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impressed, punctured, each puncture with a short white thick hair or 

 seta; a single row of white setae, short and stout in front and longer 

 behind on each interspace; interspaces not elevated. Seta? on all parts 

 of insect more or less decumbent; scales very evenly, regularly set, so 

 that they appear almost as if in rows on the interspaces; color very 

 uniform dull yellow or dirty white or gray. In one specimen there is 

 almost a complete tesselation, with pale brown quadrate maculae on the 

 yellow ground. 



Venter with scales usually paler and on abdomen intermixed with 

 transverse rows of short white hairs; mesosternal process between 

 middle coxae long, narrow, enlarged at tip, elevated; intercoxal process 

 of first abdominal segment broad at base and rapidly curving to a blunt 

 point. Stem of male genitalia (Plate XXIV, fig. 8) gradually and 

 evenly rounded to the blunt tip, sides parallel for two-thirds of length, 

 edges not strongly curved inward. 



Legs pale red, claws dark red; femora only little curved; femora 

 clothed in front with scales; tibia; and tarsi and usually the femora 

 clothed behind with long stout hairs; tibiae and tarsi clothed in front 

 with hairs or scales or both, crown of spines on posterior tibiae short and 

 yellow; sometimes all the legs are entirely covered with short hairs or 

 setae and with scales. 



Distribution: (See Map 3). Type locality, "Dacota," 1 

 specimen in Leconte collection, Mus. Comp. Zoolog 



I have seen a number of specimens of this species collected 

 by Norman and Evelyn Criddle on Rumex venosus along streams 

 at Aweme, Manitoba (23-vi-08, Criddle coll.) (v-26-04, Wenzel 

 coll.), vi-11-03, (Wickham coll.) and also one specimen in the 

 Horn collection (Am. Ent. Soc.) from Colorado. 



R. L. Webster (1909) records the species from "Ykn," 

 Las Vegas, N. Mex., and Wyoming (Bolter coll.), but an 

 examination of these specimens shows that they do not belong 

 in the tribe Hyperini. 



Phytonomus comptus Say. 



Phytonomus comptu 



1831- Say. Deic . 'if X. American Curculionidae, p. 12-13. 



1834: Gv' 1 . 1 - tl in Schonherr: Gen. et sp. Cure. 2(pt. 2): 384. 



1S42: GylL. lal in Schonherr: Gen. et sp. Cure. 6(pt. 2): 380, no. 70. 



L853: Melsheimer: Cat. Desc. Coleop. United States, p. 95. 



1859: Leconte: Comp. Writing of Thomas Saw 1: 27 4. 



1873: Crotch: Cat. Coleop. of N. Amer., p. 118, no. 6992. 



1S78: Hubbard & Schwarz: Proc. Am. Phil. Soc. 17: 663. 



1S79: Dury: Tourn. Cin. Soc. Nat. Hist., p. 14. 



L880: Zeis'ch & Reinecke: List Coleop. vie. Buffalo, p. 14. 



1881: Zeisch & Reinecke: Bui. Buf. Soc. Nat. Hist., 4: 14. 



1881: Riley: American Naturalist, 15: 912. 



1X82: Rilev: Report of the Entomologist, p. 111. 



1883: Riley: in Rpt. U. S. Dept. Agr. f. 1SS1-2, p. 171. 



18S3: Lintner: First Rpt. St. Entom. N. Y., p. 248. 



