Beetle, X 



10; B, outline, side view', punctured, the sculpture concealed by the scales 



showing obliquely ascend- 

 ing abdomen. (Original.) which are distinctly smaller and narrower than 



those of thorax. Length 2.33.1 mm. (Pig. 98.) 



Frequent throughout Indiana; Apr. 21 Sept. 20. Abundant 

 near New York City, May to September. Dunediu and Lake 

 Istokpoga, Fin.; Feb. 24 April 4; taken especially by beating. 



