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eluded by wrapping with cotton bands. When on the plants spraying 

 with arsenate of lead is recommended. 



Aramigus tessellatus Say has been recorded as injurious to sweet 

 potatoes. 



Lepidocricus n. g. 



Rostrum not longer than head, separated from head beneath by very sharp 

 and deep constriction; genas strongly emarginate; antennae short, first joint 

 of funicle longer than second, remaining joints moniliform; scales of thorax 

 dull, arranged in circles upon the numerous approximate tubercles; strial 

 punctures of elytra round but appearing linear because of closer scaly vesti- 

 ture, each bearing a tiny seta; anterior tibiae strongly denticulate within; tips 

 of hind tibiae with only a single row of fimbriae apparent; second segment of 

 abdomen considerably longer than the two following, with first suture 

 angulate. 



Name derived from \e7r/9, scale + KpiKO';, a circle, signifying a 

 circle of scales with reference to the vestiture of the thorax. The 

 type of the genus is L. herricki n. sp. 



Lepidocricus herricki n. sp. 



Form robust, oval, surface densely covered with grayish to brownish con- 

 cave lineolately sculptured scales, with no striking color pattern. Head and 

 rostrum about as long as thorax, medianly deeply canaliculate, surface 

 longitudinally rugosely punctate, covered with cinereous scales and bristles, 

 at tip, nearly naked. Prothorax broader than long, apex slightly narrower 

 than base, sides very strongly convex, median line not indicated, surface 

 closely covered with cylindrical tubercles, each with a deep bristle bearing 

 puncture, thus resembling craters, the scales arranged upon these tubercles 

 in circles, on some specimens forming a lighter band on each side of the 

 median line, and with sides lighter. Elytra oval, about two and a half times 

 as long as prothorax, striate, striae with moderately close, coarse setigerous 

 punctures which are always obscured and appear linear in a fully clothed 

 specimen, intervals almost flat, each with a row of short bristles, surface 

 densely covered with concave lineolately sculptured round to ogival scales. 

 Body beneath sparsely clothed with small thin scales, but more densely with 

 long white setae; third and fourth abdominal segments strongly depressed. 

 Legs densely scaly, and pubescent. Length 5-6 mm. 



Described from five specimens loaned me by Professors Glenn "W. 

 Herrick and H. W. Harned; collected by a correspondent (J. B. 

 Easter) at Easter in Monroe Co., Miss., May 7, 1904. Types in the 

 U. S. N. M. (No. 13084) and also in the collection of Mississippi 

 Agricultural College. 



Professor Herrick writes that his correspondent said that these 

 ''weevils had made their appearance on his farm and were feeding on 

 his young cotton, saying, 'it looks as though they were going to destroy 

 the whole stand. It is something new in this section of the country. 



