TRIBE XX. CEUTOKIIYXCIIIXI. 439 



covering the sides and forming a narrow median line on thorax, and on ely- 

 tra arranged in a sutural line on basal third, with an oblique spot near 

 middle of sides and a narrow irregular apical cross-bar more conspicuously 

 whitish; antenna?, tibiae and tarsi paler reddish-brown; under surface thickly 

 clothed with large oval, dirty white scales. Beak densely punctured, finely 

 carinate. Thorax slightly wider than long, sides strongly rounded; disc 

 deeply constricted near apex, densely and finely punctate, its dorsal chan- 

 nel entire, deep except at middle. Elytra at base one-fourth wider than 

 thorax, sides broadly rounded; striae deep, finely punctate, each puncture 

 closed by a pale scale; intervals wide, nearly flat. Males with fifth ventral 

 transversely impressed and middle and hind tibise clawed at tips. Length 

 2.73.3 mm. 



Lake, Steuben, Koscinsko and Lawrence counties, Ind., 

 scarce; May 10 June 10. Near Shrewsbury, N. J., on nettle, 

 Urtica dioica L. Ranges from New England and Canada west 

 and southwest to Wisconsin, Colorado and Texas. This species, 

 known in collections and listed by Henshaw under the above 

 name, was redescribed by Dietz under the name apicalis, he 

 claiming that Boheman's description was "utterly inapplicable 

 in all essential points save one to the insect in hand." Be that 

 as it may, there is no other species of the tribe so colored as to 

 have the name flavicaudls applied to it, and until Boheman's 

 type is shown by actual examination to be something else we 

 deem it best to retain the name by which it is best known. Speci- 

 mens in the Cambridge collection are labelled "C. cardmi Herbst" 

 in LeConte's writing. 



679 (- -). CCELIODES VITIOSUS Dietz, 1896, 418. 



"Oval, elliptic, convex. Dark piceous; antenna?, tibiae and tarsi rufo- 

 piceous; scales on under side larger, nearly round, dirty gray, not crowded; 

 above clothed with much smaller oval grayish-brown scales." Otherwise 

 much as in flavicaudis. Length 2.5 mm. 



Described from a single male taken at Hazelton, Pennsylvania. 

 Subtribe III. CEUTOIUIYXCIII. 



Small robust species primarily distinguished by the long, slen- 

 der, curved beak, usually nearly half the length of body, and the 

 short pectoral groove which does not extend behind the front 

 coxre but is sharply limited by acute antecoxal ridges. In addi- 

 tion, they have the eyes rounded, widely separated above, and 

 wholly or partially covered in repose by the postorular lobes; 

 thorax narrowed in front, generally constricted near apex; elytra 

 not much wider at base than thorax, striate and punctate ; second 



