OF PIIILADKLPniA. 173 



This species very much resembles the preceding, but is larger, 

 black, and the thoracic scales are orbicular, exactly closing tho 

 dilatod punctures like opercula. 



[Belongs to Coj>tiinis. — Lec] 



FALCIGER Meg. Dej. 



1. F. ACEPHALUS. — Blackish, spotted with cinereous; thorax 

 with an impressed line, an obtuse tubercle on each side. 



Inhabits the United States. 



Body covered with short robust hairs or scales, brownish-black, 

 spottfil and varied with cinereous, imbricate: head, when at rest, 

 '"omplotely retracted within the thorax, somewhat retuse between 

 the eyes : thorax, anterior margin abruptly contracted into a col- 

 lar; posterior edge minutely dentate; an impressed longitudinal 

 line becoming canaliculate towards the seutel; an obsolete, obtuse 

 tubercle each side of the middle: elytra striate; striso with 

 scales concealing the punctures; interstitial lines with elevated 

 and acute points partially concealed by the scales; tip rounded 

 and piccous on the edge ; anal segment black : feet rufous : 

 thighs mutic. 



Var. a. A common double abbreviated white line at the base 

 of the suture. 



Length more than one-tenth of an inch. [310] 



The variety occurs in Pennsylvania. A different species, 

 which I have named 4-xj)uwxux, inhabits this State, remarkable 

 for its similarity to the accpha/us, but it may be immediately dis- 

 tinguished by the armature of two upright spines on the anterior 

 edge of the thorax. 



[Belongs to Cwliodes. — Lec] 



CURCULIO Fab. Latr. 



1. C. ACUTUS. — Cinereous; clypeus profoundly emarginate; 

 a blackish l)and behind the middle of the elytra. 



Inhabits Missouri. 



Body brownish-cinereous, punctured, covered with minute 

 imbricate scales : head profoundly and acutely emarginate at tip, 

 a longitudinal, impressed line : eyes black : antennas, club black- 

 ish ; elytra with punctured series somewhat in pairs ; interstitial 

 lines convex, alternate ones rather more elevated ; a black-brown 

 1824.] 



