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PSYCHE. 



[March, 1902 



A NEW BRUCHOPHAGUS FROM MEXICO. 



BY WILLIAM H. ASHMEAD, WASHINGTON, D. C. 



The following interesting new Eurytomid 

 belonging to the genus Briichophagus was 

 received by Dr. L. O. Howard, from Mr. A. 

 L. Herrera, of Coahuila, Mexico, who bred it 

 from the Coiton-%see.\\\ Anthoiiomus grat:dii. 



Bruchophagus herrerae sp. nov. 



$. — Length 4 mm. Black, nmbi'icately 

 punctate and clothed with a fine white pubes- 

 cence ; the tips of front and hind femora, 

 their tibiae and sutures of their trochanters 

 and middle legs from the second joint of 

 trochanteis, except a spot at base of the 

 femora, are honey-yellow, while the tarsi are 

 pale, almost white; the wings are hyaline, 

 the tegulae black, the veins pale j-ellowish, 

 the stigmal and marginal veins about equal 

 and a little shorter than the post-marginal. 



The abdomen is conically pointed, very 

 slightly longer than the head and thorax 

 united, the petiole being short, smooth above, 

 the second segment highly polished impunc- 

 tate, the third, fourth, and fifth segments 

 shining but feebly delicately shagreened, the 

 fifth being the longest segment, the sixth and 

 seventh more distinctly and opaquely sha- 

 greened and with sparse white hairs ; the 

 seventh has a distinct rounded spiracle ; the 

 eighth is conically pointed with oval spira- 

 cles. 



Both antennae are broken off and cannot 

 be described. 



Type.— Cat. No. 6139, U. S. N. M. 



Hab. — Coahuila, Mexico. 



Host. — Coleop. Anthonomtti grandis Boh. 



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