24 RHYNCHOPHORA. 
g. First ventral segment, and the metasternum also, very broadly and shallowly depressed down the middle, 
this space being pilose and closely punctate, and the fifth segment with a transverse depression at the 
apex. Club of the antenne securiform, and the seventh joint of the funiculus furnished with a cluster 
of fulvous bristly hairs. 
Length 14-163, breadth 63-73 millim. (d 2.) 
Hab. Guaremata, Cubilguitz in Vera Paz (Champion) ; Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt, 
Richardson). 
Two males and three females. A large robust species, distinguishable by the 
irregularly-scattered, minute, white or ochreous spots on the elytra, the approximate 
eyes, the convex granulated prothorax, and peculiar male-characters. The lateral 
grooves of the rostrum (scrobes) extend forwards beyond the points of insertion of the 
antenne to near the tip. This character, alone, will separate H. securiger from 
the following nearly allied form. The oblong, blackish, velvety patch on the fourth 
elytral interstice is not easily seen in abraded specimens. The abnormally-formed 
antennal club of the male is a very remarkable peculiarity. 
32. Hilipus nigrofasciatus, sp. n. (Tab. II. figg. 19, ¢; 194, profile of 
head.) 
Oblong-ovate, robust, slightly shining, black or piceous; the prothorax variegated with fulvous scales, the 
scutellum and a spot below the humeri densely clothed with white scales, the elytra variegated with 
fulvous and blackish scales, the latter forming a broad, irregular, angulated, transverse fascia a little beyond 
the middle, the edges of this being here and there indicated by scattered small pure white spots, which 
are variable in number, all the scales narrow and piliform; the under surface and legs with scattered, 
narrow, whitish scales. Head closely punctured, the eyes large and contiguous; rostrum curved, 
moderately stout, considerably longer than the prothorax, thickly punctured towards the base, smooth 
towards 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 considerably broader than long, convex, bisinuate at the 
base, rounded at the sides, abruptly constricted and narrowed in front; sparsely and finely granulate, 
with a more or less distinct, smooth, raised, central line. Elytra convex, about one-half wider than the 
prothorax, gradually narrowing from a little below the base, conjointly rounded at the apex, the humeri 
rounded; deeply seriate-punctate, the interspaces dull, obsoletely or finely granulate. Lateral portions 
of the metasternum coarsely foveolate. 
¢. First ventral segment, and the metasternum also, very broadly and shallowly depressed down the middle, 
this space being pilose and closely punctate, and the fifth segment with a transverse depression before 
the apex. 
Length 123-14, breadth 53-63 millim. (¢ 9.) 
Hab. Nicaracua, Chontales (Belt); Panama, Bugaba, Volcan de Chiriqui (Cham- 
pion). | 
Found in plenty in Chiriqui. This is one of a group of species characterized by 
their large approximate eyes and coarsely foveolate metasternum ; and amongst these 
it may be identified by its finely granulate prothorax and irregularly fasciate elytra, 
the edges of the fascia indicated here and there by small pure white spots. 
