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my conception of the species was based. Mr. Wenzel now 

 announces Ent. News, 1912, p. 140 that a series taken re- 

 cently by H. A. Wenzel in Western Texas are typical julianus 

 and quite distinct from the Brownsville species. Specimens 

 sent to me by Mr. Wenzel prove to be my recently described 

 ochreolineatus, which name therefore falls into synonymy, 

 This leaves the big Brownsville species without a name, and 

 I would propose for it the specific name 



Bruchus major n. sp. 



The two species are much alike in structure and markings, 

 but the ochreous lines of pubescence on the elytra of the 

 smaller species are more conspicuous, the second antennal 

 joint is relatively shorter as compared with the third, and the 

 number of blackish joints of the antennae is two or three 

 greater than in major. Julianus, according to Mr. Wenzel, 

 is always found on a low shrub near the ground, while major 

 breeds abundantly in the seed pods of the tree Acacia flexi- 

 caulis. 



The two following species were represented in my collec- 

 tion at the time of my recently published tables of Bruchus.* 

 The first was held back thinking it might possibly have been 

 described from Cuba, and the second was known to me only 

 by a unique specimen. Recently Mr. Schwarz has seen the 

 Florida specimens and pronounced them different from any- 

 thing known to him from either Cuba or Mexico ; and of the 

 second I have just received additional specimens from Dr. 

 Blaisdell. 



Bruchus depressus n. sp. 



Form strongly depressed, black, shining, lateral half of elytra red, 

 varying through the reduction of the red area to entirely black; 

 antennae black, basal four or five joints pale; legs entirely red, or 

 with the hind thighs blackish at extreme base; pubescence thin, short 

 and inconspicuous, ochreo-cinereous in color. Antennae moderately in- 

 crassate; fifth joint as long as wide, following moderately transverse. 

 Eyes separated by about their own width as viewed from the front ; 

 head finely closely punctate; front feebly obtusely carinate. Pro- 

 thorax subconical, wider than long, impressed before the scutellum, 

 rather coarsely and closely punctate with intermixed finer punctures. 



Elytra as long as wide; sides parallel and broadly evenly arcuate, 

 depressed along (be suture; striae rather strong and strongly punctate 



* Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. XXXVI, 1910, p. 160. 



