500 SUBFAMILY X. CURCULIONINJK. 



Posey County, Ind., rare; April 10. Berkeley Heights, N. J., 

 July 6. Black Mountains, North Carolina, July 31. Described 

 from Illinois. Ranges from New Jersey to Illinois, south to Dis- 

 trict of Columbia and N. Carolina. Occurs under decaying leaves. 

 Feeds on a fungus growing on beech logs. (Durij.) 



783 (- -). ACALLES IXFLATfS Sp. 110V. 



Oval, very robust. Dark reddish-brown, rather thickly clothed with 

 fuscous and grayish-yellow scales, the latter larger and condensed on sides of 

 thorax, scattered -over the basal third of elytra and forming a faint broad 

 transverse band on their declivity; the fuscous scales condensed in two 

 small dark discal spots on each elytron, one at basal fourth, the other 

 slightly behind the middle; antennae and tarsi paler reddish-brown. Beak 

 as long as head and thorax, carinate, densely and finely punctate, scaly 

 except near tip. Thorax about as wide as long, sides feebly rounded from 

 base to beyond middle, then narrowed and slightly constricted to apex; 

 disc densely, finely a.nd deeply punctate, the median carina fine, slightly 

 abbreviated near apex. Elytra broadly oval, strongly convex, widest at 

 middle, one-third wider at base than thorax, humeri almost obsolete, sides 

 broadly curved from base to apical fourth, then obliquely converging to 

 apex; striae deep, rather coarsely and distantly punctate; intervals con- 

 vex, each with a row of very short, white, inclined setae, these visible only 

 in profile, more plainly on the declivity. Length 2.3 2.5 mm. (W. 8. B.) 



Putnam and Posey Counties, Ind., rare; March 20 Sept 30. 

 Taken by sifting. Pineville, W. Ya. ; Leng collection. Specimens 

 in the U. S. National Museum from Plummer's Island, Md., are 

 labelled A. pcctoralis Lee., but the single type of that species at 

 Cambridge has the thorax sulcate as described by LeConte, not 

 carinate as in inflatus, where the carina is plainly visible when 

 viewed in profile. The beak is also much longer in the latter 

 species. 



784 (8765). ACALLKS CRAXOSTS Lee., 1876, 243. 



Oval, rather robust. Black, densely clothed with dark brown scales; 

 thorax marked with small spots of white pubescence and with a short, 

 broken transverse white line at middle, its parts nearly joined by a short, 

 posterior dorsal white line, thus forming a T-shaped mark; elytra with the 

 brown scales mottled with dots of pale ones, of which the most conspicuous 

 form a narrow, irregular, transverse band about the middle. Thorax as wide 

 as long, rounded on sides, narrowed and broadly constricted in front; disc 

 densely punctured, strongly carinate. Elytra ovate, wider at middle than 

 thorax, truncate at base; strial punctures large, shallow, quadrate, each 

 bearing a rounded scale; intervals well defined, the alternate ones slightly 

 more elevated and interrupted so as to become tuberculate, their bristles 

 very short but more distinct than in carinatus. Length 3.4 mm. 



Lake Poinsett, Fla. ; May 1. "Enterprise, Haulover and In- 

 dian River, Fla.; very rare." (Scliwarz.} 



