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June, 1897.] LlNELL I NEW NORTH AMERICAN CURCULIONID/E. 
narrow, hairlike; anterior thoracic opening very oblique; prosternum short in front 
of the coxae ; scales of ventral surface oval, very dense, more narrow and less dense 
on the last ventral segments; legs pale testaceous, all the femora armed with a sharp- 
tooth, tibice feebly bisinuate, claws black. Length (from apex of thorax), 2.5 mm 
Three examples collected at Brownville, Texas, by Prof. C. H. T. 
Townsend. Type No. 1401. U. S. N. M. 
This species should enter the squamosus group of Dietz next to A. 
squamosus Lee., from which it differs by its much smaller size and 
rounded sides of the thorax. The strongly shining beak will readily 
distinguish it from A. tectus Lee. 
Brachyogmus, gen. nov. 
Claws simple, divergent; hind tibiae mucronate; prosternum short in front of the 
coxae; antennal scrobes straight, directed against the eyes, but abbreviated long be 
fore reaching them; form convex, thorax narrow. 
Brachyogmus ornatus, sp. nov. 
Subovate, piceous, the ground color entirely concealed by large rounded scales, 
variegated with white, black and ferruginous; beak somewhat longer than head and 
thorax, cylindrical, moderately stout, slightly curvate, at base densely scaly with white 
and ferruginous, outwardly shining piceous; scrobes commencing two-fifths from the 
apex, broad and deep for about one-half the distance towards the eye, then gradually 
evanescent; antennae slender; scape reaching the eye, suddenly clavate at apex, fer¬ 
ruginous ; funicle as long as the scape, seven jointed, darker ferruginous, each joint 
bearing a whorl of long stiff white hairs, first joint clavate, twice as long as the sec¬ 
ond, second to seventh subequal in length, gradually but slightly wider; club ellipti¬ 
cal, piceous, densely pubescent; eyes moderately large, feebly convex, rounded; 
front wide between the eyes, depressed, with ferruginous scales; head short, the scales 
white, forming three broad longitudinal stripes; thorax as broad as long, very 
convex, broadly not strongly constricted at apex; sides strongly rounded; base bisin¬ 
uate ; scales white, variegated with ferruginous, on each side of the white median line 
a broad black stripe, variegated with ferruginous, interrupted before the apex; scu- 
tellum purely white; elytra at base fully one-third wider than thorax, twice as long 
as broad, slightly wider behind the middle; humeri prominent with arcuate margin; 
striae narrow, deeply impressed, the punctures concealed; intervals flattened, the 
sutural elevated towards apex; scales variegated in white, ferruginous, black and me¬ 
tallic green, in the basal region around the scutellum mostly ferruginous; a humeral 
spot, a broad band across the suture before the middle and numerous, often rectang¬ 
ular, spots, forming two irregular transverse fasciae posteriorly, are dark mixed 
with black and metallic; ventral surface with the scales white, mixed with ferrugin¬ 
ous at the sides. The first four abdominal segments gradually shorter, the fifth equal 
to the fourth; pygidium concealed in the female, partly exposed and perpendicular 
in the male; femora clavate, obtusely, toothed, variegated with white and ferruginous 
scales; tibiae stout, strongly mucronate at apex, variegated with white and metallic 
green scales, towards apex with white hairs replacing the scales; tarsi short, narrow, 
