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the (^ and with a rather broad, impunctured, glabrous, median vitta, 

 bordered with erect hairs, extending from base to apex ; the last ventral is 

 broadly emarginate and the sixth is frequently visible ; the pygidium is 

 truncate. In the Q the ventral segments are convex, punctured and 

 pubescent and the last one and the pygidium are rounded. 



Anthonomus pusillus Lee. This species has occurred oc- 

 casionally in sweeping grass and weeds in May and June in the vicinity 

 of Lowell, Mass., and lately, June 16, it was found in considerable num- 

 bers on the Helianthemum canadense, or frost weed, growing in dry old 

 fields. This was described from a single specimen from Texas, which 

 was undoubtedly a male. The variation in size is very great, some females 

 exceeding the smallest males six or eight times in bulk, so that unless the 

 sexes happened to be taken at the same time they would hardly be recog- 

 nized as belonging to the same species. The males are also generally 

 darker colored than the females. The tooth of the front thighs is very 

 strong, that of the middle moderate in size, that of the hind thighs very 

 minute ; the tibia? are strongly bisinuate inside and the pygidium is con- 

 vex and perpendicular and a little inflexed below as described of A. 

 elegans. In both sexes there is a small acute tubercle on the inner side 

 of the anterior coxae near the apex, but sometimes observed with difficulty 

 in the more minute specimens on account of the scaly vestiture. 



It seems probable that this species breeds in the seed pods of Heli- 

 anthemum, but I have not been able to verify this.* Miarus hispidulus 

 has been observed to breed in the seed capsales of Lobelia inflata. Larva, 

 pupa and imagines, all having been taken from them. It, no doubt, 

 breeds in other species of Lobelia and here frequently occurs on the flow- 

 ers of Z. spicata. 



Tychius lineellus Lee. This appears to have been described 

 from females only. In the $ the beak is shorter, coarsely punctured and 

 striate with a small smooth space above near the tip and with the antenna? 

 inserted far in front of the middle instead of at the middle as in the 9- 

 The abdomen is impressed at base and the front tibia? are armed inside 

 at about the middle with an acute tooth which is absent in the 9- 



Barinus cribricollis Lee. In the Bull. Cal. Acad. Sc. , II, 6, p. 

 255, Lieut. Casey has defined the genus Barinus and he has also described 

 Barinus squamolineaius from an 111. specimen, sent to him by Mr. F. M. 

 Webster. I have also what I take to be a similar specimen sent me by 

 Mr. Webster from 111. Dr. I loin and myself have compared my speci- 

 men with Dr. Leconte's types of Barikpton and have found it to agree 



* Since the foregoing was written, larvae, undoubtedly of this species, have 

 been observed in the seed vesseb. 



