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beyond it, and various other scattered markings, velvety-black, and with two short ochreous or fulvous 
lines at the base, some small ochreous spots along the hinder margin of the triangular patch, and a few 
irregularly-scattered fulvous or ochreous dots ; the under surface and legs with scattered fulvous and 
whitish piliform scales. Head not or faintly foveate between the eyes, which are rather narrowly separated ; 
rostrum curved, closely punctured to the tip, a narrow space along the middle excepted, very stout and 
considerably longer than the prothorax in the ¢, longer and a little more slender in the 2, the apex 
shining ; joint 2 of the funiculus longer than 1. Prothorax slightly broader than long, moderately 
rounded at the sides, bisinuate at the base, narrowed and constricted in front, sparsely granulate. Elytra 
one-half wider than the prothorax, flattened along the suture anteriorly, gradually narrowing from the 
base, the apices conjointly rounded, the humeri rounded externally and slightly hollowed in front, the 
third interstice somewhat costate towards the base; seriate-punctate and sparsely granulate, each of the 
smooth elevations bearing a short decumbent seta behind. First ventral segment somewhat deeply 
depressed along the middle behind in the male. 
Length 123-133, breadth 53-6 millim. (d @.) 
Hab. Nicaragua (Sallé), Chontales (Belt); Panama, Bugaba, Volcan de Chiriqui 
(Champion). 
Nine specimens. ‘This insect resembles /. swspensus in having velvety-black patches 
on both the prothorax and the elytra; but these are differently shaped and more 
numerous, and the other markings are also very dissimilar, the elytra, too, are sparsely, 
but conspicuously granulate. 
44, Hilipus cuvierl. (Tab. III. fig. 3, 9.) 
Heilipus cuvieri, Boh. in Schénh. Gen. Cure. vii. 2, p. 82°. 
Heilipus gyllenhalii, Guér. Icon. Régne Anim., Ins. p. 151’. 
Hab. Nicaraaua, Chontales (Belt, Janson); Panama, Bugaba (Champion).—Sovutu 
America !, Cayenne ?, Bolivia ?, &c. 
This species may be recognized by the large velvety-black mark on the disc of each 
elytron, this being triangular in shape and extending downwards at the inner angle, 
often meeting a similarly-coloured longitudinal streak on the third interstice, followed 
by a large ochreous or greyish evanescent patch. ‘The head is shallowly canaliculate 
between the eyes. The rostrum is short and broad, carinate, and not longer than the 
prothorax; the scrobes are lateral and in great part visible from above. The prothorax 
has a narrow oblique line of greyish or ochreous scales on each side of the disc. The 
males have a dense transverse patch of ochreous scales (sometimes divided into two) at 
the middle of the posterior margin of the first ventral segment, which is unimpressed 
in both sexes. The South-American specimens I have seen are considerably larger than 
any of the nine obtained in our region. 
45. Hilipus exustus. (Tab. III. fig. 4, 2.) 
Hilipus exustus, Pasc. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1881, p. 87°. 
Heilipus argus, Jekel, in litt.’. 
Hab. Mexico (Sallé'), Jalapa (M. Trujillo); GuaTemaua, Cerro Zunil, Purula 
