408 WILLIAM G. DIETZ, M.D. 



joints 1-2 elongate, 3-4 short, equal, outer joints scarcely wider. Eyes flattened, 

 not concealed in repose, orbits margined. Head densely punctured, more coarsely 

 on the front ; prothorax fully one-half wider than long, less than one-third wider 

 at the base than at the apex, rounded on the sides, broadly and distinctly con- 

 stricted at the apex, anterior margin slightly eniarginate, postocular lobes very 

 feeble, lateral tubercles acute, prominent, dorsal channel entire, less obvious on 

 the disc, foveiform anteriorly, surface rather densely and not coarsely punctured ; 

 scutel not visible. Elytra about one-fourth wider at the base than the prothorax, 

 feebly rounded on the sides, distinctly narrowed toward the apex, deeply striato- 

 punctate, punctures close set, interspaces convex, equal, rugose, each with a row 

 of small, acute granules, scutellar region depressed with an indistinct spot of pale 

 scales; pectoral canal extending upon the metasternum ; j)ygidium coarsely punc- 

 tured, carinate in its apical half. Legs long, anterior and middle tibise parallel, 

 subangulate near the base, middle feebly emarginate above the apex, posterior 

 curved, acutely angulated and deeply emarginate above the apex, tarsi slender, 

 fourth joint shorter than the two preceding joints together. Length 2.75 mm. ; 

 0.11 inch. 



Hah. — Texas. 



A female specimen in the Nat. Mus. coll. ; it is almost entirely 

 deprived of scales, hence the al)ove description may not be fully :il>- 

 plicable in this respect to better preserved specimens. It is, how- 

 ever, readily di.stiuguished from all other species except the next, by 

 its very long and slender beak, and the angulate tibiae; from epilobii 

 it differs by its greater size, still more slender beak of the female, 

 the anterior margin of the prothorax feebly emarginate on the sides 

 and at the middle, the very convex head, scarcely prominent eyes, 

 without elevated orbital margin, deep elytral strise and distinct rows 

 of acute granules on the elytral interstices. 



A. epilobii Payk. PI. xii. fig. 15c. — Oval, dark pi(reous. antennae and tarsi 

 rufous, above irregularly mottled with small white scales, underside not densely 

 scaly. Beak as long as the prothorax, rather slender, curved, cylindrical, bi- 

 striate and punctured, entirely scaly {%) or subglabrous toward the apex ( f )• 

 Eyes prominent, with acutely elevated orbital margin, not entirely concealed in 

 repose. Head moderately convex, densely punctured, front concave between 

 eyes; prothorax one-half wider than long, rounded on the sides, broadly and 

 distinctly constricted at the apex, anterior margin elevated and narrowly emar- 

 ginate, lateral tubercles distinct, acute, dorsal channel entire, not very distinct, 

 surface closely and not coarsely punctured, inconspicuously mottled with pale 

 scales; scutel punctiform. Elytra less than one-third wider at the base than the 

 prothoi'ax, longer than wide, sides nearly straight, obviously narrowed posteriorly, 

 stria' less deeply impressed, punctures small, closely approximate, interspaces 

 convex, alternately a little wider, rugulose, without distint^t granules, a very con- 

 spicuous, cruciform scutellar spot of white scales, a series of three spots of similar 

 scales and arranged in a curved line before the middle on the fifth, seventh and 

 ninth interspaces; the remaining surface indistinctly mottled : pygidium convex, 

 more finely and less densely punctured in the male, longitudinally impressed 



