26 PROC. ENT. SOC. WASH., VOL. 21, NO. 2, FEB., 1919 



Cordyle Thunberg, 1797, Kongl. Vet. Acad., vol. 18, pp. 44-49; 

 and Rhynckophorus Schonherr, 1826, Cure. Disp. Meth. are 

 isogenotypic. 



Calendra Clairville and Schellenberg (1789). 

 Calendra Clairville and Schellenberg, 1798, Ent. Helv., p. 62. 



Type abbremata Fabricius, designated by Latreille, 1810, 



in Consid. Gen. 



Calandra Fabricius, 1801, Syst. Eleuth., vol. 2, pp. 429-438. 

 Sphenophorus Schonherr, 1838, Gen. et Sp. Cure., vol. 4, p. 874. 



Type abbreviata Fabricius. 



This change gives our bill bugs the name Calendra. 



Sitophilus Schonherr (1838). 



Sitophilus Schonherr, 1838, Gen. et Sp. Cure., vol. 4, p. 967. 



Type oryza Linnaeus. 

 Calandra auct. not Fabricius (1801). 



This change gives our grain weevils the appropriate name 



Sitophilus. 



10. Family Cossonidae Schuckard (1840). 



This family corresponds to Lacordaire's Apostasimerides, 

 phalange II, group II. 



Type genus. Cossonus Clairville and Schellenberg, 1798, Ent. 

 Helv., vol. 1, pp. 60, 61. 



Type linearis Fabricius, designated by Latreille, 1810, in 

 Consid. Gen. 



II. STUDIES OF THE TRIBE MECININI. 

 Family Curculionidae Leach (1817). 



Subfamily Orchestinae Pierce (1916). 

 Anthonominae Pascoe (1870). 



Table of tribes of Orchestinae. 



1 . Hind legs normal, non saltatory 2 



Hind legs saltatory ORCHESTINI Pierce. 



2 . Prothorax with more or less developed ocular lobes 



LONCOPHORINI Pierce 



Prothorax without ocular lobes 



3 . Tarsal claws free ANTHONOMINI Le Conte. 



Tarsal claws connate 4 



4. Tarsal claws appendiculate BRADYBATIXI, new tribe. 



Tarsal claws not appendiculate MECININI Desbrocher^. 



