150 RHYNCHOPHORA. 
surface less abrupt and distinct. The rostrum is very short, and the margin of its 
apical notch is strongly raised ; there is a depression between the eyes that becomes 
broader but more indefinite anteriorly, and is abruptly limited a little in front of the 
apical notch by a slight transverse elevation. ‘The mark at the shoulder of the elytra 
is rather small, and in specimens that are not abraded is seen to consist of two smaller 
dark marks separated by the width of one of the interstices. The difference between 
the sexes is the same as in LH. luctuosus. . 
EPITOSUS, gen. nov. 
Antenne scapo elongato, prothoracis marginem anteriorem superante; oculi convexi; scrobes laterales, 
latissims, posterius evanescentes ; femora dentata. 
Rostrum moderately long, slightly broader towards the tip. Scrobes entirely lateral, 
sharply limited in front, but becoming rapidly extremely broad and vague. Mentum 
large, entirely filling the buccal cavity. Metasternum quite short, its episterna as well 
as the mesothoracic epimera invisible. Apices of the posterior tibie a little enlarged, 
feebly cavernous. | 
This genus may be readily recognized: the very broad vague scrobes and the elongate 
scape suggest that it may be considered to have some affinity, or propinquity, with the 
Otiorhynchides proper; but as the position of the scrobes is entirely lateral and the 
direction of their lower border is inferior, I place the genus near Hpicerus without 
hesitation. The metasternal side-piece is quite concealed, the elytron extending to its 
inner suture: in one or two specimens I think I see the mesothoracic epimeron as a 
small piece of equilateral-triangular form. 
1. Epitosus boops, sp. n. (Tab. VI. fig. 15.) 
Angustulus, rugosus, squamulis griseo-viridescentibus minus dense vestitus, breviter hispidus ; rostro canali- 
culato. 
Long. 6-7 millim. 
Hab. Guatemata, San Geronimo (Champion). 
Antenne elongate; scape slender, passing on to the front margin of the thorax; first 
and second joints of the funiculus elongate, the second slightly longer than the first. 
Rostrum rather long, canaliculate along the middle; eyes convex. Thorax elongate, 
rounded at the sides, much narrowed in front; the surface uneven, being coarsely but 
irregularly punctured and feebly longitudinally impressed along the middle, bearing 
griseous and grey scales and short depressed sete. Elytra rather elongate, truncate- 
emarginate at the base, and slightly constricted immediately behind it; marked with 
regular series of punctures and clothed with greenish and fuscous scales, distributed 
in a somewhat irregular manner, but not forming a pattern, also bearing short, 
suberect, pallid sete. Legs rather slender, squamose and setose. 
A small series was obtained of this species; but I do not observe any sexual 
