10 Psyche [February 



Liometophilus manni sp. nov. 



Dark brown, elytra with a subbasal and post-median transverse fascia in which 

 the scales are paler; beak and prothorax finely granulose, each granule bearing a 

 rounded appressed scale; beak also with numerous short, stout, erect scales. Pro- 

 thorax with anterior margin reflexed, slightly notched at apex and bearing together 

 with the discal and elytra! costse a single line of longer erect scales; disk of prothorax 

 behind the transverse groove densely scaly and with a median impressed line. 

 Elytra with rows of coarse punctures, somewhat as in AreoscMzus; scales appressed 

 except on the summits of the costa?. Legs clothed like the beak with appressed 

 and short, stout, erect scales. Other characters as in the generic description, or 

 in the figures. Length 3.5 mm.; width 1.2 mm. 



Described from two examples taken by Mr. Wm. M. Mann, 

 then of Stanford University, now at the Bussey Institution, Har- 

 vard University, Forest Hills, Mass. Mr. Mann writes me that 

 the two specimens were found in runways of different nests of 

 Liornetopiim apiculatum INIayr., Aug. lo, 1910, in Ramsey Canyon, 

 Huachuca Mts., Arizona. 



This very odd and interesting weevil is evidently a Cryptorhynch 

 (Group Cryptorhynchi — Lee. & Horn Class.) but does not show 

 close affinity to any genus know^n to me. Type in my collection; 

 paratype in Mann collection. 



I am much indebted to Mr. A. B. Wolcott of the Field Museum 

 of Natural History for the accompanying very characteristic 

 figures (Plate 3). The eyes are drawn a little too large in the 

 lateral view, as is also the antennal club in the dorsal aspect. 



Lophioderus ovipennis sp. nov. (Scydmaenidae). 



Elongate, entirely rufo testaceous, impunctuate; pubescence sparse, recurved. 

 Antennae ( 9 ) barely as long as the head and prothorax, the joints proportioned 

 nearly as in gracilis. Head elongate, eyes much smaller than in gracilis, their dia- 

 meter but slightly greater than the thickness of the basal joint of the antennae. 

 Prothorax distinctly longer than wide, widest at about the middle, form and sculp- 

 ture as in gracilis except that the base and apex are more nearly equal, and the trans- 

 verse basal impression is less distinct. Elytra nearly twice as long as wide, twice as 

 wide as the prothorax, oval, widest at middle, sides obliquely narrowed to base, 

 humeri completely wanting. All else as in gracilis. Length LG5 mm.; width .55 

 mm. 



Described from one of a series of specimens taken (IV-4-08) 

 at Kendrick, Idaho, in nest of Aphamogaster suhterranea var. 

 occidentalis by Prof. A. L. Melander and sent me by Mr. Mann. 



In its small eyes and obsolete humeri this species agrees best 



