16 EEPOBT 102^ U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Male prostemum armed with two short spines, and also excavate between them; 

 anterior tibise feebly unguiculate; first ventral segment broadly depressed down the 

 middle. (Description after Champion.) 



Two females and a male of this species are at hand from Mr. Town- 

 send under his number 21009 from Piura, Peru, with the note, ''Is- 

 sued from one lot of small new bolls. I think it must breed in them." 



Absolutely nothing has ever been recorded as to the food habits 

 or biology of this species, although it is distributed from Nebraska 

 and Kansas to Peru. Specimens have been examined from Nebraska 

 and Central America and do not differ in any respect from the Peru- 

 vian specimens. Only two records have ever been made which indi- 

 cate the breeding habits of this genus, and in both of these cases the 

 weevils were teared from graminaceous stems. Many species of the 

 genus are attracted in great numbers to the cotton nectaries and some 

 of them may yet be found to breed in cotton. 



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