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f erred to any of our previously known species, and at Mr. Weiss' 

 request I give herewith a description of the species in order that 

 it may be properly referred to in his and Mr. Dickerson's paper on 

 Hibiscus insects. The opportunity is taken to make known several 

 other new species of Apion that have come to hand since my revision 

 of the genus. Single examples, mostly females, of some four or five 

 other apparently new species are in my collection, two of which, 

 from their appearance, I suspect are importations. These must await 

 the turning up of additional specimens, including males, before they 

 can be properly made known. 



Apion hibisci new species. 



Moderately robust, black, tibise and tarsi brownish piceous, pubescence 

 thin, white, somewhat condensed at the base of the third elytral interval. 

 Beak stout, cylindrical, moderately curved, subequal in length to the head and 

 thorax in the male, a little longer in the female, rather densely punctate 

 throughout in both sexes, a somewhat larger elongate puncture over the base 

 of the antennae; first joint of latter one and one-half ($) to twice ($) the 

 length of the second, and not quite reaching the eye. Front subequal in 

 width to the tip of the beak, not sulcate. Prothorax obviously wider than 

 long, sides parallel in about basal three-fifths then rather suddenly narrowed, 

 the apex subtubulale : punctures coarse and moderately close, basal fovea not 

 very conspicuous. Elytra one-third longer than wide, humeri quite broadly 

 prominent, sides nearly parallel in rather more than basal half, intervals flat, 

 one-half to three-fourths wider than the striae. Metasternum and first two 

 ventral segments moderately punctate, the fifth vaguely more finely so. 

 Length 2.4 to 2.- mm. 



Hab. : Arlington, New Jersey ; taken from galls on Hibiscus 

 moscheutos by Mr. H. B. Weiss, from whom I have received a good 

 series of specimens. 



This species belongs to Section IV of my Synopsis (Trans. Am. 

 Ent. Soc, 1898) and would by the table fall near attenuatum, after 

 which it may best be placed; differing by its stouter form, broader 

 thorax, more parellel elytra, more basally inserted antenna^, and 

 paler tibiae and' tarsi. The sexual differences are very feeble, con- 

 sisting only in the slightly longer beak in the female. 



A. albidulum new species. 



Form rather stout, black, clothed quite densely with elongate appressed 

 white squamules. Beak slender, cylindrical, slightly longer than the thorax 

 in the male, a little longer but shorter than the head and thorax in the female, 



