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A distinctive species, evidently related to sexualis Casey but mainly 

 differing by the much thicker rostrum, the absence of a definite 

 median impression at the base of the elytra and the rather fine dis- 

 tinctly oblong punctures of the same. The subapical rostral fovea 

 and the pronotal concavity with its deeply linear impression are 

 also evidently constant and specific. 



LIXUS LODINGI, new species 



Moderately robust subcylindrical, black with dark reddish an- 

 tennae ; vestiture very fine, light gray. Rostrum in the female stout 

 cylindrical, about as long as the prothorax, nearly straight, not at 

 all carinate; surface finely densely punctate, in furrows at sides. 

 Head densely, coarsely punctate in furrows between the eyes, inter- 

 ocular fovea rounded, deep. Antennal scrobes beginning about one- 

 fourth from apex; first and second funicular joints long, second 

 longer and slenderer but not quite so long as third, fourth, and fifth 

 combined. Prothorax about as wide as long, not narrowed behind 

 head, sides feebly arcuate, depressed in basal third, deeply so near 

 base ; disk somewhat depressed ; surface in apical three-fourths nearly 

 smooth without asperities, with comparatively small punctures, re- 

 motely placed, between which are very small punctules, closely set; 

 surface well covered with long hairlike scales, a little denser and 

 longer at the sides, forming a paler vitta. Elytra distinctly wider 

 at base than prothroax, postscutellar and a humeral impression 

 moderately deep ; sides subparallel in middle half ; apices separately 

 and slightly rounded; surface moderately convex, striae with some- 

 what irregular rows of moderate sized, rather shallow, rounded 

 punctures; vestiture dense, composed of very fine, short, dull gray 

 hairlike squamules, mottled with many fine whitish gray spots; ven- 

 tral surface with longer vestiture, on sides, legs and first and second 

 abdominal segments distinctly ocellate. 



Rostrum in the male shorter than in the female;. first ventral seg- 

 ment feebly, distinctly impressed at middle. 



Length, 10-10.5 mm. ; width, 4 mm. 



Type locality. — Mobile, Ala. (H. P. Loding). 



Other localities. — Magazine Point, Ala. ; Delchamps, Ala. ; Tampa, 

 Fla. (Hubbard and Schwarz) ; West Monroe, La. (Rehn and He- 

 bard) ; Louisiana (Horn Collection). 



ry^e.— Female, Cat. No. 28835, U.S.N.M. Type, allotype, and 

 paratypes. Paratypes in the collections of the Philadelphia Acad- 

 emy and of H. P. Loding. 



A comparatively distinctive form, not very closely related to any 

 of the group with which it is placed. Next to Ulakeae Chittenden, 

 it is the most robust species of the group. The rostrum is not dis- 



