570 FAMILY III. CURCULIONIDJE. 



888 (- ). SPHEXOPHORUS SUBCARINATUS Mann., 1843, 294. 



Elongate-oval, slender. Black, feebly shining, often dull red with 

 head, beak except at base, vittae of thorax and greater part of under sur- 

 face black. Beak slender, four-fifths the length of thorax, strongly com- 

 pressed, alutaceous, finely and sparsely punctate, very feebly swollen and 

 grooved above at base. Thorax nearly twice as long as wide at base; sides 

 sinuate, almost parallel from base to middle, then curved outward, then 

 feebly converging to the slightly constricted apex; disc with three almost 

 entire narrow vittae, the median subequal in width throughout and slightly 

 wider than the outer ones, the branch of the latter very feeble; interspaces 

 and sides of disc coarsely, unevenly and sparsely punctate. Elytral striae 

 very fine, their punctures rather coarse, separated by twice their own di- 

 ameters; alternate intervals slightly wider and feebly elevated, each with a 

 row of minute punctures, those of the third confused. Under surface 

 rather finely and sparsely punctate. Ventral impression of male narrow, 

 deep, very coarsely and sparsely punctate. Length 8.5 9 mm. 



Lake Co., Ind., rare; May 30. California and Aleutian Is- 

 lands. Longer and more slender than sayi. the beak longer, more 

 compressed, with base much less swollen and more finely punc- 

 tate ; thorax proportionally longer, sides sinuate and vittse entire. 

 Horn placed subcarinatus as a synonym of sayi, but Chittenden 

 considers them distinct. 



889 (8997). SPHENOPHORUS APICALIS Lee., 1878, 432. 



"Elongate, black, not shining. Thorax with a narrow dorsal elevated 

 line extending to apex, where there is a large, oblong fovea on each side 

 of it; discoidal elevations not apparent; punctures very large, shallow, 

 irregularly scattered. Elytra with fine striae, upon which are placed large, 

 distant, rounded punctures; alternate intervals slightly more convex near 

 base, which is deeply bi-foveate or tri-foveate each side; proximal third of 

 beak deeply and broadly excavated; third joint of all the tarsi narrow, not 

 spongy beneath. Length 7 mm." (Horn.) 



Gloucester and Avalon, N. J. ; April 24 June 23. Lake 

 Worth, Fla. The type was found on the beach at Tampa, Fla., 

 in May. 



890 ( ). SPHENOPHORUS PONTEDERI^ Chitt., 1905-b, 63. 



Elongate-oval. Dull black without surface coating. Beak four-fifths 

 as long as thorax, cylindrical, finely and sparsely punctate; base moderately 

 swollen, coarsely punctate, narrowly grooved above. Thorax longer than 

 wide, sides and median basal area coarsely, partly confluently, punctate; 

 vittae very broad, shining, feebly elevated, the lateral ones united with the 

 median near middle, the latter divided at apex. Elytral striae coarsely and 

 rather closely punctate; intervals flat, somewhat irregular in width, the 

 third widest, sixth and eighth very narrow, all with a single row of minute 

 punctures. Under surface coarsely and densely punctate. Length 9 11 

 mm. 



