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COLEOPTEEA. 



fig. 35. 



beetles, whose antennae are fixed just before the eyes at the 

 base of the snout. 



Curculio (^Pandeletdus) Maris of Herbst (Fig. 35), which 

 we may call the gray-sided Curculio, is a little pale-brown 

 beetle, variegated with gray upon the sides. Its 

 snout is short, broad, and slightly fiirrowed in 

 the middle ; there are three blackish stripes on 

 the thorax, between which are two of a light 

 gray color ; the wing-covers have a broad stripe 

 of light gray on the outer side, edged within by 

 a slender blackish line, and sending two short 

 oblique branches almost across each wing-cover ; 

 and the fore-legs are much larger than the others. The 

 length of this beetle varies from one eighth to one fifth of 

 an inch. The larva lives in the trunks of the white oak, on 

 which the beetles may be found about the last of May and 

 the beginning of Jime. 



The Pales weevil, Curculio (^Hylohius) Pales of Herbst 

 (Fig. 36), is a beetle of a deep chestnut-brown 

 color, having a line and a few dots of a yellow- 

 ish-white color on the thorax, and many small 

 yellowish-white spots sprinkled over the wing- 

 covers. All the thighs are toothed beneath, 

 and the snout is slender, cylindrical, inclined, 

 and nearly as long as the thorax. On account 

 of the length of the snout this insect has been 

 placed in the genus Rhynchcenus by some nat- 

 uralists ; but the antennae are implanted before the middle of 

 the snout, and not far from the sides of the mouth. This 

 beetle measures from two to tliree eighths of an inch in 

 length, exclusive of the snout. It may be found in great 

 abundance, in May and June, on board-fences, the sides 

 of new wooden buUdings, and on the trunks of pine-trees. 

 I have discovered them, in considerable numbers, under 

 the bark of the pitch-pine. The larvae, which do not mate- 

 rially differ from those of other weevils, inhabit these and 



Fig. 36. 



