DESCEIPTIONS OF WEEVILS OX COTTON IX PERU. 



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Prothorax deeply, coarsely pitted with red setigerous punctures, median line smooth 

 from middle to apex only. Sciitellum minute, elongate. Elytra! striae impressed, 

 punctures distant and minutely setose; intervals moderately convex, irregularly, 

 punctate, with elongate scales. Tibiae strongly unguiculate. Under sides coarsely, 

 deeply, moderately closely pimctate, with finer setae. Last abdominal segment of 

 male tnmcate, of female roimded. 

 Type. — Cat. No. 18451, U. S. National Museum. 



This species is undoubtedly a serious enemy of cotton. 

 Family CEUTORHYNCHID.E. 

 Subfamily EUEHIXIX^. 



Tribe EUEHIXIXI. 



Genus GEEAEUS Pascoe. 



Geraeus perscitus Herbst. 



(Text figs. 5 and 6.) 



Length, 2.5-3.2 mm.; breadth, 1.2-1.6 mm. 



Elliptic, flattened above, black; densely clothed with small brown scales, with a 

 few scattered white scales intermixed; the sides of the prothorax broadly rounded, a 



Fig. iK—GeraeiLS perscitus: Female. (Original.) 



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Fig. 6. — Geraeus perscitus: Side view 

 of head of female. (Original.). 



spot on the humeri, another on each side of the scutellum, and the base of the suture 

 ochreous or whitish; the vestiture of the imder surface ochreous. Head densely 

 pimctate; rostrum stout, strongly arcuate, a little longer than the head and prothorax, 

 nigulosely punctate, the apical half much smoother in the female ; the antennae inserted 

 at about the middle, the antennal club ovate. Prothorax transverse, feebly con- 

 stricted in. front, the sides arcuately converging from the base; densely, very finely 

 punctate. Elytra subtriangular, finely punctate-striate, the interstices densely pimc- 

 tate. Beneath densely, finely punctate. Anterior coxae separated by about one-half 

 their own width. Legs short. 



