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Hab. Mexico, Cordova, Vera Cruz (Sallé), Jalapa (Hége), Orizaba, Atoyac, Fortin, 
Teapa (H. H. Smith), Temax in N. Yucatan (Gaumer), Yucatan (Mus. Brit.); Brrrisy 
Honpuras, Rio Hondo (Blancaneaux); Guatemsta, San Juan and San Gerénimo in 
Vera Paz, Las Mercedes, Cerro Zunil, Zapote, Duefias (Champion), Yzabal (Sailé) ; 
Nicaraa@ua, Chontales (Janson); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui, Bugaba (Champion). 
A common insect in Southern Mexico, Guatemala, &c., and recognizable by its 
subovate form, shining black or brassy-black surface, and very sparse white or 
yellowish pubescence, which is easily abraded and in fresh specimens is clustered into 
a few spots on the elytra. The base of the femora and of the tarsi and the apical 
half of the tibiz are usually testaceous. The femora have each a small tooth, but 
this is absent in one of the four examples from Chontales. The prothorax is coarsely, 
rather sparsely punctate. The type has been lent us for examination. Sixty examples 
of A. mexicanus are contained in our collection. 
21. Anthonomus orichalceus, sp. n. 
Very like A. meaicanus, but with the elytra of a brilliant brassy or greenish tint, with a single patch of 
pubescence at the base on each side within the humeral angles, for the rest bare, the interstices smooth ; 
tibie, tarsi, and the base of the femora rufo-testaceous ; femora each with a small tooth; anterior and 
intermediate tibiee strongly sinuate within. 
Length 13-23, breadth 1-13 millim. (¢ 9.) 
Hab, Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 4000 feet (Champion). 
A very close ally of A. mexicanus. The elytral pubescence can hardly be abraded 
in all the eight specimens obtained. 
A. eneotinctus-group. 
22, Anthonomus eneotinctus, sp. n. (Lab. X. fige. 5, 5a, 2.) 
Subovate, shining, nigro- or rufo-piceous, with a brassy lustre, the antenne (the club excepted), the base of 
the femora, the tibie, and tarsi rufo-testaceous or testaceous; somewhat thickly clothed with coarse 
whitish or pale ochreous pubescence, which is denser on the scutellum and is sometimes here and there 
clustered into small fascicles on the elytra. Rostrum (¢) curved, moderately stout, a little longer than 
the head and prothorax, rugulosely punctate and obsoletely carinate, (2 ) more elongate, the antenne in 
the ¢ inserted at about one-third, and in the Q at about two-fifths, from the apex. Prothorax transverse, 
narrowed and constricted in front, closely punctate. Elytra about one-half wider than the prothorax, 
subparallel at the base; deeply punctate-striate. Femora each with a small tooth; anterior and inter- 
mediate tibize strongly sinuate within ; tarsal claws with along tooth. 
Var. The prothorax with three narrow vittz, and the elytra with the alternate interstices in part, clothed 
with whitish, and the rest of their surface with ochreous, pubescence. 
Length 23-34, breadth 13-13 millim. (¢ 9.) 
Hab. Mexico, Guanajuato (Sallé), Tupataro, Sayula, Jalapa (Hége), Orizaba, Amula 
(H. H. Smith). 
Very like A. mexicanus, and perhaps an extreme form of it, but a little larger and 
with the pubescence in fresh specimens nearly as dense as in A. grandis. The variety 
is represented by two females from Amula. 
BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Coleopt., Vol. 1V. Pt. 4, February 1903. ZZ, 
