NO. 2159. 



NEW SPECIES OF WEEVILS— PIERCE. 



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LONCOPHORUS, species. 



Other species in the genus are parasita Fabricius from Cayenne, 

 fortis Champion of Panama, fusiformis Champion of Mexico, Guate- 

 mala, and Panama, pustulatus Champion of Panama, and verrudger 

 Champion of Costa Rica. 



OROBITIDAE, new family. 



Orobitinae, new subfamily (Cryptorhynchinae). 



Tribe TYLODINI. 



Genus LEIOMERUS (Chevrolat) Boheman. 



Leiomerus (Chevrolat MS.) Boheman, Schonherr's Gen. at Sp. Cure, vol. 8, 1844, 



pt. 1, p. 266. Based on Coelosternus (Leiomerus) glabrirostris (Chevrolat) 



Boheman. 



Coelosternus Schonherr, Cure. Disp. Meth., 1826, p. 284 (not 



Coelosternus Sahlberg, 1823) type, compernis Germar. 



The original usage of Coelosternus by Sahlberg 

 makes halteatus Sahlberg the type of that genus, 

 and it therefore replaces the erroneous use of Crypt- 

 orliynclius as found in Gemminger and Harold and 

 other authors. The type of Cryptorhynchus lUiger 

 was designated by Latreille in 1810 as pericarpius 

 Linnaeus, which is also type of Khinoncus. In 

 view of the fact that Schonherr's Coelosternus is 

 left without a name, it is necessary to search 

 for some other available name. The only name 

 thus found is the manuscript name Leiomerus, 

 established in the sjaionomy of Coelosternus glabri- 

 rostris by Boheman, and henceforth quoted as a 

 generic synonym of Coelosternus Schonherr. This 

 name is therefore definitely chosen to represent 

 the genus as redefined by Lacordaire (1866) * 

 with glabrirostris Boheman as type. It is principally character 

 ized by the single-jointed cylindrical club of the antennae. 



Fig. 1.— Side view of 

 head of leiomerus 

 gkanicollis. 



LEIOMERUS GRANICOLLIS, new species. 



Described from four specimens found ahve in cassava (Manihot) 

 stems from Brazil by H. L. Sanford at quarantme, Washington, Dis- 

 trict of Columbia, September 10, 1914. 



Length, 5.5 to 7 mm.; width, 2.5 to 3.5 mm. Black, covered with 

 tesselated pubescence, subovate. Head convex, very deeply, and 

 closely rugoso-punctate, the rugosity forming a sort of arcuate ridge 

 above the eyes; punctures squamigerous ; front narrow, deeply 



» Gen. Col., vol. 7, 18G6, p. 123. 



