302 RHYNCHOPHORA. 
Hab. Guaremata, Purula in Vera Paz (Champion). 
One specimen. ‘The coarsely, confluently granulate prothorax and elytra, the 
rather coarse whitish squamosity, the transverse scutellum, the fasciate elytra, and the 
narrow subelliptic general shape, sufficiently distinguish C. confiluens from the other 
Central-American species of the genus. 
24. Cholus insignis, sp.n. (Tab. XVI. figg. 3, 34, 6 ) 
Subrhomboidal, rather dull, black, the legs (the apices of the femora excepted), rostrum, and antenne rufo- 
piceous or reddish ; densely clothed above and beneath with rather coarse, rounded, ochreous or greyish 
scales, the elytra with a sharply defined transverse space at the base and a rounded patch on the 
subapical callosities, the last three ventral segments in great part, and the shining granular prominences, 
bare; the vestiture of the legs sparse, whitish, and piliform. Head rugulosely punctate and feebly foveate 
between the eyes; rostrum moderately stout, curved, in the g rugulosely punctate and carinate to 
about the middle, and smoother thence to the tip, in the Q almost smooth from a little before the base. 
Prothorax transverse, rounded at the sides, much narrowed anteriorly, sparsely granulate. Scutellum 
oblong, bare. Elytra a little wider than the prothorax, subcordate, slightly constricted before the middle ; 
seriate-punctate (the punctures appearing coarse and deep upon the bare basal portion), the interstices 
sparsely granulate. Beneath rugulosely punctate and sparsely granulate, the ventral segments 3-5 much 
smoother, 1 broadly depressed in the middle in the g. Mesosternum not raised between the coxe. 
Femora each with an acute tooth. 
Var. a. The elytra with a transverse scutellar patch, the humeri, and the subapical callosities bare. 
Var. B. The elytra with the humeri and the subapical callosities bare. 
Length 9-11, breadth 43-5 millim. (¢ @.) 
Hab. Mexico, Santecomapan (Sallé), Misantla (Hdge); GuatemMaLa, Cahabon, 
Cubilguitz, Senahu, Panzos, Teleman, and Panima in Vera Paz (Champion), Coban 
(Conradt). 
Numerous specimens of the form selected as typical, all but one being from Vera 
Paz, two of the var. a from Misantla, and one of the var. 8 from Mexico, without 
definite locality. This is one of several nearly allied Central-American species, distin- 
guishable by the sharply defined bare spaces on the elytra, the sparse granulation, and 
the non-protuberant mesosternum. 
25. Cholus lecideosus. (Tab. XVI. figg. 4,42, 2.) 
Cholus lecideosus, Pasc. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xi. p. 470°. 
Hab. Nicaraava (Saillé), Chontales! (Belt, Janson) ; Costa Rica, San Carlos (er Mus. 
Dresd.). 
Of narrow, rhomboidal form, rufo-piceous in colour, coarsely granulate above, the 
elevations on the elytra here and there transversely confluent, the intervening spaces 
clothed with small condensed patches of rather coarse, rounded, ochreous scales. 
26. Cholus multiguttatus, sp.n. (Tab. XVI. figg. 5, 5a, ¢.) 
Rhomboidal, black, shining, densely clothed above and beneath, except upon the smooth elevations and upon 
the middle of the third and fourth ventral segments, with small, rounded or oval, white scales, the legs 
