I'M THK I ANAIHAN ENTO.M«»lAHJ|HT. 



behind the middle, evenly oval posteriorly, ihe iniervais coarsely, 

 rugosely jiunctured ; fiftU ventral with a rounded feeble impression 

 medially. Length, 9,37 mm.; width, 1 5 mm. Near San Francisco, 



Mr. Dunn Jiroi'us n. sp. 



I'he sortiidus type diflers greatly from the preceding in the form of 

 the prothorax, obese body and form of the beak in the female, this being 

 much stouter, differing but little from the male beak and having the 

 antennae inserted far beyond the middle. 



T. nimiui n. sp. — Larger and stouter than sordidus, the dense 

 vcstiture of elongate, decumbent and strongly strigose scales similar, not 

 brownish however but cinereous in colour; beak ( (J ) longer, being as 

 long as the prothorax ; punctures of the latter not so densely or poly- 

 gonally crowded as in sordidus, the converging sides less rounded ; 

 scutcllum larger ; elytra nearly similar but broader ; pygidium of the male 

 very much larger. Length, $, 4.8 mm.; width, 2.4 mm. Iowa. 



Much larger and stouter than sordidus and with a notably greater 

 development of the pygidium. In all the species of this sordidus group, 

 the slender strigose scales of the general surface become very different on 

 and near the scutellum, being there broad, pointed and minutely, densely 

 pubescent or i>lumulose. 



T. Tfxanus n. sp. — Form more obese than in sordidus, the vestiture 

 differing, not only in its cinereous colour, but in being less dense, the scales 

 of the elytra shorter and |)arallel, not more or less tai)'ring toward tlieir 

 apices as in sordidus ; scutellum larger, the humeri more broadly exposed 

 basally, thougli very obliquely rounded ; legs deep black, not d.irk 

 testaceous as they are in sordidus, the tibiie more scaly and less hairy ; 

 beak ( 9 ) stout, tapering and feebly arcuate throughout, rather longer than 

 the prothorax. Length, 9,4.0 mm.; widtli, 2.1 nun. Texas (Haw Creek;. 



Rather smaller and decidedly stouter than sordidus and differing in 

 the sparser and shorter vestiture of different colour. 



T. Caro/ime n. sp.— Nearly similar to sordidus hm with the prothorax 

 notably smaller, the sides less rounded and more rapidly converging from 

 the base ; vestiture similar, dense, pale ochreous. whiter and more broadly 

 squamiform beneath; scutellum broader, less densely incrusted with scales; 

 elytra relatively more elongate, a fourth longer than wide, the vestiture 

 uniform, not so evidently mingled with isolated glittering scales; dense 



