PARASOMUS.—ISODACRYS. 175 
Hab. Nicaragua, Chontales (Janson), Chinandega, Granada, San Marcos (baker), 
Managua (Solar). 
Antenne long, moderately stout, first and second joints of the funiculus elongate, 
equal, club long and rather slender. Head and rostrum densely squamose. Thorax as 
long as broad, subcylindric, very slightly narrowed before and behind the middle ; densely 
squamose, with some distant punctures rendered obscure by the squamosity, which is 
pallid grey, fuscous along the middle, where also there is a very fine channel. Elytra 
rather short, narrow, with very distinct series of punctures; with a dense squamosity, 
fuscous mottled with grey in colour, and with some excessively short white sete, 
which attract attention only on the declivous part. Legs rather long, all the femora 
acutely dentate; the tibize and tarsi obscure red, clothed with pallid setosity. Nine 
specimens. 
ISODACRYS, gen. nov. 
Rostrum deflexum ; pronotum elongatum ; coxe anteriores leviter distantes; tibiz anteriores denticulate. 
This genus is proposed for four very small apterous Otiorhynchids having some 
resemblance to Pandeleteius and various allied forms in the winged series. ‘The rostrum 
is very short, provided with slender scrobes, placed laterally and abruptly bent, so as to 
reach the under surface at a considerable distance from the eye; the buccal cavity is 
rather small and filled by the mentum, which is broader than long; the nasal plate is 
quite small; the head is broad; the eyes are round, lateral, placed a short distance in 
front of the thorax; the antennz are short, the scape slender, not so long as the 
width of the head between the eyes, but slightly longer than the width of the apex of 
the rostrum, the funiculus very short, except its first joint, the club short, oval, 
compact. Pronotum greatly longer than the prosternum. Coxe placed near the front 
of the latter, and far from its base, minutely but distinctly separated from one another. 
Metasternum short, hind coxe rather widely separated ; first and second ventral plates 
subequal, the latter quite as long as the third and fourth together. Leys short and 
stout; anterior tibiee denticulate and mucronate ; tarsal claws small, free. 
1. Isodacrys guatemalenus, sp. n. (J'ab. VII. fig. 14.) 
Dense griseo-squamosus ; elytris setis elongatis erectis vestitis ; antennis rufis, clava fuscescente. 
Long. 31-34 millim. 
Hab. Guatemata, Duefias (Champion). 
Head and rostrum densely covered with scales, and with a very fine scarcely visible 
longitudinal channel on the middle. Thorax elongate, slightly constricted before and 
behind the middle, densely covered with scales, and bearing some short curved sete. 
Elytra suboval, at the base just as broad as the thorax, densely covered with scales, 
which are very slightly variegate, and bearing long, very conspicuous, erect, pointed 
sete. Legs short, squamose and setose. Fifteen specimens. 
