CLEOGONUS. 31d 
1. Cleogonus rubetra. 
Curculio rubetra, Fabr. Mant. Ins. i. p. 97’; Herbst, Kaf. vi. p. 141, t. 69. fig. 6°. 
Rhynchenus rubetra, Faby. Syst. Eleuth. ii. p. 489°. 
Orobitis rubetra, Germ. Ins. Spec. Nov. p. 244°. 
Cleogonus rubetra, Rosensk. in Schénh. Gen. Cure. iv. p. 692°; viii. 2, p. 120°. 
Curculio gagates, Oliv. Encycl. Méth. v. p. 480°. 
Rhynchenus gagates, Oliv. Ent. v. no. 83, p. 117, t. 9. fig. 104°. 
Hab. Mexico®, Tapachula in Chiapas (Hége); Guatemaa, Volcan de Santa Maria, 
Pacific slope (Richardson), Torola (Chanypion) ; Panama, David (Champion ).—Sovtu 
AMERICA, Cayenne ! 235-8, | 
We have received seven specimens only of this insect from within our limits, and it 
is very probable that Schénherr’s Mexican record refers to the following species. The 
unarmed anterior femora, the sparsely, but distinctly punctured prothorax, and the 
coarsely punctured first ventral segment are the chief characters of C. rubetra. 
The ninth elytral stria is placed in a deep groove, as in C. armatus, the eighth also 
being sulcate in several of the South-American forms. 
2. Cleogonus armatus, sp.n. (Tab. XVII. figg. 1, 1a, 4, 3 *.) 
Black, shining, the antennse obscure ferruginous ; glabrous above, the under surface and legs with scattered, 
minute, hair-like, whitish scales, the meso- and metasternum densely clothed with fulvous pubescence 
along the middle. Head sparsely, minutely punctate, the eyesvery narrowly separated, the rostrum some- 
what coarsely punctured. Prothorax subconical, very minutely, rather closely punctate. Elytra finely 
and shallowly punctate-striate, with the interstices very minutely punctate, the ninth row of punctures 
placed in a deep sulcus throughout, and the short tenth row also in a rather deep groove. Metasternum 
with a few coarse, deep, scattered punctures at the sides. Ventral segments 2-4 very finely, and 1 and 
5 more coarsely punctate, the fifth transversely depressed in the middle behind in the g¢. Anterior 
femora armed with a sharp triangular tooth on the inner lower edge, and the others obsoletely dentate 
on the outer edge, at about the middle. 
Length 53-94, breadth 3-53 millim. (¢ 2.) 
Hab. Mexico (ex Flohr), Playa Vicente, Panistlahuaca (Sallé), Cordova, Tapachula 
(Hoge), La Venta and Tierra Colorada in Guerrero (H. H. Smith) ; Guatemana, Tele- 
man and Panzos in Vera Paz, Zapote, Torola (Champion); Panama, Bugaba, Volcan 
de Chiriqui, Caldera, David (Champion).—CoLomp1a (coll. Sharp). 
A common insect in Central America, and sent in abundance from Chiapas. The 
toothed anterior femora, the more closely punctured prothorax, and the finely punc- 
tured first ventral segment separate it from C. rubetra (Fabr.), and the non-sulcate 
eighth elytral stria from C. columbianus, Chevr.7, the latter also having the anterior 
femora sharply dentate. C. nucula, Boh., has a more coarsely punctured prothorax ; 
C. marginesulcatus and C. distinctus, Chevr., the eighth elytral stria sulcate; and 
C. conicollis, Ros., the tenth elytral stria with two or three punctures only. 
* Owing to the foreshortening of the head, the eyes appear too widely separated in this and various other 
species figured on Tab. XVII. T Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1880, p. lxvi. 
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