274 CURCULIOXID^E. 



[LeConte. 



densely punctured, occiput finely carinate. Beak half as long as the body, 

 slender, cylindrical, shining and sparsely punctured towards the tip, striate 

 and punctured, and carinate towards the base ; eyes distant, front slightly 

 concave. Prothorax a little wider than long, gradually but strongly 

 narrowed in front, constricted near the tip, apical margin elevated, post- 

 ocular lobes large and broad ; disc densely punctured, dorsal channel deep, 

 lateral tubercles small. Elytra oblong, wider than the prothorax, stria? 

 rather fine, interspaces broad, flat, densely and strongly rugose and granu- 

 late. Funicle of antennas rather long, first and second joint elongated, 

 the first stouter ; joints 3-7 gradually a little broader, club moderate, oval, 

 pointed. Thighs acutely toothed, claws cleft. Length 3.2 mm.; .125 

 inch. 



(5\ Last ventral segment with two widely separated elevations. 



Los Angeles and Tejon, California ; Mr. Crotch. Very similar to the 

 next, but the pubescence of the upper surface is much finer, and not gray, 

 but brown, and the interspaces of the elytra are much more rough. 



2. C. rapse Gyll., Sch. Cure, iv, 547; Redt., Fauna Austr. 805 ; Thorns., 

 Skand. Col. vii, 271. 



Canada, Middle and Western States ; also in northern and middle 

 Europe. The interspaces of the elytra are finely rugose, and towards the 

 tip are sparsely muricate with elevated acute granules. The last ventral 

 segment as in the preceding species has two distant tubercles in the male. 



3. C. sulcipennis, n. sp. 



Rather broader ovate, black, clothed beneath with small whitish scales, 

 above very slightly pubescent. Head and beak punctured, the latter curved, 

 not distinctly striate at the base; occiput finely carinate. Prothorax wider 

 than long, narrowed in front, somewhat rounded on the sides, slightly con- 

 stricted near the tip ; apical margin slightly elevated, postocular lobes en- 

 tirely wanting; disc coarsely confluently punctured, channeled, lateral 

 tubercles distinct, acute. Elytra deeply sulcate; interspaces not wider than 

 the striae, rough and muricate; an elongate basal spot on the suture, com- 

 posed of small white scales, sometimes removed by abrasion. Funicle 

 slender, first joint nearly as long as the second, and stouter; third nearly as 

 long as the second; 4-7 gradually shorter, but scarcely thicker; club mode- 

 rate, oval pointed. Thighs acutely toothed, claws cleft. Length 2.5 mm. ; 

 .10 inch. 



<3\ Last ventral segment with a shallow circular impression. Beak 

 stouter, densely punctured. 



9. Last ventral segment not impressed; beak longer, more slender, less 

 densely punctured. 



Southern and Western States. The mesosternum is slightly concave; 

 indicating a pectoral groove, though without ridges. In this character, as 

 well as by the stouter and more densely punctured beak of the $, it shows 

 a tendency towards Cceliodes. 



