SUBFAMILY III. — ORTHOTYLIN^E. 813 



angle; front and hind coxa? and basal joint of tarsi whitish. Joint 1 of 

 antenna? brownish; 2 five times as long as 1, pale at base, its clavate 

 apical third blackish; 3 whitish, fuscous at tip, two-fifths the length of 2; 

 4 dusky, slightly longer than 3. Beak reaching hind coxa?. Elytra much 

 wider toward apex. Length, 3.5 — 3.7 mm. 



Recorded only from Washington, D. C, and Woodbine, N. J., 

 where it occurs in June and August on Pinus virginiana Mill. 



858 ( — ). Pilophorus juniperi Knight, 1923, 543. 



Dark brownish-back ; elytra in front of posterior silvery line fulvous ; 

 membrane blackish toward base, pale fuscous apically and along sides of 

 cuneus; legs fuscous brown; ventrals dark brown, shining, sides of seg- 

 ments 3 — 5 each with a patch of silvery hairs. Joint 1 of antenna? brown, 

 three-fifths as long as width of vertex; 2 as in key, brown, apical half 

 black, four times as long as 1 ; 3 pale, fuscous toward tip, two-fifths as 

 long as 2; 4 fuscous, as long as 3. Beak reaching between middle coxa?. 

 Length, 3.7 mm. 



Gray Cloud, Minn., July 20 {Minn. Univ. Coll.). Ranges from 

 New England west to Minnesota and south to New Jersey. 

 Breeds on red cedar, Juniperus virginiana L. 



Group II. — Pilophorus. 



KEY TO EASTERN SPECIES OP GROUP II, PILOPHORUS. 



a. Elytra dark brownish-black with apex of clavus as well as corium 

 polished behind posterior silvery line; front silvery line projected 

 somewhat obliquely backward, nearly or quite reaching the hind 

 one; length, 4.1 mm. 859. furvus. 



««. Elytra cinnamon-brown to fulvous, only the polished apical area dark 

 brown to piceous. 

 b. Second antennal subequal in length to width of vertex; length 3 mm. 

 c. Front half of head not conically produced ; eyes not covering front 

 angles of pronotum. 860. heidemanni. 



cc. Front half of head conically produced ; eyes strongly concave be- 

 hind, so set as to completely cover front angles of pronotum. 



861. nasicus. 



bb. Second antennal almost equal to width of head across eyes; length 



3.5 mm. 862. depictus. 



859 ( — ). Pilophorus furvus Knight, 1923, 539. 



Dark brownish-black; pronotum with side margins reddish-brown; 

 basal angles and apex of scutellum with a tuft of silvery scale-like hairs ; 

 elytra as in key; cuneus piceous, polished and with a silvery spot near 

 inner basal angle; membrane pale fuscous, apical half of cells and middle 

 of disk opaque blackish; legs concolorous with elytra, tibia? somewhat 

 paler, trochanters, joints 1 and 2 of tarsi and apex of hind coxa?, pale; 

 ventrals dark brown, shining, finely pubescent. Joints 1 and 2 of an- 

 tenna? dark reddish-brown ; 1 two-fifths as long as width of vertex, 2 four 



