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interspaces wide; vestiture mainly broAvn, with a paler subbasal and 

 a postmedian fascia, and with sutural interspaces lighter brown. 

 Femora indistinctly annulate; claws slender, divergent. Venter 

 moderately, shallowly punctate, sparsely clothed; second segment a 

 httle longer than third or fourth. 



Specimens are also at hand from Encinal, Texas, April 18, 1906, 

 J. D. Mitchell. 



Type.— Cat. No. 14472, U.S.N.M. 



GERSTiECKERIA (PmLOPUNTIA) FASCIATA, new species. 



Buck Key, Florida, G. Brainard (one specimen). 



Length, 5.5 mm. Black, antennae rufous; legs piceous-black ; 

 vestiture white, golden, and brown; beak moderately long, shining, 

 finely punctate, not carinate; front strongly foveate; eyes separated 

 by one-half the width of the beak ; head clothed with golden or cream- 

 colored scales. Prothorax large, sides strongly convex, rather shal- 

 lowly punctate with smooth spots on sides; median line impunctate; 

 vestiture golden, with a few white dots. Elytra inflated at basal 

 third, thence tapering to apex, not one-half wider than prothorax; 

 strial punctures large, very shallow, interspaces as wide as punctures; 

 vestiture golden, condensed at base of third interspace, also on the 

 apical half of sutural interspace and in a transverse postmedian vitta 

 crossing this; prominent spots of white scales behind humeri on 

 fourth to seventh interspaces ; brown scales bordering fasciae. Femora 

 annulate; tarsal claws approximate; venter clothed with golden 

 scales. 



Type.— Cat. No. 14473, U.S.N.M. 



GERST.S;CKERIA (PHILOPUNTIA) CACTOPHAGA, new species. 



Point Isabel (near Brownsville) , Texas, May 11, 1904, H. S. Barber 

 (four specimens). 



Length, 6 mm. Black, antennae brownish, legs piceous-black; 

 vestiture whitish, yellowish, and brown. Beak short, shining, punc- 

 tate, carinate. Front sulcate; eyes separated by one-haK the width 

 of the beak. Head and basal half of beak densely clothed with 

 whitish scales. Thorax as in preceding species, but with a median 

 longitudinal white stripe at base and four white dots on the apical 

 half arranged in a square in the line with the eyes. Elytra very 

 little wider than prothorax, interspaces narrow, punctures round, 

 moderately deep; vestiture piceous, but with large humeral brown 

 spots more or less connected across entire base by light scales, and 

 with a wavy white postmedian fascia and with declivity more or less 

 marked with light scales; sutural interspace light brown. Femora 

 annulate, mutic; tarsal claws divergent. Venter clothed with light- 

 brown scales. 



Type.— Cat. No. 14474, U.S.N.M. 



