TRIBE XV. - CLEONINI. 341 



elongate fovea between the insertion of antennae. Thorax at base scarcely as 

 wide as long, sides almost straight, gradually converging from base to much 

 narrower apex; disc with sparse, rather coarse punctures, their intervals 

 alutaceous and minutely roughly punctate; median impression large, deep, 

 limited to the basal half. Elytra behind the basal constriction slightly wider 

 than thorax; disc with rows of rather fine, not distant punctures, the 

 median basal impression wider and much more shallow than that of 

 thorax. Length 1018.5 mm. 



Lake, Starke, Yermillion and Hamilton counties, Ind., scarce; 

 June 9 August 10. Definitely recorded from Illinois, Missouri, 

 Kansas, Texas, Utah and Colorado. Easily known by ils large 

 size and elongate, slender first and second joints of funicle. 

 Webster states (1S92, 339) that it breeds in the stems of the saw- 

 tooth sunflower, Hcl'Hintliiis (jrossc-scrratit*; Mart., girdling the 

 stem from within; also in those of the maple-leaved goose-foot, 

 Chenopodium lu/ltr'ulioit L., the larva? boring down the axis of the 

 stem. Both sexes usually exceed 14 mm. in length, but an occa- 

 sional male is found which is much smaller. Usually known as 

 L. inaccr Lee., but Champion has shown that j'un'bnolatus, pre- 

 viously described from Mexico, is the same. 



511 (- ) Lixrs DECEPTUS sp. nov. 



Elongate, slender, cylindrical. Black, above very sparsely clothed with 

 short gray hairs which are feebly condensed on sides of thorax and elytra; 

 beneath more thickly pubescent, especially en prosternum and abdomen. 

 Beak slender, cylindrical, almost glabrous, finely and sparsely punctate; 

 head very finely alutaceous, punctate like beak, the frontal fovea faint, 

 elongate. Antennas slender, reddish-brown; second joint of funicle one- 

 third longer than the next two combined. Thorax as wide at base as long, 

 sides straight, feebly converging to near apex, which is but slightly con- 

 stricted behind; disc roughly and unevenly sculptured, the larger punctures 

 numerous, not coarse, their intervals alutaceous, minutely punctate; med- 

 ian impression wide, beginning near apex, much deeper at base, its surface 

 wrinkled or roughly and coarsely punctate. Elytra as wide at base as 

 thorax, their sides parallel to apical fourth, thence converging to the separ- 

 ately subacute tips, the sutural notch deep; disc with rows of round, rather 

 coarse, somewhat distant punctures, the basal impression wide and rather 

 shallow. Length 10 mm. (W. 8. B.) 



Starke County, Ind., rare; June 19. Resembles fiinb 

 in form, but easily distinguished by differences given in key. 

 More slender and with much longer second funicular joint than 

 concurus. The thorax, and especially the concavity of its median 

 impression, is more roughly sculptured than in any other species 

 herein described. In both this species and the preceding the 

 usual basal median impression of each elytron is continued down 



