84 RHYNCHOPHORA. 
head is elongate; the eyes remarkably long, the antenne inserted a little behind the 
middle. The thorax is slender, narrowed in front. The elytra are elongate, extremely 
finely striated; at the apex each is slightly swollen so as to form a sort of lateral 
prominence, and in each prominence there is placed a very deep depression or pocket. 
The front coxe are yellow, the others red, all the trochanters being of this latter 
colour. ‘The breast is remarkably prominent, the first ventral segment being subper- 
pendicular in its direction. 
84. Apion samson, sp.n. (ab. III. fig. 23, 3.) 
Grande, nigrum, opacum, elytris cyaneis ; femoribus rufis, apice nigro. 
Long. 5-53 millim. 
Hab. British Honpuras, Rio Hondo (Blancaneaux); Panama, near the city 
(Champion). 
Rostrum stout, rather long, quite as long as the head and thorax, densely punctate, 
in the female slightly longer and more slender than in the male; antenne inserted just 
behind the middle; eyes moderately large, a little convex. Thorax much narrower 
than the elytra, nearly straight at the sides behind, but a good deal narrowed in front, 
very densely and coarsely punctate, with a deep abbreviate channel in front of the base 
in the middle. Elytra rather elongate, blue, dull, somewhat deeply sulcate, the inter- 
stices broad. Legs thick, the tarsi broad, the claws stout. Under surface destitute of 
squamosity ; middle coxe only slightly separated; metasternum with a deep fovea; 
the coxe and trochanters intense black; the femora bright red nearly to the extremity ; 
the rest with the tibie and tarsi deep black. 
Mr. Champion obtained a large number of examples of this remarkable species ; they 
do not exhibit any variation. ‘The four specimens from British Honduras differ very 
slightly, however, the antenne being inserted a little farther back. The Panama 
examples were beaten from the seed-pods of a leguminous tree. 
85. Apion latipes, sp.n. (Tab. III. fig. 24.) 
Convexum, nigrum, nudum, elytris viridi-cyaneis, femoribus late rufis, apice nigro; prothorace subtiliter punc- 
tulato, opaco; elytris subtiliter sulcatis. 
Long. 3? millim. 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 
Rostrum scarcely so long as the head and thorax, stout, punctate but not rugose, dull; 
eyes slightly prominent; antenne inserted just behind the middle of the rostrum. 
Thorax rather long, much narrowed in front, the surface of a silky opacity, finely and 
sparingly punctate. Elytra laterally subcompressed, of a greenish-blue colour, finely 
sulcate, with broad flat interstices, rather shining. Legs stout, black; femora bright 
red, except at the tip. Under surface dull; middle coxe only slightly separated. 
One specimen only. 
