Sept., 1922.] Blatchley: Notes on Rhynchophora. 121 



It is allied to cribricollis Lee, but is distinct in the more slender 

 form, arrangement of vestiture, longer thorax, alutaceous surface, etc. 



645. Eunyssobia echidna (Lee.)- 



Scores of this little bristly weevil were taken at intervals through- 

 out the past summer from the trunk of a dying beech tree near Broad 

 Ripple, Marion Co., Ind. On sunny afternoons they would be found 

 singly, running rapidly about on the bark, but in cloudy weather 

 they congregated together in small clusters. It is probably a common 

 species on dying beech throughout its range. 



653. Cylindrocopturus nanulus (Lee). 



Five examples were beaten April 26 from the foliage of Ampe- 

 lopsis in low moist grounds near Dunedin, Fla. One of the males 

 is very close to, if not identical with, C. floridanus Casey, which 

 Leng in his Catalogue has made a variety of nanulus. 



658. Psomus armatus (Dietz). 



On p. 278 of the Rhynchophora it was stated that the Orchestes 

 armatus of Dietz (1891) and the Psomus politus of Casey (1892) 

 were the same, yet on p. 424 the species was treated erroneously under 

 Casey's name. Specimens have recently been taken in Starke and 

 Marion counties, Ind. Dietz's type was from Allegheny, Pa. Va- 

 ries in color from shining black to pale reddish-brown, two evidently 

 mature specimens of the latter hue, taken in June at River Crest, 

 111., having been sent me by Wolcott. 



Tribe Echinaspini new tribe. 



Small oval, robust species, having the body broad behind, strongly tapering 

 in front ; eyes very small, finely facetted, widely separated ; beak in repose 

 concealed in a deep prosternal groove ; thorax at base much narrower than 

 elytra, without ocular lobes ; front coxas widely separated, pectoral groove 

 wide, deep, extending into the mesosternum ; legs very short, femora not 

 clavate ; fourth tarsal joint nearly as long as the others united, claws 

 simple, strongly divergent; abdomen horizontal, ventral segments unequal; 

 pygidium concealed. 



Evidently belongs between the tribes Zygopini and Ceutorhynchini, 

 differing from the former in its small, remote eyes, and from the 

 latter by the lack of ocular lobes. 



