OF WASHINGTON. 133 



Sphenophorus venatus Say. 



Rhynchophorus venatus Say, Descr. N. A. Curculionides, p. 22, 1831 ; 



Compl. Writings, Lee. Ed., i, p. 290, 1859 

 Sphenophorus placidus Say, Descr. N. A. Cure., p. 23, 1831 ; Lee. Ed., 



p. 290, 1859; Horn, Proc. Am. Phil. Soc., xm, p. 426, 1873; 



Forbes, i6th Rept. St. Ent. Ills., f. iSSy-'SS (1890), pp. 62, 65, 70; 



22d Rept. St. Ent. Ills., p. 8, 1903. 

 Rhynchophorus rectus Say, Descr. N. A. Cure., p. 22, 1831; Compl. 



Writings, Lee. Ed., i, p. 290, 1859. 

 Rhynchophorus immunis Say, 1. c., p. 23; p. 290. 

 Sphenophorus confusus Gyllenhal, Schonherr, Gen. Cure., iv, p. 944, 



1837 (fide Horn). 

 Sphenophorus fallax Boheman, 1. c., vin, No. 2, p. 256. 1845 (fide 



Horn). 



The distribution as well as salient characters are furnished in 

 the table. Even with these synonyms and others eliminated it is 

 still a very variable form. 



Sphenophorus confluens, n. sp. 



Form and size of veuatus, from which and all others of this group it 

 differs by the entire surface being more coarsely and strongly punctate, 

 and by other characters which will be enumerated. Black, with dark 

 brown pruinose coating evident at the sides and mostly abraded on the 

 dorsum. Rostrum short, strongly compressed, obliquely truncate and 

 produced in acute point posteriorly as in vestitus. Base very strongly 

 and coarsely punctate, with interocular puncture in the form of a very 

 irregular variable fossa, terminating anteriorly before or a little beyond 

 the dilated portion above the scrobes in a broad ill-defined acuminate 

 channel. Thoracic vittse, owing to strong and coarse punctuation, are 

 feebly defined, the space between foveate-punctate and strongly confluent. 

 Elvtral punctures so strong as to be subconfluent and often confluent 

 transversely, producing with a natural uneven surface of the intervals a 

 decided inequality of the entire surface. Sutural and third intervals with 

 strong tendency to a double series of fine punctures most evident at the 

 base. 



Portland, Oregon (i ^, H. F. Wickham) ; Corvallis, Oregon, 

 April 25, May 2, June 9, Oct. (A. B. Cordley) ; ''Oregon" 

 (H. Ulke). 



Type. No. 7908, U. S. National Museum. 



The large deep punctures of the entire dorsal surface, and par 

 ticularly of the elytra, produce an unevenness which impart to 

 this insect an appearance quite different from all others in our 

 fauna. 



It is probably quite common in Oregon, although not well 

 distributed in collections. 



