100 SUBFAMILY IX. OTIORHYXCHIXJE. 



remedies are arsenicals, as Paris green, applied either dry or in 

 spray at the rate of a pound to one hundred gallons of water; 

 or, as the beetles feign death when disturbed, they may be readily 

 jarred from the plants into vessels and then destroyed. 



127 (8234). EPICURUS FORMIDOLOSUS Boh., Schon., 1842, 284. 



Ovate, pyriform. Piceous. everywhere densely clothed with fuscous and 

 pale ash gray scales, the latter forming numerous irregular blotches on 

 the elytra, or sometimes bands as in imbricatus ; antennte pale reddish- 

 brown. Front with elongated fovea; funicular joints 3 6 almost as wide 

 as long. Thorax conical, wider at base than long, disc sparsely and deeply 

 punctate. Elytra broadly oval, strongly convex, conjointly but little longer 

 than wide at the middle; stria? with rows of small, rather distant punct- 

 ures; intervals each wilh a row of very short semi-erect scale-like hairs. 

 Length 4 6.5 mm. 



Lake Poinsett, Hillsboro County, Fla., May; Jacksonville, 

 Puuta Gorda and Lakeland, Fla., November. Known also from 

 Alabama and Georgia. 



II. HORMORUS Horn, 1876. (Gr., "funiculus/') 



In this genus the beak is longer and narrower than head, 

 broader at tip, which is acutely emargiuate and bears a Y-shaped 

 elevated line; antennae rather long, scape reaching middle of eye, 

 funicle 7-jointed, joints 3 7 obconical, club oval, acute; scutel- 

 lum invisible; elytra oblong-oval, slightly wider at base than 

 thorax; side pieces of meta sternum almost wholly covered by 

 elytra; second ventral of male one-half longer than third, of 

 female as long as third and fourth united.* 



128 (8237). HOKMORUS UNDULATUS Uhler, Proc. Phil. Acad. Nat. Sci., 1855, 



416. 



Elongate-oval, robust. Dark brown, sparsely clothed with pearly-white 

 scales and prostrate scale-like hairs, the former arranged in a narrow line 

 along the side margin of thorax and forming a humeral lunule and an ir- 

 regular patch on each side of declivity of elytra. Head and beak as long as 

 thorax, rather densely punctured. Thorax oboval, slightly longer than wide, 

 broadest in front of middle, apex truncate; disc densely covered with min- 

 ute rounded tubercles and with a distinct median impressed line. Elytra 

 with strise of large, deep, closely placed punctures, intervals narrower, 

 covered with small granules. Under surface densely punctured and with 

 a patch of pearly scales each side of metasternum. Male more slender, 

 with first and second ventrals broadly impressed at middle. Length 

 7.5 mm. 



Not yet recognized in Indiana but undoubtedly occurs, as it. 

 is recorded from Illinois, Michigan, and Cincinnati, Ohio. Staten 



*Pierce's key, stating that the "three intermediate segments of the abdomen are 

 equal" in his Tribe Blosyrini, is erroneous in so far as it relates to this genus. 



