126 SUBFAMILY IX. OTIORHYNCHIN.E. 



wide at base, slightly narrowed in front and feebly prolonged over the 

 head; sides moderately curved; disc convex, granular and with a feebly 

 impressed median line. Elytra oval, humeri obtuse, sides feebly curved; 

 striae with elongate, rather close-set punctures; intervals moderately con- 

 vex, densely scaly and with very short white hairs; male with tubercles 

 on second ventral segment. Length 8 mm. 



Forest City, Havana and Urbana, Illinois; June 6. Abundant 

 on steins of plants in low ground along the railway.* (Hart.) 

 Recorded elsewhere only from Kansas and Colorado. Hart states 

 that in the Illinois specimens the thorax has a dorsal pale brown 

 stripe divided by a fine median white line and lateral and ventro- 

 lateral darker stripes. 



XXII. LEPIDOCRICUS Pierce, 1910. (Or., "scale" + "circle.") 



Beak not longer than head, separated from the latter by a 

 deep constriction; cheeks strongly emarginate; autennte short, 

 first joint of fimicle longer than second, the others moniliform ; 

 scales of thorax arranged in circles upon the numerous close-set 

 tubercles; tips of hind tibia- with a single row of fimbrise; second 

 segment of abdomen longer than the next two united. 



163 (- -). LEPIDOCRICUS HERRICKI Pierce, 1910, 362. 



Oval, robust, Surface everywhere densely clothed with grayish to 

 brownish concave scales and intermixed bristles. Head and beak together 

 about as long as thorax, the beak with deep median groove, coarsely and 

 rugosely punctate, almost naked at tip. Thorax broader than long, sides 

 strongly rounded; apex slightly narrower than base; disc closely covered 

 with cylindrical tubercles, each with a deep bristle-bearing puncture. Ely- 

 tral stria? with coarse, close-set bristle-bearing punctures; intervals flat, 

 each with a row of short bristles. Body beneath sparsely clothed with thin 

 scales, more densely with long white setae. Length 5 6 mm. 



Douglas Co., Kan., and Illinois; LeConte collection. Mobile, 

 Alabama. (Lodlny}. Known also from Mississippi ; Ft. Scott and 

 Onaga, Kan. and Lincoln, Neb. Tierce's type specimens were 

 taken May 7, 1004, at Easter, Miss., and were reported as attack- 

 ing cotton, "eating off the leaves and even eating the young plant 

 before it gets out of the ground." ITarned states that it has not 

 since been reported from this locality. The punctures of the 

 thoracic tubercles are said by Pierce to resemble little craters, 

 and those of the elytral intervals appear linear because of the 

 dense scaly vestiture. 



XXIII. APIIRASTI-S Say, 1831. (Or., "unexpected.") 

 Head broader behind the eyes, vertex convex, beak slightly 

 longer and narrower than head; eyes round; scape slightly 



"Hull. 111. St. Lab. Nat. Hist., VII, 1907, J4-S. 



