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surface thickly clothed with still smaller, oval, silver-gray scales. Beak stout, 

 compressed, scarcely half as long as thorax, basal half coarsely granulate- 

 punctate, gradually smoother towards tip. Head alutaceous, very finely and 

 sparsely punctate. Thorax one-half longer than wide, sides parallel from base 

 to apical third, thence converging to the strongly constricted apex, the latter 

 one-third or more narrower than base ; sculpture hidden, the median smooth 

 line narrow, subcarinate, almost entire. Elytra as wide and three times longer 

 than thorax, sides parallel from base to apical fifth, then feebly converging into 

 the broadly rounded tips ; strine fine, shallow ; intervals flat, alutaceous, rather 

 coarsely, irregularly punctate. Single tarsal claw stout, as long as third tarsal 

 joint, feebly cleft at tip. Length, 6.7-8 i^m. 



This handsome weevil was first taken from the margin of a lake 

 three miles east of Lakeland. Fla., Feb. 16, 1919. Four specimens 

 were secured by cutting off close to the ground clumps of a coarse 

 saw-grass and shaking them over a rubber blanket. With the w^vils 

 were found a half dozen specimens of a rare Buprestid beetle, 

 Taphroccnis piiiicticollis Schz. These two beetles, which are quite 

 similar in form, were evidently hibernating between the bases of the 

 leaves and stems of the saw-grass. On March 2t„ nine more speci- 

 mens of the weevil were found in clumps of a similar saw-grass by 

 the side of Lake Butler, near Tarpon Springs, 50 miles northwest of 

 Lakeland. This species is twice or more larger than our other east- 

 ern members of the genus Barilepton. Its dense scaly slate-gray 

 vestiture is also very distinctive. 



710. Perigaster obscura Lee. — It is very doubtful whether this is 

 more than a southern race or \-ariety of P. crctiira Herbst. Speci- 

 mens have been taken about Dunedin which appear to be intermediate 

 between the two. 



The paucity of species of the tribe Ceutorhynchini in b'lorida is 

 remarkable. During seven winters' collecting I have taken but five 

 species in the State, viz., Craponins inccqualis Say, Aiilcutcs ncbulosus 

 Lee, Ccutorhynchiis floridanus Leng, Perigaster cretiira Herbst. and 

 P. obscura Lee. Of the 66 species of the tribe recognized in the 

 Rhynchophora 34 were recorded from Indiana and only eight from 

 Florida, three being common to both states. 



697. Ceutorhynchus transversus Blatch. — This was described from 

 a unique from Starke County, Ind. Three additional specimens were 

 taken May 5. 1918. by sweeping herbage in a low moist spot close to 

 White River, five miles northwest of Indianapolis. 



