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FAMILY III. CURCULIONID^E. 



Casey, T. L. Ann. X. Y. Acad. Sci., IX, 1897, 079081. 



KEY TO EASTERN SPECIES OF TACHYGONUS. 



a. Hind femora armed beneath with several long slender teeth. 

 &. Hind tibia? broad, strongly curved, feebly toothed on outer margin; 

 elytra with four tufts of dense white pubescence arranged in 

 pairs near and behind the middle, the hind pair widely separated. 



c. Reddish brown, mottled with black; hind femora and base of 

 tibiae partly reddish. 122. LECONTEI. 



cc. Black, elytra abruptly red at apical margin; hind legs black, fe- 

 mora red only above near the base; subsutural tufts diffused, 

 not well defined. 123. SPINIPES. 



&&. Hind tibiae long, narrow, nearly straight, not toothed on outer mar- 

 gin; elytra black with a median reddish band, the pubescent tuft 

 single, small, central and divided by the suture. 124. GRACTLIPES. 



aw. Hind femora finely serrulate, or with several small teeth beneath; 

 hind tibiae slender, slightly curved; elytra brown, variegated with 

 dusky, the tuft of pubescence as in gracilipes; hind legs brown. 



125. FULVIPES. 



122 (8821). TACHYGONUS LECONTEI Gyll., Schn., 1833, 312. 



Broadly oval, subdepressed. Above reddish-brown, the center of thorax 



and two or three spots on each ely- 

 tron black, the surface rather thick- 

 ly clothed with white and tawny 

 prostrate divided hairs, and numer- 

 ous erect black or white bristles; 

 disc of thorax with a tuft of black 

 hairs each side of middle, and elytra 

 with four smaller tufts of white 

 ones; under surface and hind tibia? 

 black; front and middle legs and all 

 the tarsi pale reddish-brown. Thor- 

 ax bell shaped. Elytra broadly oval, 

 widest one-third from base, where 



Fig. 42. Tachygomis Iccontei Gyll. x io;they are nearly twice as wide as 

 a, view of head and antennre; b, hind thorax, thence rapidly converging 



leg. (After Lugger.) 



to the rounded apex; disc with rows 



of very coarse punctures; under surface coarsely and densely punctate. 

 Length 2 2.5 mm. 



Recorded from Caldwell, Lakelmrst, Gloucester and Atco, X. 

 J. ; July Sept. Jacksonville and Ormoud, Fla., April 7 15. 

 Mobile, Ala., April 15. Ranges from New Jersey to Texas in the 

 coastwise states. Occurs on the leaves of young oaks. 



123 ( ). TACHYGONUS SPINIPES Casey, 1897, 680. 



Allied to lecontei but much smaller and less pubescent above. Black 



