334 SUBFAMILY X. CURCULIONIN^E. 



disc finely and densely punctate, with scattered larger shallow punctures 

 intermixed, and with a large, deep, triangular median impression reaching 

 from base almost to apex. Elytra with sides parallel for three-fourths 

 their length, then converging to the prolonged tips; median basal impression 

 long, shallow; strial punctures rather large, distant; intervals and under 

 surface finely and densely punctate. Length 10 14 mm. 



Lake County, Ind., rare; May 25. Recorded from Wisconsin, 

 Illinois, Iowa and British Columbia. A striking- and easily rec- 

 ognized species. Xo record of its food habits can be found. 



498 (8487). Lixrs RUBELI.US Rand., 1838, 41. 



Elongate, slender. Upper surface, antenna? and legs uniform reddish- 

 brown, sparsely clothed with very short, fine gray pubescence. Beak 

 slightly shorter than thorax, finely and densely punctured; front with 

 median fovea. Thorax longer than wide, gradually narrowed from base 

 to tip, sides nearly straight; disc finely and densely rugosely punctate, and 

 with a wide, elongate median impression reaching from base nearly to apex. 

 Elytra flattened but not distinctly impressed behind the scutellum, sides 

 as in can difi r. stria! punctures large, not distant. Length 7.5 9.5 mm. 



Lake Co., Ind.. rare; June 10. Taken from beach of Lake 

 Michigan. Known from Quebec and Massachusetts to Wiscon- 

 sin, and probably occurs only in the Transition Life Zone. Ob- 

 served by Lintner in numbers on the flowers of the water persi- 

 caria or smart weed, Polygon inn (nn/>Jiil>iinii L., in Massachusetts. 



499 (- -). Lixrs LUPIXUS Blatch., 1914, 248. 



Elongate, cylindrical, robust. Black, shining, evenly and rather thickly 

 clothed with a fino, prostrate, gray pubescence which, on the sides of the 

 thorax and elytra, is condensed into a rather broad, prominent marginal 

 stripe. Beak short (2.3 mm. from eye to tip), stout, cylindrical, coarsely, 

 closely and deeply punctate and with a fine but distinct carina reaching 

 three-fourths to tip. Antennae stout, inserted one-third from tip, the second 

 and third joints of funicle subequal, the two together slightly longer than 

 the first. Thorax as long as wide, sides parallel from base to middle, thence 

 gradually converging to apex, the latter feebly bisinuate; disc with numer- 

 ous very coarse shallow punctures, somewhat irregularly placed, their in- 

 tervals finely reticulate-punctate, without median impressed line but with 

 a broad, shallow depression in front of scutellum and a fine carina on apical 

 third. Elytra three times longer than thorax and one-fourth wider at base, 

 sides parallel for three-fourths their length, thence feebly converging into 

 a rounded apex; disc with a large shallow concavity behind the scutellum 

 and with regular unimpressed rows of rather large distant punctures, their 

 intervals finely granulate-punctate. Abdomen densely pubescent, finely 

 and densely punctate, with numerous scattered very coarse punctures. 

 Length 11 13 mm. 



Quite frequent on the flowers of the hoary lupine, Lupinns 

 ilif/uxiix Xutt., near Dunedin, Fla. ; Jan. 10 October 25. Re- 

 sembles i>!</<-i<lii8 Lee., but that species is from Colorado and has 



