ART. 17 NORTH AMERICAIT WEEVILS PIEECE 7 



Specimens are at hand as follows: Texas (Belfrage collection 

 labeled Hormiscus saltator) ; a paratype with same data as the 

 type but measuring only 1.5 mm. in length; topotypes from Dallas 

 collected May 16 and 18, 1907 (E. A. Schwarz), April 25, 1907 

 (Schwarz and Pratt), March 28, 1906 (W. E. Hinds) ; also a brown- 

 ish specimen measuring 1.75 mm. from Victoria, Tex., April 1 (E. A. 

 Schwarz) and a typical specimen from Nebraska City, Nebr., June. 

 Some specimens have more whitish pubescence on the elytra than 

 others. 



ORMISCUS SALTATOR LeConte 



Hormiscus saltator LeConte, Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc, 1876, vol. 15, p. 397. 



The characteristics of this species and genus are illustrated in 

 Figures 17, 18, 19, 20. 



This species is readily identified by the angle of the scutellar 

 carina. The elytra have a distinct transverse white fascia near 

 the base and only scattered white hairs behind. 



This species was taken on dead branches of osage orange {Toxy- 

 lon 'pomiferum) by Dury (Beutenmiiller, 1893). It breeds in dead 

 wood of deciduous trees (Smith, 1900; Ulke, 1902). The^ species 

 occurs from New York to Florida and west to Nebraska and Texas. 

 Two specimens were bred March 14, 1900, from galls of "J. corni- 

 gera^^ collected at Hartford, Conn. ["J., cornigera^^ doubtless 

 refers to the Cynipid, Andricus cornigera Osten Sacken. (Ed.).] 



ORMISCUS SOLIDUS, new species 



This species is based on a specimen collected at Brownsville, Tex., 

 by C. E. Jones and F. C. Pratt, March 20, 1908. 



The eyes are not so emarginate as in saltator. The prothoracic 

 carina (fig. 21) is sinuate or roundingly emarginate. The tarsal 

 claws are cleft or toothed. Figure 22 illustrates the posterior tarsal 

 claw; 



Type.— Cd^i. No. 41358, U.S.N.M. 



Genus TOXOTROPIS LeConte 



Toxotropis LeConte, Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc, 1876, vol. 15, pp. 397-398. Type, 



pusillus LeConte, designated by Jordan (1906). 

 Gonops LeConte, Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc, 1876, vol. 15, p. 399. Type, 



fissunguis LeConte, monotype. 



TABLE OF NORTH AMERICAN SPHCIES OF TOXOTROPIS 



1. Claws simple ; vestiture inconspicuous and very sparse_simplex, new species 



Claws toothed 2. 



Claws cleft almost to base ; eyes strongly emarginate fissunguis LeConte. 



2. Elytra not tuberculate 3. 



Elytra six tuberculate on the third intervals 13. 



