206 RHYNCHOPHORA. 
36. Pandeleteius nodifer, sp. n. (Tab. VIII. figg. 29, 29 a, 4, 2.) 
Moderately elongate, narrow, piceous or ferruginous; variegated with a dense clothing of small whitish and 
brown scales, the latter condensed into a broad faint median vitta on the prothorax and a strongly 
oblique, irregular, subapical fascia and various faint scattered spots on the elytra. Head and rostrum 
together a little shorter than the prothorax, finely punctate, the rostrum emarginate at the tip, 
canaliculate, and slightly hollowed above, the nasal plate triangular ; eyes not prominent. Prothorax 
as long as broad, somewhat oval, feebly constricted just before the apex and gradually narrowed towards 
the base; finely punctate ; vibrisse reduced to a few hairs. Elytra much broader than the prothorax, 
widening to beyond the middle, conjointly hollowed at the base (the base appearing obliquely truncate 
on each side as seen from above), flattened on the disc anteriorly, the suture with a compressed 
prominence at the commencement of the apical declivity and subvertical thence to the tip; finely 
punctate-striate. Anterior tibia moderately long, feebly curved, unguiculate, and armed with 5 or 6 very 
small teeth. 
Length 4-43, breadth 13-12 millim. 
Hab. Nicaracua, Lago de Managua (Solari).—Co.oms1a (Mus. Brit.). 
The above description is mainly taken from a fresh example kindly given us by 
Signor Solari, apparently a female. The Colombian specimen (¢ %) is narrower, 
discoloured, and broken, but it no doubt belongs to the same species, which may be 
known by the compressed prominence on the suture of the elytra towards the tip, 
and the long, oval, almost unimpressed prothorax. P. nodifer superficially resembles 
Menetypus hadromeroides, Kirsch. 
37. Pandeleteius longicollis, sp.n. (Tab. VIII. figg. 30, 30a.) 
Elongate, rather narrow, ferruginous, the antennal club and anterior femora piceous ; thickly and uniformly 
clothed with whitish scales, the prothorax with a faint darker median line. Head and rostrum 
together a little shorter than the prothorax, the rostrum excised at the tip and canaliculate down the 
middle, the nasal plate triangular; antennal club large, acuminate-ovate; eyes depressed. Prothorax 
slightly longer than broad, gradually narrowed towards the base and apex, the basal constriction 
extending across the disc, the apical margin truncate; finely punctate; vibrissee long. Hlytra wider 
than, and about two and one-half times the length of, the prothorax, subparallel in their basal half, 
finely punctate-striate, the interstices almost flat, the suture tumid towards the apex. Anterior femora 
very stout, clavate. Anterior tibia curved, moderately elongate, unguiculate,-and armed with from 6-8 
small teeth. Intermediate tibie hollowed near the apex within. Tarsi with the bilobed. third joint 
stout. , 
Length 44-47, breadth 12-1} millim. (<¢ ?) 
Hab. Mexico, Cerro de Palmas, Oaxaca (Hége). 
Two specimens. This insect has the vestiture uniformly whitish (as in P. tcbialis 
and P. albisquamis); the prothorax unusually long and feebly constricted (much as in 
P. nodifer), the elytra thus appearing relatively short; and the third tarsal joint 
broadly lobed. 
PANDELETEINUS, gen. nov. 
Head very large, broad, convex ; mentum small, not covering the maxilla ; rostrum strongly transverse, deeply, 
triangularly emarginate at the sides and apex, the scrobes rather short, angulate, distant from the eyes, 
the latter small and rounded ; antennal scape reaching to the middle of the eyes, the funiculus 7-jointed, 
