416 Annals Entomological Society of America [Vol. IV, 



L88& Brodie & White: Chuck List Ins. Dora. Canada, p. 47. 



L885: Henshaw: Cat. Coleop. Amer. X. of Mex., p. 137, no. 8230. 



L890: Smith: Cat. Ins. X. fersey, p. 250. 



1898: Beutenmuller: |ourn. X. Y. Ent. Soc, 1: 40. 



L899: Smith: Cat. Ins. New (ersey, p. 343. 



1902: Dury: Journ. Cin. Soc. Nat. Hist.. 20: 182 (sop. p. 76). 



1902: Ulke: Proc. U. S. X. Museum. 25: 355. (Dist. Columbia list). 



1902: Wickham: Bui. Lab. Nat. Hist. St. Univ. p: 



1907: Piercf : Ann. Rpt. Neb. St. Board Agr. p. 258. 



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



1910: Smith: Cat. Ins. New Jersey, p. 381. 

 Ilvpera compla: 



1S71: Gemminger & Harold: Cat. Coleoptera, 8: 238L 



1880: Austin: Supp. Check List Col. X. America, p. 45, no. 8884. 

 Phytonomus diver sus: 



L833: Deiean: Cat. Coll op. coll. Deiean. ed. 2, p. 263. 



1834: Gyllenhal in Schonherr: Gen. et sp. Cure. 2 (pt 2): 371. 



1837: Deiean: Cat. Coleop. coll. Dejean. ed. 3, p. 2M>. 



L842: Gyllenhal in Schonherr: Gen. et sp. Cure., li (pt 2): 372. 



1873: Crotch: Cat. Coleop. X. America, p. lis, no. 699 

 Phytonomus rumicis var. diver sus. 

 Phytonomus rumicis var. comptus: 



' 1901: Petri: Monog d. Coleop.-Tribus Hyperini, p. 129. 292. 



1901: Petri: Bestimm.-Tabcl. Hit. 44, Hyperini, p. 40. 



Original description: Say, 1831, p. 12-13: 



"2. P. comptus. — Elytra with subquadratc, brown spots. Inhabits 

 United States. 



' ' Body cinereous-< ilivai :eous covered with small scales ; rostrum shorter 

 than head and thorax, rather nam iwer at 1 lase ; anlenn:e and feet rufous; 

 thorax somewhat rounded, with a much dilated brown, somewhat 

 metallic vitta (p. 13) scutel small triangular; elytra with slightly im- 

 pressed, but punctured striae, interstitial lines flat, with more or less 

 brown quadrate spots, particularly near the suture, where they are 

 alternate. 



"Length much over three-twentieths of an inch." 

 Adult: (Plate XXIV, figs. I, 3, 5, 6, 17; Plate XXVIII, figs. 1-4). 

 Length 3.3-5 mm. Width 1.2-1.7 mm. 



Rich brown to reddish black and more rarely black, thorax usually 

 darker than the elytra; elongate; closely covered with small scarcely 

 striate rounded scales. Antennae and legs ferruginous. 



Head small, very finely punctured, beneath with fine transverse lines; 

 covered above and below with very narrow blunt scales, on the sides 

 wider and more numerous; these scales are almost hairlike in character; 

 eyes oval, slightly elongate without a fovea behind; front never as wide 

 as an eye: beak about as long as the prothorax in the females, shorter in 

 the males; slightly widened at the tip which is almost always entirely red, 

 never with a carina, rarely curved strongly, usually with many short, 

 scale like hairs on the black portion and a few long slender hairs near the 

 tip on the polished portion, these are set in minute punctures; antennal 

 groove not deeply curved downward, roughened, above it on the beak an 

 elongate depression; antenna only slightly hairy, scape not nearly 

 reaching to the margin of the eyes, polished, equal in length to the 



