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covers. Its thorax and wing covers have the same sculpture 
with that. Its head shows no line along the middle, except 
upon the upper lip where is a slender short elevated one which 
ends before it reaches a slight transverse depression which 
crosses the lower part of the face. Its body beneath is black, 
the legs dark chestnut with the thighs commonly black. It 
moreover differs generically from the preceding in having seven 
instead of but four small joints in its antennas between the long 
club-shaped basal joint and the knob at the tip, which knob is 
shaped like an egg and is divided by transverse lines into four 
short joints. Its shanks also have only fine denticulations along 
their outer edge near the tip, in place of the coarse saw-like 
teeth which are seen in the foregoing insect. It thus pertains 
to the genus Hylastes of Erichson. 
249. Coal-black Hylastes, Hylastes carbonarius, new species. 
A beetle so closely like the preceding that it merits to be noticed in con¬ 
nection therewith, is the Hylastes carbonarius of my cabinet. It is 0.20 long, 
of a pure black color, except its feet and antennae which are chestnut red. Its 
face shows no transverse depression inferiorly, but has an elevated line along 
the middle, reaching a third of its length. The smooth line along the middle 
of the thorax is less distinct than in the foregoing species, being slightly if at 
all elevated, and the punctures of this part are more coarse. Its wing covers 
are not bearded posteriorly, and its general form is plainly more narrow and 
slender than that of the Pine Hylastes. The only specimen I have seen was 
captured the middle of July, in the yard in front of my dwelling. 
250. Pales weevil, Hylobius Pales, Herbst. (Coleoptera. Curculionidae.) 
A large dark chestnut colored or black weevil 0.30 to 0.40 
long, sprinkled over more or less with dots whereof one on the 
middle of the outer side of the wing covers is more bright, 
these dots being formed by fine short yellowish gray hairs. 
Quite common in May and June among pine trees and in mill 
yards and on piles of pine lumber; with its long cylindrical 
snout perforating the bark and crowding an egg into the hole, 
the larva from which, similar in its appearance to that of the 
white pine weevil No. 255, fully described on a following page, 
burrows beneath the bark, loosening it from the wood. See 
Harris’s Treatise, p. Gl. 
