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Artipus texanus, n. sp., Pierce. 



Light gray with brown vittee on median line and sides, of the size and 

 shape of floridanus; surf ace covered with rounded ochreous, and trun- 

 cate white scales. Lengths to 6.5 mm. Beak quadrate, slightly nar- 

 rowed to tip, shallowly emarginate at tip, with median impressed line, 

 surface flat continuous with front; scrobes narrow and deep, passing 

 beneath in front of eyes. Funicular joints elongate, the first and second 

 subequal and twice as long as any of the following joints. Eyes con- 

 vex, prominent. Prothorax cylindrical, a little wider than long, base 

 and apex truncate, sides very feebly convex, forming with the head 

 and beak almost a straight line from middle of prothorax to tip of 

 beak; disk very minutely punctate; scaly vestiture even darker on 

 median line. Elytra oval, without humeri; striae barely indicated, 

 punctures fine, bearing slender squamules; scaly vestiture even, with 

 the ochreous and white scales evenly mixed, with brown scales on the 

 median line and on the sides forming three narrow vittaa, edges of 

 elytra ochreous. Undersides clothed as above, but with the white 

 scales more elongate. Second abdominal segment barely as long as 

 the two following segments. 



Described from two specimens collected at Victoria, Texas, 

 October 14, 1906, and November 10, 1907, by J. D. Mitchell. 



Type: In U. S. National Museum, Cat. No. 13546. 



The two species of Artipus may be distinguished by the 

 following characters: 



1. Scrobes broad; beak deeply triangularly emarginate, with an 



apical lunular scaly area inclosed by a transverse ridge; 

 second abdominal plainly longer than the two following seg- 

 ments floridanus Horn 



2. Scrobes narrow; beak shallowly emarginate, without trans- 



verse apical ridge; second abdominal barely as long as the 



two following segments texanus n. sp. Pierce 



Aramigus tesselatus Say. 



On weeds, July 15, 1905 (Mitchell). 



Phacepholis elegans Horn. 



On cotton (Gossypium} April 27, 1904 (Walker). 



PACHYRHYNCHTI^e. 



Pandeleteius cavirostris Schaeffer. 



On anachua tree {Ehretia elliptica), April, 1905 (Mitchell); 

 on Cratagus, April 22, 1907 (Cushman); April 23, 1907; 

 June 19, 1907 (Mitchell). 



