June, 1897] Linell: New North American Curculionid.*:. 61 



narrow, hairlike ; anterior thoracic opening very oblique ; prosternum short in front 

 of the coxa ; scales of ventral surface oval, very dense, more narrow and less dense 

 on the last ventral segments ; legs pale testaceous, all the femora armed with a sharp- 

 tooth, tibia feebly bisinuate, claws black. Length (from apex of thorax), 2.5 mm 



Three examples collected at Brownville, Texas, by Prof. C. H. T. 

 Townsend. Type No. 1401. U. S. N. M. 



This species should enter the sqiiamosus group of Dietz next to A. 

 squatnosus Lee, from which it differs by its much smaller size and 

 rounded sides of the thorax. The strongly shining beak will readily 

 distinguish it from A. tectus Lee. 



Brachyogmus, gen. nov. 



Claws simple, divergent ; hind tibia mucronate ; prosternum short in front of the 

 coxa ; antennal scrobes straight, directed against the eyes, but abbreviated long be 

 fore reaching them ; form convex, thorax narrow. 



Brachyogmus ornatus, sp. nov. 



Subovate, piceous, the ground color entirely concealed by large rounded scales, 

 variegated with white, black and ferruginous ; beak somewhat longer than head and 

 thorax, cylindrical, moderately stout, slightly curvate, at base densely scaly with white 

 and ferruginous, outwardly shining piceous ; scrobes commencing two-fifths from the 

 apex, broad and deep for about one-half the distance towards the eye, then gradually 

 evanescent; antenna slender; scape reaching the eye, suddenly clavate at apex, fer- 

 ruginous ; funicle as long as the scape, seven jointed, darker ferruginous, each joint 

 bearing a whorl of long stiff white hairs, first joint clavate, twice as long as the sec- 

 ond, second to seventh subequal in length, gradually but slightly wider ; club ellipti- 

 cal, piceous, densely pubescent ; eyes moderately large, feebly convex, rounded ; 

 front wide between the eyes, depressed, with ferruginous scales ; head short, the scales 

 white, forming three broad longitudinal stripes ; thorax as broad as long, very 

 convex, broadly not strongly constricted at apex ; sides strongly rounded ; base bisin- 

 uate ; scales white, variegated with ferruginous, on each side of the white median line 

 a broad black stripe, variegated with ferruginous, interrupted before the apex ; scu- 

 tellum purely white ; elytra at base fully one-third wider than thorax, twice as long 

 as broad, slightly wider behind the middle ; humeri prominent with arcuate margin ; 

 stria narrow, deeply impressed, the punctures concealed ; intervals flattened, the 

 sutural elevated towards apex ; scales variegated in white, ferruginous, black and me- 

 tallic green, in the basal region around the scutellum mostly ferruginous ; a humeral 

 spot, a broad band across the suture before the middle and numerous, often rectang- 

 ular, spots, forming two irregular transverse fascia posteriorly, are dark mixed 

 with black and metallic ; ventral surface with the scales white, mixed with ferrugin- 

 ous at the sides. The first four abdominal segments gradually shorter, the fifth equal 

 to the fourth ; pygidium concealed in the female, partly exposed and perpendicular 

 in the male ; femora clavate, obtusely, toothed, variegated with white and ferruginous 

 scales ; tibia stout, strongly mucronate at apex, variegated with white and metallic 

 green scales, towards apex with white hairs replacing the scales; tarsi short, narrow. 



