121 TIIK I .VNAUIA.N KNTOMiiUKIlHT. 



B. auitiis n. %\i. — More elongate than the two preceding, the body 

 deep black, the beak blackish, graJually testaceous apically ; vestiture 

 brown and coarsely hair-like on ihe pronolum, the entire flanks stpiamose, 

 the scales pale yellowish ; elytra with moderately dense and very slender 

 brown hair-like scales, sparsely variegated with small and feebly defmed 

 condensations of pale yellowish scales; beak d) moderately stont, 

 arcuate beyond the middle, thinner beyond the antenna*, the fust four 

 funicular joints decreasing almost uniformly and rather rapidly in length ; 

 prothorax fully a fifth wider than long, parallel, oblifpie'y and rapidly 

 narrowed before the middle, strongly, deeply and very closely punctate, 

 the smooth median line extremely narrow ; scutellum with the dense 

 vestiture finely parted along the middle ; elytra more elongate, cuneiform, 

 one-half longer than wide, rather accuminale at tip, the sides slightly 

 arcuate, fully twice as long as the i)roihorax and a third wider, the humeri 

 well exposed ; strise fine, scarcely more than a fourth as wide as the 

 intervals, the latter finely, asperulately punctate but not very closely ; legs 

 rather long, the femoral teeth large and very acute. Length, c^ , 7.0 

 mm.; width, 3.0 mm.; length of rostrum, <^ , 3.6 mm. New York (Buffalo). 



The trapezoidal fifth ventral segment is not notably modified. This 

 species does not seem to have any very close allies ; the prothorax is less 

 constricted apically than in the male of (onfuior or lowensis, which also 

 have much shorter beaks ; and the body is narrower and more elongate, 

 with much less transverse prothorax than in the male of Virgiuiius. 



The three following species are allied more or less closely to stmim ; 

 they have the male rostrum shorter than in Vir-^inicus, but longer and 

 generally more slender than in confusor and /owaisis. being similar to 

 aiicfiis in this res|)ect, but with the prothorax shorter and more transverse 

 and having anteriorly the oblicjue sides longer and much more sinuate : 



/)'. ordinatui n. sp. — Rather stout {^ ) but only moderately convex, 

 almost black throughout, the beak nearly black, strongly, evenly arcu.ite, 

 moderately stout, with the antenna: inserted exactly at the middle, slen«lcr, 

 the first four funicular joints decreasing uniformly and rather rapidly m 

 length ; vestiture elongatesquamiform, rather dense throughout, p.ilc* 

 tawny and not definitely variegated with darker lint, as usual rather 

 more hair like on the pronotum, exce|)t laterally ; prothorax rather .MniH, 

 somewhat less transverse than in the two following, about a third wider 

 than long, the sides in anterior half strongly converging and sinuate, the 

 punctures strong, very dense, the median line very fine ; scutellar crust of 

 scales parted medially ; elytra with much exposed and prominent hmneri, 



