280 CURCULIONIDES. 



ORCHESTES Illig. 



1. 0. EPHIPPIATUS. — Blackish piceous ; elytra each with two 



yellowish spots. 



Inhabits Indiana. 



Body blackish, more or less tinged with piceous, densely punc- 

 tured : base of the rostrum piceous : elytra striate punctured, a 

 large double yellowish hairy, somewhat common spot before the 

 middle and a transverse abbreviated common band of yellowish 

 hair behind the middle, both on a piceous surface ; feet and an- 

 tennas rufous. 



Length over one-tenth of an inch. 



A very distinct species. 



2. 0. PALLicoRNis. — Black, antennae rufous with a black tip. 

 Inhabits Indiana. 



Body black, densely punctured ; rostrum lineated and punc- 

 tured ; antennae dull rufous, the club darker black : thorax con- 

 fluently punctured : elytra with punctured striae, the interstitial 

 lines somewhat rough and flat : thighs with a short acute tooth. 



Length one-tenth of an inch. [17] 



Var. a. Tarsi piceous. 



This species is very abundant. 



IMADARUS Schbnh. 

 M. UNDULATUS nob. [^R^nchsenus] Journ. Acad. Sc. 

 The thorax varies from sanguineous to black. 



BAMDIUS Schonh. 



1. B. TRiNOTATUS. — Covered with white hairs; a black dot 

 on the scutel and near the posterior angle of the thorax. 



Inhabits United States. 



CurcuJio trinotatus. ") at 1 L p f 1 



pensylvanicus K. ^ 



Body black, covered with rather short, robust, linear, white 

 prostrate hairs : thorax with the hairs pointing towards the lon- 

 gitudinal middle ; at base on each side is a black dot, scutel black ; 

 elytra with obvious striae ; interstitial lines flat and each with 

 about three series of the short hairs. 



Length three-twentieths of an inch. 



