220 RHYNCHOPHORA. 
5. Polydacrys brevicollis, sp. n. 
Moderately elongate, nigro-piceous, the antenne ferruginous at the base; thickly clothed with cinereous 
scales, the elytra each with a broad transverse fascia a little beyond the middle (nearly reaching the 
suture and outer margin) and a small spot on the disc towards the apex blackish-brown ; the upper 
surface also set with numerous minute, curled, adpressed, hair-like scales. Head and rostrum together a 
little longer than the prothorax, the rostrum with a narrow median groove extending forward to 
the v-shaped, smooth ridge, the nasal plate sparsely squamose; eyes prominent ; antenn# with joint 2 
of the funiculus elongate, much longer than 1, the club long and stout. Prothorax cylindrical, much 
broader than long, closely punctate. Elytra much wider than the prothorax, coarsely punctate-striate, 
the interstices feebly convex. Anterior femora abruptly clavate. Anterior tibia bowed at the apex, 
sharply unguiculate, and obsoletely serrulate. 
Length 77, breadth 3} millim. (9?) 
Hab. GuatEMALA, Panzos in the Polochic Valley (Conradt). 
One specimen. Larger and broader than P. depressifrons, the prothorax strongly 
transverse, the elytra without trace of white markings beyond the broad blackish- 
brown post-median fascia, the set of the upper surface replaced by minute, curled, 
hair-like scales, the second joint of the funiculus elongate. The wings are fully twice 
the length of the elytra. 
PREPODELLUS. 
Prepodellus, Kirsch, Berl. ent. Zeitschr. 1867, p. 239. 
This genus was based upon two small species from Colombia and a third is now 
added from Central America. They have the head and rostrum narrow, the rostrum 
subcylindrical, with an extremely short, inconspicuous nasal plate, and the scrobes 
lateral, deep, and obliquely descending ; the eyes rather large, oval, and not prominent ; 
the mentum small, not covering the maxille ; the mandibular scar small; the antenne 
inserted near the apex of the rostrum, the scape reaching the front margin of the 
prothorax ; the anterior coxe contiguous ; the femora clavate and unarmed ; ; the tarsal 
claws free; the body winged, densely squamose and strongly setose. In general facies 
these insects resemble small Polydrosé. 
1. Prepodellus viridisquamis, sp.n. (‘'ab. IX. figg. 21, 21a, 2; 22, ¢.) 
Oblong, piceous or ferruginous, the antenne (the black club excepted) in part or wholly, and the legs 
entirely, ferruginous; densely clothed with small golden-green or pale greenish scales and also thickly 
set with erect, stout, blunt, pallid sete, which are uniseriately arranged down each elytral interstice, 
. the legs albo-setose. Head and rostrum densely, very finely punctate, the rostrum about as long as the 
exposed portion of the head and slightly widened at the tip, the scrobes deep, strongly sinuate, and 
partly visible from above (appearing subangulate); eyes large, oval. Prothorax subcylindrical, not so 
long as broad, feebly constricted at the base and towards the apex, densely punctate. Elytra much 
wider than the prothorax, moderately long, subparallel in g, slightly widened to the middle in 9; 
finely punctate-striate, the interstices flat, densely, minutely punctate. Penis-sheath of ¢ (fig. 22) 
strongly acuminate at the tip. 
Length 22-8, breadth 4-14, millim. (¢ 2.) 
Hab. Nicaragua, Managua (Solari); Cosra Rica, San José (Biolley); Panama, 
Pefia Blanca 3000 feet (Champion). 
