(9) 
OXYPTERUS. 493 
Hab. Mexico, Teapa (H. H. Smith); Guaremata, Senahu and San Juan in Vera Paz 
(Champion). 
Five specimens. The narrow, elongate shape, the V-shaped mark on the disc of the 
prothorax, the coarse ochreous scales on the apical declivity of the elytra, &c., 
sufficiently distinguish O. faustz. 
6. Oxypterus terminatus, sp.n. (Tab. XXIV. figg. 8, 8 a.) 
Oblong-ovate, narrow, black, the antenna ferruginous, the elytra slightly mottled with rufo-piceous ; clothed 
with small brownish scales, intermixed with coarse, suberect, black scales, the latter condensed into two 
interrupted lines along the disc of the prothorax and several scattered fascicles on the second and fourth 
elytral interstices; the elytra with a broad, sharply-defined, dense patch of small ochreous scales 
extending the whole length of the apical declivity, and continued narrowly up the suture to the base, 
and a curved ochreous and whitish streak extending inwards from the humeri, their surface also set with 
scattered, long, clubbed, rather slender sete ; the prothorax with a small ochreous spot at the base; the 
vestiture of the legs and under surface whitish or ochreous. Head closely punctate; rostrum rugulose 
and carinate at the base, and sparsely, finely punctate thence to the apex; eyes somewhat distant ; 
joints 1 and 2 of the funiculus subequal in length. Prothorax transverse, convex, abruptly narrowed and 
constricted in front; closely, rather coarsely punctate, binodose on the disc before the middle and with 
two clusters of sete at the apex. Elytra about one-half wider than the prothorax, somewhat gibbous, 
elongate triangular, abruptly declivous posteriorly ; rather coarsely seriate-punctate, the punctures close 
together and placed in strie on the disc, the interstices feebly convex, the black scales on 2 clustered into 
a short streak at about the middle. Legs moderately long, the femora feebly clavate, the anterior pair 
distinctly, and the others obsoletely, dentate. 
Length 33-4, breadth 13-1,%, millim.. 
Hab. Mexico, Teapa (H. H. Smith); Guatemata, Cahabon (Champion). 
Two specimens. Very like O. fausti, but with a sharply-defined, elongate, dense 
patch of small ochreous scales at the apex, and the markings on the prothorax reduced 
to a small spot at the base. 
7. Oxypterus obliquus, sp. n. (Tab. XXIV. figs. 9, 9 a.) 
Oblong-ovate, narrow, shining, nigro-piceous, the antenne ferruginous; somewhat thickly clothed with 
intermixed ochreous and white scales, those on the head and the disc of the prothorax mostly ochreous ; 
the white scales on the prothorax condensed into a small spot at the base and a line on the flanks, and 
those on the elytra into an oblique line on the disc before the middle, a common v-shaped mark towards 
the apex, and a patch at the sides; the prothorax with four fascicles of coarse ochreous or fuscous sete 
placed in a transverse series across the middle (the outer two dentiform) and two others at the apex, the 
feeble elevations on the elytra nigro-setose ; the femora annulate; the vestiture of the under surface 
white. Head finely punctate, the eyes narrowly separated, joints 1 and 2 of the funiculus subequal in 
length. Prothorax transverse, rather convex, narrowed and feebly constricted in front, closely, finely 
punctate. Elytra about one-half wider than the prothorax, convex, elongate-triangular ; seriate-punctate, 
the interstices rugulose and more or less convex, 2 with two feeble oblong setigerous prominences towards 
the middle and 4 with a small prominence below the base. Legs long and slender, the femora feebly 
clavate and also dentate. 
Length 23-34, breadth 1-13 millim. 
Hab. Guaremaa, Cerro Zunil, Purula (Champion); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui, 
Bugaba (Champion). 
