June, 1922.] Blatchley: Notes ON Rhynchophora, 95 



NOTES ON THE RHYNCHOPHORA OF EASTERN 

 NORTH AMERICA, WITH CHARACTERIZATIONS 

 OF NEW GENERA AND DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW 

 SPECIES. 



By W. S. Blatchley, 



Indianapolis, Ind. 



In order that our knowledge of the Rhynchophora of Eastern North 

 America (exclusive of the Scolytidse) may be kept somewhat up to 

 date I hope to prepare, from time to time, articles describing any 

 new species which may come to hand and mentioning those described 

 by others. I will also include notes referring to the extension of the 

 known range and any new knowledge of the food habits which may 

 be gained of those species treated in the " Rhynchophora of North- 

 eastern America," issued in 1916 by Chas. W. Leng and myself. 

 This is the second of two articles which have been prepared supple- 

 mentary to that work, the first appearing in this Journal in 1920.^ 



Since the first article was prepared I have each season collected 

 extensively in Indiana during the summer and autumn months and in 

 southern and southwestern Florida during those of winter and early 

 spring, my work in the latter State having extended as far down as 

 Chokoloskee, the most southern settlement on the West Coast. Nu- 

 merous specimens have also been received, either in exchange or for 

 determination, from many collectors in the region covered. Among 

 those at hand, either taken by myself or received from others, are a 

 number of species not treated in the " Rhynchophora." A few of 

 these are forms then believed to be extralimital to the area covered 

 in that work. The others are species believed to be hitherto unde- 

 scribed and some of them evidently not belonging to any genus charac- 

 terized in the " Rhynchophora." I have therefore, in this paper, 

 described as new 14 species and founded three new genera. No one 

 of the species described is based upon color characters alone, all 

 possessing differences in structure which distinguish them strongly 

 from their nearest allies. 



1 Some New Rhynchophora from Eastern North America with Additions 

 to and Corrections of the " Rhynchophora of Northeastern America," Journ. 

 N. York Entom. Soc, XXVIII, No. 2, June, 1920, pp. 161-178. 



