546 SUPPLEMENT. 
3. Anterior tibie with a sharp tooth before the middle beneath ; the intermediate tibie sinuous within and 
slightly curved, their inner apical angle somewhat produced. 
Length 3-34 millim. (¢ 9.) 
Hab. Mexico, Motzorongo (Flohr), Jalapa, Teapa in Tabasco (Hége), Frontera in 
Tabasco (H. H. Smith); British Honpuras, R. Sarstoon (Blancaneauz). 
Nine examples. This insect, of which we have received several additional specimens, 
was somewhat doubtfully referred by me to P. punctatus, Spin. It differs from that 
species in the much finer punctuation of the upper surface (the sculpture in P. punc- 
tatus being unusually coarse), and in the elytra having scattered, very feeble tubercular 
elevations towards the sides and apex *. These elevations are not easily discernible 
when the pubescence is dirty or matted. 
5 (a). Paratenetus constrictus. (Tab. XXIII. figg. 8, ¢; 8a, antenna.) 
Convex, shining, ferruginous or flavo-ferruginous ; the upper surface somewhat thickly clothed with long, semi- 
erect hairs, moderately coarsely, rather densely, confusedly punctate, the punctures becoming coarser 
towards the base of the elytra. Antenne rufo-testaceous, with the club piceous (the apical joint somewhat 
paler), the latter moderately stout, almost similarly formed in the two sexes, with joints 9 and 10 trans- 
verse; prothorax transverse, convex, rounded at the sides anteriorly, and a little narrowed behind, the 
sides moderately coarsely denticulate, the hind angles acute; legs rufo-testaceous ; anterior tibie armed 
with a short tooth on the lower side at the middle in the male. 
Length 24-3} millim. (¢ 9.) . . 
Hab. Mexico, Atoyac (Flohr), Jalapa, Frontera in Tabasco, Tapachula in Chiapas 
(Hége), Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith); British Honpuras, R. Hondo (Blancaneaua) ; 
GuateMALA, Chacoj and San Juan in Vera Paz, El Tumbador (Champion); Panama, 
Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 
This is a common insect on the Atlantic slope, and it has been sent in abundance 
from Teapa; from the Pacific side very few specimens have been received. Allied to 
P. punctulatus, but smaller and more convex, the punctuation of the upper surface 
less dense, especially on the head and thorax, and becoming coarser towards the base 
of the elytra; the thorax a little narrowed behind, and less coarsely denticulate; the 
elytra without scattered feeble elevations towards the sides and apex. The antenne 
sometimes have the club a little paler in colour. ‘The elytral punctuation is slightly 
variable, but it usually becomes much finer towards the apex. 
P. cribratus, Motsch., from Georgia, and P. denticollis (Makl.), from Venezuela, are 
allied forms; the latter has the antenne pallid testaceous, and appears to have a more 
transverse, more rugosely punctured thorax. 
11(a). Paratenetus sexdentatus. (Tab. XXIII. fig. 9, ¢.) 
Rufo-testaceous, the upper surface densely, confusedly, rather finely punctate, clothed with fine, decumbent 
hairs, Antenne rufo-testaceous, the club slightly darker, the latter moderately stout, very similarly 
* P. ruficornis has the elytra somewhat similarly sculptured, though not noticed in the description. 
