EUSCEPES. 497 
Schénherr. Euscepes is a very close ally of Euxenus, Faust, but differs from it in 
having finely dentate femora. ‘The antenne have joints 2-7 of the funiculus closely 
articulated, 2 shorter and narrower than 1. The ventral segments 2-4 are subequal in 
length ; 2, however, is distinctly longer than 3 or 4 in E. porcellus. Cryptorhynchus 
batate, Waterh., from Barbados, belongs to Huscepes. 
1. Kuscepes porcellus. (Tab. XXIV. figg. 15, 15 a-c.) 
Euscepes porcellus, Boh. in Schénh. Gen. Cure. viii. 1, p. 480°. 
Acalles longulus, Lec. Proc. Am. Phil. Soc. xy. p. 244%. 
Hab. Norra America, Florida 2,—Mexico, Motzorongo (Flohr), Teapa (H. H. Smith, 
Hoge), Frontera, Tapachula (Hoge); Brivise Honpuras, Rio Hondo, Belize (Blanc- 
aneaux) ; GUATEMALA, Cahabon and San Juan in Vera Paz, Zapote (Champion), Panzos 
(Conradt) ; Nicaragua, Chontales (Janson) ; Panama, David (Champion).—ANTILLES, 
Cuba and Puerto Rico!. 
A common species in Central America, some of our specimens agreeing perfectly 
with the type from Puerto Rico, and with an example of Acalles longulus, Lec., from 
Florida, sent me by Mr. Wickham. The elytra have a large, densely squamose, 
brownish-ochreous apical patch, and the vestiture at the base is often similarly 
coloured ; the seriate punctures are coarse and closely placed, the interstices narrow, 
the alternate ones sometimes a little raised. The eyes are widely separated. The 
femora are finely dentate. ‘The sete are short, coarse, and erect. Hu«enus posticus, 
Faust, from Venezuela, is very like L. porcellus; but it is larger and broader, and has 
the apical patch reduced to a subapical fascia and the femora unarmed. 
9, Euscepes divisus, sp.n. (Tab. XXIV. figg. 16, 16 a.) 
Oblong-ovate, black, the antennex ferruginous ; densely clothed with ochreous or brown scales; the prothorax 
with numerous intermixed blackish setiform scales, the dise with an ochreous median line and a few 
small scattered ochreous spots; the elytra with a very large, sharply-defined, brownish-white or ochreous 
patch covering the apical declivity, limited anteriorly by an indeterminate curved blackish fascia, 
and also set with very short, decumbent, inconspicuous sete; the vestiture of the under surface greyish 
or brown. Head densely punctate, the eyes distant; rostrum rugulosely punctate, subcarinate, and 
squamose to about the middle, and thickly punctate thence to the apex. Prothorax transverse, feebly 
bisinuate at the base, densely punctate. Scutellum sometimes visible. Elytra about one-half wider than 
the prothorax, subparallel towards the base, the humeri obtuse, obliquely truncate in front ; coarsely 
seriate-punctate, the interstices rugulose and almost flat. Beneath densely punctate, Femora feebly 
dentate. 
Length 34-43, breadth 12-2 millim. 
Hab. Mexico, Toxpam (Sallé), Jalapa (Hoge); Guatemata, San Juan in Vera Paz, 
Capetillo, Zapote (Champion) ; Panama, Bugaba, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 
Numerous examples. In this insect the sete of the elytra are very short and 
inconspicuous, and the large whitish apical patch is limited anteriorly by an indeter- 
minate curved blackish fascia. Most of the specimens have a few scales clustered 
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