294 . RHYNCHOPHORA. 
6. Cholus equalis, sp.n. (Tab. XV. figg. 9, 94, 4 ¢-) 
Very like C. lavinodis, but larger; the prothorax obsoletely canaliculate down the middle, the granular 
elevations small and more rounded; the elytra subcaudate at the apex, seriate-punctate, the granules 
smaller, sparser, and much more uniform in size, those in the striz placed between the punctures, the 
subapical callosities prominent; the mesosternum less prominent between the coxe; the anterior tibiee 
with a fringe of very long fulvous hairs at the apex within, and the ventral segments 1 and 2 broadly 
depressed in the middle, in the ¢. 
Length 14-174, breadth 64-7? millim. (d 2.) 
Hab. Panama, Bugaba (Champion). 
One male and two females. ‘The absence of the conspicuous larger prominences 
on the elytra, which are seriate-punctate and finely granulate, the tuft of very long 
fulvous hairs at the apex of the anterior tibie in the male, and the less prominent 
mesosternum, readily distinguish this insect from C. levinodis. The allied C. uniformis, 
Pasc., from Para, is larger, and has the elytra broader at the base and more distinctly 
granulate, and the rostrum and legs stouter. 
7. Cholus curialis. (Tab. XV. figg. 10, 10 a, ¢.) 
Cholus curialis, Pasc. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xi. p. 468 *. 
Hab. Nicaragua, Chontales! (Belt, Janson, Richardson). 
Recognizable by its somewhat rhomboidal shape, the close granulation of the 
prothorax and the elytra, the smooth elevations on the latter being seriately arranged, 
and the fine, ochreous vestiture, the prothorax with an oblique, dense line of ochreous 
scales on either side of the disc anteriorly, extending on to the head and rostrum, and 
the elytra with a few small, irregularly distributed, ochreous or pallid spots and an 
oblique streak at the apex. On the flanks of the prothorax there is a broad band of 
ochreous scales, extending to the gula and the mesosternal side-pieces, but not on to 
the metasternum. The mesosternum is strongly, transversely protuberant between the 
intermediate coxe. 
8. Cholus pretorius. 
Cholus pretorius, Pasc. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xi. p. 470, t. 11. fig. 2°. 
Hab. Panama! (coll. Pascoe, in Mus. Brit.). 
Not represented in our collection. In this insect the dark spaces between the 
densely flavo-squamose portions of the surface are dull and clothed with small black 
seales, the corresponding spaces in C. calvescens being shining and almost bare. 
9. Cholus discolor, sp. n. (Tab. XV. figg. 11, 11 a, 4, 3.) 
Broad, subrhomboidal, flattened above, shining black; the depressed portions of the upper surface thickly 
clothed with ferruginous or brown, and those of the under surface and legs with white, small, oval, 
shining scales, the elytra sometimes with a few white ones intermixed. Head confluently punctured 
and feebly foveate between the eyes; rostrum stout, curved, longer than the prothorax, rugulosely 
