114 Journal New York Entomological Society, tvoi. xxx. 



punctures, with numerous minute ones intervening and with a large, deep 

 median concavity on basal half, this continuous with a wider, more shallow 

 one on basal third of elytra, which is gradually evanescent posteriorly. 

 Elytra as wide at base as thorax, two and two thirds times as long as wide., 

 distinctly constricted behind the basal angles; sides parallel to apical third,' 

 tips subacute but not prolonged ; punctures of stri2e round, rather coarse, 

 separated by less than their own diameters. Length 17 mm. 



One male in Wolcott collection, taken by him June 17 on the beach 

 of Lake Michigan, at St. Joseph, Mich. Belongs under b of the key 

 to Group II, p. 340 of the Rhynchophora. Allied to deceptus but much 

 larger, the beak with a very different sculpture and much longer. 

 From fimbriolatns it differs in length and sculpture of beak, relative 

 length of funicular joints, lack of pale pubescent spots on elytra, etc. 



519. Laemosaccus plagiatus (Fabr.). 



A number of specimens were taken at Dunedin in early April by 

 sweeping oak sprouts that had sprung up over a recently burned-over 

 tract; also one at porch light. This is the most southwestern Florida 

 record. 



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The most important work treating of any section of North American 

 Rhynchophora, which has appeared since 1916, is Col. Casey's " Some 

 Descriptive Studies Among the American Barinae," which embraces 

 pp. 300-516 of his Memoirs, IX, issued April 8, 1920. In it he founds 

 23 new genera and describes as new 368 species, 132 of which are 

 from the territory covered by the Rhynchophora. No key to subtribes 

 or genera is given, and a student unfamiliar with the group and hav- 

 ing a specimen in hand which cannot be placed by the Rhynchophora 

 or other work must compare it with the description of each of the 

 new genera until it is located. The same criticism may be made of his 

 treatment of the new species of Ban's, yy species of the genus being 

 described with no key for their separation. 



On account of a lack of space and unfamiliarity with the great 

 majority of the forms described by Col. Casey, I can, in this paper, 

 only call attention to some of the more important changes he has made 

 in the nomenclature of the species of Eastern Barini recognized in 

 the Rhynchophora. and mention a few of his species which I have 

 been able to see. 



