54 FAMILY III. CURCULIONIDJE. 



feebly curved, disc more constricted near apex, finely and densely punctate. 

 Elytra at base one-third wider than thorax, coarsely and; densely punc- 

 tate, the rows of punctures more irregular than in the next. Length 1.8 

 2.2 mm. 



Ormond, Enterprise and Duuedin, Fla., Feb. IT Dec. 3. 

 Beaten from foliage of the red-bay in winter and swept from the 

 flowers of huckleberry in spring. Easily distinguished from 

 aTborcstlta by the longer, more dense and coarser yellowish pub- 

 escence and stouter beak with antennae inserted farther from 

 base. The type in the LeConte collection is from Capron, Fla. 

 Specimens in the Horn collection at Philadelphia are from 

 Georgia, and it is doubtful if it occurs north of the Gulf and 

 South Atlantic States, the northern records under the name being 

 based on specimens of albovestita. 



47 ( ). AULETES ALEOVESTITA Sp. 110V. 



Pale reddish-brown to fuscous, very thinly and irregularly clothed with 

 fine whitish hairs. Antennas inserted at basal fourth or fifth of beak, the 

 latter slender, subcylindrical, as long as head and thorax, alutaceous, 

 rather coarsely and sparsely punctate. Thorax subcylindrical, slightly 

 longer than wide, sides feebly rounded, disc densely and finely punctured. 

 Elytra one-half wider than thorax, coarsely punctate, the punctures in near- 

 ly regular rows. Length, 2 mm. (W. S. B.) 



Tyngsboro, Freetown and Dighton, Mass., May 28 Sept. 13. 

 Orange Mts., Anglesea and Brigantine Beach, N. J., April Au- 

 gust on bayberry, Myrica cerifera L. Occurs also on the foliage 

 of leather-leaf, Chamcedaphne calycnlata L., a low Ericad shrub, 

 probably throughout the Transition Life Zone. Ranges from New 

 England to Lake Superior, south to North Carolina. The ma- 

 jority of the New England specimens are uniform fuscous in hue. 

 LeConte confused this species with cassandrcc, his specimens from 

 Detroit, Mich., belonging here. 



II. EUGNAMPTUS Schonh., 1839. (Gr., "easily flexible.") 



Slender-bodied Rhynchitids, sparsely clothed with erect 

 bristly hairs and having long slender legs. The males have the 

 beak shorter, the eyes usually larger and closer together and the 

 mandibles with but one tooth on the outer side, those of female 

 being externally two-toothed. Eight species and five color vari- 

 eties are recognized by Pierce from the United States. Of these 

 live species and three color varieties occur east of the Mississippi 

 River. 



