422 SUBFAMILY X. CURCULIOXIN.^. 



strongly curved, feebly carinate, finely, shallowly punctate. Thorax 

 slightly wider than long, disc feebly constricted near apex, coarsely and 

 densely punctured. Elytra at base about one-third wider than thorax, 

 sides parallel to behind middle, thence converging to the rounded apex; disc 

 sculptured as in operculatus. Length 2.5 3 mm. 



Frequent in the southern half of Indiana, May 10 July 24; 

 mating on the former date; not taken north of Hamilton County. 

 Numerous localities near New York City, June 3 August 9. 

 Ranges from New York, Michigan and Iowa south to Maryland 

 and Georgia. Occurs on oak. 



654-a ( -). CYLINDROCOPTURUS QUERCUS FRONTALIS Casey, 1897, 674. 



"Closely allied to quercus but differs in its slightly narrower form 

 and in having the scales on the median parts of the pronotum very large 

 and rounded, in quercus these scales are narrower and linear." Length 2.6 

 2.9 mm. (Casey Mss.) 



Marshall Co., Ind., rare ; June 24. District of Columbia. De- 

 scribed from Indiana without definite locality. C. covifrons 

 Casey, loc. cit., p. 675, is now regarded by its author as a syno- 

 nym of quercu*. 



655 (8816). CYLIXDROCOPTURUS LONGULUS Lee., 1876, 263. 



Elongate, slender, subcylindrical. Black, densely clothed with very 

 small cupreous-brown and white scales, the white ones forming two or three 

 small basal and two lateral spots on thorax and a pattern of white mark- 

 ings on the elytra, the latter usually consisting of an irregular oblique 

 band extending from humerus to middle and a less oblique one behind the 

 middle, the two uniting at the suture, these bands sometimes broken into 

 isolated spots; antennae pale brownish-yellow; legs banded and mottled 

 with white. Beak rather stout, black, finely and sparsely punctate; second 

 joint of funicle one-half longer than third. Thorax scarcely longer than 

 wide, distinctly constricted near tip, disc finely and densely granulate- 

 punctate. Elytra about one-fourth wider and twice as long as thorax, their 

 sculpture concealed. Length 2.2 2.5 mm. 



Tyngsboro, Mass., Apr. 15; Blanchard collection. Recorded 

 from Atco and Egg Harbor, N. J., where it was taken on oak. 

 Ranges from New England to Canada, Utah and California. 

 Scliwarz i'18!)4, 15) states that near Washington, D. C, ''the 

 larva? inhabit the galls of Podapion gallicola, but they are mere 

 messmates, and their presence is not detrimental to the welfare 

 of the author of the gall.'' The snltcuprcns of Casey is a syno- 

 nym, the dark scales of LeCoute's type of longulus haying a 

 strong cupreous tinge and the specimen otherwise fitting Casey's 

 description in nearly every particular. 



