RHYNCHOPHORA. 497 
ORTHORIS (to follow the genus Pseudorthoris, p. 358). 
Orthoris, Leconte, Proc. Am. Phil. Soc. xv. p. 286 (1876) ; Casey, Ann. N. York Acad. Sci. vi. 
pp. 467, 570. 
We are indebted to Mr. Wickham for sending us a Mexican representative of this 
American genus, remarkable amongst the Barids on account of the non-unguiculate 
tibize, the tarsal claws, on the contrary, being long and divergent. The type, O. crotch, 
Lec., appears to be a common insect in Colorado, California, ‘Texas, &c., and it may also 
occur in Mexico. 
1. Orthoris cylindrifer. (Tab. XXIII. figg. 31, 31a, ¢.) 
Orthoris cylindrifer, Casey, Ann. N. York Acad. Sci. vi. pp. 570, 571°; Pierce, Ent. News, 1907, 
p. 381°. 
Hab. Nortu America, Arizona!, Texas 2.—Mexico, Cuernavaca, Puente de Ixtla 
(Wickham). 
The two specimens received agree very nearly with Casey’s description, which was 
based on a single female example. The antennal club is very elongate in both sexes. 
The ventral segments 1 and 2 are deeply excavate down the middle in the male. 
O. cylindrifer, according to Pierce, breeds in the stems and roots of Mentzelia 
oligosperma (order Loasee), a plant inhabiting Northern Mexico *. 
BUSCKIELLA, n. n. 
Busckia, antea, p. 454 (Feb. 1909) (nec Dyar, 1902). 
The generic name Busckia is preoccupied in Lepidoptera and must therefore be 
changed. 
1. Busckiella lecythidis. 
Busckia lecythidis, anted, p. 454, t. 22. figg. 4, 4 a-c. 
anteriorly ; finely, somewhat closely punctate, except along the smooth median line, the punctures 
becoming coarser and confluent at the sides. Scutellum small, transverse. Elytra considerably wider 
than the prothorax, oblong-cordate, depressed along the suture ; sharply punctato-sulcate, the interstices 
flat, 2 and 3 finely and confusedly, and the others closely, uniseriately, punctate. Beneath closely punc- 
tate. Prosternum slightly depressed down the middle anteriorly. Anterior coxe small, separated by 
about one and a half times their own width. 
Length 4, breadth 13 millim. (Q ?) 
Hab. St. Vincent, Windward side (H. H. Smith). 
One specimen. Not unlike L. (Baridius) ethiops, Kirsch, from Sarayacu, but larger and more narrowed in 
front and behind, the elytra depressed along the suture and deeply sulcate, the rostrum longer and more 
slender, &c, 
* Biol. Centr.-Amer., Botany, i. p. 473. 
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