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separated ; the antenne are inserted almost beneath the front of the eyes, and have an 
elongate basal joint and also a long, slender, pointed club. The thorax is large, broad 
at the base, regularly and considerably narrowed towards the front, with very minute, 
pubescence and obsolete punctuation. The elytra have remarkably definite, deep 
grooves, with distinct puncturesin them. The middle coxeare only slightly separated. 
The legs are stout, with broad tarsi. 
45. Apion calcaratipes, sp.n. (A. calearatum, Tab. I. fig. 20, ¢ -) 
Obesum, nigrum, setis griseis depressis vestitum, capite elytrisque pone scutellum densius albido-vestitis, 
antennis tibiisque testaceis; rostro gracili, cylindrico, parum elongato; prothorace subconico ; elytris 
sat profunde, minus late, sulcatis. 
Long. 23 millim. 
Hab. GUATEMALA, Panajachel (Champion). 
Rostrum about as long as the head and thorax—in the female slender, cylindrical, 
smooth and shining, but between the eyes and the insertion of the antenne much 
thicker and clothed with scales; in the male but little, if at all, shorter, and with 
the thick basal portion becoming gradually attenuate, so that only the apical half is 
slender, shining, and free from scales; the eyes are very large and prominent, and the 
space between them is broad; the antenne are yellow, and are inserted just in front of 
the eyes on the under surface. The thorax is broad at the base, but much narrowed 
in front, its punctuation is indistinct, the depressed pallid sete being on the contrary 
evident. The elytra are rather broad and convex, and are thickly clothed with 
griseous-white sete which obscure their sculpture; there is a patch of white scales 
immediately behind the scutellum. The under surface is rather densely clothed with 
white scales, which are very conspicuous under the eyes. The middle coxe are a little 
separated. Male with a small mucro on each of the middle and hind tibie at the 
inner margin of the apex. Five specimens. 
46. Apion scydmenoides, sp. n. (Tab. III. fig. 13.) 
Brunneo-ferrugineum, nitidum, antennis pedibusque testaceis; rostro prothoraceque politis, levigatis ; elytris 
globosis, seriatim punctatis. 
Long. 14 millim. 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 
Rostrum very slender, elongate, curved, very polished; eyes small but prominent, 
separated by a rather narrow space; antenne inserted near to the eyes, but at a rather 
greater distance than the width of the ocular interval. Thorax small, subconical, very 
polished, and quite free from punctuation. Elytra inflated, shining, without grooves, 
but with series of distinct punctures. Legs slender. Metasternum short. Middle 
cox nearly, if not quite, contiguous. 
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