112 SUBFAMILY IX. OTIORHYXCIIINJE. 



her. Kanges from Newfoundland, New England and Ontario to 

 Wyoming and New Mexico. Known as the "strawberry crown- 

 girdler" and the "graveyard bug," the latter because it is said to 

 have been introduced into New England in cemetery shrubbery. 

 Injurious to strawberries and rarely to muskmelons, and some- 

 times found in houses in large numbers. Otiorhynchus ligncus 

 Lee. is a synonym. 



143 (8285). OTIOKHYNCHUS RUGIFROXS Gyll., 1813, 319. 



Closely resembles sulcatus but a little smaller and femora without 

 tooth. Elytra more broadly oval, the humeri more oblique; striae without 

 the distant tufts of hair; intervals each with a double row of short hairs. 

 Length 7.5 8 mm. 



Fort Lee, New Jersey, under stones, May. Ithaca and Port- 

 age, N. Y., April 8 May 24. Known also from Quebec and 

 Toronto, Canada, District of Columbia, Virginia and Pennsyl- 

 vania, but not yet generally distributed in the states named. 



144 ( ). OTIOKHYNCHUS SINGULARIS Linn., 1767, 1066. 



Oblong-oval. Dark reddish-brown, head piceous, legs paler; above 

 rather thickly clothed with round grayish and silvery scales; femora 

 with a ring of similar scales before the apex. Beak very finely punctate 

 near apex, not sulcate. Thorax as wide at middle as long, sides broadly 

 rounded, base narrower than apex, disc as in sulcatus. Elytra oval, sides 

 broadly curved; disc with rows of coarse, rather distant, punctures, each 

 closed with a large rounded silvery scale. Length 6 8 mm. 



Stoneham, Mass., May 20. Known also from Quebec. The 

 hind femora bear a minute tooth, visible only under a strong lens. 

 0. picipes Fab. is a synonym. 



0. auricapillus Germ., a European species, has been found on 

 imported nursery stock at Cromwell, Conn., but is not to be in- 

 cluded until more frequently reported. 



X. NEOPTOCHUS Horn, 1876. (Or., "new'' -(- ''small.") 



Our only species of this genus has the beak stout, cylindrical, 

 flattened above, its tip widely emargiuate; antenual grooves on 

 the sides, deep in front, shallow and broad behind, reaching the 

 eyes; antennae long, scaly, inserted near tip; scape curved, pass- 

 ing the front margin of thorax; joints 1 and 2 of funicle long, 

 3 7 conical, gradually decreasing in length. Scutellum absent. 

 Second abdominal segment as long as the two following, the first 

 suture strongly curved at middle. 



145 (8291). NEOPTOCHUS ADSPEKSUS Boh., Schon., 1834, 486. 



Oval, robust. Piceous. everywhere densely clothed with pale brown and 

 ash-gray scales, the latter usually predominating, the brown ones some- 

 times covering in part the head, beak and thorax and forming a humeral 



