286 RHYNCHOPHORA. 
club about as long as the funiculus. Prothorax nearly as broad as the elytra, transversely convex, 
rounded at the sides, abruptly narrowed and constricted in front, closely, shallowly, confluently punctate, 
the very narrow raised interspaces sinuous and shining, the disc finely carinate, the short anterior portion 
somewhat coarsely punctate. Scutellum large, sulcate. Elytra moderately long, coarsely and deeply 
punctate-striate, the interstices convex, alutaceous, and finely asperate externally, 3 more prominent at 
the base. Pygidium granulato-punctate. Anterior femora with an acute tooth, the intermediate and 
hind femora obsoletely dentate. 
Length 51, breadth 24 millim. (9@.) 
3) 
Hab. Mexico, Toxpam in Vera Cruz (Sailé). 
One specimen. The entirely ferruginous prothorax and elytra, the shallow, dense, 
pronotal punctuation separated by very narrow, raised, shining, sinuous lines, and the 
acute anterior femoral tooth, separate this species from all others described here. It 
approaches L. plagiatus. 
8. Lemosaccus plagiatus. (Tab. XIV. figg. 27, 27a, 3; 28, 9, var.) 
Curculio plagiatus, Fabr. Ent. Syst., Suppl. p. 170°. 
Rhynchenus plagiatus, Fabr. Syst. Eleuth. ii. p. 485°. 
Rhina plagiata, Oliv. Ent. v. no. 83, p. 234, t. 33. fig. 512°, 
Lemosaccus plagiatus, Say, Descr. N. Am. Cure. p. 6*; Complete Writings, i. p. 265°; Gyll. in 
Schénh. Gen. Cure. ii. p. 626°; op. cit. viii. 1, p. 737; Lec. Proc. Am. Phil. Soc. xv. p. 223°; 
Lec. & Horn, Class. Col. N. Am. p. 486 (1883) *. 
Curculio nephele, Herbst, Kafer, vii. p. 54, t. 99. fig. 4°. 
Magdalis nephele, Germ. Ins. Sp. Nov. p. 192”. 
Var. The prothorax more coarsely and less densely punctate, the punctures rounded and mostly separate one 
from another; the rostrum in the more sparsely punctate, and in the ¢ a little smoother along the 
middle. 
Hab. Nortu America 459 10, Middle, Western, and Southern States, as far as Texas §, 
Georgia *, Carolina !?3 6 —Mexico, Villa Lerdo and Ventanas in Durango, Maltarta in 
Vera Cruz (Hége), Yolotepec, Parada (Salié); Guaremaa (Salvin), Guatemala city, 
Capetillo, San Gerénimo (Champion). 
Not uncommon in Mexico and Guatemala, and varying much in size (length 23-44, 
breadth 14-24 millim.) and in the extent of the rufous or ferruginous humeral patch 
on the elytra, this being sometimes so extended as to leave the apex only black, or 
reduced (in two of the smallest females from Guatemala) to a small spot on the middle 
of the disc of each. The sculpture of the prothorax is also variable, the shallow 
punctures being in some examples longitudinally confluent, and in others coarser, 
rounded, and separate one from another. ‘he anterior femoral tooth is short and 
acute. ‘The various forms occur in the same localities, and they cannot be separated. 
We figure two from Guatemala. 
9. Lemosaccus maculatus, sp.n. (Tab. XIV. figg. 29, 29a, d, 3.) 
Oblong, somewhat shining, black, the antennex, the tip of the rostrum, the anterior portion of the prothorax, 
the elytra with the base, apex, and an oblique post-median fascia, and the legs, ferruginous; the under 
