278 CURCULIONIDES. 



Inhabits United States. 



Curculio varians Melsh. Catal. 



Body more or less dull rufous, or piceous, punctured : head 

 piceous : rostrum with elevated lines : antennae rufous : club dusky : 

 thorax piceous, very much crowded with punctures ; small recurved 

 distant whitish hairs : scutel oval white : elytra with dilated im- 

 pressed striae of large punctures ; rufous with the edge piceous ; 

 two or three undulated, macular, whitish bands of short hairs : 

 beneath piceous : feet rufous. 



Length, including the rostrum, one-tenth of an inch. 



Var. a. Obscure piceous, almost black ; bands obvious. 



This varies considerably in its depth of coloring. 



Subgenus Odontopus nob. 



Eyes approximate. 



3. A. calceattjs. — Spine of the anterior thighs robust, den- 

 ticulated before. 



Inhabits Indiana. 



Body black : antennae piceous ; clava darker : thorax very 

 densely punctured, rather large, much narrowed before : scutel 

 longitudinal, oblong, sublinear : elytra with profoundly impressed, 

 punctured striae, interstitial lines flattened, densely punctured ; 

 anterior thigh with a very prominent robust tooth ; anterior to 

 which are small denticulations ; intermediate thighs with a small 

 tooth • posterior pair with the tooth obsolete ; tibiae, anterior pair 

 much arquated. 



Length nearly three-twentieths of an inch. 



This is not uncommon. With the form and habit of the insects 

 of this genus it has approximate eyes. 



[This is identical with Prionomerus carbonarius Sch. — Lec] 



EKODISCUS Schbn. 



E. myrmecodes. — Black, scutel and line on pectus and post- 

 pectus whitish. 



Inhabits United States. 



Body black, with numerous slender upright hairs ; thorax very 

 convex above : scutel cinereous ; elytra convex with slightly im- 

 pressed striae, punctured : thighs clavate, emarginate and with a 

 large compressed tooth : tibiae arquated at base : anterior pair 



