374 RH YNCHOPHORA. 
Bautista, Tapachula (Hége); British Honpuras, Rio Hondo (Blancaneaux) ; Guate- 
MALA, Palin (Salvin), Mirandilla, Cahabon (Champion); Panama, Bugaba, Caldera 
(Champion). 
Var. 
The ridge on the third elytral interstice interrupted beyond the middle only, and that on the fifth sometimes 
interrupted for a short distance below the base. 
Hab. Mexico, Acapulco (Hége); Guatemata, Cerro Zunil, San Gerdnimo (Cham- 
pion); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 
A variable species, superficially resembling C. subulatus. 
59. Conotrachelus continuus, sp. n. 
Very like C. miatus, but with the rostrum a little longer, much smoother towards the tip, and the antenne 
inserted further from the apex; the ridge on the third and fifth elytral interstices simply undulate, 
uninterrupted ; the posterior tibia almost straight within. 
Length 33-44, breadth 12-23 millim. (?¢ 2.) 
Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Hoge); Guatemata, San Gerénimo (Champion), Guatemala 
city (Salvin); Panama, Boquete (Champion). 
Seven specimens, the one from Jalapa being probably a male and the others females. 
Perhaps an extreme form of C. miatus, but if the sexes are correctly identified, the 
lind tibize are similarly shaped in both male and female. C. continuus is also very 
like C. sudulatus, but is separable at a glance by the shorter, non-subulate rostrum 
and the more approximate eyes. 
60. Conotrachelus bilineatus, sp.n. (Tab. XIX. figg. 8, Sa, ¢.) 
Subovate, rather dull, varying in colour from piceous to ferruginous; the vestiture long, sparse, ochreous, 
somewhat fasciculate on the elytra, and condensed into two narrow, sharply defined, anteriorly diverging 
lines on each side of the prothorax, a line along the elytral humeri in front, and often a short streak at 
the base of the third interstice, the femora usually with a narrow ochreous ring, the anterior pair with a 
dense line of fulvous scales along the basal half above. Head rugosely punctate; rostrum very stout, 
strongly curved, considerably longer than the head and prothorax, sharply 5-carinate in both sexes, closely 
punctured at the tip, the apical portion longer, smoother, and narrower in the @, the antenne in the ¢ 
inserted at about one-fourth, and in the @ at one-third, from the apex, joints 1 and Y of the funiculus 
subequal in length. Prothorax broader than long, narrowed and constricted in front, strongly bisinuate 
at the base ; coarsely, rugosely punctate, carinate down the middle anteriorly. Elytra slightly constricted 
at the sides below the humeri, the sides arcuately converging from about the basal third to the apex ; 
coarsely seriate-punctate, the interstices somewhat rugulose, 3, 5, 7, and 9 sharply costate, the ridge on 
3 and 5 abruptly interrupted below the base, and that on 3 depressed a little beyond the middle. Meso- 
sternum flattened between the cox, bituberculate in front. Ventral segments shining, sparsely, finely 
punctate. Femora rugose, clavate, each with a large, acute, triangular tooth. Tarsal claws with a short 
tooth. 
Length 53-74, breadth 23-34 millim. (¢ @.) 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 3000 feet (Champion). 
Six specimens. The two narrow, sharply-defined, ochreous lines on each side of the 
