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THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE AUTHOR'S NAME FOLLOWING 



A SPECIES. 



BY A. B. G 



A NEW SPECIES OF LONGHORN BEETLE INFESTING COWPEAS 



FROM MEXICO.' 



BY W. S. FISHER. 



Specialist in Forest Colcoptera. 



Lepturges spermophagus n. sp. 



Form elongate, convex and rather robust, fuscous, rather densely clothed 

 with short fusco-cinereous pubescence, variegated with numerous, irregular 

 fulvous spots. Head smooth, minutely and densely punctured, clothed 

 with rather long cinereous pubescence; front long, slightly convex, Avith a 

 fine median line; vertex deeply indented. Eyes moderately, coarsely 

 granulate, large, prominent, deeply emarginate and very narrowly sepa- 

 rated above. Antennae about two and three-fourths times as long as the 

 body, sparsely ciliate beneath, not annulated. Prothorax trapezoidal, two 

 times as wide as long; lateral spine rather broad and very close to base, 

 the hind margin subtransversely, broadly and feebly sinuate from tip 

 of the spine to the transverse median part of the base; surface even, except 

 for a transverse subbasal impressed line of large deep punctures, densey 

 finely punctate, and ornamented with eight irregular spots of dense fulvous, 

 recumbent pubescence, four near the apex and four subbasal, the posterior 

 lateral one near the base of the lateral spine, the four median ones crescent 

 shaped, with the tips pointing outwards and forming a parallelogram. 

 Scutellum large, truncate at apex. Elytra one and two-thirds times as long 

 as wide, only slightly wider than prothorax, the sides nearly parallel to 

 apical third, then rounding posteriorly to the apices, which are broadly 

 and separately rounded; surface even, except for an indistinct costa ex- 

 tending from middle near base to very near the apex, punctures coarse and 

 rather dense at base, becoming gradually finer and more obsolete towards 

 the apex, densely clothed with short fusco-cinereous pubescence and varie- 

 gated with numerous irregular spots of fulvous pubescence. Femora, 

 tibiae and tarsi of a uniform fuscous color, clothed with cinereous pubes- 

 cence; femora all clavate. Surface beneath of a uniform fuscous color, 

 evenly and rather densely clothed with moderately long, recumbent, 

 cinereous pubescence. Coxae rather widely separated by the pro- and 

 mesosternum, the middle ones separated by at least one-half the diameier 

 of the coxae. Length 7 mm.; width 3 mm. 



1 Withdrawn from publication: 



! Contribution from the Branch of Forest Insects, Bureau of Entomology . 



