412 Annals Entomological Society of America [Vol. IV, 



Phytonomus eximius Leconte. 



Phytonomus eximius: 



1876: Leconte: Rhyncophora of N. America, p. 114, no. 4 5, p. ll.">. 

 1877: Popenoe: Tr. Kans. Acad. Sc, 5:38 9. 

 1881: Riley: American Naturalist, 15: 912. 



18S2: Rilev: Report of the Entomologist, p. 111. 

 iss:;: Rilev: in Rpt. U. S. Dept. Agr.. p. 171. 

 1883: Lintner: 1st Rpt. St. Ent. N. Y., p. 248. 

 1885: Henshaw: Cat. Coleop. Am. X. of Mex., p. 137, no. 8231. 

 1898: Beutenmuller: lourn. X. Y. Ent. Soc, 1:40. 

 1909: Webster, R. L.: Entom. News, 20: 81. 

 Hypera eximius: 



1880: Austin: Supp. Check list Coleop. X. Amer., p. 45, no. 8NN.">. 



Adult: (Plate XXVII, fig. 6-8). Length 4.S-r>.:> mm. Width 1.5-2 mm. 



Black, densely clothed with golden-yellow, rust -red, brownish-black 

 or black scales or some combination of the colors, hairs sparse, usually 

 pale 



Head densely, finely punctured, scales dense on head, especially 

 between the eyes, sparse on beak; front narrow, scarcely as wide as beak 

 at tip, about as wide as one eye; eyes oval, scarcely elongate, narrowed 

 beneath very slightly; beak not as long as prothorax, generally covered 

 with fine punctures which often merge into stria 3 that extend almost to 

 the tip which is a little widened, apical two-thirds of beak sparsely 

 el' ithed with long pale or black hairs; antenna black, not densely haired, 

 very long in proportion to size of the insect; scape reaching at least to the 

 eyes, first funicular joint as long as three following, enlarged at tip, 

 second joint as long as third and fourth united, club long pointed, 

 densely pubescent with very fine short hairs. 



Prothorax as long as wide, narrowed in front, sides obliquely sloping 

 back for two-thirds of length, then slightly contracted to posterior edge, 

 sides somewhat swollen, impressed behind; dorsum and sides clothed 

 with ribbed scales that arc almost quadrate in form, and with a few 

 short pale or white hairs. 



Scutellum narrowly triangular, scales yellow. 



Elytra at base one-third wider than widest part of prothorax, 

 gradually widening for two-thirds of length where they become almost 

 one-half wider than prothorax, then gradually sloping to the rounded 

 tip; scales as on prothorax, hairs on interspaces very sparse, inter- 

 spaces flat; punctures of the striae without hairs. In some specimens 

 tlie scales are dark yellow with tesselatcd brown or black spots on 

 alternate interspaces 'beginning with the sutural area; others are rust- 

 it her uniformly scaled or with spots of brown, yellow or gray scales 

 intermixed, or they may be covered entirely with gray Males. 



V enter with entire surface clothed with paler scales and fine pale 

 hairs ; t hese hairs are especially evident in a small area on the mesi (Ster- 

 num; abdominal surface often rubbed so that it appears spotted with 

 black; mesosternal process between middle coxaj elevated, narrowly 

 linear, ending in a rounded point ; inter coxal process of first abdominal 

 segment broad; male genitalia (Plate XX IV, fig. 7) with stem broad, 



s obliquely sloping to a broadly rounded tip. 



