1911] Hypera and Phytonomus in America 435 



roundly emarginate, the processes long and slender, scales never cleft; 

 thorax polished, closely densely punctured. There is an obsolete- 

 trivittation on the thorax caused by a few pale scales in the center and 

 on the side in longitudinal lines, the intermediate bands are of brown 

 scales. 



Elytra at base at least one-third wider than prothorax, humeri 

 rounded with dark scales (sometimes almost black), stria?, especially the 

 first and second, deeply punctured, interspaces elevated, a quadrate 

 common spot at base reaching the second interspace, darker brown in 

 color (more evident in type specimen); interspaces clothed with gray 

 and brown scales alternating with brown and black tesselations, es- 

 pecially evident on the last third of the sutural space; hairs or bristles 

 decumbent, sparse on the dorsum at the base, more numerous behind 

 and lying closer to the scales. From the side the elytra show a distinct 

 elevation about two-thirds of the distance towards the tip, then are 

 . rapidly obliquely slanted to the blunt tip. 



Venter clothed with fine deeply emarginate scales, a depression on 

 the first and last segments; mesosternal process between middle coxa' 

 very narrow, linear, elevated, clothed with paler scales; intercoxal 

 process of first segment not broad, pointed. 



Legs with femora black or brownish black, tibiae and tarsi testaceous, 

 claws and last tarsal joint sometimes darker; posterior tibiae with a very 

 short crown of spines, anterior tibiae strongly curved inward, anterior 

 femora deeply contracted near the apex. 



Distribution: (See Map 7). Type locality "Vane. Id.", one 

 specimen, a male, in the Leeonte collection, Mus. Comp. 

 Zoology. 



I have examined one other specimen, also a male, from 

 Vancouver Island, loaned me by Mr. H. C. Fall, Pasadena, Cal. 



R. L. Webster (1909) determined a specimen from Alaska in 

 the Lugger collection as this species. I have seen but one spec- 

 imen from this collection marked Alaska and it is P. seriatus 

 Mann. 



Phytonomus meles Fabricius. 

 Curt nlw griseus: 



1776: Muller: Zool. Dan. Prodr. Anim., p. 88 (nee. Fabricius 177.")). 



1790: Gmelin: Linn. Svst. Nat. ed. xiii, p. 1757, no. 204. 



1827: Gyllenhal: Ins. Suecica, 4 (pt. 4 app.): 372, no. 40. 

 Curculio metes: 



1702: Fabricius: Syst. Ent. emend., 1 (pi. 2): 466, no. 300. 



1795: Fabricus: Nomen. Entomologicus, p. U. 



1795: Herbst: Nat. Ins. Kafer, 6: 495. 



1795: Panzer: Entom. Germanica, p. 325, no. 148. 



1705: Weber: Nomen. Entom. sec. E. S. Fab., p. 56. 



1706: Fabricius: Ind. Alphabeticus, E. S. Emend., p. 57. 



1801: Fabricius: Svst. Eleutherat., 2: 523, no. 97. 



182S: Boitard: Man.d' Entom., 1: 407. 

 Brachyrhinus metes: 



1804: Latreille: Hist. nat. Gen. et pare, 11: 165, no. 31. 



