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occupied in other departments of zoology and must be changed. 

 I suggest the following new names : 



Eiseniella n. n. 



Eisenia Ashmead (not Malm, 1877), Mem. Carnegie Museum, i, No. 



4, p. 232, 1904. 

 Elasmognathias n. n. 

 Elasmognathus Ashmead (not Gray, 1867), Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 



xxix, No. 1424, p. 405, 1905. 

 Orthonotomyrmex n. n. 



Orthonotus Ashmead (not Westwood, 1829), Can. Ent. xxxvn, No. 

 n, p. 384, November, 1905. 



A NEW SPECIES OF THE CURCULIONID GENUS PARA- 



PLINTHUS. 



By W. F. .FISKE. 



Paraplinthus shermani n. sp. 



Length 6.8 mm. ; color very dark brown, more or less tinged with 

 reddish ; above sparsely clothed with elongate, yellowish scales, forming 

 obscure irregular markings on the elytra. Prothorax with sides evenly 

 rounded, convex above, median carina narrow, straight, sharply defined ; 

 surface above and on both sides with irregular, coarse, shining tuber 

 cles ; punctures of elytral striae sometimes separated with slightly ele 

 vated tubercles; interspaces each with one row of tubercles, more 

 strongly developed on the alternate interspaces, which are also dis 

 tinctly elevated. 



Type. No. 6370, U. S. National Museum. 



Collected on Pisgah Ridge, Transylvania Co., N. C., at an 

 elevation of between 5,000 and 6,000 feet. Three others were 

 collected by the author at the same time. In the U. S. National 

 Museum there is also a specimen from Grandfather Mountain, 

 N. C., elevation above 4,000 feet, collected by J. M. Bentley, 

 and received through Prof. Franklin Sherman, Jr., after whom 

 the name shermani was proposed by Mr. Schwarz. 



The species is easily distinguishable from P. carinatus Boh. 

 by the sculpture of the, prothorax and elytra. In P. carinatus 

 the prothorax is depressed above, with coarse confluent punc 

 tures which are better denned on the sides. The strial punc 

 tures are more prominent and the even interspaces are not 

 tuberculate. The occurrence of Paraplinthus in the Appalach 

 ian region is rather notable, as the genus has hitherto been 



