28 CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. [Bull- 



2. Radial (outer) nervure forked some distance beyond the cubital 



(inner) ; cephalic horn short, not longer than distance from 



front of eye to hind margin of pronotum angustatus 



Radial and cubital nervures forked on about the same line; 

 cephalic horn about one-half longer than the distance from front 

 of eye to hind margin of pronotum 3 



3. Rostrum reaching the posterior coxae spurcus 



Rostrum reaching nearly to apex of the venter perdix 



S. sulcipes Say. (PI. iv, 1.) 



Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., iv, 335, 1825. 



A large brown species easily recognized by the numerous small 

 areoles in the apical half of the elytra. It is the most abundant 

 and widely distributed species of the genus. 



Branford, 29 July, 1904 (P. L. B.) ; New Haven, 29 July. 1920 

 (M. P. Z.) ; 31 July, 1920 (B. H. W.) ; Cornwall, 23 Aug., 1920 (K. F. C.) ; 

 Bridgeport, 20 Sept., 1920 (B. H. W.). 



S>. spurcus Uhler. 



Trans. Md. Acad. Sci., i, 403, 1900. 



This mottled gray and brown insect has been taken from New 

 Jersey southward and should occur in Connecticut. 

 S. perdix Uhler. 



Trans. Md. Acad. Sci., i, 405, 1900. 



Similar to the preceding but with a longer rostrum. It is dis- 

 tributed from Massachusetts southward and must occur in 

 Connecticut. 

 S. angustatus Uhler. (Figs. 1 and 2.) 



Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv., i, 350, 1876. 



A small pale form easily recognized by its short slender cephalic 

 process. 



New Haven, 19 July, 16 Aug., 1904 (P. L. B.) ; 16 Aug., 1904, 19 July, 

 1905, 17 July, 1908, 17 June. 1908 (B. H. W.) ; 23 Aug., 1906 (W. E. B.) ; 

 31 July, 5 Aug., 1920 (B. H. W.) ; Yalesville, 20 Aug., 1920 (M. P. Z.) ; 

 North Haven, 4 Sept., 1921 (B. H. W.). 



Phylloscelis Germar. 



The brachypterous form of these insects, which is much the most 

 common, is of an ovate or subhemispherical form and may be 

 readily recognized by the broad leaf-like anterior femora. 



Key to Species. 



1. Elytra brown, the nervures fuscous dotted with pale pallescens 



Elytra black, the nervures concolorous or pale and undotted 2 



2. Nervures concolorous, black atra 



Nervures pale var. albovenosa 



P. atra Germar. (PI. iv, 5.) 



Zeit. f. Ent, i, 192, 1839. 



The brachypterous form is a nearly globular, shining black 

 insect with the face marked with pale dots and crossed by a pale 



