ANCHONUS. Tt 
Ten specimens, most of them encrusted with dirt, and varying greatly in size. In 
this species, as in the allied A. articulatus, the first two ventral segments are separated 
by a deep suture (instead of being fused together at the middle, as usual in this genus). 
The setosity is short and scattered, not forming fascicles on the prothorax. The 
prothorax is coarsely, closely punctate, with the raised interspaces smooth, shining, and 
subgranulate. The elytral tubercles are small. 
4, Anchonus mirus. (Tab. V. fig. 9, 9a, ¢; 96, antenna.) 
Anchonus mirus, Faust, Deutsche ent. Zeit. 1892, pp. 28, 48 (¢)’. 
Elongate, moderately convex, deep black, the antenne and tarsi obscurely rufescent; the sete short, coarse, 
and very scattered, but forming four small fascicles on the prothorax. Rostrum stout, cylindrical, curved, 
coarsely punctate to the tip, the widened apical portion rather long in both sexes, but a little longer and 
narrower in the ¢ than in the 9; antenne stout, the funiculus short, joint 2 barely twice as long as 1, 
7 and 8 transverse, 8 nearly as wide as the club. Prothorax slightly longer than broad, widest a little 
before the middle, broader and more rounded at the sides in the ¢ than in the @, deeply constricted 
before the apex and much narrowed behind; the surface trisulcate, extremely coarsely rugose, with the 
ruge sinuous or transverse and shining at the summit, binodose and fasciculate at the apex and on the 
middle of the disc; the flanks very coarsely punctate. Elytra oblong-ovate, at the base wider than the 
prothorax ; very coarsely seriate-punctate, the interstices transversely rugose, conspicuously tuberculate, 
and granulate, the elevations tending to coalesce and form interrupted caring, especially at the base of 
the third and fifth interstices. Beneath very coarsely punctate. Femora shallowly, somewhat finely 
punctate. Third tarsal joint moderately dilated, not very deeply excised at the apex. 
Length 65-7, breadth 2-24 millim. (¢ 9.) 
Hab. GuateMALa !, Totonicapam (Champion), Tecpam (Conradt). 
We possess seven specimens of this species, all from a high elevation in the Los 
Altos region. The stout and comparatively short antenne, with strongly transverse 
eighth funicular joint, and the somewhat feebly dilated third tarsal joint, separate 
A, mirus* from the other Central-American forms, the following excepted. 
The antenne in the male are inserted further from the apex than usual in this 
genus, so that there is very little difference observable in the form of the rostrum in 
the two sexes. 
5. Anchonus mexicanus, sp. n. (Tab. V. figg. 10, 10a, ¢.) 
Oblong-ovate, black, the antennz and tarsi partly rufescent; the sete extremely short, scattered, and incon- 
spicuous. Rostrum stout, curved, shorter than the prothorax, feebly constricted at the base, rugosely pune- 
tured and longitudinally wrinkled, the scrobes extending along the underside; antenne stout, the funiculus 
short, joints 7 and 8 transverse, 8 nearly as wide as the club, and much wider than 7. Prothorax longer 
than broad, rounded at the sides, narrowing and strongly constricted in front and narrowing behind; the 
surface, except along a narrow smooth space down the middle, very coarsely, irregularly punctate, the 
interspaces here and there sinuously raised and shining on the disc and granulate at the sides, Elytra 
oblong-ovate, at the base slightly wider than the prothorax ; seriate-punctate, the interstices transversely 
wrinkled and finely granulate, 2-7 each with a series of oblong or rounded, not very prominent, tubercles, 
* Dr. Heller has been kind enough to compare one of our specimens with the type. 
