NO. 1889. DESCRIPTIONS OF ECONOMIC WEEVILS— PIERCE. 157 



cleft. Ventral segments subeqiml, tlio fifth slightly longer than tliird 

 or fourth. Pygidium covered. 



This description varies in a few slight particulars from the original,* 

 but I do not believe sufficiently to separate it as a new species. The 

 bred specimens from Macacara differ considerably in superficial 

 appearance. They are all lighter in color. The median interstices 

 of the elytra and a triangular area at the base of the elytra are black- 

 ish piceous, and the remainder is a reddish piceous. The beak is 

 dark; the legs have practically no infuscation. The pubescence is 

 yellowish and a little denser because less rubbed, and there is a 

 distinct pattern of the vestiture. The thorax has a light median 

 band and lighter sides; the elytra have a dark triangular basal 

 area, a triangular lateral area on each side about the middle, a 

 small basal spot and two small subapical spots. These spots 

 are merely due to the sparser vestiture and are indistinct on the 

 maturer specimens. 



The sexes are readily distinguished. The female beak is slender, 

 quite smooth, has very little pubescence at the base, is regularly but 

 slightly arcuate and has the scape inserted slightly beyond the 

 middle; the pygidium is rarely visible, apically narrowly truncate 

 and pubescent onl}" at apex; the posterior tibiae are almost straight, 

 the angle opposite the femoral tooth bemg almost obsolete. The 

 male beak is stouter, more strongly punctato-rugose, pubescent to 

 the insertion of the antennae; scape inserted almost at apical third; 

 beak arcuate at point of insertion of antennae; the pygidium is usually 

 visible, broadly truncate at apex and pubescent except in narrow strip 



• The original description is as follows: 



Anthcmormis vesiitus Boheman. 



Oblongo-ovatus, convexus, nigro-piceus, squamis piliformibus, cinereis dense vestitus; antenitis pedi- 

 busque flavo-testaceis; femoribus clavatis, subtus unidentatis, apice late infuscatis; rostro prothorace fere 

 duple longiore, Icviter arcuato; prothorace subconico, confertira punctulato: elytris ferrugineis, medio- 

 criter punctato-striatis, interstitiis sub-convexis, leevibus.— Long. 3J, lat. 2 millim. 



Patria: Insula Puna. 



A. Vlmi magnitudiiie aequalis. Caput par^-um, rotundatum, modice couve.xum, nigro-piceum, sub- 

 tiliter, crebre punttulatum, squamis setiformibus cinereis dense vestitum. Oculi parvi, rotundati, con- 

 vexi, nigri. Rostrum prothorace fere duplo longius, tenue, cylindricuni, leviter arcuatum, piceum, 

 punctulatum, apice dilutius, basi parce cinereo-squamosum, leviter longitudinalitcr carinatum. Antennae 

 ad medium prothoracis pertingentes, tenues, pallide tcstacea;, clava ovata, fusca, ciuerco-pubescente. 

 Prothorax latitudine postica brevior, apice truncatus, anterius angustior, pono apicem oblique, dein basin 

 versus parura ampliatns, basi bisinuatus, supeme convexiusculus, nigro-piceus, crebre punctulatus, 

 squamis piliformibus cinereis dense vestitus. Scutellum parvum, dense cinereo-squamosum. Elytra 

 antice sublruncata, prothorace dimidio latiora et duplo longiora, humeris panim elevatis, rotimdatis; 

 lateribus iuQexa, ultra medium perparum ampliata, apice conjunctim rotundata, supeme couvexa, postice 

 declivia, mediocritcr, regularitcr punctato-striata, interstitiis sub-convexis, laevibus; ferruginea, squamis 

 piliformibus cinereis dense obsita. Corpus subtus nigro-piceum, punctulatum, dense cinereo-squamosum. 

 Pedes longiusculi, llavo-testacei, cinereo-squamulosi; femoribus clavatis, basi excepta, infuscatis, subtus: 

 anteapieemdenteparvo, at-utoarmatis; tibiisteretibus, sub-rectis. Kongliga Svenska Fregatten Eugenics 

 Resa Omkring Jorden under bofiil C. A. Virgin &ren 1851-1853. Vetenskapliga iakttagelser Pa H. Maj. 

 t Konung Oscar den F6rstes befallning utgifna af K. Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademien. Zoologi, HI. 

 Text: Insekterp. 130, No. 273, Stockholm, 1859. 



