NO. 2159. NEW SPECIES OF WEEVILS— PIERCE. 473 



Size 3.75 mm. Rhomboidal, widest between basal third and fourth 

 of the elytra, black, moderately shining and smooth throughout, 

 convex. Vestiture consisting of a patch of about three linear squa- 

 mules at the bases of the third and seventh elytral intervals, a few 

 scattered squamules on the commissure between the prothorax and 

 elytra, a very few on the sides of the prothorax, a few finer hair-like 

 scales on the base of the beak, and at the sides of the fourth abdominal 

 segments, and on the venter of the thorax and a very fine sparse 

 pubescence on the legs; tarsi densely pubescent beneath. Head 

 finely but sparsely punctate; the beak densely, and deeply, finely 

 punctate, separated from the head by a transverse sharply defined 

 groove, bead beneath with a deep groove from tip terminating 

 between the grooves of the scrobes, wliich give the appearance of the 

 beak being bent at the point they pass underneath. Antennal funicle 

 seven-jointed, first joint somewhat elongate, others compact, mo- 

 nilif orm ; club ovate, compact. Prothorax deeply and strongly irregu- 

 larly punctate, with median and discal smooth areas; as long as wide, 

 convex; apex only one-haK as wide as base, sides convex; base 

 almost regularly convex, median lobe nearly obsolete. Elytra at 

 base not wider than prothorax, but at widest point about one-half 

 wider, and fully twice as long; sides convex, most strongly so at 

 basal third, strongly convergent to apex, sutural notch obsolete; 

 striae strong at base but gradually becoming very faint; punctuation 

 extremely fine. Undersides finely and sparsely punctate, more 

 strongly so at tip of last abdominal segment, first and second seg- 

 ments connate, the suture showing only at the sides. Legs reddish 

 piceous, much more slender than in crassipes, but the tibiae shghtly 

 curved back near apex; tibiae unguiculate; tarsi with only a single 

 claw. 



One other specimen is at hand, collected also at Nashville, Ten- 

 nessee, August 4-15, 1897, by Prof. H. F. Wickham. It measures 

 just 2-5 mm . but it differs in no important structural characteristics 

 from the type. Since the above was written Mr. G. G. AinsHe has 

 collected several specimens at Nashville at roots of an aster. 



Type.—Csit. No. 18823, U.S.N.M. 



EISONYX (EUMONONYCHA) OEACA Casey. 



There are at hand five specimens of this species collected in the 

 stomach of a bird (OxyecTius ?sp.) at Mount Belview, Texas, December 

 2, 1898. (Biological Survey stomach 29859.) 



One specimen, somewhat smaller than any of the above series, and 

 with the legs fighter reddish, and the punctuation finer, was bred 

 June 15, 1908 from roots of Senedo hiatus collected by E. S. Tucker^ 

 at Clarksville, Texas, March 30, 1908. 



