TRIBE I. CRYPHALIXI. 611 



toward or to the lateral margin; front of female with sparse 

 pubescence. 975. AMERICAISUS. 



GO. Antennal club without sutures on posterior face. 



f. Length not exceeding 2.8 mm. (range 2.3 2.75 mm.) 976. PICE.-E. 

 //. Length commonly exceeding 2.8 mm. (range 2.45 3.25 mm.) 



977. AFFABER. 



971 ( ). DRYOCCETES CARYI Hopkins, 1915-a, 50. 



Body oblong, elliptical, ferruginous. Pronotal rugosities fine, densely 

 placed and changing to rugose punctures to base. Front flat, shining, dis- 

 tinctly and evenly punctured and with a few long hairs toward sides, with 

 faint median line. Elytral declivity steep, subconvex, interspace 1 ele- 

 vated, 2 and 3 flat, stria? with coarse punctures. Female front flattened, 

 slightly more pubescent than in male; declivity more opaque and inter- 

 space 1 not so strongly elevated. Length, male, 2.15 mm. 



Camp Caribou, Maine, in Picea sp., May 25. 



972 (9118). DRYOCCETES GRANICOLLIS Lee., 1868, 162. 

 Elongate-cylindrical. Ferruginous, sparsely clothed with erect hairs. 



Head with a few granules and punctures. Thorax longer than wide, 

 densely granulate on the whole surface, scarcely more strongly in front 

 than behind, smooth dorsal line narrow, hardly visible. Elytra with rows 

 of large quadrate punctures; intervals narrow, with single rows of small 

 punctures, sutural stria well impressed; tip obliquely declivous, not flat- 

 tened, but slightly retuse from the depth of the subsutural furrow. Male 

 with only a few hairs in front; female with front thickly covered with 

 long yellow hairs. Length 2 mm. 



Described from the mountains of Sullivan Co., Pa. District 

 of Columbia, rare. (Ulke.) West Virginia, mining under green 

 bark on stumps, logs and dying trees of black spruce, adults. 

 March Sept. (Hopl-ins.) New Jersey, found under bark of 

 chestnut, near roots. (Cltittenden.) Food plants, Picea, Cas- 

 tanea, Juglans cinerea. 



973 (- -). DRYOCCETES BETUL.E Hopkins, 1915-a, 50. 



Oblong, elliptical. Elytra dark reddish-brown. Pronotum darker and 

 with rugosities fine and regular to base, changing to 

 rather coarse punctures, dorsal punctures rugose, median 

 line obscure except toward base, posterior dorsal area 

 nearly glabrous, anterior area and sides sparsely pubes- 

 cent. Front broad, flat, densely clothed with long yellow 

 pubescence, longer toward the margins. Elytra with in- 

 terspaces fine and in distinct rows, striaa not impressed, 

 punctures coarse, declivity steep, shining, flat, interspace 

 1 broad, slightly elevated, 2 broad, flat, slightly impressed, 

 3 narrow, faintly elevated, all with a row of granules; 

 strial punctures coarse, faintly impressed; pubescence 

 sparse and longer on declivity. Male, declivity more 

 p ig. 145 Dryo- s hmi n & and with less evident granules; front broad, con- 

 ccetcs aiitographus V ex, faintly rugosely punctured, slightly impressed anJ 



Ratz. A European . 



species. x 9- shining, with faint median impression and a few long 

 ter Hage- hairs. Length 2.4 4.5 mm. 



