266 CURCULIONID^^. 



[LeConte. 



Pubescence gray-brown and black, tufted 1. Lecontei. 



B, Hind thighs less strongly toothed, hind tibiae slender. 



Black, thinly pubescent with stiff, erect hair; a 

 white sutural spot near the middle 2. centralis. 



Pale brown, varied with dusky, elj'tra with four 

 black spots, pubescent with erect hair, and with a 

 central white sutural spot; hind legs dark 3. tardipes. 



Smaller, brown, varied with dusky; elytra with a 

 more elongate white sutural spot ; hind legs 

 brown 4. fulvipes. 



1. T. Lecontei Gyll., Sch. Cure, i, 312; Sturm, Cat. 1843, 353; pi. 6, f. 1; 

 Zimm., Germ. Zeitschr. ii, 455, (habits); T. horridus Q\\e,\v., Guer. Icon. 

 Regne An. 155, pi. 38, f. 9. 



Maryland, southward to Texas; found on the leaves of young oaks, on 

 the under surfoce of which the insect sits, and falls to the ground when 

 approached, as observed by Zimmermanu. The hind legs, though long 

 and powerful, are not saltatorial, as, indeed, is evident from their form 

 and position; but being widelj' separated and capable of lateral exten- 

 sion, they give to the insect a grasping power which is very great in 

 proportion to its small size. The curious movements in which, when 

 about to alight it turns itself back downwards, and seizes the leaf with 

 tlie elongated curved hind legs, are very well described by Zimmer- 

 mann, in the passage above cited. 



3. T. centralis Lee, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. ii, 55. 



Raton Mountain, Colorado, on Rhus aromaticum. The hind thighs 

 are rather serrulate than toothed, the hind tibia) are straight, not flat- 

 tened. The color is uniform black, the elytral stria; are somewhat con 

 fused, and the white spot is very small. 



3. T. tardipes, n. sj). 



Pale brown, head, middle of prothorax, body beneatlf, hind legs in part, 

 scutellum, and four large spots on the elytra, blackish. Body above 

 thinly clothed with long, erect, gray hairs; prothorax not densely punc- 

 tured, with a tuft of line, soft, whitish hair at the basal angles. Elytra 

 with rows of deep suljquadrate punctures, interspaces narrow convex; 

 with an angulated sutural spot in front of the middle, of soft, white hair, 

 and a few scattered small tufts of the same ; each elytron with a large, 

 dusky spot on the humerus, and a smaller round one near the tip: Be- 

 neath strongly punctured, pubescent with erect hair, sides of trunk with a 

 line of soft, whitish hair. Length 2.3 mm.; .09 inch. 



Texas; one specimen given me by Mr. W. Jiilich; one also in the col- 

 lection of Dr. Horn. The hind thighs are blackish, finely subserrate be- 

 neath; the hind tibioe are longer than the tarsi, pale towards the tip, not 

 flattened, slightly curved, finely subserrate on the outer side; tarsi brown. 



4. T. fulvipes, n. sp. 



Brown, feet uniform reddish testaceous. Bodj^ above thinly clothed 



