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It is somewhat singular that the species should have escaped 

 notice for so long a period, since it is represented in most of 

 the extensive collections of Coleoptera. 



Balaninus orthorhynchus, n. sp. 



Body slender, piceous or rufous, antennae and base of rostrum more 

 distinctly rufous. Vestiture dense, composed of pale yellowish squa- 

 mules, finer on dorsal, much shorter and wider on lower surface. 

 Elytra wide at base, strongly acuminate to apex; striae of moderate 

 width, with few scales; vestiture variable, nearly uniformly yellow 

 or with pale brown spots of variable size. 



Rostrum $ nearly straight, arcuate at extreme apex, of about the 

 same length as the body and of uniform width ; antennae $ inserted near 

 base at about the basal fifth, scape about the same length as the first 

 two funicular joints. Fifth ventral segment subtriangular, strongly 

 concave in medial third, slightly tufted at extreme apex. Legs long. 

 Femora feebly clavate, posterior teeth small, acutely produced distally, 

 reentrant angles rounded. 



Male. Rostrum moderately arcuate, very short, scarcely half as long 

 as the body; antennae inserted slightly behind the middle. Fifth 

 ventral segment with a small, partially denuded medial area in apical 

 half. 



Dimensions. Length, 6.2-7.5 mm.; width, 2.8-3.2 mm.; rostrum, 

 ? 6.5-7.0 mm., c? 3.0 mm. 



Habitat. French Creek, W. Va., collected by Mr. Fred. E. 

 Brooks on Quercus rubra and coccinea, and other biennial oaks ; 

 Texas (Coll. C. V. Riley) ; 4 females, 2 males. 



Type. No. 11556, U. S. National Museum. 



The rostrum of the female is more nearly straight than in 

 any other long-beaked species of the genus, which character 

 alone will distinguish it. It has otherwise somewhat the ap- 

 pearance of a small B. quercus, with which it is evidently 

 nearly related. 



Balaninus caseyi, n. nom. 



Balaninus brevirostris Casey, Ann. N. Y. Ac. Sci., ix, 1897, pp. 662, 

 663. 



Colonel Casey's name is preoccupied by Pascoe's B. breviros- 

 tris from Landana, Congo, South Africa (Jour. Linn. Soc. 



Zool., Vol. xix, p. 331, 1886). 



The following paper, in the absence of the author, was 

 read by title: 



