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Habitat. Victoria, Tex. (type locality) ; Cypress Mills (coll. 

 Chittenden), Boerne (G. Schattenberg) ; Dallas (Crawford 

 et al.) ; Terrell (Hinds) ; Arlington, San Antonio (Pratt), and 

 Chico, Texas. 



Reared by the writer from acorns of Quercus wrens and Q. 

 velutina furnished by Mr. G. Schattenberg, Boerne, Tex., 

 August 19 to Oct. 4, 1906. Also reared by Hon. J. D. 

 Mitchell from Q. macrocarpa at Victoria, Tex. 



The above description is somewhat elaborated from that 

 previously published in Bulletin No. 44 (1. c.) and the illustra- 

 tion is from the same source. 



Balaninus parvidens, n. sp. 



Dark piceous, antennae and sometimes rostrum rufous. Vestiture 

 dense, composed of fine, pale-yellowish squamules, nearly hairy on 

 dorsal surface, much shorter and wider below; elytra variegated with 

 rather small, pale-brown spots. 



Rostrum $ strongly and nearly equally arcuate, only three-fifths as 

 long as body, scarcely enlarged at base and faintly at apex, antennae 

 slender, inserted near base, between the basal one-fourth and one- 

 fifth; scape shorter than first two funicular joints. Elytral humeri 

 prominent, striae narrow, with few scales. Fifth ventral segment nearly 

 triangular, moderately tufted at extreme apex. Femora moderately 

 clavate, with posterior teeth not prominent and reentrant angles feebly 

 rounded. 



Male. Rostrum one-half as long as body, antennae inserted per- 

 ceptibly behind the middle. Fifth ventral segment with feebly concave, 

 sometimes nearly bare median area with a small tuft of long yellow 

 hairs each side and a longer pygidial tuft. 



Dimensions. Length, 6.0-7.0 mm. ; width, 2.8-3.2 mm., rostrum, $ 3.3 

 mm., c? 3.0 mm. 



Habitat. Victoria, Tex., September and October (W. D. 

 Hunter) ; Dallas, Tex. (F. C. Bishopp) ; Jamison, Ala., No- 

 vember 24 (J. W. Sorrell) ; Centre ville, Fla. (Hubbard & 

 Schwarz) ; Agricultural College, Miss. (H. E. Weed). 



Type. No. 11554, U. S. National Museum. 



Bears a superficial resemblance to yellow forms of victori- 

 ensis, having the same type locality, but easily separated by the 

 rostral, antennal, and femoral structure. The general effect 

 is more uniformly pale yellowish than in any victoriensis. 



Balaninus pardalis, n. sp. 



Robust, piceous or subrufous; antennae, rostrum, and legs rufo- 

 testaceous. Vestiture very dense, bright ochraceous; elytra strongly 

 mottled with small brown spots or less closely united and forming 

 bands. 



