NO. 1889. DESCRIPTIONS OP ECONOMIC WEEVILS— PIERCE. 167 



G£RST.£CKERIA TURBIDA LeConte. 



Specimens are on liand from Tucson, Cutalina Sprinj^s, and Fort 

 Grant, Arizona, all from the Hubbard and Schwarz collection. 



3. MISCELLANEOUS NEW SPECIES OF BIOLOGICAL INTEREST. 



The three following species are described in this paper because of 

 their being associated with known ])lants, which, of course, makes 

 them more interesting. They are also very interesting species in 

 themselves, the last two representing new genera for our United 

 States fauna. 



ANTHONOMUS MLfiPHONUS, new species. 



Name tlerived from [icaccfyovoc, blood-stained. 



Describeil from a series of six specimens collected June 22, 1894 

 at Kound Knob, North Carolina, from the Hubbard and Schwarz 

 collection, beaten from bushes of mountain laurel (Rhododendron). 



This species belongs to the signatus group near sulcifrons and sex- 

 guttatus. It is the largest member of the group. 



Length, 2.7 mm. Robust, oval. Black, nifo-piceous at tip of 

 mandibles, on antennal scape and fimicle, and tarsi; legs darker 

 piceous; elytra dark red with base and suture, and sometimes denuded 

 spot darker. Pubescence pale yellowish, very fine and scant above, 

 except on scutellum and somewhat condensed in spots around the 

 denuded fascia; more densely clothed beneath with line sc^uamiform 

 hairs. 



Beak moderately slender, curved, subopaque, coarsely striato- 

 punctate; median carina distinct to apex; female beak longer than 

 in male. Antennae rufo-piceous or testaceous, with club dark; 

 inserted at apical tliird in male and two-fifths in female; first 

 joint elongate, as long as second and third; second joint equaling 

 third and fourth combined; jomts 3-7 globose, subequal, becoming 

 slightly wider; club densely and finely pubescent, oval, almost 

 equaling last sLx funicular joints. Eyes convex, free beliind. Head 

 convex, finely rugulose with a few remote piliferous punctures; 

 front distinctly sulcate between the e3"es, sulcus extending to base of 

 beak. Prothorax wider than long; base one-half wider than apex; 

 sides broadly rounded, plainly constricted before apex; transversely 

 impressed in front, small round depression at sides of disk at basal 

 third; coarsely, closely, and deeply punctured tliroughout; pubes- 

 cence condensed along basal margin. Elytra one-tliird w^der at 

 base than prothorax, suboval, very convex on median line, a trifle 

 wider posteriorly; sides almost straight to posterior tliird, slightly 

 constricted behind humeri; stria> imj)ressed, punctures moderately 

 large, round, and closely approximate; interspaces slightly convex 

 with an irregular row of minute setigerous punctures; scutellum 



