6 RHYNCHOPHORA. 
middle. The metathoracic episterna are broad, but they are a little more narrowed 
behind than in J. fuscomaculatus. 
PHELYPERA. 
Phelypera, Capiomont, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1867 ; Petri, Monogr. Hyperini, p. 5 (1901). 
Eight species were referred to this genus by Capiomont, one of these being a cma 
and widely distributed insect within our limits, the genus ranging from Mexico to 
Uruguay. 
I. Pronotum without transverse impression at the base. 
1. Phelypera isthmica, sp. n. (Tab. I. figg. 8, ; 84, profile of head.) 
Broad-ovate, pitchy-black, the antenne and tarsi in part ferruginous ; thickly clothed with narrow tawny 
scales, the elytra mottled with whitish and blackish scales, the lighter-coloured ones showing a tendency 
to form spots on the alternate interstices. Head closely punctate ; the eyes large, coarsely facetted, and 
contiguous above; rostrum slightly longer than the prothorax, moderately stout, thickly punctured, 
obsoletely carinate down the middle ; joints 1 and 2 of the funiculus subequal in length. Prothorax 
transverse, as wide at the middle as at the base, the sides slightly sinuate behind and rounded and 
converging in front, the hind angles acute ; the surface densely, finely punctate, without trace of 
transverse depression before the base. Elytra comparatively short, broad, nearly twice the width of the 
prothorax, the humeri rounded ; rather coarsely seriate-punctate, the interstices convex, and minutely, 
rugulosely punctate, the fifth very little raised posteriorly. Beneath closely, finely punctate. First and 
second ventral segments slightly depressed along the middle. Legs comparatively short. 
Length 7, breadth 4 millim. (¢ .) 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 4000 feet (Champion). 
One specimen, slightly abraded. This insect has the head and rostrum formed as in 
P. distigma, but differs otherwise in the less dilated, unimpressed thorax, the shorter, 
dissimilarly coloured elytra, which are without sete and have the fifth interstice much 
less raised posteriorly, the shorter legs, &c. 
II. Pronotum transversely impressed at the base. 
2. Phelypera distigma. (Tab. I. figg. 9,¢,var.; 94, profile of head; 10, 2 .) 
Phytonomus distigma, Boh. in Schénh. Gen. Cure. vi. 2, p. 344°, 
Phelypera distigma, Capiom. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1867, p. 465, t. 11. fig. 7 (episternum, &c.), t. 12, 
fig. 18 (pronotum, &c.) *. 
Phytonomus signatus, Chevr. in litt. *. 
Phytonomus brevicollis, De}. in litt. *. 
Phelypera bimaculata, Capiom. in litt. ’. 
Hab. Mexico! , Ventanas, Acapulco, Misantla, Tapachula (Hége), Guanajuato, 
Playa Vicente, Tehuantepec (Sallé); British Honpuras, Rio Hondo (Blancaneauz) ; 
GuateMaLa, Panzos, Teleman, Chacoj, La Tinta and Tamahu in Vera Paz, El Reposo, 
San Isidro, Pantaleon, Mirandilla, Paso Antonio (Champion); Panama, Volcan de 
Chiriqui, David ( Champion).—CoLoMBIA *. 
