SUBGENUS TRICHAPION — KISSINGER 325 



next four; second segment slightly longer than third; club 0.24 by 

 0.09 mm. Eyes moderately prominent; frons slightly wider than 

 dorsal tip of beak, with shallow, broad, median sulcus and one lateral 

 row of coalesced punctures. Prothorax at base one-third wider than 

 long, middle narrower than base, apex three-fourths as wide as base; 

 sides beyond basal lateral expansion slightly converging to middle, 

 rounded to constricted apex; in profile dorsal surface flat; punctures 

 deep, 0.04 mm. in diameter, interspaces alutaceous, irregular, less 

 than diameter of punctures; basal fovea shallow, extending one-third 

 length of prothorax. Elytra at humeri one-fourth wider than pro- 

 thorax at base, three times as long as prothorax, length to width as 

 12:8.5; intervals convex, twice as wide as striae, with one or two 

 rows of fine punctures; striae deep. Front femora of ma,le three times 

 as long as wide, of female 3.3 times as long as wide. Claws with 

 acute basal tooth. 



Special male characters: Tibia 2 armed with mucro, all femora 

 swollen. 



Material Examined: T3T)e, male (MCZ 25090), Santa Kita Mts., 

 Ariz., in Fall Collection, and three specimens in Fall Collection. 



Known Distribution: 



United States: Arizona: Santa Rita Mts.; Huachuca Mts., Ramsay Canyon 

 (MCZ). 



Apion {Trichapion) puncinlirostre Sharp 



Figure 10,e-h 



Apion punctulirostre Sharp, Biologia Centrali-Americana. Insecta, Coleoptera, 

 Curculionidae: Apioninae, vol. 4, pfc. .3, p. 57, 1890. — Kissinger, Proc. Ent. 

 Soc. Washington, vol. 59, p. 40, 1957. 



Apion spectator Sharp, Biologia Centrali-Americana. Insecta, Coleoptera, Curcu- 

 lionidae: Apioninae, vol. 4, pt. 3, p. 61, 1890. — Kissinger, Proc. Ent. Soc. 

 Washington, vol. 59, p. 40, 1957. 



Description: Length, 2.0 to 2.5 mm.. 



Moderately robust; black. Pubescence fine, white, sparse, denser 

 on sides of mesothorax. Male beak as long as head and prothorax 

 combined, slightly, evenly curved, middle (in dorsal view) slightly 

 thicker than base, apical third compressed; wdth slight, dorsal, median 

 carina, and a lateral line of punctures in a slight groove extending to 

 apical thii'd ; pubescence conspicuous, apex smoother, glabrous. Fe- 

 male beak nearly twice as long as head and prothorax combined, 

 slightly, evenly curved, nearly cylindrical throughout, apex slightly 

 expanded; finely, deeply punctured, apex not as shining as base, basal 

 third with scant pubescence. Antennae inserted in basal third of 

 beak, of male at distance from eye 2.25 tiro.es as great as width of 

 frons, of female at distance from eye three times as great as width of 

 frons; first segment longer than next three, shorter than next four; 



