50 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi. v. 



closely allied to A. elegans Lee, but is smaller, less variegated and the 

 tibiae are unarmed. 



Anthonomus brevirostris, sp. nov. 



Subovate, robust, black, shining, with a slight ceneous lustre, clothed with long 

 white appressed hairs, very sparsely above, densely beneath; beak very short, 

 scarcely longer than head and thorax, glabrous, opaque and coarsely punctato-striate 

 behind the insertion of the antennae, shining and sparsely punctate at apex ; antennae 

 inserted far beyond the middle, slender, entirely testaceous, sparsely pubescent ; first 

 joint of funicle short, strongly clavate, second slender, much longer than third ; fol- 

 lowing joints gradually wider; eyes feebly convex, free behind ; head short, sparsely 

 and finely punctulate, finely but deeply sulcate above the eyes; thorax broader than 

 long, sides broadly rounded from the base, apex broadly but feebly constricted, disk 

 very sparsely, comparatively finely punctate, each puncture with a long scale-like 

 hair ; scutellum very conspicuous by dense white scale-like hairs ; elytra oval, about 

 one-fourth wider at base than the thorax and one-half longer than wide, with striae ' 

 distant, deep but rather fine punctures ; the striae impressed only at the side-margin 

 and apex ; intervals nearly flat, obsoletely punctulate ; surface with very sparse long 

 white hairs, condensed into spots on the base of the sixth (sometimes also at the 

 apical fourth) and at the middle and apical fourth of the fourth intervals; pubescence 

 of the ventral surface generally dense but all the sutures and the median line of me- 

 tasternum and abdomen sparsely pubescent ; legs sparsely hairy, piceous, posterior 

 femora at base, apical half of the tibiae and the tarsi testaceous; all the femora 

 sharply toothed ; anterior tibiae bisinuate internally, incurved at apex ; tarsi short, the 

 first joint slightly longer than the second. Length (from apex of thorax), 2102.3 

 mm. 



Four examples collected at Brownsville, Texas, by Prof. C. H. T. 

 Townsend. Type No. 1400, U. S. N. M. 



This species belongs in the nigrinus group of Dietz, characterized 

 by the third and fourth ventral segments equal in length, and should be 

 placed with y4. /a*^)?/' Dietz, from which it is readily distinguished by 

 the sparser and finer punctuation. 



Anthonomus testaceosquamosus, sp. nov. 



Oblong oval, pale ferruginous, densely clothed with oval, uniformly colored, pale 

 yellowish scales ; beak very short, feebly curvate, dark ferruginous, shining ; basal 

 part to the insertion of the antennae deeply punctato-striate, clothed with sparse scale- 

 like hairs and some oval scales at the base, apical part glabrous, confusedly punctate; 

 antennae slender, testaceous with infuscate, densely pubescent club ; second joint of 

 funicle twice as long as the third; eyes large, convex; front flattened, fovea deep; 

 thorax much wider than long, strongly rounded at the sides and broadly constricted 

 at apex ; base strongly bisinuate ; surface densely and coarsely punctate ; scales 

 nearly uniform in size, oval, somewhat more condensed on the median line. Scutellum 

 densely scaly, not different in coloration ; elytra at base much wider than thorax, 

 oval, not wider behind ; striae fine, concealed by the scales ; intervals flat ; scales 



