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and almost wholly dull red elytra. Many of our specimens had 

 black elytra except for a pale, reddish-brown, broad stripe 

 extending from humerus to apex. The extent of the black or 

 reddish -brown areas appears to vary slightly. It was noted 

 that immature beetles w^ere almost wholly reddish-brown, the 

 black first appearing along the suture and later spreading 

 laterally. 



In Rhynchophora of North Eastern America under the 

 species Smicronyx tychoides Lee, (p. 218) there appears the 

 statement, "said to have been bred from galls on dodder, 

 Cuscuta gronovii, by Zabriskie" and it is quite probable that 

 this record refers to sculpticollis especially as "specimens named 

 tychoides in the Leng collection from Long Island proved to be 

 sculpticollis. 



