128 EHYNCHOPHOKA — CURCULIONIDAE. 



IB S. Forehead with white spot. 



Oval, moderately convex. Brown, more or less reddish, 

 rather dull, covered above scantily with grayish, beneath 

 closely with whitish scales ; forehead with a spot of white 

 scales ; thorax nearly conical, slightly constricted in front, 

 with three gray longitudinal lines ; elytra yellow-red, with 

 suture blackish and a transverse denuded band brownish, 

 interstices convex, with rows of small recumbent hairs ; 

 legs red-yellow. Antennae shorter than in C. troglodytes ; 

 punctuation close and not very fine. L. f 1. Eare. 



C. frontalis, Bris. 

 2, Eostrum brown-red, with apex black. 



Nearly oval, moderately convex. Brown-red ; antennae 

 and legs red-yellow ; apex of rostrum and suture of elytra 

 blackish ; covered above rather closely with gray, beneath 

 closely with whitish scales. Thorax nearly conical, scarcely 

 constricted in front, anterior margin scarcely raised, three 

 gray longitudinal lines indistinct ; elytra with striae rather 

 fine, interstices slightly convex, rather strongly roughened 

 behind, with rows of very short recumbent hairs. L. f — f 1. 

 Not common. C. Dawsoni, Bris. 



II, Thorax without gray lines ; elytra with white 

 spot at scutellum. 



1. Elytra short, with apical margin closely covered 

 with white scales. 



Short. Black, scantily covered with white scales ; thorax 

 with lateral tubercles, anterior margin raised ; elytra obtrian- 

 gular-quadrate, much abbreviated, with white scales placed 

 more closely in an obscure scutellary spot and along apical 

 margin; tarsi yellow-red, last joint black at apex; antennae 

 blackish ; punctuation nearly in w^rinkles. L. 1^ — 1| 1. 

 Eare. C. nigroterminatus, Woll. 



2, Elytra not short, apical margin not closely 

 covered with white scales. 



A A, Tarsi black. 



Black, not very shiny, rather scantily covered with 

 small dark scales, generally with a slight violet reflection, 

 and strewn also with somewhat larger gray scales ; elytra 

 with a spot of white scales at base of suture. L. 1 1. Not 

 common. G. versicolor, Bris. 



I> Ji. Tarsi red-yellow. 



