NO. 1988. STUDIES OF NORTH AMERICAN WEEVILS— PIERCE. 413 



BRADYRHYNCHOIDES CONSTRICTUS, new species. 



Described from three specimens collected at San Diego, Texas, 

 April 25, 27, by E. A. Schwarz. 



Length 6.5-7 mm , width 3-3.2 mm. Oval, black, densely clothed 

 with pinkish white, gray, and brown scales arranged in fasciae, with 

 a few translucent yellowish recumbent squamiform setae. 



Beak short and broad, not longer than head; head with a very 

 deep, straight transverse depression immediately behind the eyes; 

 nasal plate strongly rimmed by a broad and deep convex line, con- 

 cave, shining, minutely punctate, arcuately emarginate; fovea 

 elongate, merging into a deep median sulcus; vestiture dense, over- 

 lapping, with sparse openings for the setae. Eyes very prominent, 

 convex, truncate behind. Scrobes strongly arcuate; scape short, 

 stout, reaching but little beyond the middle of the eyes; funicular 

 joints subequal, the first two slightly longer, all but little longer than 

 wide, white pubescent; club as long as the three preceding joints, 

 oval, broMTi pubescent, but with white pubescence at base. Protho- 

 rax as long as wide, truncate at base, convex at apex and sides, 

 base almost twice as wide as apex ; median line faintly indicated ; sur- 

 face irregularly pitted; vestiture densely squamose, sparsely setose, 

 white with a broad darker fascia on median line. Elytra not wider 

 than prothorax at base, not greatly inflated; striae not impressed; 

 punctures large, rounded, shallow, and distinctly separated; inter- 

 spaces almost flat; vestiture white with a sinuate brown postmedian 

 fascia, and with grayish scales in form of basal and apical fascise. 

 Setae sparse. Undersides densel}^ squamose. Tibiae denticulate. 



Type.— Csit. No. 14649, U.S.Nat.Mus. 



Genus GRAPHORHINUS Say (1831). 



Graphorhinus Say, Descr. N. A. Cure, 1831, New Harmony, Indiana. 

 Graphorrhinus Gemminger and Harold, Cat. Coleopt., vol. 8, 1821, p. 2241. 



This genus originall}^ contained two species, of which Schonherr 

 selected in 1833, vadosus Sa}^ to serve as type. Though it presents a 

 different habitus from Epics&rus this genus can only be separated by 

 very poor structural characters. 



Genus EPICURUS Schonherr (18S4). 

 Epicserus Schonherr, Gen. et Sp. Cure, vol. 2, 1834, p. 323. 



The originall}^ designated type of the genus is mexicanus Boheman. 

 Since publishing a table of the species of this genus ^ other material 

 has come to hand maldng it worth whOe to restudy the genus. 



1 Jour. Econ. Ent., vol. 3, pp. 359-361. 



