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closely allied to A. elegcins Lee., but is smaller, less variegated and the 
tibioe are unarmed. 
Anthonomus brevirostris, sp. nov. 
Subovate, robust, black, shining, with a slight seneous lustre, clothed with long 
white appressed hairs, very sparsely above, densely beneath; beak very short, 
scarcely longer than head and thorax, glabrous, opaque and coarsely punctato-striate 
behind the insertion of the antennae, shining and sparsely punctate at apex; antennae 
inserted far beyond the middle, slender, entirely testaceous, sparsely pubescent; first 
joint of funicle short, strongly clavate, second slender, much longer than third ; fol¬ 
lowing joints gradually wider; eyes feebly convex, free behind ; head short, sparsely 
and finely punctulate, finely but deeply sulcate above the eyes; thorax broader than 
long, sides broadly rounded from the base, apex broadly but feebly constricted, disk 
very sparsely, comparatively finely punctate, each puncture with a long scale-like 
hair; scutellum very conspicuous by dense white scale-like hairs ; elytra oval, about 
one-fourth wider at base than the thorax and one-half longer than wide, with striae of 
distant, deep but rather fine punctures; the striae impressed only at the side-margin 
and apex; intervals nearly flat, obsoletely punctulate ; surface with very sparse long 
white hairs, condensed into spots on the base of the sixth (sometimes also at the 
apical fourth) and at the middle and apical fourth of the fourth intervals; pubescence 
of the ventral surface generally dense but all the sutures and the median line of me¬ 
tasternum and abdomen sparsely pubescent; legs sparsely hairy, piceous, posterior 
femora at base, apical half of the tibia and the tarsi testaceous; all the femora 
sharply toothed ; anterior tibia bisinuate internally, incurved at apex; tarsi short, the 
first joint slightly longer than the second. Length (from apex of thorax), 2 to 2.3 
mm. 
Four examples collected at Brownsville, Texas, by Prof. C. H. T. 
Townsend. Type No. 1400, U. S. N. M. 
This species belongs in the nigrinus group of Dietz, characterized 
by the third and fourth ventral segments equal in length, and should be 
placed with A. faber Dietz, from which it is readily distinguished by 
the sparser and finer punctuation. 
Anthonomus testaceosquamosus, sp. nov. 
Oblong oval, pale ferruginous, densely clothed with oval, uniformly colored, pale 
yellowish scales; beak very short, feebly curvate, dark ferruginous, shining; basal 
part to the insertion of the antennae deeply punctato-striate, clothed with sparse scale¬ 
like hairs and some oval scales at the base, apical part glabrous, confusedly punctate; 
antennae slender, testaceous with infuscate, densely pubescent club; second joint of 
funicle twice as long as the third; eyes large, convex; front flattened, fovea deep; 
thorax much wider than long, strongly rounded at the sides and broadly constricted 
at apex; base strongly bisinuate; surface densely and coarsely punctate; scales 
nearly uniform in size, oval, somewhat more condensed on the median line. Scutellum 
densely scaly, not different in coloration; elytra at base much wider than thorax, 
oval, not wider behind; striae fine, concealed by the scales; intervals flat; scales 
