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derer, with more angulate apical angles, a more truncate hind margin, 

 and the punctuation Ifss profuse and not so sharp. Length, 2-7° 

 breadth, l-l-"" 



1 mm 



One specimen : No. 16895, Scarborough. 



0. obtectum is reported from Canada, Massachusetts, Michigan, Penn- 

 sylvania and Missouri. 



CUKCULIONIDAE. 



Erycus consumptus sp. nov. 



PI. XIII., Figs. 1, 2. 



A single right elytron (Fig. 2) broken across the middle, but otherwise 

 nearly perfect, except at the extreme tip, appears to be an Erycus. The 

 ten strise are deeply impressed, with profuse and deeper punctuation, the 

 interspaces convex ; the fourth and fifth striae are the shortest and nearly 

 unite at their tips, near the middle of the apical two-fifths of the elytron 

 and near its middle line ; the third and sixth unite somewhat beyond 

 this. It appears to fall tolerably near E. punciicollis LeC, the strise, 

 their apical union, the puncta and the size agreeing well ; but it differs in 

 that the elytron does not narrow so much apically, and in that the inter- 

 spaces between the striae are much more convex. The length of the frag- 

 ment is 3'2'°°'; probably the elytron was 3*6°° long; the breadth is 



One specimen : No. 16850, Scarborough. 



With this I place the head and beak of another specimen (Fig. 1), 

 found in a different spot, because by an independent examination of the 

 large series of North American Curculionidae in the Museum of Compar- 

 ative Zoology, I found no other species with which it corresponded closely 

 but the same U. punciicollis LeC, and its size matches well. The beak 

 is a trifle smaller than in the modern species, and not bent as there at 

 the insertion of the antennae, while the head proper is distinctly larger 

 and more rotund. The sculpturing is very similar as weU as the general 

 shape, the obliteration of the markings behind the eye indicating a similar 

 covering by a lobe of the pronotum. Length of beak from base of 

 antennal scrobes, 1 ■8"". 



One specimen: No. 16866. Logan's brickyard, Toronto. 



U. punoticollis is found about Lake Superior and in the Middle and 

 Western United States. 



