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A. disparatum Slip. 



Specimens taken by the late Prof. Snow in the Santa Rita Mts., 

 Arizona, were so identified by Wagner. It should follow nasutum 

 in my arrangement of species, judging from one example sent me 

 by Snow. 



A. nunenmacheri Wagner. Novitates Zoologies, XIX, April, 19 12, p. 97. 



Specimens sent me by Nunenmacher show this to be not separable 

 from proclive Lee. 



A. haplopus Wagner, loc. cit., p. 99. 



This is said to be near ventricosiim, differing by its smaller size, 

 lack of metallic lustre on the elytra, and especially by the shorter, 

 more robust beak, and shorter, more robust antennce and shorter 

 elytra. Described from a pair from Benson, Arizona, sent by Nunen- 

 macher. This must be near eriogoni described above but the dis- 

 tinctive characters given do not especially apply and the beak in 

 eriogoni is really less stout, than in ventricosiim, instead of inore so. 



An appeal to Mr. Nunenmacher for a specimen of haplopus for 

 study brought the reply that he had no more. It is unfortunate that 

 a collector should send all his specimens of a doubtful thing like this 

 to Europe, and especially so that it should be described there without 

 depositing a paratype in this country. American entomologists have 

 been put to no end of trouble in attempting to identify American 

 insects described by European systematists, more often than not with- 

 out any adequate representation of our species for comparative pur- 

 poses. A like action on our part would be considered highly pre- 

 sumptuous, but it would really be much easier in normal times for an 

 American student to get a working representation of the European 

 species of almost any genus than for the European student to get an 

 equally complete series of ours. If they continue to describe our 

 species, the least they can do is to place types or paratypes in some 

 available collection in this country. 



