CHOLUS. 299 
elongate; femora each with an acute tooth; anterior tibia sinuous, more or less angularly dilated within 
at about one-third from the base. 
Length 123-16, breadth 51-7 millim. (¢ 9.) 
Hab. Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt, Janson, Richardson); Costa Rica, San Carlos 
(ea Mus. Dresd.). | 
Ten specimens. More elongate than C. lacordairei ; the elytra not wider than the 
prothorax, transversely grooved below the basal margin, and with a basal as well as a 
median fascia; the prothorax not so smooth, and with the base bare. ‘The anterior 
tibie are more or less angularly dilated within opposite the femoral tooth. 
18. Cholus cinctus. (Tab. XV. fige. 23, 23.4, ¢.) 
Curculio cinctus, Drury, Ill. Exot. Ins. iii. p. 70, t. 48. fig. 2 (1782) (nec Oliv.) *. 
Curculio urbanus, Oliv. Encycl. Méth. v. p. 503 (1790) °*. 
Cholus urbanus, Schonh. Gen. Cure. ii. p. 571°. 
Archarias urbanus, Gemm. et Harold, Cat. Col. viii. p. 2536 *. 
Cholus mimetes, Pasc. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xi. p. 468°. 
Cholus philoctetes, Chevr. Compt. Rend. Soc. Ent. Belg. xxvi. p. xxxi (1882) °. 
Hab. Nicaracua, Mosquito Coast 23 (fide Drury * 1), Chontales® (Belt, Janson, Sallé) ; 
Costa Rica, Tuis, Atlantic slope (Bzolley).—CoLomsia ° (Mus. Brit.). 
Var. sycophanta. 
Cholus sycophanta, Pase. loc. cit. p. 468". 
Hab. Costa Rica, Tuis, Alantic slope (Biolley).—Cotomsia’ (Mus. Brit.). 
This insect may be easily identified from Drury’s figure, which appears to have been 
overlooked by Pascoe and Chevrolat. The variety differs from the type in the rather 
coarser and more scattered granulation of the elytra, which also lack the condensed 
submarginal vitta. Numerous specimens of C. cinctus have been seen from Nicaragua. 
The typical and the varietal forms occur at the same locality in Costa Rica, an example 
of the latter having been sent us under the MS. name of Archarias dionychoides, 
Desbr. The subsequently described C. cinctus (Oliv.), from Cayenne, is smaller and 
has a denser and more sharply defined submarginal vitta. An example from Chontales 
is figured. 
19. Cholus circumnotatus, sp.n. (Tab. XV. figg. 24, 24a, ¢.) 
Elongate, subelliptic, flattened above, black; somewhat thickly clothed with small, narrow, ochreous scales, 
the head, prothorax, and elytra with a continuous, depressed, submarginal vitta, the elytra with a small 
depressed spot below the base beneath, and the under surface, densely clothed with rather broad, flattened, 
whitish scales, the ventral segments with a broad space down the middle more sparsely squamose, the 
legs with narrow yellowish-white scales. Head rugulosely punctate and foveate between the eyes ; 
rostrum stout, moderately curved, much longer than the prothorax, carinate to near the tip, longitudinally 
wrinkled to about the middle and closely punctate thence to the apex. Prothorax transverse, rapidly 
* The locality is given as ‘‘ Muskito shore, near the Bay of Honduras.” 
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