SUBFAMILY XIII. CALANDRIX.E. 



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but distinct punctures, the alternate ones 

 almost interrupted by the coarse strial punc- 

 tures. Pygidiuru coarsely and deeply punc- 

 tured, with an oblique line of short yellow- 

 ish hairs each side. Length 7.5 9 mm. 

 (Pig. 125.) 



Common in the northern third of 

 Indiana, much less so in the southern 

 counties ; Feb. Sept. 30. Hibernates 

 beneath rubbish near water. Long and 

 Staten Islands, Peekskill, West Point 

 and Bronx, N. Y. ; April July. 

 Watch Hill, R. I., June 18 July 11. 

 Throughout New Jersey; May July. 

 Ormond, Sauford and Dunedin, Fla. ; 

 Jan. 15 April 6. Ranges from New 

 England to Michigan and Kansas, 

 south to Florida. Usually listed as 

 sculptllls Uhler, which name is a syn- 

 onym of cariosus. Known as the "tim- 

 othy bill-bug," as it often breeds in 



Fig. 125. Beetle, dorsal and side 



views, x 4. (After Forbes.) the roots of timothy and attacks corn 

 on timothy sod. A liberal application of stable manure, tobacco 

 dust, lime or other suitable fertilizer immediately after hay 

 harvest is recommended (Hopkins) ; fall plowing (Smith). 



884 (8994). SPHEXOPHORUS SCOPARIUS Horn, 1873, 424. 



Similar to zecr but more robust. Beak more swollen and more coarsely 

 punctate above at base. Thoracic vittse subobsolete, finely and sparsely 

 punctate, the interspaces and sides of disc coarsely and closely punctured. 

 Elytra finely striate, the striae with coarse punctures on basal half, becom- 

 ing finer toward apex; intervals as in key. Pygidium coarsely punctured 

 and with a slight tuft of hairs each side at apex. Body beneath coarsely 

 punctured. Length 8 10.5 mm. 



Described from two specimens from Wisconsin and Kansas. 

 Recorded by Hart from Illinois. In Horn collection from Ne- 

 braska. 



885 (- -). SPHENOPHOKUS CALLOSUS Oliv., 1807, 92. 



Oval, robust. Black, densely clothed with a brownish or olivaceous 

 clayey coating; antennae and tarsi reddish-brown. Beak two-thirds the 

 length of thorax, compressed and sparsely punctate except near base, where 

 it is swollen, coarsely punctate and shallowly grooved above. Thorax 

 slightly longer than wide, sides parallel from base for three-fourths 

 their length, then strongly rounded to the constricted apex; disc very 

 coarsely and irregularly punctate, the median vitta usually broadly 



