268 RHYNCHOPHORA. 
examples (cinereous and green) the scattered, intermixed, minute, hair-like scales on 
the elytra are replaced by long erect sete towards the apex. This species, as already 
stated (cf. anted, p. 230), bears an extraordinary resemblance (in both forms) to 
Mimographopsis pustulatus. 
The type of P. jekelianus (labelled by White himself) is a female obtained from the 
collection made by Capt. Kellett during the voyage of H.M.S. ‘Herald’; it was 
doubtless captured at Panama. The male of White’s species has grooved tibie and it 
belongs to Z. sulcicrus, infra. One of Pascoe’s types of #. stellaris is figured. 
32. Exophthalmus plicatus, sp. n. (Tab. XII. fig. 11, 2.) 
Q. Oblong, shining, black, the femora (the apices excepted) and tibiw rufo-piceous; sparsely clothed with 
glittering metallic-green, golden, and cupreous scales—those on the prothorax and the elytra placed in 
the depressed portions of the surface, and those on the lower surface confined to the sides of the body ; 
the legs with a few bristly hairs. Head and rostrum closely, finely punctate, smooth down the middle, 
the rostrum longer than broad and with the median space raised and cariniform, the inter-ocular fovea 
small; antennal scape reaching the posterior murgin of the eyes, the latter depressed. Prothorax trans- 
verse, rounded at the sides; narrowed in front, bisinuate at the base, hollowed down the middle; 
irregularly, confluently foveolate. Scutellum depressed. Elytra oblong, rather convex, gradually widened 
to the middle, acuminate and mucronate at the apex, with a common transverse excavation at the base, 
the apices not divergent, the humeri not very prominent; the rows of punctures (except along the 
suture and lower margin) interrupted or obliterated by numerous, smooth, closely placed, transverse 
or oblique, confluent ridges, the depressions between which are clothed with scales. Legs rather slender, 
the femora and tibia comparatively smooth; tibize not sulcate, the anterior pair strongly unguiculate, 
. the posterior pair irregularly denticulate to the tip within. 
Length 124, breadth 4} millim. 
Hab. Panama, Tolé (Champion). 
One specimen. Not unlike the typical form of E. sulcicrus, but with the numerous 
transverse, confluent, raised lines on the elytra extending across the disc from near the 
suture to the lower margin (obliterating or interrupting the striae), and the mucronate 
sutural angles not divergent, the rostrum less sharply carinate, the tibie smoother and 
not sulcate. 
33. Exophthalmus sulcicrus, sp. n. (Tab. XII. figg. 12-15.) 
oD* 
Prepodes jekelianus, White, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) ii. p. 357 (1858) (g nec 2)’. 
Oblong, narrow (¢), broader and widened posteriorly (@), shining, black; in the typical form variegated 
with green, cupreous, cinereous, or whitish scales—which are usually clustered into large patches towards 
the sides of the elytra, or condensed into three vitte on the prothorax, and a sutural, submarginal, and 
marginal (lower) stripe on the elytra,—the scales on the legs varying in colour from green to cupreous or 
golden, sometimes blue on the kuees and tibiee and for the rest green; in the form with more rugose 
upper surface the larger scales almost wholly wanting and the punctures each bearing a minute, hair- 
like, pallid scale. Head and rostrum rugulosely punctate, the rostrum longer than broad, carinate down 
the middle, and often with an oblique finer ridge on each side extending to near the inter-ocular fovea ; 
eyes large, depressed; antennal scape reaching the front of the prothorax. Prothorax transverse, 
obliquely narrowed forwards, bisinuate at the base, more or less depressed or canaliculate down the 
middle. the hind angles acute, directed outwards in 9, and backwards in 6, the surface granulate. 
Scutellum rather large. Llytra elongate-triangular in ¢, much broader and widened to the middle in © 
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