HILIPUS. 23 
Hab. Guatemata, Purula in Vera Paz (Champion). 
Four specimens. A very distinct species, easily identified by the patch of whitish- 
ochreous scales on the head, the flattened elongate elytra, and the uniformly granulate 
upper surface. 
80. Hilipus empiricus. (Tab. II. figg. 17, ¢; 17a, profile of head; 17 6, 
rostrum from beneath.) 
Hilipus empiricus, Pasc. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1881, p. 71. 
Hab. Guaremata, Teleman (Champion); Nicaracua, Chontales! (Belé); PANAMA, 
Caldera in Chiriqui (Champion). 
We possess six specimens of this peculiar species. Apart from the confluent scrobes *, 
it is recognizable by the broad, sinuous, sordid ochreous elytral vitte, which extend 
from the base to the apex (or are occasionally interrupted), leaving two confluent, 
common, diagonal patches on the disc and a transverse one before the apex, the 
prothorax also with broad similarly-coloured vitte. The elytra are flattened on the 
disc, coarsely seriate-punctate; the prothorax is as long as broad, coarsely rugose, 
and with a smooth median carina; the rostrum is strongly curved and slightly longer 
than the prothorax; the antenne are inserted before the middle of the rostrum in 
both sexes; the second joint of the funiculus is slightly shorter than the first; the 
eyes are narrowly separated above and beneath. ‘The first and second ventral segments 
are broadly depressed down the middle in the male. 
H. velamen, Boh., H. tetanicus and H. designatus, Pasc., are allied forms. 
Secrion II. 
31. Hilipus securiger, sp. n. (Tab. II. figg. 18, ¢; 184, profile of head ; 
18 6, antenna.) 
Oblong-ovate, very robust, slightly shining, black, the rostrum and legs more or less piceous; the prothorax 
sparsely clothed with fulvous piliform scales, these tending to form a narrow, irregular, sinuous vitta on 
each side of the disc and some spots on the flanks, the scutellum with white scales ; the elytra clothed 
with brownish-fulvous piliform scales, with very small, irregularly scattered, white or ochreous spots, and an 
oblong dark brown patch on the fourth interstice at about the middle; the mesepimera with a patch of 
fulvous scales below the humeri; the under surface and legs with widely-scattered, narrow, whitish scales. 
Head closely punctured, the eyes large and approximate ; rostrum curved, moderately stout, considerably 
longer than the prothorax, rugosely punctured in its basal half, the scrobes extending forwards from the 
points of insertion of the antenne to near the tip; antenne inserted at about the middle of the rostrum 
in both sexes, joints 1 and 2 of the funiculus subequal in length. Prothorax convex, nearlv as long 
as broad, bisinuate at the base, rounded at the sides, abruptly constricted and narrowed in front; con- 
spicuously granulate, with an interrupted, smooth, median carina. LElytra one-half wider than the 
prothorax, subtruncate at the base, gradually narrowing almost from the shoulders, conjointly rounded 
at the apex, the humeri rounded; coarsely seriate-punctate, the interspaces dull, granulate. Lateral 
portions of the metasternum coarsely foveolate. 
* A character not noticed by Pascoe. 
