TRIBE XXI. ('RYPTOUIIYXrillXI. 477 



741 (8727). COXOTKACIIELUS POSTICATI'S Boh., Schn., 1837, 406. 



Oval. Piceous or dark reddish-brown, very thinly clothed with short 

 prostrate reddish-yellow hairs, condensed on elytra to form numerous small 

 blotches and an indistinct yellowish band near apical fourth; third in- 

 terval with a small grayish spot at base. Beak as long as head and thorax, 

 feebly curved, strongly striate. Thorax about as wide as long, sides feebly 

 rounded, disc broadly constricted near apex, densely and coarsely punctate, 

 with a nearly entire, narrow median carina. Elytra at base nearly one- 

 half wider than thorax, humeri rounded, sides somewhat rounded and dis- 

 tinctly converging from base to apex; strial punctures large, round, close- 

 set; alternate intervals finely but distinctly carinate. Femora all strong- 

 ly, not acutely, toothed beneath. Length 4.5 5.5 mm. 



Lake and Posey counties, Incl., frequent locally; April 20 

 Sept. 3; beaten from blossoms of wild plum. Throughout 

 New Jersey, May September; not rare. McGregor, Iowa, July 

 14. Lake Okeechobee and Dunedin, Flu., March 2 29. Ranges 

 from Ontario and New England to Wisconsin and Towa, south 

 to Florida. Raised from fruit of Cratd'f/iix by Hamilton, has 

 been observed to live within Phylloxera galls on hickory leaves 

 by Schwarz (1890, 233), and said to breed in hickory nuts by 

 Pierce. Resembles IHISO in color, but very distinct in the short 

 striate beak with antenmv inserted near its tip. In many speci- 

 mens the second elytral interval is as strongly carinate as the 

 third. 



742 ( ). CONOTKACHELUS FLORIDANUS Fall, 1913, 66. 



Oblong-oval. Piceous; tibiae and tarsi rnfo-piceous, closely, somewhat 

 unevenly clothed with narrow scales and scale-like hairs, clay-yellow and 

 white in coloi the latter condensed in a short band near declivity and a 

 few very small spots on thorax and costae of elytra. Beak one-third longer 

 than thorax, male, one-half longer, female, shining and sparsely punctate 

 near tip, more coarsely punctate and striate near base. Thorax scarcely 

 wider than long, sides feebly curved from base to beyond middle, then sud- 

 denly narrowed and constricted; disc rather coarsely and densely punctate, 

 the median carina obsolete on basal third. Elytra one-half wider and two 

 and a half times longer than thorax, sides parallel from base to middle, then 

 gradually rounded to apex; alternate intervals distinctly not strongly cos- 

 tate. Length 4.4 5 mm. 



Miami, Florida. "Differs from post ic-a tits by its more con- 

 spicuous and coarser vestiture, more oblong form, less developed 

 thoracic and elytral rostu 1 and much sparser and finer ventral 

 punctuation." (Fall.) 



743 (8728). COXOTRACIIKLUS COOXATTS Lee., 1878, 429. 



Oblong-oval. Blackish, elytra mottled with dull fulvous; pubescence 

 short, irregularly condensed, a small spot of white scales at the base of the 

 third elytral interval. Beak as in posticatus, the antennse inserted less 



