PHELYPERA.—HILIPUS. 7 
A very variable species as noted by Capiomont. Both light and dark forms (one of 
each of which is figured) have been found at Tapachula, Acapulco, and Chacoj. The 
males have the rostrum shorter than in the female, and the first ventral segment 
broadly depressed in the middle behind. 
Group HYLOBIINA. 
This group is nearly equivalent to the “ Hylobiides vrais” and the ‘ Molytides ” of 
Lacordaire, the “‘ Hylobiini” of Leconte and Horn, and the “Curculionini” of Bedel, 
except that Pissodes, Anchonus, and Oncorrhinus are excluded, the two latter belonging 
to the “ Anchonina,” which is distinguishable by the globose, smooth, deeply inserted 
head. The Hylobiina are chiefly recognizable by the long curved claw at the apex of 
each of the tibia, the apex itself being oblique, dilated, and concave, with the corbel 
closely ciliate on either edge; and the stout or moderately stout rostrum, with the 
anterior opening of the scrobes almost always visible from above. The gula, except 
in Telys, is transversely strigose. The strongly retractile legs and the powerful tibial 
claws enable these insects to cling very firmly to the foliage and bark of trees. 
In most of the genera the femora are acutely spined and the wings fully developed. 
Hilipus represents Hylobius* in Tropical America. Anchonomorpha and Rhecas form 
a connecting-link with.the “ Anchonina,” the first-mentioned having the first and 
second ventral segments connate at the middle, and the latter having the elytra 
soldered together. | 
HILIPUS. 
Heilipus, Germar, Ins. Spec. Nov. p. 399 (1824) ; Lacordaire, Gen. Col. vi. p. 457. 
Hilipus, Gemminger & Harold, Cat. Col. viii. p. 2425. 
Hilipus, as here restricted, still includes a vast number of species, and in this respect 
must far outnumber Otiorrhynchus, one of the most numerously represented genera of the 
Rhynchophora. It might be further subdivided, as noted by Lacordaire, by the exclusion 
of the forms having the inner apical angle of the tibie mucronate f (our Section II.) ; 
but as this would -remove: more than half the species from the genus, and as it is in 
some cases a peculiarity of the female only, I do not think it advisable to adopt this 
course. The insects here referred to Hilipus have the scrobes formed to receive the 
scape only of the antenna; the seventh joint of the funiculus not forming part of 
the club; the eyes large and more or less approximating above; the scutellum mode- 
rately large; the femora clavate and acutely dentate ; and the tibie armed with a long 
claw at the apex, this (in the species of Section I1.) being sometimes ditferently placed 
* In the Sallé collection there is a mutilated specimen of Hylobius pales, Herbst (=assimilis, Boh.), 
labelled as from “‘ Toxpam, Mexico,” but there must be some mistake about the locality. 
+ To avoid confusion the term “‘ mucronate ” is here applied only to the smaller tooth at the inner apical 
angle of the tibie, the larger, apical, one being called the “ claw.” 
