8 EEPORT 102^ U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



pubescent. Prothorax trapezoidal in form, the base twice as wide as apex; sides 

 strongly oblique, slightly sinuate; apex truncate; base broadly lobed, bisinuate on 

 each side; posterior angles acute. Surface finely granulate-punctate, basally longi- 

 tudinally impressed on median line and on each side of basal lobe; pubescence moder- 

 ately close, fine, ochreous. Scutellum quadrate, apically cleft, densely clad with 

 white pubescence. Elytra quadrate, hardly wider than prothorax at base; humeri 

 slightly rounded, apex subtruncate, posterior, exterior, and interior angles rounded; 

 striae punctate, impressed; surface finely granulate-punctate, reddish, with lateral 

 black areas; pubescence on black areas inconspicuous brownish, otherwise ochreous, 

 except in a large median area, where it is white. Pygidium vertical, large, oval, nar- 

 rowly rounded at apex; reddish, with black patches; a basal area, ogival in shape, is 

 very densely white pubescent, the white extending on the median line almost to 

 apex; pubescence over black areas ochreous, over reddish areas, white. Undersides 

 reddish, except the posterior coxss, which are black; granulate-punctate; posterior 

 coxse finely punctate. Legs light brownish, finely pubescent; claws strongly toothed 

 beneath; posterior femora mutic, under surface defined by two lines, but hardly 

 concave; posterior tibiae arcuate. 

 Type.— Cat. No. 18446, U. S. National Museum. 



This species is apparently close to the poorly-described Bruchus 

 eulopJius Erichson of Peru. It differs by many characters from 

 Pachyhruchus atripes Pic of Peru. Only five species belonging to 

 the old conception of Bruchus have been recorded from Peru. 



Genus SPERMOPHAGUS Schonherr. 

 Spermophagus piurse, new species. 



(Text fig. 3.) 



Described from three specimens from Piura, Peru, of which Mr. 

 Townsend, under his note number 21010, says, "I have had from 

 cotton squares and from mesquite pods." 



Length, 5-5.5 mm.; breadth, 2.5-3 mm. 



Color of integument reddish-piceous 



above, on pygidium, antennse, tarsi, and 



apical parts of femora and tibiae, small spots 



at the side of the first, second, third, and 



fourth segments, and entire fifth segment; 



remainder of body black or almost so. 



Pubescence dense, ochreous above, griseous 



beneath. Eyes large, prominent, coarsely 



granulated, broadly angulately emarginate, 



^ „ „ , . ^ ,^ . . , separated by a distance equal to one-third 



Fig. 3. — Spermopnagus piurse: Face. (Original. , ,. , , ^r 



the distance between the antennse. Vertex 



and front densely pubescent, finely punctured; clypeus sparsely punctured and pubes- 

 cent; labrum almost glabrous. Antennae with the first three jointslighterreddishbrown; 

 first elongate, longer than the next two combined ; second shortest ; tliird a little longer; 

 succeeding joints compressed, emarginate at apex, subequal; eleventh a little longer and 

 apically pointed. Prothorax two-thirds as long as wide; slightly convex at apex; 

 base lobate at middle, on each side of which it is subtruncate or slightly sinuate; sides 

 subparallel in basal half, thence convexly narrowed to apex; minutely punctate, 

 densely pubescent; impressed on each side of disk behind middle and also at base on 

 each side of lobe. Scutellum elongate ogival, densely pubescent. Elytra barely 



