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Apion {Trichapion) enoplus, new species 



Figure 8,e, /, j 



Description: Length, 1.42 mm.; width, 0.71 mm. 



Robust. Black; pubescence on dorsal surface white, moderately 

 conspicuous, coarser and denser on sides of prothorax, mesothorax, 

 and metathorax. Male beak shorter than head and prothorax com- 

 bined, three-sevenths longer than prothorax; slightly, evenly curved; 

 apical third nearly cylindrical; in dorsal view moderately expanded 

 laterally over antennal insertion, attenuate to apical third, slightly 

 compressed in front of apical third; basal two-thirds dull, alutaceous, 

 moderately punctured, sparsely pubescent; apical third shining, finely 

 punctured. Antennae inserted at basal fourth of beak at distance 

 from eye about equal to width of frons; first segment and second 

 segment each shorter than next two segments; club 0.12 by 0.05 mm. 

 Eyes prominent; frons wider than dorsal tip of beak. Prothorax at 

 base three-eighths wider than long, middle slightly narrower than 

 base, apex eight-elevenths as wide as base; sides beyond basal lateral 

 expansion nearly parallel to middle, rounded to constricted apex; in 

 profile dorsal surface nearly flat; punctation moderately shallow, 

 0.03 mm. in diameter, interspaces about equal to diameter of punc- 

 tures; basal fovea shallow, broadly punctiform. Elytra at humeri 

 about one-half wider than prothorax at base; 2.8 times as wide as 

 prothorax; length to width as 11:8.5; intervals nearly flat, twice as 

 wide as striae, generally with one row of scales; striae moderately 

 deep, fine. Scutellum triangular, 0.06 by 0.05 mm., with slight 

 median furrow. Front femora 3.7 times as long as wide. Claws 

 with acute basal tooth. 



Special male characters: Tibiae 2 and 3 armed with long, slender, 

 curved mucrones; front tibiae with flattened, finely striate area 

 extending two -thirds its length on inner anterior face; first segment 

 of fore tarsi with outer apical angle produced into a short spine. 



Female is not known. 



Types: Holotype male (CAS), Jalapa, Veracruz, Mexico, July, 

 Barrett collector, A. Fenyes Collection. One male paratype (DGK), 

 near Huauchmango, Puebla, Mexico, June 1954, D. G. Kissinger. 



Remarks: The specimen from Huauchinango, Puebla, was taken 

 while beating in a pine and scrubby oak forest at about 5,000 feet 

 elevation. 



Apion {Trichapion) innocens, new species 



Figure 8,k-n 



Description: Length, 1.59 mm.; width, 0.79 mm. 

 Moderately robust. Black; antennae, tibiae in part, and tarsi 

 piceous; pubescence dorsally very fine, long, yellowish, moderately 



