HILIPUS. 2 
Crt 
33. Hilipus guttatus, (Tab. II. fig. 20, ¢.) 
Heilipus guttatus, Boh. in Schénh. Gen. Cure. vii. 2, p. 52°. 
Hilipus guttatus, Pasc. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1889, p. 582”. 
Hab. Mexico, Ventanas in Durango (Forrer), Minas Viejas (Dr. Palmer), San Andres 
Tuxtla, Tehuantepec (Sallé), Jalapa, Misantla (Hoge), Atoyac in Vera Cruz (H. #. 
Smith); British Honpuras, Rio Sarstoon, Belize (Blancaneaux) ; GUATEMALA, Panzos, 
Teleman, Las Mercedes, Mirandilla (Champion) ; Nicaracua (Sallé), Chontales ? (Belt, 
Janson); Panama, Bugaba, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion).—ANTILLES, Cuba?, San 
Domingo *. 
A common species within our limits, extending to Northern Mexico and occurring on 
both the Atlantic and Pacific slopes. Distinguishable by its broad short form and 
the peculiar maculation of the upper surface, the prothorax having a large ochreous 
patch at the sides in front and the elytra a similarly-coloured one on the disc before 
the apex, and both, in addition, with numerous, scattered, white spots, those on the 
middle of the disc of the prothorax and on the base and anterior portion of the elytra 
being the most conspicuous. The eyes are almost contiguous above; the rostrum in 
the male is short, stout, rugosely punctured, and carinate, it being smoother and more 
slender in the female; the first and second joints of the funiculus are equal in length ; 
the scutellum is without white scales; and the metasternum is almost smooth. The 
first ventral segment is narrowly sulcate down the middle from the base to the apex in 
the male. H. multiguttatus (Fabr.) is a nearly-allied form, having the ochreous 
patches on the prothorax and elytra replaced by white spots. 
34, Hilipus leucostictus, sp. n. (Tab. II. figg. 21, ¢; 21a, profile of head.) 
Oblong-ovate, subopaque, black or piceous, the legs and rostrum usually reddish; the upper surface clothed 
with brownish-ochreous piliform scales, the elytra sometimes variegated with blackish ones; the pro- 
thorax with two white spots on the disc and one on each side in front, and the elytra each with five 
conspicuous white spots—four in an oblique series on the disc, extending from the base to near the apex 
(the third the largest, and the second and fourth sometimes obsolete or indistinct), and one at the side 
below the base,—and often a few other smaller ones scattered along the outer margin posteriorly and on 
disc, the scutellum also with white scales; the under surface clothed with narrow ochreous and whitish 
scales, the pleura sometimes with white spots; the legs with whitish scales. Head closely punctured, 
the eyes contiguous; rostrum not very stout, curved, much longer than the prothorax, finely punctured 
towards the base; antenne inserted a little before the middle of the rostrum, joint 2 of the funiculus 
slightly longer than 1. Prothorax a little broader than long, convex, strongly rounded at the sides and 
narrowed in front, feebly bisinuate at the base; sparsely granulate and with an abbreviated median 
carina. Elytra one-half wider than the prothorax, truncate at the base, subparallel before the middle, 
conjointly rounded at the apex, the humeri rounded ; coarsely seriate-punctate, the punctures deep and 
transverse, the interstices narrow and in some specimens finely granulate. Metasternum coarsely 
foveolate at the sides. Ventral segment 1 depressed along the middle in the ¢. Anterior and inter- 
mediate tibize curved. 
Length 10-113, breadth 43-5 millim. (d¢ 9.) 
Hab. Mexico, Chiapas (Sallé); Nicaragua, Chontales (Janson); Panama, Volcan de 
Chiriqui (Champion). 
BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Coleopt., Vol. IV. Pt. 4, May 1902. EE 
