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logue, and probably in most collections, though changed in the 

 Third Supplement to the Catalogue. Tt has been recorded by 

 Riley (1882, Olft) as damaging young peach, pear and apple trees, 

 tlie beetles hiding near the surface of the ground in daytime and 

 eating the bark and buds in places at night and has lately been 

 troublesome in New York State. (Parrott.) Hamilton also notes 

 its occurrence on the great ragweed, Ambrosia trifida L. 



131 (- -). AXAMETIS SETOsrs sp. nov. 



Oblong-oval, convex. Black, densely clothed with dark brown and pearl- 

 gray scales, the latter more conspicuous on the head, forming a ring 

 about, each eye and often a narrow median stripe on head and beak, cover- 

 ing the under surface and forming a narrow median and indistinct lateral 

 stripes on thorax and a few remote scattered spots on elytra; antennse, ti- 

 biae and tarsi dark reddish-brown. Eyes small, almost flat, widely separated, 

 finely faceted. Beak at base narrower than head and separated from it by 

 a broad deep, transverse depression. Thorax subglobose, widest at middle, 

 slightly wider than long, sides feebly rounded; disc densely covered and 

 roughened by small scaly tubercles, each of which bears a short, suberect, 

 clavate bristle. Elytra at base scarcely as wide as thorax, sides parallel to 

 behind middle, thence converging to the subacuminate tips; strial punc- 

 tures large, round, distant; intervals convex, each with a single row of 

 short, inclined setae. Length 6 6.5 mm. (W. 8. B.) 



Described from five specimens taken in Lake, Vigo and Posey 

 counties, Ind., April 21- July 11. St. Louis, Mo., July 7. Swept 

 from foliage of the iron-weed, Vcnwuhi foscicuJntfi Michx. While 

 the preceding species is now commonly accepted as Say's c/ran- 

 ulata, it is our opinion that the present one fits his original de- 

 scription of that species much more accurately. Both occur in 

 Posey Co., where New Harmony is located, and the types of f/nin- 

 ti1<it<i doubtless came from there. In the absence of these types 

 the question cannot be settled. Should specimens which he sent 

 out under the name of granulata come to light and prove identical 

 with ficloxH*. the name f/risca Horn will have to be reapplied to 

 the ] (receding species. 



V. PANSCOPUS Schonh., 1842. (Gr., "all-seeing.-') 



Beak stout, usually separated from the head by a distinct 

 curved depression, its tip strongly emarginate and obtusely car- 

 inate; autennal grooves deep in front but disappearing before 

 reaching the lower angle of the eyes; scape of antennae not reach- 

 ing hind border of eves; club oval, acute; eves transversely oval, 



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obtusely pointed beneath ; ocular lobes short but broad ; scutel- 

 lum very small; metasternum short, its side pieces indistinct; 



