HYLOBIDiE LEPYRID.E. 197 



DESCRIPTION. 



Body oblono-, of a dark pitch-colour, hoary from decumbent hairs, confluently more or less punc- 

 tured. Rostrum thickish and rather shorter than the prothorax ; thickly and confluently punctured: 

 prothorax with a dorsal levigated line not reaching the base ; disk with numerous confluent irregular 

 excavations or wrinkles ; sides confluently punctured : elytra with ten rows of oblong deep punctures, 

 the interstices of which are confluently punctured, mottled confusedly, except at the base, with 

 whitish hairs : thichs armed with a short tooth ; tibiae, as in the other species of the genus, armed 

 at the apex with an inflexed stout spine or claw : tarsal claws reddish. 



N. B. In a natural arrangement Pissodes aught to be near Hylobius. 



Family LEPYRIDiE. Lepyridans. 



CI. Genus LEPYRUS. Germ. 



(264) 1. Lepyrus Colon. (Linne, Germar.) Colon Lepyrus. 



Lepyrus Colon. Germ. Mag. ii, 340, 29. Schon. Cure. 168. 



Curculio Colon. Linn. Mant. ii, 531. Herbst. Ins. vi, 89, 50, t. lxv, /. 6. Payk. Fn. Suec. iii, 223, 42. Panz. Fn. 



Germ, xlii, 2 ; Encycl. Ins. v, 478, 28. Fuess. Arch. 68, t. xxiv, / 1. 

 Rhynchzenus Colon. Tab. Syst. Eleuth. ii, 441, 15. Gyll. Ins. Suec. iii, 164, 84. 

 Liparus Colon. Oliv. Ins. v, 83, 291 . 317, t. vii, /. 76. 

 Curculio oblongus, fuscus, &c. Geoff. Ins. i, 280, 6. 



Length of the body 6 lines. 



Several specimens taken in Lat. 65°. Taken also by Dr. Bigsby in Canada. 



This species approaches very near to L. arcticus. which it is singular that Ento- 

 mologists have placed in a different genus, some considering it as a Cleonis, 3 others 

 as a Hylobius, 4 it exhibits however precisely the same characters as L. Colon, even 

 to the markings of the prothorax, elytra, and abdomen. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Body black covered with decumbent gray hairs. Rostrum arched, thickish, a little longer than 

 the prothorax, confluently punctured, having also a dorsal longitudinal ridge, terminating between 

 the eyes in a little narrow excavation : prothorax narrowest anteriorly, covered with minute elevations 

 producing wrinkles, and having also a dorsal longitudinal ridge and two oblique, rather curved stripes 

 formed of dense white hairs : the elytra have several rows of punctures, with the interstices minutely 

 granulated ; each elytrum has a discoidal white dot a little below the middle, and, in several speci- 

 mens, there is also an indistinct one between it and the apex : on each side of the abdomen under- 

 neath, as in L. arcticus, are four yellowish round spots formed of hairs. In some specimens the 

 pubescence has a tawny hue, in others the indistinct spot is obliterated. 



3 De Jean and Sturm. 

 4 Schonherr. The characters in which it differs from Hylobius are principally the carinated rostrum, the unarmed thighs, 

 and the straight tibiae, so that it is scarcely more than a subgenus ! 



