154 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 
FAMILY CURCULIONIDÆ. 
[196.] 262. CALANDRA PERTINAX O/ivéer.— Length of body 7 lines. 
Taken in Canada by Dr. Bigsby. 
Body obversely pear-shaped, black, naked. Head immersed in the 
prothorax, smooth; rostrum rather shorter than the prothorax, compressed, 
impunctured, channelled above at the base and tumid ; antennae a little 
longer than the rostrum, scape as long as the rest of the antennae, knob 
pear-shaped : eyes immersed, lateral, subovate, not meeting below: pro- 
thorax oblong, rather narrowest anteriorly, tricostate, the two lateral, 
costae sending a branch towards the base; four depressed broad punc- 
tured dull-red stripes occupy the intervals between the elevated parts ; 
sides a little elevated and punctured ; the punctures of the stripes and 
sides are whitish ; scutellum an isosceles triangle, excavated at the base : 
elytra oblong, very slightly furrowed with whitish punctures in the fur- 
rows ; suture, and alternate interstices, elevated ; the others or depressed 
ones dull-red : body underneath with scattered whitish punctures varying 
in size ; postpectus and tarsi chestnut. [Belongs to the genus Spheno- 
phorus Schonh., of the family Curculionide. Not uncommon in Canada.] 
263. HyLoBius conrusus X7rby.—Length of body 414 lines. Taken 
in Canada by Dr. Bigsby, also in Massachusetts by Mr. Drake. 
[197.] Body oblong, of a dark pitch-colour, hoary from decumbent 
hairs, confluently more or less punctured. Rostrum thickish and rather 
shorter than the prothorax ; thickly and confluently punctured : prothorax 
with a dorsal levigated line not reaching the base ; disk with numerous 
confluent irregular excavations or wrinkles ; sides confluently punctured : 
elytra with ten rows of oblong deep punctures, the interstices of which 
are confluently punctured, mottled confusedly, except at the base, with 
whitish hairs: thighs armed with a short tooth ; tibiae, as in the other 
species of the genus, armed at the apex with an inflexed stout spine of 
claw ; tarsal claws reddish. 
264. LEPYRUS COLON Zinn.—Length of body 6 lines. Several spe- 
cimens taken in Lat. 65°. Also taken by Dr. Bigsby in Canada. 
Body black covered with decumbent gray hairs. Rostrum arched, 
thickish, a little longer than the prothorax, confluently punctured, having 
also a dorsal longitudinal ridge, terminating between the eyes in a little 
narrow excavation: prothorax narrowest anteriorly, covered with minute 
clevations producing wrinkles, and having also a dorsal longitudinal ridge 
