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Hyperodes poseyensis new species. 



Oblong-oval, rather robust. Dark reddish-brown densely clothed with 

 large gray scales, those of beak, occiput and femora with a metallic sheen ; 

 sides of thorax with a rather broad stripe of larger gray scales, these also 

 covering the humeri and gradually evanescent on sides of elytra ; disk of elytra 

 with scattered vague fuscous blotches formed by larger scales. Beak slender, 

 subcylindrical, distinctly longer than thorax, but feebly tapering, its sculpture 

 concealed by the large metallic gray scales ; antennal grooves deep, narrow, 

 sharply defined. - Antennae slender, scape not reaching eye. joints one and two 

 of funicle slender, subequal, club small, oval. Thorax about as wide as long, 

 sides broadly rounded, front margin wider than base, sculpture concealed by 

 the scales, from between which arise numerous slender, pointed inclined black 

 bristles. Elytra at base strongly emarginate, three-fifths wider than thorax, 

 humeri prominent ; sides straight and parallel to middle, thence strongly con- 

 verging to the narrowly rounded apex; disk with sculpture concealed; inter- 

 vals wide, feebly convex, each with a single row of slender inclined brownish 

 bristles. First and second ventral segments coarsely and densely punctate, 3-5 

 finely and more sparsely punctate, the fifth without sexual impressions. 

 Length 3.8 mm. 



Posey County, Ind., April 27. Two specimens taken from beneath 

 logs. Belongs under dd of Group II (p. 168) of the Rhynchophora, 

 but size larger, beak longer, thorax relatively narrower and scales 

 much more metallic in hue than in iiioiifaiius. The bristly hairs of 

 both thorax and elytra are slender, not at all clavate. By Dietz's key 

 it runs to his Hyperodes group, which contains only Pacific slope 

 species. 



Hyperodes lodingi new species. 



Elongate-oblong, slender, subdepressed. Reddish-brown ; occiput, tip of 

 beak, middle and sides of thorax and middle of femora darker ; elytra with a 

 submarginal stripe and a more or less broken subsutural one blackish. Beak 

 stout, slightly shorter than thorax, subdepressed, feebly bicarinate, densely 

 reticulate-punctate; upper margin of antenna! grooves directed toward middle 

 of eyes. Antennae with first and second funicular joints slender, subequal, 

 scape reaching front margin of eyes ; club large, stout, elongate-oval. Thorax 

 subcylindrical, about as broad as long, densely and coarsely cribrately punc- 

 tate ; surface with a row of small, oval, silvery yellowish scales arranged 

 transversely each side of disk and each puncture of middle and sides with a 

 curved hair-like fcale ; ocular lobes covering one-half the eyes in repose. 

 Elytra at base one-half wider than thorax, about three times as long as wide; 

 sides subparallel to beyond middle, thence converging gradually to a conjointly 

 rounded apex ; surface without setae or pubescence, evenly not densely clothed 



