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Sphenophorus distichlidis, n. sp. 



Similar to mormon with which it agrees in the structure of the rostrum 

 and, nearly, in the sculpture of the elytra. It averages a little smaller, 

 with the entire surface subopaque, and with the legs and less frequently 

 the elytra and thorax rufous or piceous. The punctua'ion is feeble, not 

 so strong on the thorax, metasternum or abdominal segments as in sim 

 plex. The tibiae are less angulate and more finely fimbriate, and the ante 

 rior tibiae are normally without inside serration. 



Male. First and second abdominal segments moderately distinct ; pos 

 terior tibias more strongly angulate and fimbriate. 



Female. First and second abdominal segments connate or nearly so at 

 the middle; posterior tibiae feebly angulate and finely and sparsely fim 

 briate. 



Length 8.5-11 5 mm; width 3.2-4.0 mm. 



Amedee, Cal., 4,200 ft, July 11-28, 1903. Collected by Mr. 

 H. F. Wickham who has kindly presented a good series to the 

 National Museum on Distichlidis spicata, a maritime grass 

 which grows in salt marshes and saline spots. 



Type. No. 7878, U. S. National Museum. 



Sphenophorus simplex LeConte. 



In this species the normal shining jet black color is varied 

 by individuals with more or less rufous legs, and the elytra are 

 frequently piceous in evidently fully developed specimens. One 

 otherwise deep black individual with velvety elytra has the base 

 of the elytra and the legs bright rufous. In the smallest individ 

 uals there are fewer rows of punctulations in the elytral intervals 

 than in the larger. ones, and in the specimen last mentioned they 

 are so minute as to be almost indistinguishable. 



The following is added to the recorded locality list : 



In California : Palm Springs, February 2, 17 (H. G. Hubbard), 



Los Angeles (D. W. Coquillett), Panamint Valley, April 19 (A. 



Koebele), Harold, March 31 (A. B. Eells), San Diego (G. H. 



Field). In Utah : Salt Lake City (H. Soltau), Salt Lake, June 



14 (Hubbard and Schwarz). 



ON THE SPECIES OF SPHENOPHORUS HITHERTO CON 

 SIDERED AS PLACIDUS SAY. 



By F. H. CHITTENDEN. 



When Thomas Say in his " Descriptions of North American 

 Curculionides," etc.,* described Rhynchophorus placidus with 



* Complete Writings, Thomas Say, etc., Lee. Ed., 1859, i, p. 290 



