JOURNAL 



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Vol. V. JUNE, 1897. No. 2. 



NEW GENERA AND SPECIES OF NORTH 

 AMERICAN CURCULIONIDiE. 



By Martin L. Linell. 



TRIBE ANTHONOMINI. 



Anthonomus xanthoxyli, sp. nov. 



Broadly oval, dark ferruginous, densely covered with small scales, variegated virith 

 white, gray, light and dark brown, with purplish reflection on the upper surface, and 

 grayish white, somewhat intermixed vi'ith brown on the ventral surface and legs; 

 beak coarsely substriately punctate, scaly and subopaque on the basal half, sparsely 

 punctate, glabrous and shining on the apical half; antennae slender, second joint one- 

 half longer than the third, third equal to fourth ; eyes large, protuberant, narrowly 

 separated above; frontal fovea deep, elongate; head rugose, densely scaly; thorax 

 transverse, rounded at the sides, broadly constricted at apex ; disc densely covered 

 with grayish and brown scales, a narrow dorsal line and a transverse one across the 

 middle forming a white cross, the latter line broadly bordered by dark brown ; elytra 

 wider at the base than the thorax, slightly wider behind the middle, strongly decli- 

 vous at apex ; strips fine, the punctures concealed by the scales ; intervals nearly flat, 

 the third at base and the suture on the declivity elevated ; scutellum and two spots at 

 its apex conspicuously white ; scales of the disc variegated in grayish and pale brown, 

 the extreme base dark brown, and of the same color is a very large triangular spot 

 each side behind the middle not touching the suture and bordered with lighter 

 gray ; ventral segments each with a row of pale hairs ; femora armed with a large 

 triangular tooth, with scales variegated in brown and gray ; tibiae scaly at base, out- 

 wards v/ith sparse grayish hairs; the anterior and middle tibiae angulated one-third 

 from base but not toothed, the posterior ones simple ; tarsi sparsely hairy, pale ; claws 

 black. Length, 2 mm. 



Numerous specimens collected by Mr. E. A. Schvvarz at San Diego, 

 Texas, on Xanthoxylum pterota, living in the seeds. Type No. 1399, 

 U. S. N. M. 



This species belongs in the subgenus Anthonomocyllus of Dietz, char- 

 acterized principally by the widely separated middle coxae, and is 



