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tennal characters. There are no others in this group in which the 

 vestiture is condensed into such distinct narrow white elytral vittae, 



LIXUS ELEPHANTULUS, new species 



Elongate cylindrical, about three times as long as wide; head^ 

 rostrum, and prothorax black, elji;ra and femora dark reddish 

 brown, apices of femora, tibiae, tarsi, and antennae red; vestiture 

 not vittate, of dorsum moderately long, mixed with much shorter 

 scale-like hairs on elytra, much longer on lower surface. Head 

 wide, prominent, finelj?', rather densely punctate on occiput, coarser 

 punctures forming rows longitudinally between the eyes. Rostrum 

 in the female longer than the prothorax, rather strongly and nearly 

 evenljT^ arcuate, finely carinate, carina extending from the elongate 

 interocular fovea to the somewhat indistinct interantennal fovea; 

 surface coarsely punctate at the sides near the eyes, finer toward 

 apex; first and second funicular joints subequal, second narrower^ 

 about as long as third and fourth together. Pronotum about one- 

 fourth wider than long, sides nearly evenly arcuate; surface rough, 

 subrugose, without distinct asperities, punctation coarse and sparse, 

 punctures shallow, not variolate, few at apex, spaces between feebly 

 indistinctly punctulate, antescutellar impression distinct, narrow. 

 Elytra twice as long as wide, scarcely wider at extreme base than 

 pronotum, more distinctly wider at humeri, which are not promi- 

 nent; sides in basal two-thirds parallel, apices slightly open; post- 

 scutellar impression shallow, not definitely horse-shoe shaped, 

 humeral impression feeble; strial punctures coarse and of irregular 

 size, many obscured by thick coating of short scale-like hairs inter- 

 mixed with tufts of longer ones, gray, yellow, and reddish, not 

 mottled. Ventral surface gray pubescent. First ventral segment 

 with a very small oval median impression at extreme base; surface 

 finely and sparsely punctate; second segment more distinctly con- 

 vex, fifth flattened across apical half. Femora comparatively slen- 

 der, tibiae rather stronglj^ arcuate, feebly serrulate on inner face. 



Length, 6.8 mm.; width, 2.2 mm.; rostrum, 1.5 mm. 



Type locality. — Havana, 111., August 18, 1912. 



Type. — Female, unique, in collection Illinois State Natural His- 

 tory Survey, Urbana, 111. 



This species is distinctive but not conspicuous. Notable charac- 

 ters are the long curved carinate beak, large and prominent head, 

 red tips of the femora, strongly transverse pronotum, concavity in 

 fifth segment in the female and the abundance of vestiture. There 

 is a trace of reddish pollinose coating in the postscutellar impression. 



