ITS SUBFAMILY X. CURCULIOXINJE. 



Lake, Marion and Yigo counties, Ind., scarce; Jan. 30 July 

 17. Hibernates beneath logs and rubbish in damp places. Docia, 

 Miss., May 23. Ranges from Canada and New England to Iowa 

 and Texas. Fletcher mentions it (1891) as feeding upon oats in 

 Canada, and also upon the barnyard grass. Panic-inn crttvf/cilU L., 

 while Pierce records it as being collected on rice at Markham, 

 Texas. 



Tribe IV. PISSODIXI. 



The genus Pissodes, formerly included in the tribe Hylobiini, 

 is treated in the Biologia and in recent European literature as 

 composing a separate tribe, differing from Hylobiini by its slen- 

 der beak, with the antenna? inserted at or near its middle. In ad- 

 dition it differs by having the front coxa? slightly separated, 

 thorax with front ventral margin not emarginate or produced to- 

 ward the sides, first joint of anteunal club smooth and subgla- 

 brous. The cells in which pupation takes place are sometimes 

 lined with a thick coating of masticated, excelsior-like wood fibre, 

 forming the so-called "chip-cocoons." 



I. PISSODES Germ., 1817. (Gr., "pitch-colored.") 



Reddish-brown to black species varying in length from 4 to 10 

 mm. and having, in addition to characters given for the tribe, the 

 body sparsely to thickly clothed with slender to broad scales, the 

 latter often forming spots on thorax, elytra and femora ; head be- 

 hind the eyes globular, about one-half as wide as thorax, glabrous, 

 punctured, feebly impressed between the eyes ; eyes rounded, 

 widely separated ; beak slender, cylindrical, as long or longer than 

 thorax ; antenna? inserted at or near its middle, their grooves be- 

 ginning just in front of the insertion and extending almost par- 

 allel with lower margin of beak to near the eyes; scape shorter 

 than funicle; first joint of latter subequal to second and third to- 

 gether, 3 7 subequal in length, slightly increasing in width; first 

 joint of club large, longer on one side, sparsely clothed with short 

 hairs and long bristles, remainder of club densely and finely 

 pubescent ; thorax rarely longer than broad, narrowed in front of 

 middle, the discal punctures with intervening flat or elevated 

 spaces; elytra with base as wide or slightly wider than thorax, 

 sides parallel or slightly narrowed to the declivity, the latter 

 oblique, feebly constricted ; striae punctured, fifth interval elevated 

 at apex; femora not toothed; front tibiae with tooth on inner 

 apical angle. 



