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Body blackish piceous, punctured ; eyes small ; antennae picc- 

 )Ud ; rostrum sulcated ; thorax lobed at the eyes ; subinequal, 

 somewhat rugose ; two whitish longitudinal lines on each side 

 diverging before and behind with numerous minute cinereous 

 hairs, and with two or three oblique uniting lines; elytra triang- 

 ular much wider at base than the thorax and subacute at tip, each 

 with four elevated acute striae, the exterior ones united at tip ; 

 interstitial grooves dilated, concave, with a double series of trans- 

 verse punctures, an oblique, fulvous, oval spot at the humeral 

 base, tip brown ; epipleura a series of punctures, base hirsute 

 with a double series ; feet varied with cinereous hair ; thighs with 

 a robust, prominent spine beneath near the middle, and a smaller 

 one nearer the tip. 



Length from the front to anus less than one fifth of an inch. 



Found many specimens ascending a hickory tree (Juglans) in 

 the. fruit of which they deposit their eggs, in the latter part of 

 ■Tune and beginning of July. 



[Belongs to Conotrachelus Sch. — Lec] 



2. C. ELEGANS. — Piceous brownish ; elytra with a paler, more 

 ■ >r less dilated space behind. 



Inhabits United States. 



Curculio elegans Melsh. Catal. • 



Body dull piceous, more or less varied with brown or blackish : 

 rostrum sulcated, carinate, piceous : antennae rufous : thorax lobed 

 at the eyes; punctured; an obsolete, oblique, cinereous line each 

 side proceeding to the posterior angles : elytra with four some- 

 what elevated, acute lines, the exterior ones uniting behind ; in- 

 terstitial spaces wide, with double scries of punctures, obsolete 

 behind; behind the middle is a more or less dilated common 

 space, narrower at the suture than on the lateral margin ; on this 

 spot the inner elevated [19] line is interrupted, and the line is also 

 depressed or interrupted towards the base ; thighs two-toothed, 

 somewhat annulated with piceous and blackish. 



Length less than one-fifth of an inch. 



Var. a. Somewhat cinereous. 



Var. b. Paler piceous ; larger. 



I have obtained this species in June on Pinus rigida. The 

 body is more oblong than that of anagh/pticus ; the humerus is 

 less prominent. It occurred in New Jersey, Florida, and the 



