NO. 1604. NEW CURCULIONID BEETLES—PIERCE. IA 
Type.—Cat. No. 10053, U.S.N.M. 
Specimens less plainly marked were collected at Victoria, Texas, 
June 10, 14, 1903, May 29, 1905, April 17, 1907, by W. B. Hinds. 
Four gray colored specimens with a like colored pattern were taken 
April 8, 1907, at San Antonio, Texas, by F. C. Pratt. 
ANTHONOMUS HETEROTHECAE, new species. 
Bred in large numbers from heads of Heterotheca subaaillaris at 
Jacksonville, Texas, October 11, 1905, Tyler, Texas, Palestine, Texas. 
This species belongs in the squamosus group near tectus. 
Length 2.2mm. Oval, pitchy brown, densely clothed with truncate 
or ovate white and brownish scales. Beak curved, punctato-striolate, 
shining at apex; median carina and striae distinct; pubescent at base. 
Antennae rufotestaceous, club dusky; first joint of funicle elongate, 
second less distinctly so. Eyes feebly convex, closer together than 
width of beak at base. Head scaly, frontal fovea hardly evident. 
Prothorax one-half wider than long, narrowed from base to apex, 
latter not constricted, sides feebly rounded; base feebly bisinuate; 
surface densely and rather. coarsely punctate, punctures not com- 
pletely concealed by the scales, which are white along the median hne 
and on the sides forming three narrow vittae; scutel densely pubescent 
with white scales. Elytra very little wider than prothorax at base, 
humeri sloping; rufotestaceous, clothed mainly with brownish scales, 
with white scales on the suture, a white vitta on the fourth interspace 
almost from the base, on the sixth interspace from base for a short 
distance, and an indistinct white spot at sides near middle on eighth 
to last interspaces; striae impressed, punctures obscured by scales; 
interspaces flat. Legs rufotestaceous, pubescent, anterior femor: 
armed with distinct tooth, middle and posterior very indistinctly 
toothed. 
This species has been called Anthonomus disjunctus by myself in 
previous papers, from which it is quite distinct. 
Type.—Cat. No. 10052, U.S.N.M. 
ANTHONOMUS SUBFASCIATUS Le Conte. 
Two specimens of this species were collected on cornus flowers 
at Dallas, Texas, April 24, 1907. 
ANTHONOMUS (CNEMOCYLLUS) APHANOSTEPHI, new species. 
Large quantities of this species were bred from the heads of 
Aphanostephus skirrobasis collected at Calvert, Texas, in May, and 
from the heads of a blue aster collected at Dallas, in June. One 
specimen also was collected by F. C. Pratt May 10, 1906, at San 
Antonio, Texas. 
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