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or whitish—scales, and also set with very fine, erect, scattered hairs, which become longer and setiform 
along the suture towards the apex in 9. Head and rostrum together about as long as the prothorax, 
the rostrum canaliculate and moderately depressed down the middle; antennw with joints 1 and 2 of the 
funiculus subequal in length, the club elongate, as long as 3-7 united. Elytra finely punctate-striate, 
the interstices flat or very feebly convex, each with from four to seven closely-packed rows of scales and, 
at most, a scattered series of minute bare spots. Legs densely squamose and pilose; anterior tibixe 
conspicuously denticulate, strongly unguiculate in g, more feebly so in 9, the intermediate pair also with 
a small claw in the ¢. 
Length 63-83, breadth 24-33 millim. (¢ ¢.) 
Hab. Mexico (coll. Fry), Puebla, Parada, Ixtepec (Sallé), Cuernavaca (Wickham), 
Oaxaca (Mus. Brit.), Amula (H. H. Smith). 
This Mexican insect has long been known under one or the other of the above- 
quoted MS. names. It is more densely squamose and a little less elongate than 
Hf. opalinus and H. scintillans, and the small scales are uniformly coloured (though 
variable in tint) and not scintillate when viewed in different lights. Two examples 
only have been seen with whitish squamosity, one of them having been found at the 
same locality (Cuernavaca) as others with golden-green scales. The minute bare spots 
on the elytral interstices, when present, are not larger than the seriate punctures. 
7. Hadromerus rufipes, sp.n. (Tab. VII. figg. 34, 34a, 9.) 
©. Elongate, shining, black, the antenne (the club excepted) and legs ferruginous ; clothed’ along the sides 
(above and beneath) with scattered, iridescent, golden-green and blue scales, the scales on the upper 
surface clustered into several small spots on the prothorax and a longitudinal sinuous stripe down the 
dise of each elytron, the two stripes becoming coalescent at the commencement of the apical declivity ; 
the under surface and legs also with scattered pallid hairs, the suture of the elytra with several very long 
erect hairs towards the tip. Head and rostrum together abcut as long as the prothorax, the rostrum 
deeply emarginate at the apex, canaliculate, feebly depressed down the middle, and finely punctate ; 
joints 1 and 2 of the funiculus equal in length. Prothorax very sparsely, finely punctate. LHlytra 
broad, elongate, flattened on the disc; with rows of fine scattered punctures, the interstices flat, 
alutaceous, and sparsely, minutely punctured, the space occupied by the long sinuous stripe somewhat 
depressed. Legs very sparsely, finely punctured, sparsely pilose, and with a few scattered metallic 
scales ; anterior tibise unguiculate and feebly denticulate. 
Length 134, breadth 5 millim. 
Hab. Costa Rica, Arcangeles 1700 metres (Biolley). 
One example. A remarkably distinct form, distinguishable at a glance by its 
deeply notched rostrum, red legs, the narrow sinuous line of iridescent green scales 
down the disc of each elytron, and the comparatively smooth, partly bare surface, 
though this may be to some extent due to abrasion *. 
PANDELETELUS. 
Pandeleteius, Schonherr, Gen. Cure. 1. p. 129 (1884), vi. 1, p. 296 ; Lacordaire, Gen. Col. vi. p. 74. 
Pandeletejus, Horn, Proc. Am. Phil. Soc. xv. p. 86. 
Menetypus, Kirsch, Berl. cnt. Zeitschr. 1867, p. 233. 
* Denuded examples of the allied Central-American forms are not nearly so smooth. 
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