June, 1922.] Blatchley: Notes ON Rhynchophora. 101 



beak, numerous erect stiff bristles, large grayish scales, etc., easily dis- 

 tinguish it. The antennal grooves are deeper and more sharply defined 

 than in the other species of the group. 



271. Grypidius equiseti Fabr. 



Wolcott found an example of this European weevil, June 16, crawl- 

 ing on the sidewalk at Dauphin Park, 111. ; the first record for that 

 State. 



285. Smicronyx squalidus Casey. 



Specimens from Knoxville, Tenn., have been received for determi- 

 nation from S. Marcovitch, Assistant Entomologist at the Tennessee 

 Agricultural Experiment Station. The District of Columbia was the 

 most southern station hitherto recorded. 



290. Smicronyx quadrifer Casey. 



A single specimen of this well-known Erirhinid was taken from 

 the muck in the extinct pond at Ft. Myers. It is a southwestern 

 species previously known only from Alabama, Texas and Arizona. 



Smicronyx rectirostris new species. 



Elongate-oval, convex. Dark reddish-brown, the legs alone paler ; above 

 thinly clothed with oblong-oval white scales, which in part are larger and 

 arranged transversely on the thorax, nowhere condensed and not overlapping 

 on the elytra ; beneath more thickly clothed with similar scales, those on 

 the sterna larger and almost circular, on abdomen smaller and oblong. Beak 

 of male slender, almost straight, nearly as long as head and thorax, coarsely 

 punctate and scaly on basal half ; very finely and sparsely punctate and 

 glabrous beyond the middle. Antennae inserted at middle of beak, scape not 

 reaching eye, second joint of funicle one half as long as first, one half 

 longer than third. Thorax slightly longer than wide, sides very feebly rounded, 

 disk finely punctate, more densely on sides. Elytra conjointly oval, at base 

 three fifths wider than thorax, sides straight to apical third, thence strongly 

 converging to apex ; striae of disk fine, scarcely visibly punctate ; intervals flat, 

 smooth, without setae. Length 2-2.3 mn^- 



Two specimens taken August 27 by Prof. J. R. Watson from shrubs 

 in a cypress-gum flatwoods near Gainesville, Fla. Belongs under cc 

 of Group II, page 211, of the Rhynchophora and allied to connivens 

 Casey, but the beak much straighter, scales less dense, body narrower 

 behind and intervals wholly devoid of the inclined setae which are very 

 distinct in connivens. 



