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Psyche 9:324, 1900.

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[March, IQO~
A NEW BRUCHOPHAGUS FROM MEXICO.
BY WILLIAM E. ASHXEAD, WASHINGTON, D. c. Tine following interesting n&- Eury tomid belonging to the genus Br~ichophagus was received by Dr. L. 0. I-lowardl from Mr. A. L. I-Ierrera, of Coahuila, Mexico, who bred it from the Cotton-weevil Anthonomrts grmdis. Bruchophagus herrerae sp. nov.
$?.-Length 4 mm. Black, utnbilicately
p~inctate and clothed with =fine white pubes- cence; the tips of front and hind femora, their tibiae and sutures of their trochanters and middle legs from the second joint of trocl~anters, except a spot at base of the femora, are honey-yellowl while the tarsi are pale, ahnost white; the wings are hyaline, the tegulae blackl the veins pale jellowish, the st:grnal and marginal veins about equal and a little shorter than the post-marginal. The ahdomen is conicaIly pointed, very
slightly longer than the head and thorax united, the petiole being short, smooth above, the second segment highly polished impunc- tate, the third, fourth, and fifth segments shining bui feebly delicately shagreened, the fifth being the longest segment, the sixth and seventh more di~tinctly and opaquely sha- greened and with sparse white hairs; the seventh has a distinct rounded spiracle ; the eighth is conically pointed with oval spira- cles.
Both antennae are broken off and cannot
be described.
Type.-Cat. Xo. 6139, W. S. N. M.
1Zab.- Coahnila, Mexico.
Host.- Coleop. Adkwomt~ g~amfis Boa.
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