86 FAMILY III. CURCULIOXIDJE. 



although the seeds of the goats' rue are recorded by most ob- 

 servers as the food of its larvae. Probably occurs wherever the 

 two ] daiits are found. The entire antenna? except the club are 

 often pale, and the pubescence is in dense patches at the bases 

 of the thiru intervals, on the front coxae and the side pieces of 

 the nicso- and metasterna. 



107 (8388). APIOX DECOLORATUM Smith, 1884, 52. 



Small, oval. Black, legs reddish-yellow, the femora and tibiae with a 

 dusky ring; antennae, except the club, usually reddish-brown; pubescence 

 short and sparse but distinct. Beak moderately punctate, pubescent in both 

 sexes. First joint of antenna? not much longer than second, the latter al- 

 most reaching the eye. Front but little wider than the tip of beak. Thorax 

 about as long as wide, one-half wider at base than apex, sides feebly curved, 

 subparallel in basal half; disc coarsely and closely punctate, the basal fovea 

 small. Elytra one-half longer than wide; intervals flat, not much wider 

 than the striae. Length 1.5 1.7 mm. 



Marshall, Knox and Clarke counties, Indiana, scarce; prob- 

 ably throughout the State; May August 15. Taken by sifting 

 on the earlier date; bred from the seeds of Lespcde~a and Mcilto- 

 in ia in the State Entomological Laboratory in August. Eanges 

 from New England to North Carolina west and southwest to Iowa 

 and Arizona. Chittendeu (1008, .'>! ) records it as breeding in 

 the seeds of the tick-trefoils, Heibomia panicnlata L. and .!/. 

 <ir<in<lif1oni Walt., and exit holes noted in pods of all other spe- 

 cies of Meibomia about Washington, D. C., the beetles issuing in 

 lafe September. 



108 (- -). APION EMACIIPES Fall, 1898, 166. 



Form more obese than in decoloratum. Black, legs entirely yellow, or 

 with the femora piceous, antennae either pale throughout or almost wholly 

 piceous; pubescence finer and more sparse. Beak distinctly shorter, stouter 

 and more coarsely and irregularly punctate. Thorax smaller, wider than 

 long, more constricted near apex; disc coarsely, closely and unevenly punc- 

 tate. Elytra broader with more prominent humeri. Under surface coarse- 

 ly and closely punctate. Length 1.4 1.8 mm. 



Kosciusko County, Indiana, rare; June 21. Taken by sweep- 

 ing. Fredericksburg, Ya. Known from Xew Hampshire to Mary- 

 land, Michigan and Illinois, south to Florida. Easily distin- 

 guished from the preceding by the shorter and wider beak and 

 wholly pale yellow tibio?. 



109 (- -). APION CRASSUM Fall, 1898, 165. 



Robust. Black, legs faintly rufescent; pubescence fine and sparse. 

 Beak of male strong, subparallel, fully as long as head and thorax, abrupt- 

 ly angularly dilated over the insertion of the antenna? at basal fourth; 



