LEPIDOBARIS,—TRICHOBARIS. All 
shaped white scales; the under surface and legs also with intermixed minute and larger white scales, 
the latter condensed into spots on the sides of the third and fourth ventral segments and an annulus near 
the apex of one or more of the femora, Head finely punctate ; rostrum (¢) stout, gibbous at the base, 
curved, about as long as the head and prothorax, rugosely punctate, ( 2 ) more elongate and with the bare 
apical portion longer and much smoother. Prothorax transverse, abruptly constricted in front, coarsely, 
closely punctate, and with indications of a smooth median line. Elytra moderately long, flattened on the 
disc, transversely depressed below the base, the subapical callosities not prominent ; sharply, narrowly 
striate, the strie feebly punctate, the interstices flat, irregularly seriate-punctate, becoming rougher 
towards the sides. Pygidium densely punctate. Beneath coarsely and closely, the ventral segments 
more finely and sparsely, punctate, 1 and 2 with a depressed, ochreo-pilose space down the middle, and 
5 with a truncated prominence in the centre at the apex, in the ¢. Prosternum as in L, acnistt. 
Length 32-4415, breadth 13-2 millim. (¢ 2.) 
Hab. Mexico, Chilpancingo (HW. H. Smith), Yolos and Juquila in Oaxaca (Sallé). 
Six specimens. Nearly related to L. opacipennis: the elytra shining, and clothed 
with intermixed very large scattered white and small blackish scales, the subapical 
callosities not prominent; the prothorax abruptly constricted in front, and with a 
densely squamose sinuous, marginal, whitish or ochreous stripe; the femora more 
or less annulate with white near the tip. The large fan-shaped scales on the elytra 
(fig. 20 6) are as broad as the interstices. 
5. Lepidobaris nitidipennis, sp.n. (Tab. XX. figg. 21, 21a, ¢.) 
Very like LZ. latisquamis, but with the scattered subtriangular whitish scales on the elytra (fig. 21 a) much 
smaller (those on the disc not half the width of the interstices 2-9), the sinuous marginal stripe on the 
prothorax reduced to a narrow, oblique, interrupted streak, the median line represented by a short streak 
at the base, the rostrum and femora without dense patches of white scales ; the rostrum less gibbous at 
the base, in the Q more slender, much longer, and with the apical half smooth; the elytra transversely 
depressed on the disc before and beyond the middle, finely striate, the interstices (the first excepted) 
confusedly punctate, the subapical callosities more prominent ; the prosternal sulcus shallow or wanting ; 
the ventral segments 1 and 2 with a depressed, densely fulvo-pilose space down the middle, and 5 with 
a truncated prominence in the centre at the apex, in the ¢. 
Length 33-4, breadth 13-2 millim. (¢ 2.) 
Hab. Mexico (Mus. Brit.), Cordova, Toxpam (Sal/é). 
Two males and one female. This appears to be the Vera Cruz (or Atlantic slope) 
form of L. latisquamis, and one that requires a distinctive name. 
TRICHOBARIS. 
Trichobaris, Leconte, Proc. Am. Phil. Soc. xv. p. 287 (1876) ; Casey, Ann. N. York Acad. Sci. vi. 
pp. 467, 561. 
The species of this genus inhabit the Southern United States and Mexico, some of 
them being very destructive to potato and tobacco crops, as well as to various 
wild and cultivated Solanaceous plants. The true 7. trinotata (Say), the “ potato- 
stalk weevil” *, has recently reached as far north as Canada, but it has not yet been 
* For an account of the habits and distribution of this species, see Chittenden, U.S. Dep. Agric., Div. Ent., 
Bull. no. 33, n. ser. pp. 9, 10 (1902). 
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