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two-fifths, so generally noticeable in confiisor znA others of this group, and 

 especially conspicuous in nasi ens Say. The male beak is less arcuate 

 than in confusor. 



The second of the two minor sections mentioned above is by far 

 the larger \ it has the male beak short though always distinctly longer 

 than in the preceding, being apparently more than half as long as the 

 body, though perhaps not so if we measure the chord of the arc ; it is 

 exemplified by such species as tiniforviis Lee, and orthorhynchus and 

 Victor iejisis, of Chittenden. 



B. Virginicus n. sp. — Form rather stout, convex, dark, the elytra, 

 beak and legs paler and dark testaceous \ vestiture dense, squamiform, 

 brown, with two pale pronotal vittte, the brown patches of the elytra large 

 and irregular to small and tessellatiform ; beak in both sexes notably 

 slender, arcuate, moderately except toward base (?) or strongly, evenly 

 arcuate throughout ( o ), "Ot perceptibly enlarged basally, except very 

 feebly at base and not enlarged apically or with larger mandibles in the 

 male ; antennae ( $ ) inserted just behind the middle, or ( 9 ), just beyond 

 basal fourth, slender, the first funicular joint much longer than the second, 

 the latter much longer than the third ( 9 ), or only just visibly so ( cJ ) ; 

 l)rothorax transverse, fully two-fifths wider than long, the sides rather 

 arcuate, becoming gradually oblique but only feebly sinuate anteriorly, the 

 punctures strong and dense, the impunctate median line virtually obsolete ; 

 scutellar vestiture finely, longitudinally parted ; elytra of the usual cuneale 

 form, with arcuate sides and exposed humeri, the striae moderate, rather 

 coarser in the male ; legs long, the femoral peduncle long and slender, 

 the teeth large and acute ; fifth ventral ( ^ ) but feebly modified, scarcely 

 visibly and indefinitely impressed medially but not more glabrous, 

 trapezoidal, the pygidial pubescer.ce not abruptly delimited superiorly ; 

 fifth ventral (?) broadly ogival. Length, (^ , ? , 7.2-7.6 mm.; width, 

 3.2-3.75 mm.; length of rostrum, c? , 3.6-3.8 mm.; 9j 5-6-6.1 mm. West 

 Virginia. 



It is barely possible that Mr. Chittenden may have included this 

 species with his series representing /rt!r^i;?//i (Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., X, p. 

 24) ; but it differs from pardalis in three important particulars, judging 

 from the description : the legs are longer, the beak in the female is 

 relatively much longer and it is not sensibly enlarged at tip in either sex. 

 There are some palpable misprints in Mr. Chittenden's description, viz.: 

 Page 25, line 4, for apical read basal, and, line 5, for "longer than wide," 

 read wider than long. 



