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SUBFAMILY IX. OTIORHYNCHIN.E. 



Tables of the described species are to be found as follows: 

 Schceffer, Clias. in Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc., XVI., 1908, 216. 

 Pierce, W. D. "Studies in North American Weevils/' in 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Museum, Vol. 45, 1913, 402. 



KEY TO EASTERN SPECIES OF PA^DELETEIUS. 



a. Beak truncate at apex; front coxae not more widely separated than 

 middle ones; alternate elytral intervals not elevated. 155. HILARIS. 

 ao. Beak emarginate at apex; front coxae separated by about twice the dis- 

 tance between the middle ones; alternate intervals elevated. 



156. SUBTROPICUS. 

 155 (8314). PANDELETEIUS HILARIS Host, 1797, 58. 



Elongate, rather slender. Brownish, densely covered with small grayish 



and fuscous scales, the latter forming a dark 

 space on disc of elytra, which is usually 

 broken by oblique median and subapical pale 

 cross-bars; antennae and tarsi reddish-brown. 

 Beak short, its upper surface finely punctate 

 and with distinct median impressed line. An- 

 tennal funicle 7-jointed, the first joint as long 

 as the two following united. Thorax subcylin- 

 drical, about as wide as long, constricted be- 

 fore and behind the middle which is strongly 

 rounded on the sides; disc coarsely, deeply 

 and rather densely punctate. Elytra truncate 

 at base which is wider than thorax; disc 10- 

 striate, stria? closely punctured; intervals 

 convex. Under surface covered with scales 



having a pearly 

 (Fig. 48.) 



lustre. Length 4 5 mm. 



Fig. 48, X io- (After Felt.) 



Common throughout Indiana; Jan. 1 Sept. 21. Hibernates 

 beneath logs and rubbish. Beaten in numbers from black and 

 scarlet oak, Qin'rcux uclutina Lam. and Q. coccinea Wang.; also 

 from beech, smart-weed and Jersey tea, Ceanothus americana L. 

 Common near New York City. Ranges from Ontario and New 

 England to Iowa, Florida and Texas. It is said Dy Harris to 

 breed in trunks of the white oak, Q. alba L. Packard (1890, 71) 

 calls it the "gray -sided oak weevil," and states that the larva is 

 a worm like that of the plum weevil, which makes a smaller bur- 

 row than that of Eupsalis minuta Drury, and changes to a gray 

 weevil found on the leaves of oak from May to September. When 

 beaten into an umbrella its long front legs make its movements 

 \ r ery awkward, and it ''falls all over itself" in trying to escape, 

 thus amply justifying its specific name. 

 156 (- -). PAXDELETEIUS SL-BTROPICUS Fall. 1907, 263. 



Elongate, slender. Brown, densely clothed with silver gray and pale 

 brown scales, the latter with a metallic lustre and forming a dark stripe 



