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Brachytarsoides 'paululus Casey is recorded by Blatcliley and Leng 

 from the seed pod of Staphylea trifolia. 



Brachytarsoides plmnheus LeConte was found abundant on 

 Coreo'psis cardaminefolia at San Antonio, Tex., May 4, 1905, and 

 on Argetnone platyceras rosea at Cotuila, Tex., May 5, 1905, by J. C. 

 Crawford and the writer. 



Brachytarsoides riddelliae Schaeffer was originally described from 

 {Riddellia) Psilostrophe sp. at Tucson, Ariz. It was taken on 

 Ratibida colmnnaris at Del Rio, Tex., May 1, 1907, by F. C. Bishopp. 



Brachytarsoides sticticus Boheman {variegatus Say) has been 

 recorded as depredating wheat bins in New York. E. A. Schwarz 

 bred it from smut of corn. Chittenden says the larvae are fungus 

 feeders and breed in smut of wheat and corn. Blatchley and Leng 

 record it on flowers of Cephalanthus occidentalis in Indiana. 



Brachytarsoides toTnentosus Say occurs on Amhrosia artemisiae- 

 folia. 



Brachytarsoides vestitus LeConte breeds in flower heads of Helen- 

 ium tenuifoliuTYi. 



Anthrihulus rotundatus LeConte is recorded on the flowers of 

 Vaccinimn by Blatchley and Leng. 



I find no record of the host of Araeoderes texanum Schaeffer. 



Family CHORAGIDAE Des Gozis (1882) 

 Most of the insects of this family have the ability to jump. 



TABLE OF SUBFAMILIES OF CHOEAGIDAB 



Elj^tra striate ; labial palpi four jointed Choraginae, new subfamily. 



Elytra not striate Xenorchestinae, new subfamily. 



Choraginae, new subfamily 



This subfamily contains three tribes : 

 Notioxenini with prothoracic carina antebasal. 

 Choragini with prothoracic carina basal or subasal. 

 Homoeoderini with prothoracic carina absent. 

 Only the Choragini are represented in our fauna. 



TABLE OF NORTH AMERICAN GENERA OF CHORAGINI 



Antennae with second joint shorter than the first Araecerus Schonherr. 



Antennae with second joint as long as the first Choragus Kirby. 



Holostilpna Jordan. 



The type of Araecerus is fasciculatus DeGeer {coffeae Fabricius). 

 This species known variously as the coffee bean weevil, the areca-nut 

 weevil, and the ubiquitous bean weevil is tropicopolitan or subtropi- 

 copolitan, breeding in many kinds of vegetable matter. It breeds in 



