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RHYNCHOPHORA. 
1. Lemorchestes fasciatus, sp. n. (Pseudorchestes* fasciatus, Tab. XI. 
figg. 23, 23 a-c.) 
Testaceous, shining, the eyes, antennal club, scutellum, and meso- and metasternum black or piceous; sparsely 
clothed with a fine yellowish pubescence, the upper surface with intermixed long, fine, erect, similarly 
coloured hairs, the sides and apex of the elytra, and the under surface, with whitish, pectinate scales, 
each elytron with a transverse fascia of closely placed pectinate yellow scales on the disc before the 
middle, the two fascia meeting at the suture and extending forwards, the prothorax also with a few 
scattered pectinate scales on the disc; the antenne and legs with long, fine, projecting hairs. Head 
rugulose and obsoletely carinate between the eyes in front ; rostrum smooth; antenne short, joint 1 of 
the funiculus barely reaching the outer limit of the eye. Prothorax slightly rounded at the sides, 
narrowed in front, closely, rugulosely punctate, with an abbreviated median carina. Elytra very much 
wider than, and nearly four times as long as, the prothorax, trans¥ersely depressed below the base, 
subparallel in their basal half, broadly rounded at the apex, the humeri swollen and prominent; coarsely 
punctate-striate, the interstices convex and faintly punctulate. 
Length 2, breadth 14 millim. 
Hab. Guaremata, Cerro Zunil 4000 feet, Pacific slope (Champion). 
One specimen, sex not ascertained. ‘The seales (fig. 23¢) are radiato-pectinate, 
1. @. 
split up into three or more hair-like branches, arising from a common base. 
TERIDATES, gen. nov. 
Rostrum short and stout, as long as the prothorax, feebly curved, the scrobes oblique ; eyes rounded, not 
prominent; antenne short, the funiculus 7-joited—1 very stout, 2 small, as long as broad, 3-7 very 
closely articulated, transverse, widening outwards, 7 nearly as wide as the club, the latter oval and — 
acuminate; prothorax short, subconical, feebly bisinuate at the base, without ocular lobes; scutellum 
small, convex ; elytra much wider than the prothorax, cordate, the humeri obtuse and not prominent ; 
prosternum extremely short in front of the anterior coxa, the latter subcontiguous ; anterior and inter- 
mediate coxee very widely separated ; metasternum short; ventral segments 1 and 2 convex, comparatively 
long, and connate, 3 and 4 extremely short, 5 a little longer, the sutures straight ; legs short; femora 
moderately thickened, unarmed, hollowed beneath towards the apex; tibiv straight, obliquely truncate 
and excavate at the apex, each with a fine claw arising from near the outer apical angle 5 
tarsi short and stout, joint 3 strongly bilobed, the claws appendiculate ; form short-ovate, broad, 
robust. 
This genus, which can be placed among the Anthonomina for the present, includes 
two 
very small, peculiar, closely allied, ‘Tropical-American forms, much resembling a 
Miarus or Gymnetron at first sight, but differing from them in the 7-jointed funiculus, 
the 
unemarginate, very short prosternum, the almost contiguous anterior coxe, &c. 
The Brazilian species is taken as the type, the head of the Panama insect having been 
lost 
while under examination. 
(1. Teridates seriatus, sp.n. (Zerambus * seriatus, Tab. XI. figg. 24, 24a, 6.) 
Black, shining, the antenne and legs ferruginous ; clothed with a fine grey scattered pubescence, which 1s 
transversely arranged on the prothorax and becomes seriate on the elytra, there being a single series 
of fine hairs down each stria as well as along the suture, the latter being imbricate with the series on the 
opposite elytron, each of the interstices with a row of long, semierect, somewhat closely placed sete; the 
vestiture beneath white and squamiform, that of the legs piliform. Head closely punctate ; rostrum closely, 
* This generic name has been found to be preoccupied since the Plate was printed. 
