572 FAMILY III. CURCULIONIDJE. 



normally the entire dorsal surface except the thoracic vittae, beak, head and 

 portions of the legs. Male with first abdominal segment distinctly narrowly 

 concave at middle, last segment with punctures forming a shallow fossa 

 at apex. Length 9 10 mm. 



Georgia, Florida, Mississippi and Louisiana; March October. 

 This will probably prove to be merely a variety of venatus. 



893 ( ). SPHENOPHORUS RETICULATICOLLIS Boh., Schon., 1845, 257. 



Similar to venatus but smaller. Dull reddish, beak, occiput, femora 

 and tibia? black; body with a moderately dense, velvety coating, this mostly 

 red above, gray on the sides, leaving only portions of the thoracic vittse, scu- 

 tellum, humeral and subapicai callosities, bare. Punctuation of upper sur- 

 face distinct and rather dense; on thorax nearly uniform and but little 

 finer on the feebly elevated and very narrow vittae. Elytra with strial 

 punctures coarse, those of intervals very fine and closely placed. Length 

 7.5 9.5 mm. 



Washington, D. C., August 9. Known also from Texas, New 

 Mexico and California. 



894 (9007). SPHENOPHOEUS GERMARI Horn, 1873, 430. 



Oval, robust. Black, subopaque. Beak three-fourths the length of 

 thorax, strongly compressed, very coarsely punctate and concave be- 

 tween the eyes. Thorax longer than wide, sides in front strongly, 

 then gradually curved to base; disc coarsely variolate-punctate, with large 

 eroded spaces. Elytra oval, moderately attenuate to tip; striae not punc- 

 tured; intervals alternating in width, the wider with two rows of coarse 

 punctures, all with large shallow fove* scattered over the entire surface. 

 Pygidium cribrate. Body beneath coarsely punctate. Length 9.5 10 

 mm. 



Tampa, Fla., rare. (Sclttvarz.) Kansas and Texas. (Horn.) 

 Originally described from Kentucky as compressirostris Germ., 

 which name was preoccupied by Say. 



895 (- ). SPHENOPHORUS INCONGRUUS Chitt., 1905-b, 61. 



Resembles costipennis but more slender. Black or dark brown with 

 light gray coating covering the intervals of thorax and the greater part of 

 elytra. Beak two-thirds the length of thorax, moderately curved and com- 

 pressed, finely and sparsely punctate, its base much less swollen and more 

 finely grooved above than in costipennis. Thorax one-fourth longer than 

 wide, its sides sinuous near base; vittse polished black, narrow, entire, the 

 median slightly dilated in front of middle; the lateral sinuous, widest at 

 base, the branch distinct but narrow. Elytral striae with fine, remote punc- 

 tures, mostly hidden by the coating; intervals as in key, the elevated ones 

 shining, each with a single row of minute punctures, those of third con- 

 fused; umbones and subapicai callosities shining, the latter long. Length 

 911 mm. 



