200 RHYNCHOPHORA. 
middle, shallowly triangularly emarginate at the apex; eyes not prominent. Prothorax nearly as long as 
broad, rounded at the sides, constricted at the base and towards the apex, closely punctate, the transverse 
convex portion slightly depressed across and down the middle, and more or less distinctly 4-nodose ; 
vibrissee moderately long. Elytra much broader than the prothorax, widening to the middle, transversely 
depressed at the base; punctate-striate, the aiternate interstices interruptedly raised, 3 tumid at the 
base. Anterior femora strongly clavate. Anterior tibie moderately long, curved at the tip, unguiculate, 
and armed with 4 small teeth. 
Length 43-53, breadth 17-24, millim. 
Hab. Guatemata (Dus. Brit.), near the city, Purula (Champion), Volcan de Fuego 
(Salvin). 
Six specimens. This species is nearly related to P. maculicollis, from which it may 
be distinguished by the quadrinodose prothorax and the subparallel upper portion 
of the rostrum. The head is-‘small as in that insect, and the prosternum is sparsely 
pilose. 
25. Pandeleteius brevinasus, sp. n. (Tab. VIII. figg. 20, 20a.) 
Very like P. maculicollis, but differing as follows :—Rostrum subtriangular (as seen from above), rapidly, 
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obliquely narrowing before the eyes, and with the apical portion still shorter and less dilated at the tip, 
the scrobes curved, deep, and extending a little further downward; the prothorax less constricted at the 
sides anteriorly, shallowly sulcate; the elytral interstices somewhat convex, 1 and 5 sometimes a little 
raised, 3 tumid at the base. 
Length 5-63, breadth 2,4,-24 millim. 
Hab. Mexico (Mus. Dresden), Puebla (Sallé), Omilteme and Chilpancingo in 
Guerrero (H. H. Smith), Cerro de Palmas, Yautepec, Jalapa (Hége); GuatemaLa 
(Mus. Brit.), Calderas 7000 feet (Champion). 
Fourteen specimens, all but two from Mexico. Apparently distinct from the 
variable P. maculicollis, the subtriangular, extremely shorter rostrum giving P. brevi- 
nasus a peculiar facies when the insect is viewed from in front. The markings of the 
elytra are very similar in the two species. An example from Omilteme is figured. 
26. Pandeleteius maculicollis, sp.n. (Tab. VIII. figg. 21, 21a, 4, 2.) 
Pandeleteius maculicollis, Jekel, in litt. 
Moderately elongate, piceous or fusco-ferruginous; variegated with a dense clothing of brown. blackish, and 
cinereous scales, the dark scales on the elytra often condensed into one broad or two narrower, incom- 
plete, transverse fascie, and the cinereous scales into a large irregular or interrupted apical patch and a 
transverse space on the dise between the fascixw, the brown scales usually cupreous in certain lights ; 
the upper surface also set with minute, scattered, short, adpressed hairs, the prosternum and anterior 
coxee with numerous long white hairs arising from between the scales, the rest of the under surface more 
sparsely pilose. Head comparatively small, together with the rostrum shorter than the prothorax, the 
rostrum transverse, obliquely narrowed before the eyes and widened again at the apex, feebly canali- 
culate, shallowly emarginate at the tip, the scrobes subangulate, short ; eyes depressed, oval. Prothorax 
broader than long, transversely convex, rounded at the sides, constricted anteriorly and at the base, 
usually obsoletely sulcate down the middle posteriorly, closely punctate; vibrissw long. Elytra broader 
than the prothorax, widening to beyond the middle, transversely depressed below the base, and more or 
less inflated posteriorly; punctate-striate, the interstices 1 (suture), 3, and 5 usually raised or 
