AKT. 17 NORTH AMERICAN WEEVILS PIERCE 11 



February (Mitchell) ; bred from HeliantJius stems at Victoria in 

 April (Mitchell) ; collected on Acuan illinoensis at Victoria in June 

 (Cushman) ; collected at Corpus Christi (Schwarz) and Brownsville 

 (Schwarz, Jones, and Pratt). In Louisiana it was bred in October 

 from pods of Datura stramonium collected at Ferriday in August. 



TOXOTSOPIS VICTORIENSIS, new species 



Described from three specimens collected by E. A. Schwarz at 

 Victoria, Tex., March 21, April 3, and 5. 



Length, 2.2 to 2.6 mm. Very dark blackish brown, with dark 

 brown, black, white, and golden pubescence, and with six elytral 

 tubercles. Legs reddish. The white pubescence occurs in a patch 

 on the median line of the prothorax near the apex and another near 

 the base, on the scutellum, mixed with the golden beneath and scat- 

 tered inconspicuously above. The golden pubescence occurs all over 

 the body, but most conspicuously on the head and beak and under- 

 neath. The black pubescence is suberect on the six tubercles and 

 occurs also in little scattered spots. The brown is generally mixed 

 with the other colors. Beak flat, pubescent, punctate, apex sinuate. 

 Antennal funicle with joints elongate, club long. Eyes emarginate. 

 Third elytral interval trituberculate. Tarsal claws armed v/ith a 

 very long slender tooth. 



Type.—C2it. No. 41363, U.S.N.M. 



TOXOTROPIS FISSUNGUIS LeConte 

 Gonops fissunguis LeConte, Proc. Amer. Phildte. Soc, 1876, vol. 15, p. 398. 

 Occurs in California. 



TOXOTROPIS -SEXTUBERCULATUS Schaeffer 



Toxotropis sextuherculatus Schaeffee, Trans. Amer. Bnt. Soc, 1906, vol. 32, p. 

 269. 



Occurs at Enterprise and Lake Worth, Florida. 



Genus GRIBURIOSOMA Schaeffer 



Oriburiosoma Schaeefek, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, 1906, vol. 32, p. 272. 

 Type, platanum Schaeffer, monotype. 



This genus may possibly have to be combined with Ormiscus. 



GRIBURIOSOMA PLATANUM Schaefler 



Grihuriosoma platanum Schaeffek, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, 1906, vol. 32^ 

 p. 273. 



This species was taken from dead branches of sycamore {Platanus 

 sp.) in the Huachuca Mountains, Ariz. (Schaeffer, 1906). 



