CCELOSTERNUS.—COPHES. 515 
and narrowly separated ; rostrum curved, moderately long, rugosely punctate and carinate, with the apical 
half or more very sparsely, finely punctate; antenne with the club about as long as joints 3-7 of the 
funiculus united, joint 2 of the latter elongate. Prothorax slightly broader than long, much narrowed in 
front ; densely punctate and obsoletely granulate, sharply carinate down the middle. Elytra much wider 
than the prothorax, narrowing from a little below the base, the humeri rather prominent; seriate-punctate, 
the alternate interstices sharply costate. Beneath coarsely punctate. Anterior femora strongly, and the 
others more feebly, clavate, bidentate, the inner tooth on the anterior pair narrow, the outer tooth on 
the intermediate and posterior pairs very small and often wanting. Anterior tibi slightly dilated on the 
inner side at about the middle in both sexes. Anterior tarsi in the ¢ dilated and clothed on each side 
with long, projecting, fulvous hairs. 
Length 63-103, breadth 3-45 millim. (d 9.) 
Hab. Mexico (ex coll. Flohr), Toxpam in Vera Cruz (Sallé), Jalapa (Hége); GuaLE- 
MALA, Cerro Zunil, San Gerdénimo (Champion), Coban (Conradt) ; Nicaracua, Chontales 
(Belt); Costa Rica, Irazu (Rogers); Panama, Bugaba, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 
Twenty-four specimens. Very like C. tardipes, but relatively more elongate, with a 
less transverse prothorax, the inner tooth on the anterior femora always narrow. At 
the Cerro Zunil the insect occurred not uncommonly unaccompanied by C. tardipes. 
The two examples (2) from Costa Rica have the prothorax a little more elongate 
and narrowed from near the base, and the rostrum longer. ‘There is a somewhat 
similar form from Venezuela in Dr. Sharp’s collection labelled with the MS. name 
Cylindrocorynus conicollis, Jekel. 
3. Celosternus consputus. (Tab. XXV. figg. 20, 20a, 3.) 
9. Celosternus consputus, Boh. in Schénh. Gen. Cure. iv. p. 206’. 
Hab. Mexico (Chevrolat!; ex coll. Flohr), Presidio de Mazatlan (orrer), Jalapa, 
Teapa (Hége), Temax in N. Yucatan (Gaumer); British Honpuras, Rio Hondo 
(Blancaneaur) ; GuatemaLa, Teleman, Mirandilla (Champion); Nicaracua, Chontales 
(Belt), Grenada (Sallé); Costa Rica, San José (Biolley), Pozo Azul (Underwood) ; 
Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 
Apparently a common insect in Mexico, The male of this species has the front legs 
elongated, and the anterior tarsi dilated and thickly clothed on each side with long, 
projecting, fulvous hairs, thus agreeing with Cwlosternus. It has the general facies of 
Cryptorrhynchus affaber, Boh., and Hemilius glabrirostris (Boh.). 
COPHES, gen. nov. 
Rostrum curved, cylindrical, moderately stout, reaching to about the middle of the intermediate coxe in 
the 2 ; eyes well-separated or distant (except in C. gibbus), usually rather prominent ; antenne with 
the funiculus 7-jointed, 2 sometimes longer than 1, the club oblong or ovate; prothorax transverse, 
bisinuate at the base, the ocular lobes feebly developed; scutellum rounded or oval; elytra of the 
same width as, or wider than, the prothorax, with the tenth row of punctures abbreviated ; metasternum 
moderately long, the episterna broad (except in C. cognatus) ; ventral segment 2 a little longer than 3; 
anterior legs (in C. longiusculus, &c.) more or less elongated in the ¢; femora moderately or feebly clavate 
(the anterior pair of the g strongly clavate in C. longiusculus, and sublinear in C. aspersus), unidentate 
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