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cuneiform, less than one-half longer than wide, with arcuate sides, the 

 striiTfj moderately coarse, the intervals with asperulate and raiher coarse 

 but separated punctures; fifdi ventral but feebly impressed, not much 

 modified ; legs moderately long, the peduncle of the anterior femora not 

 very long and raiher thick, though longer than in the next species, the 

 teeth large and acute. Length, ({ , 7.2 mm; width, 3.3 mm.; length of 

 rostrum, (J, 3.3 mm. Tennessee. 



Separable from the next two species by the rather stouter and more 

 arcuate beak, having the antennce inserted exactly at the middle ; the beak 

 is gradually feebly tapering and is not sensibly enlarged apically. The 

 length of the rostrum in the male oi confjisor is only about 2.5 mm. 



B. Appalachius n. sp. — Not quite so stout as ordinatus, but with the 

 prolhorax relatively a little larger and more transverse, the colour paler, 

 the beak testaceous, proportionately somewhat longer and more slender 

 and evenly, though somewhat less strongly, arcuate, not enlarged apically, 

 the antennae ( $ ) inserted evidently beyond the middle, the first four 

 funicular joints decreasing ; vestiture slender but squamiform, dense, pale 

 tawny-yellow, variegated with brown on the elytra, pale brown and less 

 squamiform on the median parts of the prothorax, which is rather more 

 than a third wider than long, densely punctate, with the sides before the 

 middle rapidly converging and strongly sinuate, the apex almost sub- 

 tubulaie ; dense scutellar scales parted narrowly along the middle ; elytra 

 nearly as in ordinatus but with rather less prominent humeri, the legs 

 similaily rather long and with strong, acute dentition, but with the 

 peduncle of ihe aiUerior femora notably short and thick, even shorter than 

 in the preceding; fifth ventral {$) with median half rather abruptly 

 though feebly impressed and clothed with finer, more transverse hairs. 

 Length, $ , 6.7-6 8 mm.; width, 3.15 mm.; length of rostrum, $ , 3.4 mm. 

 West Virginia. 



The characters relating to the beak, fifth ventral segment and anterior 

 femora will very readily distinguish this species from ordinatus. One of 

 the two types has the brown tint on the elytra greatly predominating, and, 

 in fact, almost uniform throughout. 



B. parvicoHis Yi. s\). — Form rather stout, rufo-piceous, the legs and 

 beak dark testaceous ; vestiture elongatesquamiform, pale tawny and 

 rather dense, more hair-like and sparser in the brownish irregularly trans- 

 verse maculations of the elytra ; beak ( ^ ) slender, evenly and moderately 

 arcuate, not enlarged apically, the anlennie slender, inserted slightly behind 



