FAMILY III. CURCULIONID^EJ. 



7;/;. First joint of middle tarsi of male with a spiniform process on 



inner side. (Fig. 37, t.) 

 k. Hind margin of antennal fovea extending obliquely backward 



as usual. 



/. Larger, 2.2 mm.; pubescence conspicuous; humeri well de- 

 veloped; metasternum normal. 112. EXTEXSUM. 

 11. Smaller, 1.4 2 mm.; pubescence inconspicuous; humeri 

 wanting; metasternum shorter than first ventral. 



113. PARALLELTM. 



A- 7,\ Hind margin of antennal fovea transverse; length 1.5 1.7 

 mm. 114. PERSIMILE.* 



act. Color wholly or in part brown or pale. 



in. Color pale reddish-brown; pubescence uniform, yellow; length 1.6 

 1.8 mm. 115. UVIDCM.* 



mm. Color darker; pubescence unevenly distributed. 



. Thorax feebly constricted in front, widest at base; claws feebly 



toothed. 



o. Second joint of antenna?, male, or third joint, female, reaching 

 the eye; beak dull nearly to tip, obviously longer in female; 

 subapical callus of elytra weak; length 2 2.4 mm. 



116. PURITAXUM. 



oo. First joint of antennae reaching the eye; subapical callus strong; 

 length 3 3.1 mm. 117. VMBOXIFERUM. 



n n. Thorax rather strongly constricted in front, as wide or wider be- 

 hind than at base; claws distinctly though not strongly toothed; 

 beak in great part polished, almost without trace of the finer 

 sculpture in apical half, subequal in the sexes; length 2.5 2.9 

 mm. 118. HERCULAXUAI. 



Fig. 39. a, .-If u>n obsoletum; b, .-1. lici'ciilanuin, side view; c, A. piiritaninii : d. 

 usual form of tarsus of Apion ; c, tarsus of Podapion; f, Podapion 

 la. (After Smith & Fall.) 



103 (- 



-). APION AIKIPES Fall, 1898, 157. 



Moderately slender. Black, front coxae, all the femora and the front and 

 middle tibiae yellow; hind tibia? and all the tarsi dusky; pubescence fine 

 and sparse. Length 2 mm. 



