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of Astr<i>t<(lH*. ludeed one would be far more justified in considering B. 

 alboscuteUatus Horn a synonym of obsolete Say than in considering/a&te 

 a synonym of it, and when the Bruchus from Astragalus in the Eastern 

 States is bred, I fully expect Dr. Horn to change his mind. Xor is the 

 assumption justifiable that the obsoletits referred to by me, and destroyed 

 in the Walsh collection, is hibisci Oliv. It was far more like albo- 

 scuteUatus as far as I remember, and there is not a character about this 

 species which does not accord with Say's description of obsoletus except 

 that the scutel is described as rounded, while that of obsoletus is de- 

 scribed by Say as quadrate. I am of opinion that too much stress has 

 been laid on this difference by Dr. Horn, as, when the pubescence is 

 separated behind, the scutel appears quadrate, whereas in fabce it ap- 

 pears bifid. The scutel of alboscutellatus when denuded is quadrate, 

 but it is doubtless the clothed appearance which Say described. Say, 

 as appears from his text, had abundant material, and it is assuming too 

 much to suppose that he could overlook the striking differences in size 

 and coloration of fabte, as above indicated. 

 The specific name fabce was used by Brulle for Bruchus pisorum Linn. 



M.VDARUS VITIS, N. Sp. Length, exclusive of rostrum 0.10 [inch=2.5 mm ]. Color 

 uniformly rufous, without maculatious, the eyes alone being darker. Highly polished ; 

 rostrum arcuated, stout and ahout as long as thorax ; thorax and body with extremely 

 minute and distant punctures, anterior margin of thorax abruptly narrowed, especially 

 laterally, into a collar; elytra slightly undulate, with 4 distinct elevations, one on the 

 extreme outer margin close to the thorax, and one on the middle of each, near the 

 extremity. [First Kept., p. 132. Fig. 74. 



For further details as to the synonymy of this insect, see American En- 

 tomologist I, p. 105. Dr. LeCoute's description of Baridius sesostris was 

 published about three months earlier than my own and he subsequently 

 (Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc., Vol. XV, 1876, p. 290) erected the genus Ampe- 

 loglypter for this and two other species, so that Madams vitis=Ampelo- 

 ylypter sesostris Lee. 



ANA.LCIS FRAGARI.E, N. Sp. Imago, (Fig. 14, b, c) Color deep chestnut-brown, sub- 

 polished, the elytra somewhat lighter. Head and rostrum dark, finely and densely 

 punctate and with short fulvous hairs, longest at tip of rostrum ; antennas rather 

 lighter towards base, 10-joiuted, the scape much thickened at apex, join 2 longest and 

 robust, 3 moderately long, 4-7 short, 8-10 connate and forming a stout club. Thorax 

 dark, cylindrical, slightly swollen across the middle and uniformly covered with large 

 thimble-like punctures, and with a few short coarse fulvous hairs, unusually arranged 

 in three more or less distinct longitudinal lines ; pectoral groove ending between front 

 legs. Abdomen with small remote punctures and hairs which are denser towards 

 apex. Legs of equal stoutness, and Avith shallow dilated punctures and uniform very 

 short hairs. Elytra more yellowish-brown, dilated at the lower sides anteriorly, and 

 with about 9 deeply-punctured striae, the striie themselves sometimes obsolete ; more or 

 less covered with coarse and short pale yellow hairs which form by their greater density, 

 three more or less conspicuous transverse bands, the first of which is at base : between 

 the second and third band, in the middle of the elytron, is a smooth dark-brown or 

 black spot, with a less distinct spot of the same color below the third, and a still less 

 distinct one above the second band. Length O.lGiuch [=4 mm ]. 



Described from four specimens bred from strawberry-boring larv;e. The black spots 



