36 CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. [Bull. 



Key to Genera. 



1. Front vertical or inferior, not visible from above, the head not 



at all produced Aphelonema, p. Z7 



Front more or less superior, visible from above, the head more or 

 less rostrate-produced 2 



2. Anterior tibiae moderately f oliaceous along its whole upper edge ; 



apex of the produced head forming a nearly spherical polished 



knob Fitchiella, p. 36 



Anterior tibiae simple; apex of the produced head sometimes 

 knob-like, in that case with a sharp median carina; macrop- 

 terous elytra with a series of heavy transverse veins before the 

 apical areoles Bruchomorpha, p. 36 



Fitchiella Van Duzee. 



Naso Fitch. 



F. robertsoni (Fitch). 



Trans. N. Y. St. Agr. Soc, xvi, 396, 1856. 



Testaceous, veined and dotted with black ; the knob-like apex of 

 the head, tv^o vittae on either side of the apex of the front, another 

 pair on the vertex and one on the mesonotum, black ; beneath and 

 legs black, varied with pale. Length 2-3 mm. New York to 

 Florida and must be taken in Connecticut. 



Bruchomorpha Newman. 



Key to Species. 



1. Head produced in a rounded, compressed and carinate, knob-like 



rostrum 2 



Head rounded at apex, not produced in a rostrum; color black, 

 more ,or less metallic, the coxae only pale, the median carina of 

 the front scarcely paler tristis 



2. Black, with a conspicuous, percurrent, dorsal vitta and the legs 



and coxal region almost white dorsata 



Black, narrow median vitta on the front and vertex, legs and 

 coxal region pale or castaneous oculata 



B. dorsata Fitch. 



Trans. N. Y. St. Agr. Soc, xvi, 396, 1856. 



This species has distinct coppery reflections and may be distin- 

 guished from the more western suturalis by having the dorsal vitta 

 continued to the apex of the abdomen. It has been reported from 

 New York westward and should be found in Connecticut. 

 B. oculata Newman. 



Ent. Mag., v, 399, 1838. 



Color of the preceding but with the dorsal vitta narrow and con- 

 fined to the head. Common in grassy places throughout the 

 eastern United States and Canada. 



Colebrook, 21 July, 1905 (H. L. V.) ; Cromwell, 18 July, 1921 

 (B. H. W.) ; Portland, 24 July, 1921 (M. P. Z.) (B. H. W.). 



