1911] Hypera and Phytonomus in America 42o 



Hypera punctulata: 



1821: Dejean: Cat. coll. Coleop., p. 89. (Credited to Ziegler). 

 Hypera elongata var. variabilis: 



L821: Dejean: Cat. Coleop. coll. ed. 1, p. 89 (Credited to Ziegler). 

 Phytonomus elongatus var. variabilis: 



1833: Dejean: Cat. Coleop. coll. Dejean ed.. 2, p. 264. 



1837: Dejean: Cat. Coleop. coll. Dejean. ed. 3. p. 286. 



Original desrciption: Schrank: 1798, p. 404-5: 

 "Curculio diversipunctatus. 

 Wohnort: — Urn Gern. 



AUSMESSUXG. 



Lang vom Grande des Ruckenschildes bis zum After 2}4' 



Breit uber die Flugeldeeken l}4' 



Anm. Die Fohlhorner, Schienbeine, und Fussblatter muschelbraun ; 

 Russel und Kopf braunschwarz, erhaben punetirt, mil rostgelben 

 einzelnen sehr kurzen Harehen in den Vertiesungen. Die Flugcldecke 

 (denn es ist nur eine einzige, ohne alle Nahe, die zugleich die Seiten des 

 Hinterleibes ziemlich an der Bauch hinab bedeckt) schwarzlicht braun 

 mit Punctreisen; die Puncte entfernt, vertieft. Die Flugeldecke ist mit 

 niederliegenden grauen sehr kleinen Haaren dicht bedeckt, die ihr das 

 Ansehen geben, als wenn sie mit rothlichen Puncten dieht besaet ware. 



Viellcicht ist dieser Kafer Hrn. Herbsts Curculio suspiciosus und 

 wenn das ware, so musten unsere beiderseitigen Benennungen in die 

 viel bessere; Cure. Millefolii abgeandeart werden, indem die Larve des 

 Herbs tichen Kafers dei Blatter der Schaafgarbe abweidet. " 



Adult: (Plate XXVII, figs. 1-2). Length 5-11 mm. (according 

 to Capiomont, although Petri saw no specimens as large as 11 mm.) 

 Width (i mm. (measured from three specimens Lignitz, Hildesheim, and 

 the Greenland specimen in the Mus. Comp. Zoology). 



Body elongate, black, rather stout, scales cleft to the base, in the 

 specimens seen the pubescence always gray or brown, very uniformly 

 distributed and generally of an uniform color. 



Head with front as broad as width of eye or broader, flat, densely 

 pubescent; eyes nearly circular in outline; beak scarcely narrower than 

 front at base, about, two-thirds as long as prothorax, densely punctured, 

 punctures often in irregular striae , keel at base very indistinct , a long groove 

 above the antcnnal insertion; antenna: inserted near the tip of the beak, 

 pale reddish brown or reddish yellow, club darker, scape reaching over 

 the edge of the eyes but not to their middle, not as long as the funicle, 

 first and second funicular joints very long, the first the longer, the second 

 as long as third and fourth united, club elongate oval, pointed, densely 

 pubescent, The fifth funicle joint is much the smallest. 



Prothorax broader than long, widest in front of the middle, strongly 

 rounded, sides densely punctate, the punctures forming irregular stria?, 

 dorsum densely punctured, clothed with brown hairs, no scales present, 

 and sometimes show a median and two side lines that are paler than the 

 rest of the prothorax. 



Elytra narrow at base, only slightly wider than the thorax before the 

 middle; humeri not very prominent, sides of elytra obliquely widened 



