Coleopterous Insects of Massachusetts. 4l 
Length from more than two twentieths to about three 
twentieths of an inch. 
Cambridge, Mass. Occurs not unfrequently during 
the spring and autumn, in small sluggish streams. 
13. Lixus RUBELLUs. 
L. corpore elongato, sub-brunneo, pilis minutis ferrugineis et griseis 
densé tecto; rostro leviter arcuato, carinato; thorace angustato, 
inequaliter punctulato; elytris striato-punctatis, apice obliqué sub- 
truncato, producto. 
Body elongate, brownish, densely covered with small 
reddish-ferruginous and grayish hairs; beneath with 
yellowish-ferruginous and cinereous hairs: club of the 
antenne canescent, somewhat elongate pyriform, last 
joint somewhat acute: rostrum carinate to the tip, rather 
depressed, but very slightly arcuated ; together with the 
head a little longer than the thorax: eyes small and 
black: thorax of about the same width at base with the 
base of the elytra, gradually and very considerably nar- 
rowing before; above, somewhat elevated on each side, 
the middle punctures unequal, mostly rather large, but 
not very profoundly impressed: scutel not perceptible: 
elytra with moderately regular strie of punctures, very 
slightly truncated at tip upon the inner side, and termi- 
nating in a considerably produced, though aR 
obtuse point, curving slightly outward: legs b : 
abdomen beneath with little canescent cirri. 
` Length from the tip of the rostrum nine twentieths of 
an inch. 
A somewhat narrow and elongated species, and oc- 
curred in Cambridge, Mass. 
