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half, thus differing from any of the preceding, and the entire abdomen is 

 much more scantily dad than in tiie male. This is the smallest, or at 

 least by far the slightest, species tliat we have. The female is the smaller 

 and more slender of the two specimens at hand. 



B — Rostrum ( 9 ) noi longer, ajid generally much shorter, than the body. 

 a- — Prothorax relatively large in size. 



B. proprins n. sp. — Body short, stout and convex in form, piceous- 

 black, the antennae paler ; vestiture pale gray, variegated on the elytra 

 with large feeble brownish clouds, almost uniform, not very dense and 

 somewhat hair-like on the pronotum and without condensed vittae, in the 

 form of elongate, moderately dense scales on the elytra, those of the strial 

 punctures pale cinereous and distinct ; beak ( $ ) not longer than the elytra, 

 moderately arcuate throughout, the antennae inserted scarcely beyond 

 basal fourth, slender, the scape short, the first funicular joint almost as 

 long as the next two combined ; prothorax about a fourth wider than long, 

 parallel, the sides becoming strongly oblique in about apical two-fifihs, 

 the [junctures strong, deep, very densely crowded ; scutellum very narrow, 

 elongate, the dense vestiture divided narrowly along the middle ; elytra 

 short, not a third longer than wide, not twice as long as the prothorax and 

 two-fifths wider, the humeri well exposed, the sides strongly arcuate ; apex 

 obtuse ; striae not quite a third as wide as the intervals, the latter shining, 

 not very densely, subrugosely punctate ; fifth ventral twice as wide as long, 

 with a small feeble indentation medially toward tip, not differently clothed ; 

 femoral teeth strong. Length, ?, 6. 2 mm,; width, 3.0 mm.; length of 

 rostrum, ? , 3.8 mm. 



The type represents a species not at all closely allied to any of our 

 other species ; it is without locality label but was probably taken in 

 Indiana. 



B. timidus n. sp. — Form stout, small in size, convex, piceous, the 

 legs and beak dark testaceous ; vestiture elongate-squamiform, very 

 coarsely hair-like on the pronotum, pale brownish-cinereous, rather dense 

 but only feebly and sparsely, subtransversely variegated with pale brown 

 on the elytra; beak {^) stout, the antennae inserted just behind the 

 middle, the first funicular joint nearly as long as the next two, the club 

 rather stout ; prothorax slightly wider than long, parallel, the sides 

 obliquely, subsinuously converging in apical two-fifths, the punctures strong 

 and close-set ; scutellum elongate, densely clothed, the elevated part with 



