260 CURCULIONIDES. 



Body black ; antennae rufous at base ; thorax transverse ; 

 elytra witb slender, deep, punctured striae ; a common, large tri- 

 angular white band, connected along the suture with the white 

 scutel and attenuating to the lateral edge ; in the middle on each 

 side of the suture is a black dot ; posterior thighs with a spine, 

 beyond which are two smaller spines. 



Length nearly three-twentieths of an inch. [ 2 ] 



Readily distinguished by the common white triangular band of 



the elytra marked by two black spots. I had three specimens 



from Mexican seeds of the size of those of Palmetto, but concave 



within. 



3. B. mimus. — Brown, varied with black lines and cinereous- 



Inhabits Indiana. 



Body light brown, variegated : antennas pale rufous : thorax 

 much narrowed before, with two interrupted, elevated, black lines 

 and one or two on each side ; base rather prominent at the scutel ; 

 scutel whitish apparently bifid : elytra with black spots and ab- 

 breviated lines, which have a whitish spot at their anterior 

 tip ; a light brown line curves inwards from the humerus and 

 passes along the third interstitial line towards the tip ;. beneath 

 dusky or blackish : feet pale rufous ; posterior thighs blackish 

 beneath with several minute spines and four or five larger ones 

 near the tip : posterior tibiae blackish, subfasciate beyond the mid- 

 dle : podex yellow. 



Length less than three-twentieths of an inch. 



5. B. OCULATUS. — Brown; posterior thighs three or four- 

 toothed. 



Inhabits Mexico. 



Body elongated, pale brown, covered on every part with short 

 prostrate, dense hair : head on the front dusky, with a slight cu- 

 preous tinge ; much dilated orbits cinereous ; tip of the ' labrum 

 piceous : antennae fuscous : four basal joints honey -yellow ; tho- 

 rax with a hardly obvious, dorsal, pale line : elytra with acute 

 strise, which have distant punctures rather short : anal segment 

 but little oblique, more than half the length of the elytra ; feet 

 honey -yellow : posterior thighs near the tip with about four teeth, 

 of which the first is most prominent. 



Length one fifth of an inch. 



