SUBFAMILY XIII. CALANDRINJE. 573 



Lake County, Ind., rare, May 20. Chittenden's three types 

 were from Wisconsin and Maryland. While it closely resembles 

 costipennis superficially, it is very distinct by its more slender 

 form, narrower thoracic vittae, less elevated elytral intervals, and 

 especially by the third joint of all the tarsi being but little wider 

 than the first. 



896 ( ). SPHENOPHORUS KOBUSTIOR Chitt., 1905-b, 62. 



Black with much gray coating above. Beak three-fourths the length 

 of thorax, strongly, subequally compressed, bent backward in apical third, 

 where it gradually enlarges to apex. Median vitta of thorax not attaining 

 the base, lateral with variable branch. Elytral striae deep, finely punctate; 

 intervals as described in key, the odd ones with two rows of fine punctures. 

 Under surface rather coarsely punctate. Male with pygidium pentagonal, 

 with pale hairs scarcely extending out of the punctures, the lateral tufts 

 minute. Length 10 11.5 mm. 



Cook Co., 111. Cotypes are in the Illinois State Laboratory 

 of Natural History. Kesembles robiistiis superficially but more 

 robust, shorter, with shorter beak and less elevated, coarsely 

 punctured vitta? and with the tarsi of group D. (Chittenden.) 



IV. CALANDRA Clairv., 1758. (Gr., "a kind of lark.") 



Small, narrow, elongate brown or piceous species having the 

 beak usually shorter than thorax, straight, cylindrical ; club of 

 antenna? not compressed, its sensitive apex separated from the 

 basal portion by a transverse line; epimera of mesothorax trans- 

 verse, acute at the outer end and intervening between the base of 

 the thorax and the humeri (somewhat as in the Barini) ; front 

 part of last dorsal segment channeled for the reception of the 

 sutural edge of the elytra, almost as in Anthribidn?. Three species 

 have been widely distributed in the cereal grains in which they 

 depredate, and another, infesting tamarinds, represent the genus 

 in the United States. 



KEY TO SPECIES OF CALANDRA. 



a. Elytra with deeply impressed and feebly punctate striae, the intervals 

 smooth, alternately wider and mere elevated, especially toward base; 

 thorax with coarse, sparse elongate punctures. 897. GRANAEIA. 



aa. Elytra with nearly contiguous double rows of coarse, deep punc- 

 tures, the rows separated by narrow punctate intervals, 

 ft. Thorax without a median smooth line, its surface punctate, not 



strigose. 

 c. Punctures of thorax fine, even and distinctly separated, the sur- 



