170 RHYNCHOPHORA. 
23. Anthonomus zreus, sp. n. 
Subovate, shining, brassy-black, the antenne (the club excepted), tibie, and tarsi, and sometimes the base of the 
femora also, rufo-testaceous; uniformly clothed with long, coarse, greyish or yellowish-grey pubescence, 
which is dense on the scutellum, but shows no tendency to form fascicles on the elytra. Rostrum ( @ ) 
stout, curved, much longer than the head and prothorax, rugulosely punctate and finely carinate, smoother 
at the tip, the rostrum inserted at or a little before the middle. Prothorax transverse, narrowed and 
constricted in front, closely, rather finely punctate. Elytra much wider than the prothorax, subparallel 
towards the base, the humeri a little swollen ; punctate-striate, the interstices almost flat, and faintly 
punctulate. Femora each with a small tooth ; anterior and intermediate tibie strongly sinuate within ; 
tarsal claws with a long tooth. 
Length 2-3, breadth 1-13 millim. (@.) 
Hab. Guatemaua, Duefias and Cerro Zunil (Champion). 
Three specimens. Perhaps yet another form of A. mexicanus, differing from it, and 
from A. wneotinctus also, in having the pubescence uniformly spread over the surface 
of the elytra. 
A. baridioides-group. 
24, Anthonomus baridioides, sp.n. (Tab. X. fige. 6, 6a, 2.) 
Oblong-ovate, shining, black or piceous, with a faint brassy lustre, the antenne (the club excepted), and 
sometimes the base of the femora, and the tibie and tarsi in part, ferruginous ; somewhat thickly clothed 
with grey or yellowish-grey pubescence, this becoming coarser, whiter, and squamiform on the scutellum 
and on asmall space on each of the elytral humeri, the vestiture of the under surface whitish. Head closely 
punctate, foveate; rostrum stout, feebly curved, about as long as the prothorax, rugulose and obsoletely 
carinate, in the 2 smoother and shining at the tip, the antenne inserted before the middle, joint 1 of the 
funiculus stout and about as long as 2-4 united, 3-7 transverse and closely articulated, widening a little 
outwards, the club stout. Prothorax transverse, rounded at the sides, constricted and much narrowed 
in front, closely punctate. Elytra a little wider than the prothorax, subparallel at the base, slightly 
flattened on the disc anteriorly, the humeri somewhat swollen ; punctate-striate, the interstices almost 
flat and punctulate. Legs rather short ; femora each with a minute tooth; anterior tibie sinuate within ; 
tarsal claws with a long tooth. 
Length 2-2,1,, breadth 1 millim. (¢ 2.) 
Hab. Mexico, Colima city (Hoge), Guanajuato (Sallé), Orizaba (1. H. Smith); 
British Honpuras, Rio Hondo (Blancaneaua) ; GuateMALa, San Gerdénimo (Champion). 
Eight specimens. This species is very like a small Barid, and chiefly distinguishable 
by its small size and oblong-ovate shape, and the whitish spot on the scutellum and 
on each shoulder of the elytra, the elytra themselves slightly flattened on the disc. This 
species is not unlike the North-American A. scutellatus, Gyll., but it is much smaller, 
and has the antenne and rostrum less elongate, the elytra without a large almost bare 
space on the disc, the strie more finely punctured. 
A, formosus-group. 
25. Anthonomus formosus. (Tab. X. figg. 7,74, 3.) 
Anthonomus formosus, Kirsch, Berl. ent. Zeitschr. 1868, p. 209 *. 
Subovate, very shining, black, the prothorax nigro-ceruleous, the elytra violaceous; the scutellum densely, 
and the body beneath sparsely, clothed with rather coarse, white, squamiform pubescence, the legs with 
