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prothorax is even more rounded at the sides than in H. leucostictus, and the elytra 
are less elongate than in that species. 
37. Hilipus rusticus. 
Heilipus rusticus, Boh. in Schénh. Gen. Cure. ili. p. 209°. 
Hab. Mexico 1.—Cuvusa 1. 
There are Cuban specimens of this insect in the British Museum. 
It is perhaps most nearly allied to H. guttatus, but with a very different system of 
coloration. 
38. Hilipus phrynodes, (Tab. II. fig. 24, 2.) 
Hilipus phrynodes, Pasc. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1889, p. 589 '. 
Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (M. Trujillo), Suquila (Sallé); Nicaragua, Chontales ! (Belt, 
Janson) ; Panama, Chiriqui (Zrétsch), Bugaba, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 
We possess thirteen specimens of this species, distinguishable by its large size, the 
scattered series of smooth, prominent, conical tubercles on the elytra, the apices of 
the latter being separately acuminate and the subapical callosities prominent, the 
sparsely tuberculate, carinate prothorax, &c. The rostrum is longer than the prothorax, 
stout, closely punctured towards the base, and has a short longitudinal groove between 
the points of insertion of the antenne. The latter are inserted far before the middle 
of the rostrum; the second joint of the funiculus is, at most, a little longer than the 
first *. The head is deeply foveate between the eyes. ‘The elytra have a large, sub- 
triangular, black or brown, velvety patch on the disc about the middle, but this is not 
always visible in old or dirty specimens and it is not mentioned by Pascoe. ‘The males 
have the first ventral segment depressed in the centre. 
39. Hilipus spiculosus, sp. n. (Tab. II. fig. 25, ¢.) 
Oblong-ovate, opaque, black, the antennw and tarsi rufo-piceous; the prothorax and elytra densely clothed 
with brown scales, the elytra each with a small, elongate-triangular, velvety-black patch on the disc, the 
scutellum, rostrum, legs, and under surface with whitish pilitorm scales. Head shallowly foveate between 
the eyes, which are somewhat narrowly separated ; rostrum stout, feebly curved, a little longer than the 
prothorax, rugosely punctured in its basal half ; antenne inserted before the middle of the rostrum, joint 2 
of the funiculus slightly longer than 1. Prothorax convex, transverse, rounded at the ‘sides, constricted 
and narrowed in front, strongly bisinuate at the base ; sparsely tuberculate, each of the elevations bearing 
a short decumbent seta in front, faintly carinate down the middle. Elytra one-half wider than, and 
nearly three times the length of, the prothorax, sinuato-truncate at the base, subparallel anteriorly, 
conjointly rounded at the apex, which is slightly emarginate at the suture, the humeri somewhat angulate 
externally ; the surface very uneven, coarsely seriate-punctate, the interstices with numerous, scattered, 
irregularly-arranged, smooth, conical tubercles, those on the disc large and prominent, each bearing a 
* Never twice as long, as stated by Pascoe. 
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