FAMILY II. AXTHR1BIDJK. 



tennse slender, the last three joints forming a loose club; trans- 

 verse carina of thorax basal, bent at right angles and extending 

 a short distance along the sides; elytra regularly striate. Two 

 genera represent the tribe in this country. 



KEY TO GENERA OF AR.EOCERIXI. 



a. Second joint of antennas shorter than first; eyes rounded. 



XVI. ARJEOCERUS. 

 00. Second joint of antennae as long as first; eyes subovate. 



XVII. CHORAGUS. 



XVI. ARJEOCEUUS Schon., 1820. (Gr., "slender" -f- "horn.") 



Beak short, wide, deflexed, the apex truncate; eyes rounded, 

 prominent ; thorax short, transverse, base bisinuate, hind angles 

 subacuminate ; elytra oblong, convex, the apex obtusely rounded ; 

 other characters as above. 



Fig. 31. a, Larva; b, adult; c, pupa. X 7- (After Chittenden.) 



34 (9231). ARJEOCERUS FASCICULATUS DeG., 1775, 276. 



Ovate, convex. Dark brown to black or piceous, clothed with yellowish 

 and dark brown pubescence; intervals of elytra alternately tessellate with 

 brown and yellowish; antenna?, tibiae and tarsi reddish-brown, club fuscous; 

 femora piceous at middle. Thorax very finely and exceedingly densely 

 punctate. Elytra with rows of fine, close-set, feebly impressed punctures; 

 intervals very finely and densely granulate-punctate. Length 2.5 4.5 mm. 

 (Fig. 31.) 



Dunedin, Florida, April 1. A cosmopolitan species, known 

 as the coffee-beau weevil. Originated in India and recorded in 

 the United States from Ohio, New Jersey. District of Columbia, 

 Alabama, Mississippi and Florida. The lavvre attack seeds of 

 cacao, coffee, poke berries and a variety of similar products, in- 

 cluding, in the South, those of wild indigo, senna, cotton, and 

 even dried apples. Chittenden (1S9T, 36) records a visitation in 

 Washington, D. C., in 1895, in which the beetles, issuing in Au- 



