NO. 1708. STUDIES OF NORTH AMERICAN WEEVILS— PIERCE. 327 



b 



Body black, with disk of elytra red, finely punctured, sparsely pubescent; beak 

 as long as prothorax and occiput; last joint of antennal club a little narrower 



than preceding, longer than wide, rounded at tip rufipennis, new species. 



Antennae inserted within basal fourth of beak. 



Body greenish, lustrous, rather coarsely punctured, thinly clad with short, semi- 

 erect pubescence; beak as long as prothorax; last joint of antennal club slightly 

 narrower than the preceding, as long as wide, obtusely rounded at apex, 



viridis, new species. 



Body bluish black, densely punctured, thinly pubescent congruus Walker. 



Very small, brown, irregularly pubescent cassandrx LeConte. 



AULETES ATER LeConte. 



Milton, Massachusetts, June; Warwick, Khode Island, May 

 (E. S. Calder); New York (Linell); Toronto, Canada, May (R. J. 

 Crew); Port Huron, ISIichigan, June (Hubbard and Schwarz); Cadet, 

 Missouri (J. G. Barlow). 



AULETES NASALIS LeConte. 



This species is not represented. 



AULETES LATICOLLIS Casey. 



This species is not represented. 



AULETES RUFIPENNIS, new species. 



Described from one specimen collected by D. W. Coquillett, in 

 Los Angeles County, California (922). 



Length 2 mm. Thi'ee-fourths longer than wdde, slightly convex; 

 black, with elytra, except a wide band along the suture and lateral 

 edges, reddish brown, and with antennal funicle, tip of beak and legs 

 more or less piceous, or testaceous; punctuation fine; pubescence 

 sparce, short, semierect, whitish. Head with occiput wider than 

 long, convex; feebly convex between the eyes; occiput finely, trans- 

 versely, lineolately rugose; punctuation between the eyes shallow, 

 sparse, several of the median punctures open in front; eyes large, 

 convex, and prominent. Beak as long as thorax and occiput, one- 

 third as wide as head, slightly arcuate behind base of antennae, 

 somewhat flattened above and below, medianly shallowly sulcate, 

 laterally punctato-sulcate; scrobes deep, beginning in a point at 

 above middle and almost as wide as depth of beak at base; antennae 

 inserted just within the basal third of the beak, two basal joints 

 stout, others small, becoming shorter; club large, very loosely jointed, 

 first and second joints subquadrate and equal, third a little narrower 

 and constricted at base, longer than wide and rounded at tip. Pro- 

 thorax widest at basal third, barely one-third wider than long, sides 

 strongly arcuate at base, more strongly convergent and straighter 

 toward apex; apex straight, more than three-fourths as wide as base; 

 base broadly and feebly arcuate; disk evenly and feebly convex. 



