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long erect sete down the apical third; the under surface sparsely pilose. Head and rostrum together 
shorter than the prothorax, sparsely punctate, the rostrum flattened, transverse, very shallowly emarginate 
at the tip, the scrobes descending ; eyes depressed ; joint 2 of the funiculus small, shorter than 3 and 4 
united. Prothorax longer than broad, produced at the apex, feebly constricted anteriorly and at the 
base, subulate in front, conspicuously punctate; vibrisse long. lytra long, broader than the prothorax, 
gradually widening to the middle, the humeri rather prominent ; punctate-striate, the alternate interstices 
raised, Anterior femora feebly clavate. Anterior tibia moderately long, stout, curved at the tip, 
strongly unguiculate, and armed with 6 or 7 short teeth. Intermediate tibiw excavate, and (in the 
Amula examples) distinctly denticulate, towards the apex within, and with a small claw at the tip. 
Length 53-7, breadth 2-24 millim. (<¢.) 
Hab. Mexico, Amula in Guerrero (H. H. Smith), Parada in Oaxaca (Sal/é). 
Four specimens, probably all males, the one from Parada smaller than the others. 
This insect may be known by its elongate, somewhat cuneiform shape, the long, stout, 
curled sete on the alternate elytral interstices, the descending scrobes, and the sub- 
truncate anterior margin of the rostrum. 
9. Pandeleteius cucullatus, sp. n. 
Moderately elongate, subcuneiform, obscure ferruginous or ferruginous ; densely clothed with pale brownish 
scales, the prothorax with a faint median vitta and the elytra with two indistinct, oblique, darker brown 
fascia: separated by a paler patch, the surface also set with very short, curled, decumbent sete, which 
become longer and more numerous on the suture of the elytra towards the apex; the scales along the 
middle of the under surface white and opalescent. Head and rostrum together much shorter than the 
prothorax, the rostrum extremely short, flattened, feebly emarginate at the tip, the scrobes descending ; 
eyes depressed. Prothorax a little longer than broad, produced in front, feebly constricted and narrowed 
at the base, rather coarsely punctate; vibrisse long. Elytra broader than the prothorax, widened to 
the middle, and somewhat inflated posteriorly, punctate-striate, the alternate interstices raised. Anterior 
femora feebly clavate. Anterior tibis stout, moderately long, sharply unguiculate, and armed with small 
scattered teeth. Intermediate tibie hollowed near the apex within, and with a small claw at the tip. 
Length 43-52, breadth 2-2,4, millim. (d.) 
Hab. Mexico (Mus. Brit. ; Hoge, in coll. Solari), Cuernavaca (Flohr). 
Four specimens, the one found by Hége partly abraded and showing the coarse 
puncturing of the head, prothorax, and elytra. Very near P. cuneatus, but with the 
rostrum still shorter, and feebly emarginate at the tip, the markings on the upper 
surface very faint (the general colour of the vestiture being almost uniform), the 
intermediate tibie(¢ ) distinctly unguiculate. ‘The basal constriction of the prothorax 
does not extend across the disc in either of these two species. 
10. Pandeleteius cuneatus, sp. n. (Tab. VIII. figg. 7, 7a, 2.) 
Elongate, robust, subcuneiform, piceous, the antenne and the tips of the tarsi ferruginous; densely clothed 
with brown scales, the prothorax trivittate, and the elytra obliquely bifasciate and irregularly maculate, 
with darker brown or blackish, the elytral fascize each followed by a pale brown or whitish patch, the 
subapical one usually extending down the disc to the tip; the surface also set with very short, incon- 
spicuous, curled, decumbent sete, those on the elytra a little more closely placed on the raised alternate 
interstices than on the others; the under surface with large, pallid, opalescent scales and scattered 
hairs. Head and rostrum together shorter than the prothorax, sparsely, finely punctate, the rostrum 
transverse, flattened, angularly emarginate at the tip, the scrobes descending; eyes depressed. Prothorax 
