198 Coleopterological Notices, III 



Beak densely punctured ; scattered pronotal punctures fine. 



Body narrow, densely pubescent, the vestiture finely, strongly mot- 

 tled and with a larger subdenuded spot on each elytron near the 

 suture and just behind the middle ; beak with a deep inter- 

 antennal fovea, without impunctate median line 28 fossils 



Body rather robust, elongate-elliptical, the vestitiire scarcely at all 

 maculate, plumbeus, very short and not so conspicuous ; beak 

 without trace of inter-antennal fovea, less densely punctured and 

 with a narrow distinctly defined median impunctate line. 



29 obesulus 



13 — Pronotal punctuation sparse throughout ; beak in the female shorter 

 than the prothorax ; punctures of the elytral series rather fine and dis- 

 tant 30 terminalis 



Pronotal punctuation very dense, rather sparser toward the apex ; beak in 

 the female longer than the prothorax ; serial punctures of the elytra very 

 coarse and rather close-set ; size much smaller ; elytral apices more 

 rounded ...31 sexualis 



1 L.. caudifer Lee— Proc. Am. Phil. Soc, XV, p. 156. 



Indiana, Illinois and Iowa, also said by LeConte to occur in 

 British Columbia. A fine species of the iridis type, much broader 

 in outline than auctus and rubellus, densely clothed with short 

 plumbeo-cinereous pubescence and with a rather short and slender 

 beak. Length 10.0-13.0 mm.; width 3.2-4.0 mm. 



2 L,. auctus Lee. — Pac. R. R. Rep. ; Insects, p. 57; Proc. Am. Phil. Soc, 

 XV, p. 155. 



Oregon. The original female type is, as far as I know, the only 

 representative. It approaches the European i7Hdis more closely 

 than either of our other species of this group, but still departs 

 widely from it in its much more elongate and longitudinally im- 

 pressed prothorax. The integuments are dark piceous in color, the 

 beak, legs and antennae rufo-ferruginous, the vestiture very short 

 and coarse, moderately dense on the elytra. The prothorax is very 

 nearly as long as wide. Length 1J.5 mm.; width 3.0 mm. 



3 L,. rubellus Rand. — Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist., II, p. 41 ; Lee. : Proc. Am. 

 Phil. Soc, XV, p. 155. 



Massachusetts to Wisconsin. Much smaller than the others of 

 this small group and easily distinguished by its bright red-brown 

 color and sparse, feebly mottled vestiture. 



The abdominal sutures being strongly, posteriorly angulate at 

 the sides in this species and almost perfectly straight throughout 



