128 RHYNCHOPHORA. 
the funiculus very long. Rostrum very slightly impressed in the male, flat in the 
female; a fovea between the eyes, these latter not very prominent. Thorax about 1} 
millim. long and fully 2 millim. broad, a little rounded at the sides, the surface 
bearing large deep punctures which are much obscured by the squamosity. Elytra 
short, abruptly declivous behind, bearing series of deep, rather large punctures; covered 
with squamosity and with two darker irregular transverse bands, one just in front of 
the middle, the second behind it. 
This does not seem to vary quite so much as some of the other species of the genus, 
but there is a considerable difference between the sexes, the female being broader and 
the prominence on the suture behind remarkably abrupt. About two dozen examples 
were obtained, all from the Pacific slope. | 
52. Epicerus impar, sp. n. 
Gracilis, niger, opacus, subtiliter squamosus ; prothorace elongato, angusto, obsolete rugoso ; elytris seriatim 
sat fortiter, minus profunde punctatis. 
Long. 9-10 millim. 
Mas elytris subparallelis, humeris anterius prolongatis. 
Fem. elytris subovatis, humeris omnino obtusis. 
Hab. Guatemaa, Totonicapam 8500 to 10,500 feet (Champion). 
Black, rendered somewhat grey by a thin squamosity which is most conspicuous on 
the elytra. Rostrum with a broad, shallow, angular impression on the front, this in 
the male being rather deeper and canaliculate all along the middle; at the summit of 
the impression there is a distinct fovea ; the surface is rather finely punctate, and bears 
a setose squamosity. Thorax elongate, narrowed in front, the surface rendered uneven 
by coarse, very shallow depressions, the disc slightly deplanate ; closely and finely 
punctate and clothed with depressed sete. Elytra with series of moderately large, 
distant, shallow punctures, clothed with thin, closely adherent scales, and bearing also 
a scanty, very short squamosity. Under surface setose; the first ventral suture slightly 
arcuate; the male with the base of the ventral surface rather deeply depressed. — 
This species is remarkable on account of the great difference in the form of the base 
of the elytra in the sexes. Only one male and two female examples of it were — 
obtained. 
EPAGRIUS. 
Epagrius, Schouherr, Gen. Cure. vi. 1, p. 119 (1840). 
Graphorhinus (part.), Lacordaire, Gen. Col. vi. p. 183°. 
Epiceri proxime affinis ; differt scrobibus latioribus, tibiarum posticarum corbellis subcavernosis. 
The species placed in this genus have the scrobes broader than in Hpicerus, and 
usually their terminal portion is less definite, the upper border more especially being 
less sharply defined. 
