AET. 18 NEW ISrOPiTH AMEEICAN WEEVILS CHITTENDEN" 21 



tinctly arcuate, the pronotal disk is practically smooth, without 

 asperities or variolate punctures and the antescutellar concavity is 

 short and deep, much as in julichi Casey. The vestiture is not so 

 noticeably mottled as in the latter and the ocellate character of the 

 entire lower surface and sides is worthy of remark. 



LIXUS REGULARIPENNIS, new species 



Subcylindrical, about three times as long as wide, black through- 

 out, moderately shining; surface densely covered with very fine, 

 rather dark gray scalelike hairs, denser at sides, forming wide, not 

 conspicuous lateral vittae. Surface of head coarsely and densely 

 punctate, punctures rounded. Rostrum fully one-fourth shorter 

 than the pronotum, cylindrical, robust, two and a half times as long 

 as wide, rather feeblj^ arcuate, finely carinate from the interocular 

 fovea to the middle, where there is a longer interantennal fovea; 

 apex narrowed as viewed from the side, subacuminate at the extrem- 

 ity, scrobes scarcely reaching to apical third. Surface from the 

 base nearly to the middle closely and irregularly punctate, toward 

 apex much finer and more regular, normally pubescent throughout, 

 pubescence covering ca,rina. Antennae with scape dark brown; 

 first and second funicular joints subequal in length, first fully one- 

 fourth wider than second, second slender, subequal to third and 

 fourth together. Prothorax about as long as wide, feebly arcuate 

 at the sides, more strongly so toward apex; feebly, narrowly im- 

 pressed near the base, surface of disk coarsely, rather densely, irreg- 

 ularly punctate, interspaces finely densely punctulate. Elytra dis- 

 tinctly wider at base than prothorax, umbones not prominent, feebly 

 arcuate at sides, apex moderately narrowed ; first two intervals feebly 

 Itnpressed at base; apices not separated; surface finely punctulate, 

 subalutaceous ; strial punctures moderately large, each with a white 

 seta directed posteriorly, arranged with a very strong tendency to 

 regular, widely separated rows, especially in the basal half, where 

 the scales are exceptionally fine and short. Ventral surface with 

 long gray hairs, somewhat sparser on the legs. Anterior tibiae 

 serrate along inner margin. 



Length, 8.2-9 mm. ; width, 2.3-3 mm. 



Rostrum in the female a little longer than in the male, about two 

 and a half times as long as wide, 



Male rostrum, more robust and shorter, scarcely more than twice 

 as long as wide. 



Type locality. — Indiana (H. F. Wickham). 



Other localities. — Havana, 111. ; Algonquin, 111. (Nason) ; Wood- 

 ridge, D. C. (L. L. Buchanan) ; Mobile, Whistler, and Magazine 

 Point, Ala. (H. P. Loding) ; Baton Rouge, La. (T. H. Jones). 



