296 CURCULIONIDES. 



Inhabits United States. 



Rostrum longer than the head and thorax, with elevated lines : 

 antennae sanguineous : thorax with numerous small grooves con- 

 verging at the dorsal line : elytra with double series of large 

 punctures, the intervening lines elevated, acute : thighs with an 

 acute tooth. 



Inhabits United States. 



Length one-fifth of an inch. 



Allied to Uneaticollls N., but the punctures of the elytra [28] 

 are larger ; body smaller. 



[Vide ante, p. 279. — Lec] 



4. C. cribricollis. — Body black; with numerous, very short 

 hairs : rostrum as long as the head and thorax, transversely in- 

 dented between the eyes: antenna? rufous: thorax much nar- 

 rower before ; the whole surface covered by large concave punc- 

 tures, without any very flat space between them : elytra much 

 wider than the thorax, with rather wide, impressed striae, in which 

 are close set punctures. 



Inhabits Mississippi. 



Length nearly three-twentieths of an inch. 



[Is a Conotrachelus. — Lec] 



5. C. obliqtjus. — Body covered with orbicular scales, which 

 are dusky, black and white : thorax with three distinct black 

 dots, placed transversely : scutel small, black : elytra triangular ; 

 region of the scutel, extending from the humerus to the suture, 

 dusky, in which are about two black spots ; then a very oblique 

 cinereous band ; then a dusky band on the middle ; then a cine- 

 reous band ; tip dusky j with punctured striae. 



Inhabits Louisiana. 



Length less than one-fourth of an inch. 



Schonherr informs me that Dejean has given the name of 

 ■umbrosus to this species, [and it is so described in his work 4, 

 116.— Lec] 



6. C. ferratus. — Body black, with minute, orbicular scales : 

 thorax confidently punctured : rostrum not quite as long as the 

 head and thorax, cylindric, hardly arquated : elytra striate, not 

 visibly punctured, with numerous, yellowish-brown, small, un- 



