5GO FAMILY III. CURCULIONID.E. 



881 (9004). SPHEXOPHOKUS GAGATINUS Gyll., Schon., 1838, 952. 



Black, shining. Beak three-fourths the length of thorax, feebly com- 

 pressed, minutely punctate and finely grooved at base. Thorax longer 

 than wide, unequally punctured, sparsely and finely over the greater 

 part of surface, more coarsely and densely along the base; from the latter 

 coarse punctures extend forward each side of median line. Elytra oval, 

 scarcely longer than head and thorax, striate with coarse punctures grad- 

 ually evanescent toward apex; intervals flat, equal, finely punctulate. 

 Under surface coarsely and closely punctured. Length 7.5 mm. 



New Jersey without definite locality. Georgia. "Easily 

 known by the shining thorax and rapidly narrowed elytra." 

 (Horn.} 



882 (- -). Si'HEXGPHORUs DESTRUCTOR Chitt, 1906-a, 174. 



Forna and size of zecc. Black, thickly covered with dull clay-colored or 

 brownish artificial coating. Beak three-fourths as long as thorax, com- 

 pressed in apical two-thirds, finely and sparsely punctate. Thorax slightly 

 longer than wide, sides subparallel from base to middle, then curved and 

 converging to the moderately constricted apex; base strongly bisinuate; 

 disc with three more or less irregular, sometimes partly obsolete, coarsely 

 punctured vittse, the median one usually fusiform at middle and prolonged 

 in a narrow line at each end, the lateral ones narrower, strongly sinuate; 

 interspaces and sides of disc coarsely and sparsely punctate, the latter with 

 a large shallow cavity near apex and a similar deeper one near base, which 

 is usually enclosed by the branch of the lateral vitta and base of the vitta 

 itself. Elytral sculpture much as in zetr, the coarse punctures of the striae 

 so confluent near base as to form, three or four oblong fossae between the 

 alternate intervals. Under surface coarsely and sparsely punctate. Length 

 7 9.5 mm. 



Posey Comity, Ind., scarce; May 9 May 12. Described from 

 Auglesea, N. J., Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas. Ke- 

 ported as often injurious to corn and chufa, Cy perns escnlentus 

 L. This species and the var. suMwuis of callosus form, in a way, 

 connecting links between zees and callosus, and time may show 

 that all are one species. From zew, which it closely resembles 

 superficially, destructor is easily separated by the characters 

 given in key, and fossse of thorax and elytra. 



883 (- -). SPHEXOPHORUS ZE^E Walsh, Practical Ent, II, 1867, 117. 



Elongate-oval. Black or reddish-brown, shining. Beak three-fourths 

 the length of thorax, compressed at middle, finely and sparsely punctate, 

 more coarsely above the swollen base. Thorax with three elevated vittae, 

 the median one nearly entire, very slender at each end, broadly dilated in 

 front of middle; lateral vittas sinuous, broadly interrupted in front of 

 branch, spaces between and sides of thorax coarsely and densely punc- 

 tured. Elytra with flat, nearly equal intervals, each with a row of fine 



