304 RHYNCHOPHORA. 
names of Jekel, appear to have been purchased from that author (the Mexican insect, 
H. macularis, is labelled as having been communicated to Lacordaire, the others being 
from Colombia); that from the Sturm collection is ticketed “ Geonemus agrestis, 
Schénh.,” but it is not the G. agrestis, Boh., of Schonherr’s work, the type of which I 
have seen *. 
PSEUDHYPOPTUS, gen. nov. 
Ocular lobes of the prothorax extended inferiorly, more or less raised above, or separated from, the short 
ante-coxal portion of the prosternum, in P. eurylobus reaching as far as the anterior coxe ; scutellum 
very small; elytra subconnate and with the humeri obtuse, in ¢ very little wider than the prothorax ; 
metasternum short; wings rudimentary or wanting fT; body very sparsely squamose ; the other characters 
as in Hypoptus. 
Type, Lordops parcus, Fahr. 
The two species placed under this genus have the general facies of an Otiorhynchus. 
The apically widened rostrum separates them at once from Lordops. JP. eurylobus 
has the ocular lobes so sharply separated from the prosternum beneath that the latter 
appears depressed between them. The metathoracic episterna are angularly dilated 
anteriorly and as broad as in the winged forms, and the genus cannot therfore be 
placed in the ‘“‘ Series Aptere.” No definite locality in Mexico is known for P. parcus f, 
but we have received an allied form from Michoacan. 
1. Pseudhypoptus parcus. (Tab. XIV. figg. 9, 9a, ¢.) 
Lordops parcus, Fahr. in Schénh. Gen. Cure. vi. 2, p. 183*; Lacord. Gen. Col. vi. p. 263, nota’. 
Oblong-ovate (2), narrow and subfusiform (¢), convex, black, the femora sometimes rufescent; sparsely 
cinereo-squamose beneath, the upper surface (abraded) almost bare, the elytra in one specimen (2) with 
a common y-shaped patch of cinereous scales near the apex, the interstices each with a row of scattered 
sete on the apical declivity. Head densely punctate, the rostrum coarsely longitudinally rugose, in one 
specimen feebly carinate down the middle. Prothorax transverse, arcuately narrowed anteriorly, feebly 
constricted towards the apex, the sides subparallel behind in ¢, the hind angles subrectangular, the 
base sharply margined; the surface closely impressed with rather coarse rounded punctures. Elytra 
in g with the sides forming an almost continuous outline with those of the prothorax, in 9 much 
broader, margined at the base; coarsely punctate-striate, the strie becoming deep towards the apex, the 
interstices transversely rugose on the disc. Beneath rugosely punctate; ocular lobes of the prothorax 
continued round to near the anterior coxe; first ventral segment deeply excavate down the middle, and 
the fifth slightly depressed along the ceutre posteriorly, in g. Tibie unguiculate and closely serrulate 
in ¢,serrulate and without apical uncus in 9°. 
Length 7-103, breadth 24-44 millim. (¢ 9.) 
Hab. Mexico (coll. Sommer 1, in Mus. Oxon.). 
The above description is taken from the types in the Sommer collection—three 
males and two females. The elytra in this species have the latero-inferior portion 
* Cf. Exophthalmus agrestis, antea, p. 258. 
t Definitely ascertained in P. eurylobus only. 
~ Apparently omitted from the Munich Catalogue. 
