310 CURCULIOXIDJE. 



[T.eConte. 



rugose on the sides, str.mgly cons' ricted at the base. Prothorax witter tlian 

 long, much rounded on the sides, strongly tubularly cons- ricted at tip; very 

 coarsely and somewhat confluently punctured; scales sparse, white, narrow, 

 direc.ed transversely ; dorsal line narrow; scutellar lobe broad, slightly 

 emarginate. Elytra not wider than the prothorax, gradually narrowed 

 behind the humeri, thinly clothed with white scales broader than those of 

 the prothorax, tips separately but narrowly rounded; strise deep, broad and 

 punctured; interspaces narrow, with large punctures nearly arranged in 

 single rows. Funicle of antennas with the second joint half as long 

 as the first. Beneath coarsely punctured, clothed not very densely with 

 oval white scales. Hind margin of prothorax emarginate beneath; side 

 pieces of metasternum wide; fifth ventral shorter than third and fourth 

 united. Length 4.0 mm. ; .18 inch. 



Texas, Belfrage, one $. The prosternum is deeply excavated as in the 

 two preceding species, but the horns are much shorter, and scarcely curved. 

 This, however, may be an individual character. 



6. C. modestus Boh., Sell. Cure, iii, 772-. 



Middle and Southern States. Similar in form to the preceding species, 

 black, sprinkled with small oval white scales. Beak as long as the head 

 and prothorax, stout, regularly curved, sparsely punctured. Prothorax 

 wider than long, feebly rounded on the sides, which are oblique, strongly 

 constricted at tip; densely, somewhat confluently punctured, with a nar- 

 row smooth dorsal line. Elytra conjointly rounded at tip; stria? deep, in- 

 terspaces coarsely punctuivd. Prosternum with a well defined deep 

 impression, rounded in front, extending nearly to the anterior margin; 

 coxae moderately widely separated, hind margin not emarginate ; side 

 pieces of metathorax wide; fifth ventral segment a little longer than fourth. 

 Funicle of antennae with first joint elongate, second a little longer than 

 third. Length .4 mm.: .15 inch. 



tf with a small cusp each side, immediately before the front coxa3; 

 abdomen flattened near the base; anal segment slightly visible on the under 

 surface. 



7. O. psrscillus Gyll., Sch. Cure, iii, 762. 



Kansas, one male. The scales are dirty gray, not linear but oval, and 

 d :nsely placed. The prothorax is wider than long, rapidly narrowed from 

 the base, with the sides not very much rounded, and the tip only feebly 

 constricted. The elytra are conjointly rounded at tip, and the pygidium 

 is not exposed; the stria? are de:-p and punctured. The second joint of the 

 funicle is as long as the first, the side pieces of the metasternum are wide, 

 the fifth ventral is but little longer than the fourth, and the hind margin of 

 the prothorax beneath is narrowly emarginate in front of the mesosternum. 

 Length 3.5 mm.; .14 inch. 



The prosternum is deeply excavated, and the horns are short and conical. 



8. O. neg-lectus, n. sp. 



Very similar to (7. perscillus, but rather narrower, clothed with oehreous 



