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The Genus Scierus Leconte 



Am. Phil. Soc. Proc., 15: 390. 



One described species in our fauna. 



Scierus annectens Lee.; Am. Phil. Soc. Proc., 15: 390, 1876. 



Length, 3-6 mm.; reddish brown, opaque; pronotum wider than long, 

 strongly punctured; elytral strise deep, regular, with close, deep punctures; 

 interspaces finely rugose, thinly clothed with short, yellow hairs. 



Probably more than one species are represented in our collection, 

 taken by the writer at Lesser Slave Lake and Jasper Park, Alberta, and 

 Kelowna, B.C., but they are all left under annectens Lee. for the present. 



Host trees. White Spruce, Englemann's Spruce, Lodgepole Pine; 

 probably also in Sitka Spruce. 



Distribution. Anticosti (Lee.); Lesser Slave Lake, Alberta; Jasper 

 Park, Alberta; Kelowna B.C.; Cariboo District, British Columbia; Van- 

 couver island (Lee.). 



The Genus Hylastinus Bedel 



Bedel, Faun. Col. Seine, 6: 388, 1888. 



One described species in our fauna. 



Hylastinus obscurus Marsham; Ent. Brit., 57, 1802, (Hyksinus); trifolii 

 Muller, 1807. 



Length, 2-5 mm.; shaped like Hylurgops; nearly black; pronotum 

 slightly wider than long, coarsely closely punctured with smaller punctures 

 intermixed, elytra deeply striate, punctures coarse, close and shallow, 

 interspaces strongly rugose; side pieces of the meso-and metathorax densely 

 clothed with yellow, fringed scales. 



Host plants. Red and Mammoth Clover, Alsike (less commonly), 

 White Dutch, and Sainfoin (cutting tunnels but not breeding) in Canada. 



Distribution. Southern Quebec, southern Ontario, and Eastern United 

 States. 



A most injurious species, tunnelling the roots of clovers, particularly 

 of the red and mammoth varieties (PI. 5, fig. 4). 



The Genus Alniphagus, new genus. 



Of medium size, antennal funicle 7-segmented, club feebly compressed, 

 with sutures 1 and 2 strongly chitinized, last two segments longer than 2 and 

 rapidly narrowed, segments of club indistinctly subdivided by a constriction 

 and a row of hairs; beak short; pronotum strongly muricate on the sides in front; 

 side pieces of the meso-and metathorax densely scaly; forecoxse widely separated; 

 proventriculus without distinct diagonal lines, the costal teeth numerous at 

 the base of the bristles, its disc finely sparsely granulate, chitinized on the sides, 

 the transverse lines strong; the ligula rounded at the apex. 



The type is Hylesinus aspericollis Leconte, 1876, the only species in our 

 fauna. 



Alniphagus aspericollis Lee.; Am. Phil. Soc. Proc., 15: 379, 1876, (Hylesinus). 



Length, 3 5 to 4 mm. ; the median epistomal lobe wide, the pronotum 



with small punctures and decidedly muricate, more strongly in front; 



scutellum minute, depressed; the elytral strise strongly impressed and 



