46 COLEOPTERA RHYNCHOPHORA. 



than any of the western forms — length 1.5 mm. — the beak is 

 very slender, evenly rather strongly curved, finely punctate 

 and apparently not at all strigose ; eyes a little more promi- 

 nent than in the Californian species ; last ventral nearly fiat 

 and as long as the two preceding. The prothorax is barely 

 as long as wide, elytra two and one-fourth times as long as 

 the prothorax, and rather less than one-half longer than 

 wide. I have seen no other specimen. 



ANTHONOMUS Germ. 



The following notes on the species of this and allied genera 

 are to a considerable extent the result of a recent examina- 

 tion of some of the types in the LeConte, and also in the 

 W. G. Dietz Collection, now in the Museum of Comparative 

 Zoology at Cambridge, Mass. 



A. pusillus Lee. 



In Dietz's Revison this species is recorded solely from 

 Massachusetts. The unique type, as stated in the original 

 description, was from Texas (collected by Belfrage), but by 

 some accident has disappeared from the point and is doubt- 

 less lost, as I looked carefully for it in the bottom of the box 

 without success. There are, however, two Columbus, Texas, 

 examples of pusillus in the general mixture of unplaced 

 specimens at the end of the box, and these no doubt are pre- 

 cisely like the lost type. The greater number of specimens 

 of this species now in collections are probably from Massa- 

 chusetts, where it has been taken in numbers near Lowell on 

 Helianthemum canadense by Mr. Frederick Blanchard, who 

 speaks of it at some length in Entomologica Americana, 

 Vol. Ill, p. 87. 



A. liaiiiiltoni Dietz. 



So far as I can see, this differs irom pusillus only in having 

 the scales a little yellower, and the subdenuded area of the 

 elytra better defined. I should have little hesitancy in unit- 

 ing them. 



A. vulpiuiis Dietz. 



I see no possible means of separating this from profundtcs 

 Lee. There are perfect intermediates in size and color in 



