TRICE XXI. CRYPTORHYNCHINI. 501 



785 (8767). ACALLES SORDIDUS Lee., 1876, 243. 



Oval, convex, robust. Black, clothed with a dirt colored crust usually 

 concealing the sculpture, and with intermixed slender, strongly recurved 

 bristles. Beak naked and punctured toward the tip, not carinate. Thorax 

 slightly wider at middle than long, strongly rounded on sides, obsoletely 

 channeled near base, finely and densely punctate. Elytra strongly convex, 

 not wider at base than thorax, distinctly wider at middle, where the width 

 almost equals the length; stria; deep, serrately punctate; intervals distinctly 

 convex, each with a row of strongly recurved bristles. Length 2 2.5 mm. 



Recorded from Pennsylvania, Michigan, Ohio, District of Col- 

 umbia and Texas. Described by Hamilton under the name curt-us, 

 he having found it in Pennsylvania under stones about beech 

 trees in April; by beating in July. In the single specimen at 

 hand the thorax is distinctly carinate in front of middle. 



786 ( ). ACALLES POROSUS sp. nov. 



Oval, robust. Uniform dark brown, thickly clothed with a dirty grayish 

 brown crust of matted scales; antenna? and tarsi reddish-brown. Beak 

 scarcely as long as thorax, strongly sulco-striate on basal half, finely and 

 rather thickly reticulate-punctate toward apex. Thorax as wide as long, 

 widest at middle, sides broadly rounded; disc widely, not deeply constricted 

 near apex, coarsely not densely punctate. Elytra oval, strongly convex, 

 not wider at base than middle of thorax, sides broadly rounded to apical 

 third, then strongly converging to apex; striae formed of large deep round- 

 ed punctures; intervals narrow, each with a row of short, nearly erect 

 subclavate bristles. Length 2.8 mm. (W. S. B.) 



Crawford County, Ind., rare; June 28. The uniform color, 

 peculiar sculpture of beak and large punctures of elytra readily 

 distinguish this from any described species. 



787 (8766). ACALLES SUBHISPIDUS Lee., 1878, 431. 



Blackish, densely clothed with dark brown scales, larger on the thorax 

 than on elytra, where they are mixed with short, recurved bristles; thorax 

 with a narrow lateral line and a few scattered scales of a pale dirt color; 

 elytra with traces of two narrow undulated bands, composed of small spots 

 of gray scales, one before the middle curving backwards and one behind 

 the middle curving forward. Thorax wide, Irager than in the other species, 

 strongly rounded on sides in front, coarsely punctured. Elytra not wider 

 than thorax, base truncate, basal angles obtuse, sides broadly rounded, 

 then obliquely narrowed to apex; disc very little wider behind the base, striae 

 coarsely punctured. Length 3.7 mm. 



Sumter County, Fla., May. One specimen in LeConte collec- 

 tion. 



788 (8768). ACALLES CLAVATUS Say, 1831, 29; ibid, I, 297. 



Oval, rather slender. Brown, thickly clothed with both dark and pale 

 brown scales; elytra with two transverse rows of small white spots, one 



