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outer edge. Ventral segments 1-4 finely and sparsely punctate, 1 and 2 convex and unimpressed in 
both sexes. 
Length 11-114, breadth 5 millim. (¢ 2.) 
Hab. Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt). 
Three specimens. Distinguishable by the two conspicuous velvety-black patches 
on each elytron—one median, transverse; the other oblong and subapical. From 
H. jocosus and other allied species it may be recognized by the numerous, smooth, 
small, shining tubercles on the prothorax and elytra, the variegate and rather coarse 
squamosity, and the shape of the velvety-black patches on the elytra. 
60. Hilipus nevulus. (Tab. III. fig. 20.) 
Heilipus nevulus, Mann. in Schénh. Gen. Cure. iii. p. 188°. 
Oblong-ovate, shining, nigro-piceous or black; the upper surface between the smooth granular elevations 
variegated with a somewhat dense clothing of narrow, coarse, whitish and fulvous scales, the elytra also 
with intermixed blackish scales and with an oblong, conspicuous, velvety-black patch on the fourth 
interstice beyond the middle; the under surface sparsely clothed with coarse, narrow, whitish or 
ochreous scales, the legs with whitish piliform scales. Head densely punetured, foveate between the 
eyes, which are somewhat widely separated ; rostrum stout, shining, moderately curved, a little longer 
than the head and prothorax united, closely punctured towards the base ; joints 1 and 2 of the funiculus 
equal in length. Prothorax transverse, rounded at the sides, narrowed and constricted in front; 
sparsely, rather coarsely granulate, the elevations transverse or oblique, and with a smooth, abbreviated, 
median carina. lytra one-half wider than the prothorax, feebly sinuate at the base, subparallel 
in their basal half, conjointly rounded at the apex, the humeri rounded ; coarsely seriate-punctate and 
conspicuously granulate, the interstices transversely wrinkled towards the base, the third very slightly 
raised to about the middle, the sutura] region appearing flattened. Beneath sparsely, finely punctate, 
the sides of the metasternum and the fifth ventral segment foveolate, the first segment unimpressed. 
Length 10-11, breadth 4443 millim. 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion).—BraziL, Minas Geraes 1. 
Two specimens, probably females, agreeing very nearly with the description and 
with Brazilian examples thus named in the British Museum (from Jekel’s collection). 
‘The present species is recognizable by the oblong velvety-black patch on the fourth 
elytral interstice, the long rostrum, the granulate upper surface, &c. 
61. Hilipus decussatus, (Tab. IIL. fig. 21.) 
Heilipus decussatus, Boh. in Schénh. Gen. Cure. vil. 2, p. 93°. 
Hab. Mexico (coll. Chevrolat !), Toxpam (Saldé). — 
In this species the prothorax has an oblique, angulated, white vitta on each side 
of the disc, and the elytra have a common, interrupted, X-shaped, white mark 
(extending from the humeri to the subapical callosities), and outside this a large, 
subtriangular, velvety-black patch. The upper surface is conspicuously granulate. 
The antenne are inserted a little before the middle of the rostrum, which is long 
and curved, and. closely punctured to the tip; the second joint of the funiculus is 
