OF WASHINGTON, VOLUME XIX, 1917 17 



1917 Sanders and Fracker (Wise. Dept. Agric. Bull. 10, pp. 54-56, fig. 



15) report their observations on Cholus catileyae in Wisconsin. 

 1917 Weiss (Ent. News, vol. 28, p. 218) lists Cholus cattleyae and C. for- 



besii from New Jersey. 



Acythopeus Pascoe 1874. 



This genus was erected for a group of small bands having the 

 rostrum greatly enlarged anteriorly at base and separated from 

 the front by a deep transverse incision. The three species here 

 referred to do not display this character but I am unable to place 

 them among more agreeable companions and expect their segrega- 

 tion as new genera may become necessary. No recent allusion to 

 Centrinus epidendri Murray? 1869 which was believed to have 

 been bred from orchids, or to Apotomorhinus orchidearum Kolbe 

 1906 (which appears to be closely allied to, or synonymous with 

 Acythopeus aterrimus Waterhouse 1874) has been found but I 

 cannot now ascertain if they are in reality allied to the specimens 

 before me. 



Acythopeus gilvonotatus n. sp. (PI. 4, figs. 3, 3 A) 

 Type: Cat. No. 21067, 'U. S. National Museum. 



Piceous, the humeri and legs paler; opaque strongly alutaceous; coarsely 

 foveolately punctate; elytra ornamented with a double posthumeral and 

 two subbasal, discal, convex masses of yellow scales; femora unarmed. 

 Head with front feebly impressed between the eyes which are separated 

 by the width of the beak; front shallowly foveolate, each impression with 

 a small silvery scale at center. Beak (from frontal impression) two- 

 fifths as long as length of specimens, only slightly more curved in basal 

 half than apically where it is slightly flattened, broader, and finely punc- 

 tate; punctures almost contiguous at middle of upper surface, becoming 

 longitudinally confluent at sides, forming a conspicuous sulcus above the 

 scrobes with a secondary imperfect sulcus separated from it by broken 

 irregular carinae, the individual punctures being only distinguished by the 

 silvery scale of each. Antennal scape almost reaching the eye, distant 

 from it by about one-third the length of the first funicular joint; firs't 

 of the seven joints of funicle as long as two of the following joints which 

 gradually increase in width until the seventh is twice as wide as the 

 second; club elongate oval, as long as the three preceding joints and 

 a little wider than the seventh. Pronotum seven-eighths (9) to nine- 

 tenths (c?) as long as wide, widest at middle, sides straight and feebly 

 convergent posteriorly, arcuately convergent anteriorly, surface strong!}' 

 alutaceus between the coarse, rather closely set squamiferous fovea. 

 Elytra five-eighths to two-thirds as wide as long, widest just behind 

 humeri, sides almost parallel in basal half; striae deeply confluent ly 

 punctate at base, the punctures more shallow and widely sop:i rated <>n the 



