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68. Otidocephalus levis, sp.n. (Tab. XIII. fig. 28.) 
Moderately elongate, shining, black, the antenne and tarsi paler; the prothorax and elytra each with a few 
long, fine, erect, scattered, blackish setee, and several rather coarse, decumbent, white hairs, the vestiture 
of the scutellum, legs, and under surface white. Head smooth, the eyes largeand subcontiguous in the d, 
and narrowly separated in the 9; rostrum short and stout, punctato-sulcate at the sides, smooth along 
the middle ; antennz short, the joints 2-7 of the funiculus closely articulated. Prothorax long, globose 
in front, much narrowed and constricted behind, rather coarsely punctured at the base, for the rest 
smooth. Scutellum rather small. Elytra moderately long, somewhat gibbous, wider than the prothorax, 
rapidly widening to the middle, subtruncate at the base, the humeri obtuse; the surface smooth. 
Femora each with a minute, narrow, acute tooth. Anterior tibie almost straight. 
Length 23, breadth 1 millim. (¢ 9.) 
Hab. Mexico, Motzorongo in Vera Cruz (Flohr, in Mus. Berol.: 2), Teapa in 
Tabasco (H. H. Smith: ¢ ). 
Two specimens, assumed to be sexes of the same species, the one from Teapa being 
rather immature and wanting the white hairs on the elytra. This insect resembles 
O. levipennis, but is smoother, the sete are finer and very few in number, and the eyes 
in the male are almost contiguous. 
69. Otidocephalus puncticeps, sp. n. 
Comparatively short, black, shining, the antenne (the club excepted) and tarsi more or less ferruginous ; the 
prothorax and elytra with a few widely scattered, semierect, rather coarse, bristly, white hairs, the 
vestiture of the scutellum, legs, and under surface also white. Head convex, coarsely, closely punctate 
above, smooth near the eyes and sulcate between them, the eyes moderately large and somewhat narrowly 
separated ; rostrum stout, much curved (appearing depressed at the base above when viewed in profile), 
shorter than the prothorax, punctato-sulcate at the sides and smooth along the middle. Prothorax 
moderately long, globose in front, narrowed and constricted behind, punctured at the base and apex, and 
for the rest almost smooth. Scutellum very small. Elytra comparatively short, gibbous, much broader 
than the prothorax and rapidly widening towards the middle, subtruncate at the base, the humeri obtuse, 
the surface almost smooth. Femora each witha very small narrow tooth. Anterior tibiz sinuate within. 
Length 2,9,-34, breadth 13-13 millim. 
Hab. Mexico, Motzorongo in Vera Cruz (coll. Becker). 
Two specimens, probably male and female. Broader than O. levis, the head coarsely 
punctured, the eyes less contiguous, the elytra more convex and clothed with a few 
bristly white hairs only. Less elongate, more convex, and smoother than 0. seniculus, 
and with the head much more coarsely punctured. ‘The scutellum is quite small, very 
little larger than in Oopterinus castaneipennis. 
70. Otidocephalus seniculus. 
Otidocephalus seniculus, Chevy. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1878, p. ciii*. 
Hab. Mexico, Cordova!, Toxpam (Sallé), Teapa (H. H. Smith). 
Var.? The head somewhat coarsely punctate, the elytra finely seriate-punctate. 
Hab. Mexico, Chilpancingo in Guerrero (H. H. Smith). 
Of this insect we have two specimens from the Sallé collection agreeing with the 
type, and another, sent us by Mr. H. H. Smith, from Teapa. It has the elytra almost 
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