344 SUPPLEMENT. 
— Polydacrys depressifrons, Boh.; P. robustus * is related to P. hirtipes ; P. ovipennis 
has the elytra very little wider than the prothorax at the base, and comes near 
P. inflatus, though very much smaller than that insect; P. rotundicoliis has a 
6-jointed funiculus, but otherwise generally resembles P. vitticollis. According to 
Mitchell and Pierce [Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. xiii. p. 49 (1911)], P. cavirostris is found 
on Khretia elliptica (Boraginez) and Crat@gus (Rosacez). 
ENTIMINA. 
HYPOPTUS (p. 302). 
2. Hypoptus jekeli, sp. n. 
Oblong-ovate, shining, black, the legs and antenne piceous or rufo-piceous ; the elytra with several scattered 
spots (the two on the fourth interstice—one at the base and the other towards the apex—and the one 
at the end of the eighth oblong or elongate) and a marginal stripe, which extends forwards along the 
flanks of the prothorax, densely clothed with pale metallic-green scales, the head around the eyes, 
the base and apex of the femora, and the under surface in great part, clothed with similarly coloured 
scales, the rest of the elytral surface with inconspicuous small dark brown scales. Head with a deep 
inter-ocular fovea ; rostrum moderately stout, about as long as the prothorax, curved at the tip, closely 
punctate and laterally suicate, without trace of a median carina. Prothorax broader than long, convex, 
arcuately dilated at the sides anteriorly, obliquely narrowing in front and behind, feebly constricted 
near the apex; densely, finely, uniformly punctate. Scutellum small. Elytra much wider than the 
prothorax, convex, acuminate at the apex, with a common, deep, transverse excavation at the base, the 
humeri not prominent; coarsely punctate-striate, the interstices feebly convex. Femora strongly 
clavate. Tibize set with long bristly hairs. 
Length (excl. rostr.) 84, breadth 33 millim. (¢.) 
Hab. Mexico (coll. Sommer, in Mus. Oxon.). 
One specimen, doing duty for Hypoptus macularis, Jekel, in the Sommer collection, 
but very different from the Mexican insect identified under that name by Lacordaire. 
The more slender rostrum, the convex, posteriorly narrowed, finely punctured pro- 
thorax, and the deep transverse excavation at the base of the elytra readily separate 
H. jekeli from the insect here figured under the name H. macularis. The metallic 
spots, too, are differently placed and very sharply defined, the rest of the vestiture 
being inconspicuous. 
PSEUDHYPOPTUS (p. 304). 
Pseudhypoptus parcus (p. 304). 
Since my remarks on the abraded types of this Mexican species were published, 
a good specimen of it (a large female) has been detected in the Sommer collection, 
placed under the name Epicerus fallax, Boh. This example is somewhat thickly 
clothed with brownish-cinereous scales, which are condensed into a faint spot on each 
elytron near the middle and an indeterminate oblique fascia on the outer part of the 
disc towards the apex; it has the rostrum sharply carinate. 
* The insect sent me by the U.S. Nat. Museum under this name (det. Pierce) (mentioned under 
P. vitticollis on p. 202, anted) was wrongly identified. It has a 6-jointed funiculus and comes near 
P. rotundicollis. 
