Genus di^. — LIXUS. /jGt 



*ioo. L. cAiiiNEROSTRis. (Sclili.) — Eloiigatits , uir/cr, pulje cüie- 

 reo-albkla seit dense ohsilus ; rostro brevi , siib-rccto^ bnsi tri-cari- 

 iiato, ihorace angiistiore , sciL crehre profunde varioloso, (atcrihits 

 dense cinereo-poUinoso ; clylris anllce profunde minus regulariler 

 punctato-strialis , basi transverstm impressis. 

 Palria .-Caput Bona^ Spei. Dom. Drkge. Mus. Schii. 



Lixo luprenü fYOximus, nonnihil tarnen angustior et longior; ros- 

 tro paulo longiore , basi tri-carinato , tlioracc aiiffustiore , elytris 

 anterius profunde minus regularilcr punctato-striatis, basi traus- 

 versim impressis, aliter coloratis , ab illo bene clistinctus. Caput 

 breve, rotundatum, supra paulo convexum , confertim rugoso- 

 punctatum , nigrum , pube cinereo-albida paice adspcrsum ; oculi 

 oblongi, transversi, depressi, nigri; rostrum thorace multo bre- 

 vius , crassiusculum , teres , sub-rectum , a basi ad medium tri- 

 carinatum , inter carinas utrinquc impressum , undique crebre ru- 

 goso-punctatum, inter antennas canalicala abbreviata profunde 

 insculptum; nigrum, parce albido-poilinosum et pubescens. An- , 

 tenme minus tcnues, picejc, albido-pilosa-; clava oblongo-ovata , j^ 

 acuta, cinereo-pubescente. Tborax latitudine postica nonnibiljl 

 brevior, apice truncatus , pone apicem leviter constrictus , pone 

 stricturam versus basin scnsim ampliatus, postice leviter bi-sinua- 

 tus , supra convexus, punctis profundis, sat crebris impressus, su- 

 perfieie interjacente subtiliter coriacea; niger, dorso parce lateri- 

 bus et subtus dense cinereo-pubescens et albido-poUinosus. Scu- 

 lellum nuüum. Elytra antice singulatim vix rotundato-producta, 

 tboracis basi nonnibil latiora , mox intra basin constricta et trans- 

 versim impressa, bumeris lotundatis; ab bunicro longe ultra me- 

 dium linearia, tum apieeni versus angustata, apice ipso sub-acu- 

 minata, tborace triplo longiora, supra modicc convexa, a basi 

 ultra medium minus regulariter profundius dein subtiliter punc- 

 tato-striata, interstitiis subtilissime coriaceisj nigra, sub-nitida, 

 pube cinerea et polline albido dorso parcius ad latera et apicem 

 densius obsita. Corpus subtus subtiliter coi'iaceum , nigrum , cine- 

 reo-pubescens et alindo-pollinosvim. Pedes mediocres, nigri,ci- 

 nei'eo-pubescentes; femoribus parum clavatis, muticis; tibiis tere- 

 libus, rectisj tarsis obscure ferrugineis, subtus fusco-spongiosis. 



BUN, 



O^^ioi. L. VETULA. Fahricius, 

 Curculio jU Fabr. Syst. El. Jl. p. Sij, G2. Ent. Syst, I. II. p. 

 460. 277. 



