128 Journal New York Entomological Society. t^oL xxx. 



A NEW GENUS AND SPECIES OF WEEVIL FROM 

 TEXAS (COLEOPTERA). 



By Howard Notman, 

 Brooklyn, N. Y. 



The species here described was sent to the author for identification 

 by Dr. E. Porter Felt, New York State Entomolog'ist. 



Genus Zeugonyx new genus. 



Beak slender, cylindrical, about as long as the head and thorax, slightly 

 arcuate; antennal scrobes beginning slightly behind the middle; scape reaching 

 the eye, funicle four jointed, first and second elongate, third and fourth sub- 

 globular, club with the three joints well separated. Eyes moderately separated. 

 In profile the beak is separated from the head by a distinct constriction. Tho- 

 rax transverse, strongly narrowed anteriorly, basal margin finely elevated. 

 Scutellum not distinct. Elytra convex and oval, scarcely wider than the 

 thorax at base ; base with a fine elevated margin. Legs of moderate length, 

 femora stout, toothed, tarsi rather large, claw joint nearly as long as the three 

 preceding together, claws of unequal length and nearly completely joined so that 

 the shorter inner claw appears as a tooth on the larger outer one. Second ab- 

 dominal segment longer than the third and fourth united ; sutures straight. 

 Intermediate coxae rather broadly separated. Intercoxal process of the first 

 ventral segment rather broadly rounded at apex. 



This genus is closely related to Nanophycs Schoen. It differs from 

 the various groups of that genus by the four-jointed antennal funicle 

 and loosely articulated club ; also by the unequal claws which are 

 nearly completely joined. Lacordaire states (Gen. Col., VI, p. 6x8) 

 that the claws are unequal in the males of Cioniis, the outer being the 

 shorter, however. The scutellum is present in Cionus. 



According to Lacordaire the antennae in Nanophyes are inserted be- 

 tween the middle and the apex of the beak but Brisout de Barneville 

 in a later monograph (L'Abeille, VI, pp. 305-352, 1869) includes spe- 

 cies in which the antenns are inserted at or slightly behind the middle. 

 The only species of Nanophyes at present at hand are single specimens 

 of N. telephii Bedel and A'', pallidnlns Grav. They both differ from 

 the described genus in the form of the head in profile, the beak being 

 scarcely at all distinct from the head at base. 



