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surface of each femur evidently corresponds to the ring or annulus, 

 usually only partially completed, near the apex of the femur noted in 

 many species of the genus. 



LIXUS MEPHITIS, new species 



Form elongate fusiform, three times as long as wide, polished 

 black, except on lower surface, with a conspicuous white lateral vitta, 

 wider and rather broad on the prothorax, becoming denser and grad- 

 ually narrower on the elytra until it attains the apex ; antennae bright 

 red. Head wide, convex, finely, densely punctate, more coarsely be- 

 tween the eyes; interocular fovea of moderate size, rounded. Eos- 

 trum in the female distinctly shorter than the pronotum, robust, 

 scarcely three times as long as wide, wider basally, narrower in apical 

 third, cylindrical, moderately arcuate, completely noncarinate ; inter- 

 antennal fovea indistinct; surface rather finely punctate at base, 

 finely punctulate apically, coarser at sides above antennae. Antennae 

 inserted at a point less than half the length of the rostrum from 

 the base; first funicular joint distinctly narrower than the scape; 

 second joint much narrower but of similar length, slightly longer 

 than third and fourth combined, these latter very short; club cov- 

 ered with grsij pubescence. Prothorax slightly wider than long, 

 basal two-fifths parallel at sides, thence evenly narrowed to apex; 

 disk irregularly, rather feebly, variolately punctate; interspaces 

 finely punctulate; surface covered with short gray scale like hairs; 

 antescutellar impression very small. Elytra distinctly wider than 

 the prothorax, a little more than twice as long as wide, subparallel 

 in basal three-fourths ; a short postscutellar area embracing first two 

 elytral striae flat, fifth and sixth striae at base forming a shallow de- 

 pression; base bisinuately elevated. Elytral striae composed of 

 coarse punctures, closely set in quite regular rows, forming rugae as 

 viewed from the sides; vestiture comparatively sparse, becoming 

 mildly mottled, particularly toward the apex ; lateral vitta covering 

 the eighth and ninth intervals for a short distance at base, but the 

 eighth only from basal fourth to apex. First ventral segment 

 coarsely and rather sparsely punctate, comparatively sparsely pubes- 

 cent; second as long as third and fourth together, fifth nearly flat, 

 all widely separated. Legs long, sparsely covered with short gray 

 hairs; femora strongly clavate; anterior tibiae strongly serrate on 

 inner face. 



Length, 7.5 mm.; width, 2.5 mm. 



Type locality. — Myrtle Beach, Horry County, S. C. April 22, 

 1919 (E. K. Kalmbach). 



7^2/pe.— Female, Cat. No. 29035, U.S.N.M. 



This beautiful species is quite distinctive in the Group II of 

 Blatchley and Leng 1916-340, in which it falls because of the an- 



