JOURNAL 
OF THE 
TDpfo ]9oph Cfnfomologiral 2orWg. 
Vol. V. 
JUNE, 189T. 
No. 2. 
NEW GENERA AND SPECIES OF NORTH 
AMERICAN CURCULIONID^E. 
By Martin L. Linell. 
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TRIBE ANTHONOMINI. 
Anthonomus xanthoxyli, sp. nov. 
Broadly oval, dark ferruginous, densely covered with small scales, variegated with 
white, gray, light and dark brown, with purplish reflection on the upper surface, and 
grayish white, somewhat intermixed with brown on the ventral surface and legs; 
beak coarsely substriately punctate, scaly and subopaque on the basal half, sparsely 
punctate, glabrous and shining on the apical half; antennae slender, second joint one- 
half longer than the third, third equal to fourth; eyes large, protuberant, narrowly 
separated above; frontal fovea deep, elongate; head rugose, densely scaly; thorax 
transverse, rounded at the sides, broadly constricted at apex; disc densely covered 
with grayish and brown scales, a narrow dorsal line and a transverse one across the 
middle forming a white cross, the latter line broadly bordered by dark brown; elytra 
wider at the base than the thorax, slightly wider behind the middle, strongly decli¬ 
vous at apex; striae fine, the punctures concealed by the scales; intervals nearly flat, 
the third at base and the suture on the declivity elevated; scutellum and two spots at 
its apex conspicuously white; scales of the disc variegated in grayish and pale brown, 
the extreme base dark brown, and of the same color is a very large triangular spot 
each side behind the middle not touching the suture and bordered with lighter 
gray; ventral segments each with a row of pale hairs; femora armed with a large 
triangular tooth, with scales variegated in brown and gray; tibiae scaly at base, out¬ 
wards with sparse grayish hairs; the anterior and middle tibiae angulated one-third 
from base but not toothed, the posterior ones simple ; tarsi sparsely hairy, pale; claws 
black. Length, 2 mm. 
Numerous specimens collected by Mr. E. A. Schwarz at San Diego, 
Texas, on Xanthoxylum pterota , living in the seeds. Type No. 1399, 
U. S. N. M. 
This species belongs in the subgenus Anthonomocyllus of Dietz, char¬ 
acterized principally by the widely separated middle coxae, and is 
