SUBGENUS TRICHAPION — KISSINGER 353 



fine impressed line extending one-fourth length of prothorax. Elytra 

 at base two-fifths wider than prothorax at base, three times as long 

 as prothorax, length to width as 3 : 2; intervals one-half wider than 

 striae, nearly flat, dull, alutaceous, with one row of punctures with 

 very fine scales; striae deep, with one row of scales more conspicuous 

 than those on intervals. Scutellum rounded, 0.06 by 0.08 mm., with 

 slight median depression. Front femora four times as long as wide. 

 Claws with acute basal tooth. 



Special male characters: Tibiae 2 and 3 armed with mucrones; 

 second mucro short, subangulate; third mucro long, curved, simple. 



Female not available for study. 



Material examined: Five males, one compared with type by 

 G. A. K. Marshall. 



Known distribution: 



Mexico: Guerrero (type BMNH). Puebla: Huauchinango, June 1954, D. G. 

 Kissinger (DGK). Michoacdn: 20 miles east of Morelia, Mar. 7, 1953, D. G. 

 Kissinger (DGK). 



Honduras: Tegucigalpa, Dec. 8, 1917, F. J. Dyer (USNM). Morazdn: Cerro 

 Uyuca, 5,500-5,700 feet, July 20, 1948, T. H. Hubbell (UM). 



Remarks: Specimens from Huauchinango, Puebla were taken 

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

 elevation. 



Apion {Trichapion) importunum Fall 



Figure 14:,i-k,q 

 Apion importunum Fall, Trans. Amer. Ent. See, vol. 25, p. 146, 1890. 



Description: Length, 1.75 mm.; width, 0.85 mm. 



Moderately robust. Black; pubescence sparse, white, rather 

 coarse, coarser and more conspicuous laterally and ventrally. Male 

 beak shorter than head and prothorax combined, one-third longer 

 than prothorax; more strongly deflexed in apical third; in lateral 

 view nearly parallel-sided; in dorsal view expanded laterally at antennal 

 insertion, attenuate to apical thu-d, slightly compressed there, apex 

 nearly parallel; basal half dull, alutaceous, with scant pubescence, a 

 row of confluent punctures above antennal insertion, apical half 

 shining, sparsely, finely punctured. Female beak slightly shorter 

 than head and prothorax, one-half longer than prothorax; slightly, 

 evenly curved; apical two-thirds nearly cylindrical, slightly expanded 

 laterally at antennal insertion; nearly smooth, shining beyond antennal 

 insertion, finely sparsely punctate. Antennae inserted at distance 

 from eye equal to width of frons; of male at basal fourth of beak, of 

 female at basal fifth; first segment as long as next two, second shorter 

 than next two, club 0.17 by 0.07 mm. Eyes moderately prominent; 

 frons wider than dorsal tip of beak. Prothorax at base about one-fifth 



