172 STRFAMILY X. CURCULIOXIXJE. 



225 (8461). HYI-ERODES DELUMBIS Gyll., Schon., 1834, 283. 



Elongate-oblong. Piceous or dark reddish-brown, above rather 

 sparsely clothed with large whitish rounded scales which are massed to 

 form a pale stripe each side of and rarely a median line on thorax and 

 a humeral spot on elytra; antennae and legs reddish-brown. Beak feebly 

 tricarinate, rugose-punctate, sparsely clothed with yellowish hair-like 

 scales and four rows of short, suberect setae. Thorax subquadrate, less 

 than one-half wider than long, sides feebly rounded; disc densely, coarsely, 

 confluently punctate, each puncture bearing a short prostrate hair. 

 Elytra one-half wider than thorax, parallel for two-thirds their length, 

 then gradually narrowed to the conjointly rounded apex; striae fine, punc- 

 tures small, rather distant; intervals feebly convex, the alternate ones 

 only bearing a row of rather long, slender sets?. Under surface glabrous, 

 densely and coarsely punctate. Last ventral of male shallowly, trans- 

 versely impressed; of female with a large oval, rather deep impression. 

 Length 3.5 4.5 mm. 



Lake, Vigo and Putnam counties, Ind., scarce; Jan. 21 June 

 2. Hibernates beneath ninllen leaves and rubbish. Dorchester, 

 Mass., Aug. 10. Sanford, Fla., Jan. 12. Ranges from Quebec 

 and New England to Montana and Nevada, south to Florida. Var- 

 iable in color from grayish-white to piceous, the elytra usually 

 with a large central area somewhat darker than the remainder, 

 and in fresh specimens a number of small patches of white scales, 

 which are more or less connected to form sinuous lines, are visi- 

 ble. The beak is very little shorter than thorax, more slender and 

 less carinate than in the other species of the group, thus bringing 

 it close to the species of group II, with which it is liable to be 

 confused. 



226 (10,831). HYPERODES SUBCRIBRATUS Dietz, 1889, 42. 



Differs mainly by characters given in key. Form more slender. Punc- 

 tures of elytral striae larger, as wide or even wider than the intervals. 

 Last ventral of male with a large subquadrate impression. Length 3.2 

 3.5 mm. 



Dunedin, Florida, Nov. 0. In one specimen in the LeConte 

 collection the scales of elytra are all white instead of dirty gray 

 as in the others seen. Known only from Florida. 



227 (8463). HYPERODES SPARSUS Say, 1831, 11; ibid, I, 271. 



Elongate-oblong. Picecus or dark reddish-brown, above and under sides 

 of thorax usually rather thickly clothed with dirty gray or brownish scales, 

 which are larger on the elytra; when denuded the elytra with a common 

 broad piceous or darker stripe extending from base two-thirds to apex; 

 the gray scales sometimes massed to form pale stripes on sides of thorax; 

 antennae and legs reddish-brown. Beak short, stout, tricarinate, the me- 



