166 RHYNCHOPHORA. 
32. Pantomorus robustus, sp. n. (Tab. VII. fig. 3, 2.) 
Latior, niger, pallide griseo-squamosus ; elytris breviter subtiliterque hispidis, prothorace evidenter latioribus. 
Long. 13 millim. 
Hab. Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt). 
Antenne rather short. Head and rostrum broad, with a short channel on the 
middle, the rostrum short, a little narrowed in front. Thorax broad and short, much 
rounded at the sides, finely canaliculate along the middle, the basal portion depressed. 
Scutellum small, subelevated. Elytra at the shoulders broader than the thorax, the 
shoulders a little oblique, with series of fine punctures, uniformly squamose, and 
bearing very fine short, erect, pale sete. 
I have described this species from two examples of the female sex. Its position is 
altogether doubtful; but as it has more resemblance to the female of P. albicans than 
to any other insect known to me, I therefore place it here. It is, however, far from 
improbable that when the condition of the wings can be examined, P. rodbustus may 
prove to be a Naupactus, or, as is I think even more likely, the type of a genus 
between Naupactus and Pantomorus. 
PYCNOPHILUS, gen. nov. 
Corpus setosum ; elytris prothorace latioribus. Scrobes late et profunde, curvate. 
Rostrum broad and short, not emarginate at the tip, which is formed in front all 
across of a shining substance more prominent than the upper part of the rostrum; 
eyes rather large and convex. Scrobes quite lateral, broad, deep and definite, the 
upper margin directed to the middle of the eye, the lower in front of and below it. 
Scape attaining the posterior margin of the eye, setose. Mentum small, the maxille and 
all the palpi exposed. Prosternum short; anterior coxe contiguous, placed near the 
front margin and about twice as far from the hind margin. Metasternum rather short. 
First two ventral plates elongate, the suture between them strongly angulate; the 
third and fourth plates short. Legs slender; femora unarmed; tips of the hind tibie 
slender, but terminated by two series of ciliz enclosing a small space; claws moderate 
in size, free. The outer elytral stria distinct at the base only. 
This genus, in my first arrangement of the Otiorhynchide of our Editors’ collection, 
was excluded from the Epicerina on the supposition that it belonged either in the 
neighbourhood of Sctaphilus or to the winged series. On examination it appears that 
it can be placed in neither of these categories, but that it may come near to Panto- 
morus. For this reason, Pycnophilus is not included in the Key to our genera of 
Epicerina on p. 101. On the whole, it seems, as I have said, best placed near 
Pantomorus, from which, however, it differs strongly in the scrobes, as well as in 
general appearance. 
