CIONOPSIS.—LONCHOPHORUS. lol 
tubulate in front, strongly sinuate at the base; elytra broad, covering the pygidium; prosternum 
extremely short; legs short and stout; anterior femora greatly incrassate, gradually narrowing to the 
base, and armed with two stout, triangular, approximate teeth, the inner one large and acute, and both 
crenulate along their outer edge, the other femora unidentate; anterior tibie unguiculate and strongly 
curved, the intermediate tibie straight and mucronate, the posterior tibie straight and unarmed ; tarsal 
claws with a long tooth; body broadly obovate, robust, the vestiture consisting of dense pubescence and 
long curled hairs. 
The above characters are taken from a single species from Guatemala that cannot 
very well be placed in Anthonomus, on account of the enormously developed anterior 
femora (which are very like those of Prionemerus, and not pedunculate at the base) and 
the exserted head. 
1. Cionopsis palliatus, sp.n. (Tab. IX. figg. 10, 10a, 3.) 
Broadly obovate, opaque, testaceous, the prothorax in one specimen with two dark patches on the disc; the 
entire surface (the head and rostrum included) densely clothed with pale ochreous squamiform pubescence, 
with long, curled, pallid hairs intermixed, the elytra with a common triangular patch or two short streaks 
at the base, and a broad oblique fascia on the outer part of the disc beyond the middle, fulvous; the 
vestiture of the under surface dense, pale, and piliform. Head densely punctate; rostrum rather stout, 
feebly curved, as long as the head and prothorax, rugulose and finely carinate; joint 1 of the funiculus 
as long as 2-4 united, 4-7 transverse; eyes lateral, small, rounded, prominent. Prothorax broader 
than long, constricted and narrowed in front, densely punctate. Elytra convex, broad, one-half wider 
than the prothorax, subparallel towards the base, the humeri obtuse and prominent; punctate-striate, 
the interstices rugulose, convex, 3, 5, and 7 subcostate. 
Length 33, breadth 2 millim. (¢.) 
Hab. Guatremata, Duefias (Champion). 
Two males. 
LONCHOPHORUS. 
Loncophorus, Chevrolat, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. i. p. 215 (1832) ; Schonherr, Gen. Cure. iii. p. 391. 
Lonchophorus, Lacordaire, Gen. Col. vi. p. 578; Gemminger and Harold, Cat. Col. viii. p. 2498. 
A genus including various Tropical-American species very nearly related to Antho- 
nomus, mostly of large size and navicular form, those with acute or prominent humeri 
having the elytra elongate-triangular in shape. ‘The anterior and intermediate tibic 
are more or less unguiculate, the posterior tibia mucronate or simple. The funiculus 
is 7-jointed. Three allied Tropical-American genera have been characterized or 
noticed by Chevrolat *—Omogonus, Rhinolius, and Atractomerus—all of which are 
unknown to me. 
a. Elytra with densely pubescent spaces on the disc. 
a’. Elytral pubescence forming a common X-shaped mark, the humeri 
angular; rostrum as long as the body inthe @. . . . . . . . . obliquus, Chevr. 
b’. Elytral pubescence arranged in irregular patches or fasciz on the disc; 
rostrum less elongate in the ?. 
a’. Humeri laterally dilated. . 2. 2. 2. 1. 1 se ee ee we. fortis, sp. n. 
* Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1878, pp. xxix—xxxi. 
