272 CURCTJLIONIDES. 



elytra with rather longer hairs than the thorax, with slender 

 punctured strife, punctures obsolete towards the tip ; humerus a 

 little prominent, somewhat carinate ; feet unarmed. 



Inhabits Missouri. 



Length oyer three-twentieths of an inch. 



5. L. lineatulus. — Body with a dirty yellowish cinereous 

 covering, and with short, robust hairs ; rostrum with two longi- 

 tudinal grooves ; antennae rufous ; thorax rounded, with a trans- 

 verse indented anterior line and a longitudinal obsolete, impressed 

 one : the whole surface has a granulated appearance; elytra with 

 the striae and punctures concealed by the covering, the alternate 

 interstitial lines prominent and distinct. 



Length over one-fifth of an inch. 



Very distinct from the preceding species and may be distin- 

 guished from them by its much smaller size. 



BARYNOTUS Germ. 



1. B. rigidus. — Body dirty brown, with remote, robust, up- 

 right hairs : rostrum short, thick, transversely indented between 

 the eyes; thorax a little indented longitudinally; transverse, as 

 broad in the middle as the base of the elytra; elytra with 

 the striae obtuse, slightly impressed, punctured ; interstitial lines 

 having the hairs distant and regular. 



Inhabits Connecticut. 



Length less than one-fifth of an inch. 



[Pltyxiiis rigidus Sch. Cure. 7, 124. — Lec] 



2. B. erinaceus. — Rather slender ; thorax rounded, some- 

 what distant from the abdomen. 



Inhabits United States. 



Body covered with very minute, oppressed, orbicular, dark 

 brown scales : rostrum robust, moderate ; mandibles exerted ar- 

 quated simple, acute, unarmed, nearly half as long as the ros- 

 trum : thorax rough, the scales and their intervals exhibiting 

 the irregularity of a sanded surface ; hairs numerous ; interval 

 between the thorax and abdomen widely contracted : elytra with 

 purfctured striae and rigid equi-distant black hairs on the inter- 

 stitial lines ; posterior declivity nearly vertical. 



Length over one-fifth of an inch. [12] 



