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segment shorter than next two, club 0.25 by 0.10 mm. Eyes moder- 

 ately prominent ; frons much wider than dorsal tip of beak. Prothorax 

 at base one-third wider than long, middle about equal to base, apex 

 three-fourths as wide as base; sides beyond minute basal lateral ex- 

 pansion slightly expanded to middle, thence rounded to apex, not con- 

 stricted at apex; in profile dorsal surface slightly arcuate; punctation 

 deep, 0.04 mm. in diameter, interspaces less than diameter of punc- 

 tures, alutaceous; basal fovea deep, narrow, extending about one- 

 third length of prothorax. Elytra three-eighths wider at humeri than 

 base of prothorax, 2.8 times as long as prothorax, length to mdth as 

 9:7; intervals twice as wide as striae, nearly flat, with one row of fine 

 scales; striae moderately deep, fine. Scutellum triangular, 0.06 by 

 0.06 mm., with deep, median groove. Front femora about 3.5 times as 

 long as wide. Claws with acute basal tooth. 



Special male characters: Tibiae 2 and 3 armed with moderately 

 short, subdentate mucrones. 



I hereby designate the lectotype of this species as the male specimen 

 (MCZ 25113) in the Fall Collection labeled Georgia. Cotypes are in 

 the J. L. LeConte Collection (MCZ 371) and in the U. S. National 

 Museum (USNM 4218). 



Material examined : Lectotype and 20 specimens. 



Known Distribution: 



United States: Alabama: Tuscaloosa, May 24, 1953, on Tephrosia spicata, 

 B. D. Valentine (BDV). Florida: Mount Pleasant, April 1952, O. Peck (CNC). 

 Georgia: Augusta, May 4, 1944, P. W. Fattig (USNM). Indiana: Pulaski Co., 

 June 19, July 16, determined by Fall. Louisiana: Longville, June 17, 1948, H. W. 

 Crowder (UK). Mississippi: Fulton, July 14, 1930, R. H. Beamer (UK). North 

 Carolina: Southern Pines (TLCC). New Jersey: Lakehurst, July 4, E. A. Bischoflf 

 (USNM). 



Remarks: Blatchley and Leng (1916) record this species as swept 

 from the lead plant, Amorpha canescens Pursh. Specimens were 

 taken by B. D. Valentine on Tephrosia spicata. 



Apion {Trichapiori) porcatum Bohetnan 



Figure I3,f,m,n 



Apion porcatum Boheraan, in Schoenherr, Genera et species curculionidum, vol. 

 5, p. 374; 1839.— Smith, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 11, p. 64, 1884.— Fall, 

 Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 25, p. 150, 1898. — Blatchley and Leng, Rhyn- 

 chophora or weevils of northeastern America, p. 81, 1916. — Bleasdell, Journ. 

 Sci. Iowa State Coll., vol. 11, p. 411, 1937. 



Description: Length, 2.2 to 2.6 mm. 



Robust. Black; pubescence inconspicuous, very fine, white, uni- 

 form. Male beak slightly shorter than head and prothorax combined; 

 deflexed at basal two-fifths; moderately expanded laterally and ven- 

 trally at antennal insertion, attenuate to middle, apical half nearly 



