TRIBE VII. HYLESININI. 669 



pine. With this species, following Swaine, we include H. gracilis 

 Lee., described from California, as a synonym, though held a 

 separate species by some Coleopterists. 



1082 (9197). HYLASTES EXILIS Chap., 1869, 76. 



Nearly related to tennis, but thorax more coarsely punctured, intervals 

 of elytra not granulate, but rugosely punctured and less opaque. Length 

 2.5 mm. 



Occurs in Florida. Food plant unknown. 



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Of the 1084 species of Rhynchophora described in this work, 

 as occurring in the United States and Canada east of the Mis- 

 sissippi River, 419 have been taken in Indiana, while 146 others 

 have a known range which indicates their very probable occur- 

 rence in that State. In the senior author's "Coleoptera of In- 

 diana" 2535 species (exclusive of the Rhynchophora) were fully 

 described and recorded, and 777 others were briefly described 

 and listed as probably occurring in the State. In the two works 

 we have, therefore, a total of 2954 described species of Coleoptera 

 from Indiana, and a tentative list of 923 additional species which 

 probably occur. There is very little doubt but that more than 

 4,000 species really exist within the State, as new ones are con- 

 tinually being discovered and the known range of many others 

 extended. 



From Florida 441 species of the Rhynchophora herein de- 

 scribed have been recorded. Of these 193 are semitropical or 

 tropical species, 169 of which are recorded from Florida alone, 

 the other 24 only from Georgia and Florida. Only 9 species 

 are recorded exclusively from Georgia. A number of the Flor- 

 idian species, especially some of those from the Everglade Re- 

 gion and the southern keys, are tropical forms which occur also 

 in the West Indies or other countries. A few are known also from 

 Texas, New Mexico or Arizona, but no one of the 169 has been 

 recorded elsewhere from east of the Mississippi. A number of 

 them, however, doubtless occur in what is known as the Gulf 

 Strip of the Lower Austral Life Zone, along the southern edge 

 of Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. 



