STUDIES OF WEEVILS (RHYNCHOPHORA) WITH DESCRIP-TIONS OF NEW GENERA AND SPECIES.By W. DwiGHT Pierce,Of the Bureau of Entoinoloyij, United States Department of Agriculture.The group Rhynchophora was originaU}^ defined for those Coleop-tera with tetramerous tarsi wliich are provided wdth a beak, and hasfor a long time ranked as a suborder of Coleoptera. Recent studies,however, tend to subordinate the Rhynchophora as a part of a series,the other part being the group known as the Phytophaga. Tliis ar-rangement is far more satisfactory because of the evident transitionsfrom one group to the other.It is impossible to make a linear arrangement of the superfamiliesin this series because of several varying characters?namely, thetarsi, the maxiUary palpi, the submentum, the antennae, the labrum,and the beak.The tarsi are five-jointed, with the fourth joint minute and anchy-lose with the fifth, and with the tliird bilobed in Cerambycoidea,Clirysomeloidea, Mylabroidea, and Scolytoidea. They are four-jointed, with the third minute and anchylosed with the fourth andwith the second bilobed in Aglycyderoidea. Finally, they arefour-jointed with the third bilobed in Brentoidea, Platystomoidea,Doydirhynchoidea, Attelaboidea, Brachyceroidea, and CurcuHonoidea.The maxillary palpi are nonnal and flexible in the Cerambycoidea,Clirysomeloidea, Mylabroidea, Brentoidea, Platystomoidea, andDoydirhynchoidea, and rigid, nonflexible in Scolytoidea, Aglycy-deroidea, Attelaboidea, Brachyceroidea, and CurcuHonoidea.Tlie labrum is distinct in Cerambycoidea, Clirysomeloidea, My-labroidea, Platypodidae of Scolytoidea, Platystomoidea, and Doydi-rhynchoidea; and absent or incUstmct in Scolytidae, Aglycyderoidea,Brentoidea, Attelaboidea, Brachyceroidea, and CurcuHonoidea.The submentum is not pedunculate in Cerambycoidea, Clirysome-loidea, Brentoidea, Platystomoidea, and Brachyceroidea, and ispedunculate in Mylabroidea and Attelaboidea.The antennae are simple, nongeniculate, nonclavate in Ceramby-coidea, Clirysomeloidea, Mylabroidea, Aglycyderoidea, and part of theProceedings U. S. National Museum. Vol. 51-No. 2159. 461 462 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol.51.Brentoidea; nongeniculate but clavate in Platystomoidea, Doydirhyn-choidea, Attelaboidea, and Brachyceroidea ; geniculate, nonclavatein part of the Brentoidea; geniculate and clavate in Scolytoidea andCurculionoidea.In these characters it wiU be noted that the superfamily havingthe greatest number of specialized general characters is the Curcu-lionoidea. On the other hand, it will be noted that the Scolytoideaare intermediate between the beakless Cerambycoidea, Chrysome-loidea, and Mylabroidea, and the beaked Rhynchophora.Even in the larvae we find a progression of characters. The Ceram-bycoidea and Clirysomeloidea with a few exceptions have the larvaeprovided with legs. The Mylabroid larvae are provided with legsonly in the first stage. Legs are also found in the larvae of the Platy-stomoidea. The other groups have legless larvae, although there areoccasionally found tubercles or rings where the legs should be.The writer has followed the prevailing tendency in consideringthe groups known to LeConte and Horn as families to be worthy ofsuperfamily rank. The follomng table is proposed as a guide forthe arrangement of superfamilies in the series Phytophaga. Thisseries in the classification of Kolbe belongs in the Order Coleoptera,Suborder Heterophaga, Legion Symphyogastra, Phalanx Synactos-temata, Superseries Anchistopoda.TABLE OF .SUPERFAMILIES IN THE PHYTOPHAGA.1. Tarsi five-jointed, the fourth joint minute and anchylosed with the fifth, thirdusually bilobed , head not prolonged into a distinct beak . Subseries Phytophaga 2 . Tarsi four-jointed ; head prolonged into a distinct beak . Subseries Rhynchophora 5.2. Maxillary palpi flexible, labrum distinct 3.Maxillary palpi rigid, labrum sometimes lacking, submentum not pedunculate;front very slightly prolonged into a broad beak; antennae geniculate, clavate.SCOLYTOIDEA Hopkins.3. Submentum not pedunculate; head not prolonged into a beak 4.Submentum pedunculate; front prolonged into a broad, quadrate beak; antennaeinserted in front of the eyes, variable in length, serrate or pectinate; tibial spiursdistinct or obsolete MYLABROIDEA, new superfamily.4. Antennae usually long or greatly developed, frequently inserted upon frontalprominences; front often vertical, large and quadrate; tibial spurs distinct.CERAMBYCOIDEA, new superfamily.Antennae moderate or short, not inserted upon frontal prominences; front small,oblique, sometimes inflexed; tibial spurs usually wanting.CHRYSOMELOIDEA, new superfamily.5. Third tarsal joint minute, anchylosed with the fourth, second usually bilobed;head prolonged into a beak in at least one sex; antennae nongeniculate, non-clavate; maxillary palpi rigid ; labrum absent.AGLYCYDEROIDEA, new superfamily.Third tarsal joint not minute, usually bilobed, head prolonged into beak in bothsexes 6.f). Antennae nonclavate, geniculate or nongeniculate; labrum absent; maxillary palpiflexible; submentum nonpedunculate...BRENTOIDEA, new superfamily.Antennae clavate '^' NO. 2159. NEW 8PECIES OF WEEVILS?PTERCE. 4637. Antennae straight, or very feebly geniculate (Orthoceri) 8.Antennae geniculate; maxillary palpi abnormal rigid, conical, the joints dimin-ishing successively; labrum absent; beak well developed, variable in form.CURCULIONOIDEA, Hopkins.8. Maxillary palpi normal, flexible; labrum distinct 9.Maxillary palpi rigid, conical, the joints diminishing successively; labrum neverdistinct 10.9. Anterior coxae globose; pygidium more or less exposed; submentum not pedun-culate PLATYSTOMOIDEA, new superfamily . Anterior coxae conical; pygidium not exposed.DOYDIRHYNCHOIDEA, new superfamily.10. Submentum pedunculate; mentum often very small; maxillae free.ATTELABOIDEA, new superfamily.Submentum without a peduncle, or any vestige of one; mentum covering themaxillae, except sometimes at their base; beak more or less robust, never slenderand filiform; scrobes attaining, or almost so, the commissure of the mouth.BRACHYCEROIDEA, new superfamily.The superfamily Mylabroidea is the old family Bruchidae. Thegenera in this group have become greatly confused. The nameBruchus was first used by Geoffrey in 1762 for two species, only oneof which was definitely associated by the quotation given with aname. This was Cerambyx fur Linnaeus which becomes ty]>e ofBruchus and causes that genus to replace Ptinus Linnaeus. BruchusLinnaeus was not described until 1767, being based on {'pisi Linnaeus)pisorum Linnaeus. Besides being preoccupied it was an isogenotypeof Mylahris Geoffrey 1762, which was based on three species, the fiirstidentified being No. 1, pisorum Linnaeus, and of Laria Scopoli 1763,of which Bedel in 1901 designated the type as (salicis Scopoli) pis-orum Linnaeus.The superfamily Aglycyderoidea includes the families Aglycy-deridae and Proterhinidae.The superfamily Brentoidea, based on the genus Brentus Fabricius,is the old family Brenthidae.The superfamily Platystomoidea is the old family Anthribidae.It is to be divided into the families Bruchelidae (Urodonidae), Platy-stomidae and Choragidae. The generic name Anthribus fares asbadly as Bruchus. The name Anthribus was first used by Geoffreyin 1762 for four species, of which only one was at the time identifiableby the quotations given. This was Dermestes pulicarius Linnaeusnow placed in the NitiduHdae. Miiller in 1764 gave Anthribus thesame meaning; De Geer in 1775 based his genus on a species ruber;Miiller in 1776 based liis genus on a species glaber; Clairville's 1798conception was based on ruficollis, a Salpingid; Fabricius in 1790 gavethe name the sense which has since been followed. As the name wasmany times excluded from the Rhynchophora the choice for thetypical genus fell to the next oldest valid name in the superfamily,which was Platystomos Schneider (1791), of which Bedel (1881)designated the type as alhinus Linnaeus. 464 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. 51.Tlio superfamily Doydirhynchoidea is the old family Khinoma-ccridae. The genus name Rhinomacer was first used by Geoffroy in1762 for 11 species, only one of which was definitely associated byquotations with a named species. This was Attelabus coryli Limiaeus,which has been designated by Bedel (1885) as type of AttelabusLinnaeus (1758). The Fabrician (1787) genus Rhinomacer is based onattelahoides Fabricius and is a synonym of Cimheris Des Gozis. Theoldest generic name available is therefore Doydirhynchus Dejean(1821) based on austriacus OHvier. This generic name has been fre-quently emended.The superfamily Attelaboidea has as its type-genus Attelabus Lin-naeus (1758) and contains the following famihes: Apionidae (Behdae),Attelabidae, Tachygonidae, Pterocolidae, and Oxyrhynchidae.The superfamily Brachyceroidea has its type-genus BrachycerusOHvier and contains the families Brachyceridae and Microoeridae.The superfamily CurcuUonidea is the old family Curculionidae,based on Curculio Linnaeus {Balaninus Germar) of which the type wasdesignated by Latreille (1810) as nucum Linnaeus. It contains thefamihes PsaUidiidae (Brachyrhinidae) , Psahduridae, Plinthidae, Hy-peridae, Curcuhonidae, Orobitidae, Cryptorhynchidae, Rynchophor-idae (Calandridae) , and Cossonidae.The superfamily Scolytoidea (Ipoidea Swaine) is the old familyScolytidse, and is based on Scolytus Geoffroy 1762.More complete discussions of these various families will be presentedfrom time to time.PSALLIDIIDAE, new family (OTIORHYNCHIDAE,BRACHYRHINIDAE).Subfamily Psallidiinae (Brachyderini).TRIBE THYLACITINI.EXOPHTHALMODES, new genus.Exophthalmus (Schonherr) Champion (part), Biol. Centr. Amer. Coleopt., vol. 4,1911, pt. 3, pp. 249-270 (not Exophthalmus Latreille).Champion has included in his genus Schonherr' s type quadrivit-tatus Olivier, nicaraguensis Bovie and scalaris Boheman, all of whichundoubtedly belong to Diaprepes Schonherr, because of the presenceof vibrissae on the lateral anterior margin of the prothorax.Thirteen specimens of quadrivittatus , five of nicaraguensis deter-mined by Champion, and 15 of scalaris have been personally examined.Other than these and possibly a few other species. Champion hada distinct Thylacitine (Brachyderine) genus before him. Specimensdetermined by him are at hand in the following species: verecundusChevrolat, cupreipes Champion, carinirostris Boheman, vitticollis NO. 2159. NEW SPECIES OF WEEVILS?PIERCE. 465Champion, opulentus Bolieman, cameipes Champion, agrestis Bohe-man, distigma Champion, scalptus Champion, impositus Pascoe, tri-angulijer Champion, dupUcatus Champion, coeruleovittatus Champion,lunaris Champion, Jekelianus White, and sulcicrus Champion.From these I have selected opulentus Boheman as type. Schon-herr's (1826) generic name Exophthalmus is preoccupied by Latreille(1825). Family CURCULIONIDAE.Rhininae, new subfamily (Magdalini).This subfamily is b ased on the genus Rhina Latreille,^ 1 802 . Rhinawas based on two species larlicornis Fabricius and cerasi Fabrioius,the latter being questioned. Crotch is 1870 designated larUcomis astype. Latreille's 1807 ^ use of Rhina is entirely different and is basedon larhirostris Fabricius. In 1810 Latreille cited harhirostris as typeof Rhinus. This species belongs to the Cossonidae. To differen-tiate the two subfamilies we will call the curculionid group, Rhininae,based on Rhina, and the Cossonid group Orthognathinae based onOrthognathus Schonherr, the next oldest genus.The genus Magdalis Germar, 1817,^ has for its type {aterrima Lin-naeus) armigera Geoffroy. The name Rhinodes Dejean (1821) is asynonym of Magdalis. The genus Edo Germar (1819) is based onipruni Linnaeus) ruficornis Linnaeus. The preoccupied genus Tham-nophilus Schonherr has for its type violaceus Fabricius, and PanusSchonherr is based on a synonym of harUcomis Latreille. Rafinesque(1815) proposed Rhinostomus as a substitute for Rhina.All of these names are at present considered as belonging to onegenus with four subgenera, which may ultimately be separated. Asthe genus now stands in the European check list the genus should beRhiTia Latreille with subgenus 1, Magdalis Germar {ThamnophilusSchonherr, Rhinodes Dejean); subgenus 2, Rhina Latreille (Rhinos-tomus Rafinesque, Panus Schonherr); subgenus 3, Edo Germar; andsubgenus 4, Panopsis Daniel.The North American species have not been arranged in accordancewith the subgeneric groupings.Carciliinae, new subfamily.This subfamily differs from the Lasmosaccinae by having the front00X88 partly contiguous and from the Rhininae (Magdalidinae) byhaving the first two abdominal segments partly concave and by hav-ing the pygidium covered, while the claws are single. 1 Hist. Nat. Q&n. et Part, des Crust, et Ins., vol. 3, 1802, pp. 198-199.2 Gen. Crust, et Insect., vol. 2, 1807, pp. 268, 269.3Mag. der Ent., vol. 2, 1817, p. 339.36399??Proc.N.M.vol.51?16 30 466 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. r.l.Genus CARCILIA Roelofs, 1874.Carcilia Roelofs, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., vol. 17, 1874, pt. 2, pp. 152-155. Typestrigicollis Roelofs, monotypic.Trichomagdalis Fall, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 39, 1913, No. 1, pp. 37-38.Type, /osaaeiw Fall, by original designation.The following is a translation of the original description, whichwas pubUshed in French:Head large, suglobular, declivous in front. Beak drooping, as long as head, robust,a little enlarged toward the tip; scrobes anterior in the male, or behind the middle inthe female, arcuate, strongly oblique and attaining the base. Antennae rather long,robvise, especially in the male, not strongly elbowed; scape short, capitate; funicleseven-jointed, first two joints elongate, subequal, obconical, the third, fourth, and fifthsubturbinate, and the last joints shorter and transverse; club elongate, oval, apicallyacuminate, fom"-jointed, pubescent. Eyes very large, transverse, oval, shortly approx-imate above.Prothorax as long as wide, convex, feebly bisinuate at base, with posterior anglesrectangular, without ocular lobes, strongly and angularly emarginate beneath.Scutellum moderate, triangularly rounded. Elytra elongate, hardly wider thanthe prothorax; covering the pygidium.Legs short, very robust, compressed. Femora dentate. Tibiae strongly unguicu-late at apex, unguis in form of a straightened claw. The three first joints of the tarsivery large; the claws of the fomlh divaricate, dentate beneath. Mesosternal processnarrow. Second segment of the abdomen as long as the two following together, sepa-rated from the first by a suture almost effaced at the middle and curved at this place.The abdomen is narrow, angular.The typical species of the genus are Japanese.TABLE OF SUBGENERA OF CARCILIA.1. Claws toothed beneath Carcilia Roelofs.2. Claws single Trichomagdalis Fall.TABLE OF THE NORTH AMERICAN SPECIES OF TRICHOMAGDALIS.1. Vestiture quite uniform 2^'estiture more condensed with semiglabrous areas unicolorous fawn-coloredconspersa Fall.2. Vestiture mottled reddish and grayish above almost uniform grayish beneath foranterior portions but reddish on abdomen fasdata Fall.Vestiture uniformly whitish atrata Fall.CARCILIA (TRICHOMAGDAUS) FASCIATA Fall.Trichomagdalis fasciatus Fall, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 39, 1913, pp. 37, 38.A male specimen is at hand collected by H. S. Barber, on RedwoodCreek, Blair's ranch, Humboldt County, California, June 13.This specimen has tmy denticles beneath about the middle of thefemora, thus answering Roelofs' diagnosis of the genus. It measuresshghtly over 5 mm. in length. The first abdominal suture is indis-tinct and curved forward at the middle. This character is alsobrought out by Roelofs. NO. 2159. NEW SPECIES OF WEEVILS?PIERCE. 467CARCILU (TRICHOMAGDALIS) CONSPERSA Fali.Trichomagdalis consperus Fall, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 39, 1913, p. 38.The name is spelled conspersus at the bottom of the page, thusprovmg the original use to be a typographical error.A specunen is at hand from Los Gatos, California, in the Hubbardand Schwarz collection. There is no indication of denticles on thefemora. The first abdominal suture is as in the preceding species.CARCIUA (TRICHOMAGDALIS) ATRATA Fall.Trichomagdalis atratus Fall, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 39, 1913, p. 38.No specimen of this species has come to hand.Orchestinae, new subfamily.TABLE OF TRIBES.1. Front legs normal, non saltatory 2Front legs saltatory Orchestini2. Prothorax with more or less developed ocular lobes LoncophoriniProthorax without ocular lobes AnthonominiLONCOPHORINI, new tribe.Ceratopides Lacordaire, Gen. Coleop., vol. 6, 1863, p. 589.In Lacordaire's tables the specimens of Loncopliorus before thewriter would readily fall in the group Ceratopides, and as Loncopliorusis the oldest genus the tribe will take its name from it.The tribe is separated from Anthonomini by the presence of moreor less well-defined ocular lobes on the prothorax. Champion hasassociated the genera Cfhelotonyx, Ceratopus, and AcaniholracUumwith the Erirhininae because of these lobes, but it seems better toarrange them in the Orchestinae with Loncopliorus.If the genus Loncopliorus were admitted in the true Anthonommi itwould be associated in the tables with Chelonyclius , from which it isreadily separated by its long beak, its long front legs, its sUght ocularlobes, and the long slender antennae.Genus LONCOPHORUS Chevrolat.Loncophorus Chevrolat, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, vol. 1, 1832, pp. 215-217. (NotLonchophorus Germar 1824 in Lamellicornes)Lonchophorus Gemminger and Harold, Cat. Coleop., vol. 8, 1871, p. 2498.This genus was foimded on two species, ohliquus Chevrolat andparasita Fabricius, of which ohliquus is hereby designated as type.Schonherr in 1836/ designated as type, clievrolati Gyllenhal, whichwas not origuiaUy mcluded and can not therefore serve as type.The genus contams a number of species from the West Indies,Central and South America, of which the four following are char- 1 Gen. et sp. Cure, vol. 3, 1836, p. 392. 468 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. 51.acterized by a large spiiidle-shaped white marking on the elytra.It is quite possible that some synonomy may develop among the firstthree mentioned below.LONCOPHORUS OBLIQUUS Chevrolat.Loncophorus obliquus Chevrolat, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, vol. 1, 1832, p. 218,pi. 5, fig. 1.Lonchophorus obliquus CnAUFios, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Coleop., vol. 4, pt. 4, 1903,p. 152.This species was originally described from Rio Janeiro, Brazil, andis recorded by Champion from Nicaragua.Recently three handsome hve female specimens were received byRepresentative Rufus Hardy, of Texas, from Panama on fruit ofCeiha ceiha and transmitted to the writer imder date of June 19, 1913.These specimens agree quite well with Chevrolat's figure and descrip-tion, but almost as well with Olivier's figure and description of theCuban stigma and Germar's description of petiminosus.LONCOPHORUS DAVIESII Swederus.Curculio daviesii Swederus, Acta Holmiae, vol. 3, 1787, p. 194, pi. 8, fig. 5.Rhynchsenus stigma Olivier (not Curmlio stigma Linnaeus 1767), Entomologie,vol. 5, 1807, p. 194, pi. 8, fig. 87.Loncophorus petiminosus Germar, Schonherr's Gen. et Sp. Cui-c, vol. 3, 1836,p. 395.Lonchophorus petiminosus Gundlach, Contr. Ent. Cubana, vol. 3, 1891, p. 290.There still remains a little doubt concerning the synonym which isgiven by Germar. Gundlach records this species as breeding in thethe seeds of silk cotton (Ceiha ceiha) in Cuba. The description givenby Swederus answers perfectly for a Loncophorus, but the locahty isgiven as New York.LONCOPHORUS HUMERALIS Chevrolat.Loncophorus humeralis Chevrolat, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, vol. 1, 1832, p. 442.This is also a Cuban species and probably identical with the pre-ceding. LONCOPHORUS NITTOUS Champion.Several live adults were bred from fruit of BuncTiosia macropTiyllaRose? sent by C. Werkle from San Jose, Costa Rica, in quarantineat Washington, District of Columbia, October 22, 1914, by H. L.Sanford. This species occurs in Mexico, Guatemala, Panama, andColombia. LONCOPHORUS CHEVROLATI GyUenhal.A single crushed specimen of this species is at hand from San Ber-nardmo, Paraguay, collected by K. Fiebrig from fruit of Chorisia spe-ciosa, September 2. This species is distinguished especially by themultistriate beak, the castaneous color, and the relatively shorterl)eak, which is not as long as the body in the female. NO. 2159. NEW SPECIES OF WEEVILS?PIERCE. 469LONCOPHORUS, species.Other species in the genus are parasita Fabricius from Cayenne,fortis Champion of Panama, fusiformis Champion of Mexico, Guate-mala, and Panama, pustulatus Champion of Panama, and verrudgerChampion of Costa Rica.OROBITIDAE, new family.Orobitinae, new subfamily (Cryptorhynchinae).Tribe TYLODINI.Genus LEIOMERUS (Chevrolat) Boheman.Leiomerus (Chevrolat MS.) Boheman, Schonherr's Gen. at Sp. Cure, vol. 8, 1844,pt. 1, p. 266. Based on Coelosternus (Leiomerus) glabrirostris (Chevrolat)Boheman.Coelosternus Schonherr, Cure. Disp. Meth., 1826, p. 284 (notCoelosternus Sahlberg, 1823) type, compernis Germar.The original usage of Coelosternus by Sahlbergmakes halteatus Sahlberg the type of that genus,and it therefore replaces the erroneous use of Crypt-orliynclius as found in Gemminger and Harold andother authors. The type of Cryptorhynchus lUigerwas designated by Latreille in 1810 as pericarpiusLinnaeus, which is also type of Khinoncus. Inview of the fact that Schonherr's Coelosternus isleft without a name, it is necessary to searchfor some other available name. The only namethus found is the manuscript name Leiomerus,established in the sjaionomy of Coelosternus glabri-rostris by Boheman, and henceforth quoted as ageneric synonym of Coelosternus Schonherr. Thisname is therefore definitely chosen to representthe genus as redefined by Lacordaire (1866) *with glabrirostris Boheman as type. It is principally characterized by the single-jointed cylindrical club of the antennae.Fig. 1.?Side view ofhead of leiomerusgkanicollis.LEIOMERUS GRANICOLLIS, new species.Described from four specimens found ahve in cassava (Manihot)stems from Brazil by H. L. Sanford at quarantme, Washington, Dis-trict of Columbia, September 10, 1914.Length, 5.5 to 7 mm.; width, 2.5 to 3.5 mm. Black, covered withtesselated pubescence, subovate. Head convex, very deeply, andclosely rugoso-punctate, the rugosity forming a sort of arcuate ridgeabove the eyes; punctures squamigerous ; front narrow, deeply ? Gen. Col., vol. 7, 18G6, p. 123. 470 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM.punctate, bristling squamigerous. Eyes, black, finely granulate;separated by less than half the breadth of the beak at base. Beakin male as long as head and prothorax, lightly arcuate, piceous black;rugoso-pimctate, finely squamose and medianly carinate to middle;from middle to apex shining and finely punctulate; antennae insertedjust behind the middle; scrobes diagonal, reaching to eyes. Femalebeak more slender, as long as head and thorax on median Une, almostimpunctate from insertion of antennae to apex; antennae inserted a Fig. 2.?Adult leiomeeus granicollis.httle nearer the base than in the male. Antennae with scape slenderclavate; funicle seven-jointed, sparsely pubescent, the first threejoints longer than wide, the last four moniliform; club, one-jointed,elongate, cyhndrical, a httle longer than the last five funicular joints,very finely griseo-pubescent. Prothorax transverse, five-seventhsas long as wide, bisinuate at base, convexly produced at apex, round-ingly enlarged at sides to middle, thence strongly narrowed, andemarginate near apex, apex subtubulate, lateral margin rough, gran-ulate at least in male; ocular lobes strong, with short vibrissae; sur-face coarsely gi^anulato-punctate, medianly strongly carinate, closelyclothed with broad, striate brownish scales, and more sparsely with NO. 2159. NEW SPECIES OF WEEVILS?PIERCE. 471clavate squamiform setae. The scales and setae vary from pale fawnto dark brown and are arranged in longitudinal indistinct fasciae. Themedian fascia in the basal half is very light cream or fawn color andapicaUy a light brown. On each side of this are very dark fasciae,which shade to hghter on the sides. Elytra wider than prothorax atbase, with rounded humeri, sides somewhat sinuate, subparallel atbase, gradually approximate behind, more suddenly so at apical de-cUvity; base bisinuate, apex truncate; strial punctures deep, moder-ately distant, setigerous; interspaces 3, 5, 7, and 9 elevated, carinate,the carina of the third emarginate near base, other interspaces flator shghtly convex, somewhat granulate, especially the first; denselycovered with oval, flattened, striate scales, which are smaller thanthose of the prothorax, varying in color from white to black and ar-ranged in tesselations, the predominant color being fawn; on eachinterspace there is also a series of distant clavate, squamiform suberectsetae. The strial setae are finer and hair like in the sutural and lateralstriae and elongate squamiform in the intermediate striae. Scutellumblack, oval, convex, coarsely punctate. Undersides black, coarselypunctate, densely squamose, with round and elongate clavate, pinkishstriate scales. Rostral canal reaching to middle of mesocoxae. Mes-osternum behind, almost even with the posterior margin of the coxae.Metasternum medianly grooved. Intercoxal process of abdomenbroad. First abdominal segment behind coxae subequal to each ofthe following three segments; fifth segment transverse subtruncatein male and depressed semilunar in female. Legs densely punctate,squamose, sparsely setose; moderately stout; femora clavate, sinu-ate, bidentate, the outer tooth being minute; tibiae arcuate, carinatebeneath, strongly unguiculate; tarsi densely pulvillate beneath, thethird joint broadly bilobed; claws simple, divaricate.The females at hand are all smaller than the males and all presentdifferent variations in the color pattern. On fresh specimens thescales present a distinct pinkish tint. Some have much more whitethan others. Two black spots at the basal third are especially markedin these specimens.Type.?C&t. No. 19035, U.S.N.M.This species belongs to the group with scroUcollis, pullatus, atropos,sulcatuLus, cinereus, tesselatus, carinatus, and guadelupensis, all ofwhich have bidentate femora, and alternately elevated intervals onthe elytra, but it differs by the granulations of the thoracic and elytralsurfaces, the color of the vestiture, and various other characters fromall of them.Leiomerus alternans Boheman ( Coelosternus) is recorded on Manihotmanihot (Jatropha) in Guadeloupe. 472 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol.51.CRYPTORHYNCHIDAE, new family.EURHININAE, new subfamily (Barini),Genus EISONYX LeConte.Eisonyx LeConte, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 8, 1880, p. 216. Type, crassiprsLeConte.Eumononycha Casey, Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci., vol. 7, 1893, p. 601. Type, opar