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SUBFAMILY X. CURCULIOXIX^E. 



179 (- 



-). SITOXA DISCOIDEA Gyll., Schon., 1834, 112. 



Elongate-oblong. Piceous, antennae and legs reddish-brown, every- 

 where closely, uniformly and evenly clothed with small grayish-yellow 

 and pale brown scales, the grayish ones forming a broad stripe each side 

 and sometimes a narrow median line on thorax, the stripes extending 

 back onto humeri and along the second, third and fourth intervals of 

 elytra nearly to apex; margins and tips of elytra and under surface also 

 pale. Beak as long as head, the frontal groove deep, distinct. Thorax 

 as long or slightly longer than wide, sides feebly curved, disc deeply, 

 rather coarsely and closely punctate. Elytra but slightly wider at base 

 than middle of thorax, sides feebly diverging to apical third then strongly 

 converging to apex; disc more convex at middle than base, strife fine, 

 their punctures small; intervals slightly convex, each with a row of short 

 but distinct white inclined sets. Length 4 4.5 mm. 



Watch Hill, Rhode Island, July 16. Taken in numbers by 

 Wirt Robinson in company with tibialis on a beach pea. A 

 European species, usually regarded as a variety of Ritona li \nuer- 

 aJis Stephens. 



180 (8347). SITOXA FLAVFSCEXS Marsham, 1802, 311. 



Elongate-oblong. 



Fig. 56, X 10. 

 (After Forbes.) 



Piceous-black; above densely clothed with rusty 

 brown and fuscous narrow, hair-like 

 scales, the darker ones in fresh spec- 

 imens forming two indistinct stripes 

 on head and four on thorax; under 

 surface more sparsely clothed -with 

 fine prostrate grayish hairs; anten- 

 nae, tibia? and tarsi reddish-brown; 

 club and femora darker. Beak and 

 head about as Jong as thorax and, 

 like it, finely and rather closely punc- 

 tate. Thorax subcylindrical, as wide 

 as long, widest at middle, sides 

 feebly rounded, apex and base trun- 

 cate. Elytra one-third wider at base 

 than thorax, sides parallel to apical 

 fourth, thence rapidly converging; 

 disc very finely striate, the striae 

 with rows of minute punctures. 

 Second ventral segment about as long 

 as the two following united. Length 

 4.55.5 mm. (Fig. 56.) 



Northern half of Indiana, frequent; not taken south of Marion 

 Co.; May 1 August 20. Taken especially by sweeping low herb- 

 age, such as rushes and grasses along the borders of lakes and 

 marshes; from sidewalk in city of Indianapolis on .May 1. Loss 



