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of funicle stouter and longer than second, 3 7 moniliforni ; 

 scutellum minute, triangular; second ventral as long as the next 

 two, its front suture straight. E.roniias is another name some- 

 times used for this genus. 



174 (10,796). BARYPEITHES PELLUCTDUS Boh., Schn., 1834, 507. 

 Oblong-ovate. Dark reddish-brown to piceous, shining, sparsely clothed 



with long yellowish hairs; antennas and legs paler. Beak and head shorter 

 than thorax, sparsely and rather coarsely punctate. Thorax subglobose, as 

 wide as long, widest at middle, sides broadly rounded, disc coarsely and 

 rather sparsely punctate. Elytra oval, widest at middle; disc rather deep- 

 ly striate, strial punctures large, close-set; intervals feebly convex, each 

 with a row of long, inclined yellowish hairs. Under surface almost glabrous, 

 finely and sparsely punctate. Length 3 mm. 



Fall River, Mass., May 19 ; Batavia, N. Y., June 5. A European 

 species known also from Massachusetts, Long and Staten Islands, 

 N. Y., Orange Mts., N. J., and Cincinnati, Ohio. Attacks straw- 

 berries in Europe. 



Tribe V. PROMECOPINI. 



In this tribe the beak is short, stout, cylindrical, flattened 

 above, not or feebly dilated in our genera, its tip emarginate; 

 antenna! grooves dee]), curved, passing beneath the head imme- 

 diately in front of the eyes ; thorax with large ocular lobes, deeply 

 and broadly emarginate beneath in front ; tarsal claws free. The 

 group Entimina of the Biologia is equivalent to this tribe except 

 that Aracantlnis, being apterous, is excluded. 



KEY TO EASTERN GENERA OF PROMECOPINI. 



a. Elytra broadly oval; scutellum small; length less than 4 mm. 



XXXI. ARACAXTHUS. 



aa. Elytra oblong, their sides parallel; scutellum larger, broader than 

 long; length 5 8 mm. XXXII. EUDIAGOGUS. 



XXXI. ARACANTHUS Schonh., 1810. (Gr., '"strong" -f- "spine.") 



Beak cylindrical, scarcely longer than head, flattened above, 

 its antenual grooves linear, not meeting but turning forwards 

 beneath the eyes; scape reaching middle of eye; first joint of 

 funicle longer than second, 3 7 gradually shorter, slightly flat- 

 tened; club oval; scutellum very small, triangular; elytra broadly 

 oval, very little wider than thorax at base, the humeri rectang- 

 ular. 



175 (8339). ARACANTHUS PALLIDUS Say, 1831, 9; ibid., I. 268. 



Short, oval, convex. Piceous-brown, above densely clothed with small 

 dark gray and fuscous scales, many of which often have a coppery lustre, 

 the darker ones forming mottlings on the thorax and elytra; antenna?, 

 tibia? and tarsi reddish-brown. Head and beak not longer than thorax, 

 rather densely punctured, both with fine median impressed line. Thorax 

 slightly wider than long, sides curved in front of middle; disc convex, 



