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Florida and Georgia: Messrs. Hubbard and Schwarz. Very easily rec- 

 ognized by the scaly head and long clavate bristles. 



19. L. punctiger, n. sp. 



Elongate covered with small round scales of brownish gray and brown 

 mottled, and slightly pearly, not larger on the prothorax, and but little 

 smaller on the head. Beak cylindrical, neither carinate norsulcate; frontal 

 fovea punctiform deep. Prothorax longer than wide, scarcely narrower in 

 front, broadly rounded on the sides, with a wide lateral pale stripe, which 

 is bifurcated in front; the sculpture is concealed by the scales, but as usual 

 a few large scattered punctures are seen. Scutellum pale. Elytra nearly 

 one-half wider than the prothorax, humeri oblique and i slightly rounded, 

 base broadly emarginate; striae strongly punctured; interspaces wide nearly 

 flat, setae quite obvious, but not stouter than usual; tip conjointly rounded. 

 Last ventral segment not impressed. Antennae and legs dark brown. 

 Length 5.7 mm. ; .23 inch. 



Dacota: one specimen. This species and the next are more elongated in 

 form than any others here described, except L. appendiculatus. 



20. L. teretirostris Lee. Pac. R. R. Expl. and Surv. Ent. 55. 



San Francisco, Cal. Precisely similar in form to the preceding, but the 

 beak is a little stouter and very feebly carinate and sulcate; the frontal 

 fovea is punctiform, but not so deep; the scales are of a uniform pale mud 

 color, with slight metallic lustre, and are scarcely mottled with darker. 

 The last ventral segment is impressed at the tip. 



21. L. gracilis, n. sp. 



Precisely similar to L. teretirostris in form, size and color, but the beak 

 is more slender, as in punctiger, and neither carinate nor sulcate; it differs 

 from both by the absence of the frontal fovea. The prothorax is entirely 

 uniform in color, and the elytra slightly mottled towards the tip. Length 

 5.3 mm. ; .21 inch. 



One specimen, Nevada: E. P, Austin. The last ventral is feebly im- 

 pressed at tip, as in the preceding. 



22. L. nevadicus, n. sp. 



Less elongate, covered densely with dirt colored scales, without lustre. 

 Head covered with smaller scales, beak cylindrical, very feebly carinate 

 and sulcate, frontal fovea wanting. Prothorax not longer than wide, more 

 rounded at the sides, and slightly constricted in front; narrow lateral 

 stripes, and a dorsal line of paler scales. Elytra one-third wider than the 

 prothorax, broadly emarginate at base, humeri rounded, striae punctured, 

 interspaces wide, nearly flat, setae as in the three preceding species. Last 

 ventral segment impressed at the tip. Length 4 mm. ; .16 inch. 



Nevada, E. P. Austin: three specimens. Quite distinct from L. gracilis 

 by the less elongate form and more rounded sides of prothorax. The 

 sculpture of the prothorax is concealed by the scales as usual, so that I 

 cannot compare it as fully as I desire with L. oregonen&is, which it resem- 

 bles in form. The latter, however, has the last ventral not impressed ( 9 ), 

 and has probably the head clothed with hair-like and not round scales. 



