EUBULOPSIS.—METOPOSOMA. 583 
triangular, transversely convex; punctate-striate, the interstices punctulate, 3, 5, 7, and 9 sharply 
costate. Beneath closely punctate. Metasternum very short. Legs rather short. 
Length 3-32, breadth 1,921 millim. (¢ 2.) 
Hab. Mexico, San Juan Bautista in Tabasco (Hége: 2); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui, 
Boquete (Champion: 3 2). 
Seven specimens, six of which are females. This species agrees with Hubulus curvt- 
fasciatus in having a short, conical prothorax, a narrow curved fascia on the elytra, &c. ; 
but the legs are shorter, the femora are unarmed, the rostrum is more slender and 
scarcely widened towards the base, and the head is without an oblique carina above 
the eyes. ‘The curved elytral fascia is less sharply defined in the Mexican examples 
than in those from Chiriqui. 
~ METOPOSOMA. 
Metoposoma, Faust, Stett. ent. Zeit. 1896, pp. 53, 75. 
This genus was based upon a single species, Cryptorhynchus funebris, Boh., from 
Colombia and Venezuela, and another is now added from Guatemala. They are 
closely related to various forms here referred to Metriophilus, differing from them in 
having the elytra more sinuate along their lower margin, and the sides bare and 
hollowed below the abbreviated carina on the ninth interstice. The eyes are com- 
pletely covered by the prominent ocular lobes of the prothorax. The femora are 
feebly dentate, the tooth on the anterior pair not longer than that on the others. The 
vestiture of the elytra is dense. ‘The second ventral segment is much longer than 
the third. 
1. Metoposoma nigrofasciatum, sp.n. (Tab. XXVIII. figg. 28, 28 a.) 
Oblong-ovate, black, the antennew and the tips of the tarsi obscure ferruginous, the prothorax dull, the rest of 
the surface shining; the prothorax clothed with black scales, with three patches of white scales at the 
base; the elytra densely clothed with white scales, with a common transverse patch at the base, one or 
two spots below this, a broad, angulate, postmedian fascia, three small spots at the apex, and another 
beneath the shoulder, black; the under surface and rostrum sparsely, and the legs densely, clothed with 
white scales, the tibia annulate with black; the elytra also with a row of semierect scales down each 
interstice. Head convex, rugulosely punctate, foveate between the depressed, laterally placed eyes ; 
rostrum stout, curved, about as long as the prothorax, irregularly seriate-punctate, smooth along the 
centre, the antennz inserted beyond the middle, stout, joint 2 of the funiculus shorter than 1, 3-7 
moniliform, the club short ovate. Prothorax strongly transverse, rounded at the sides, narrowed in 
front; coarsely, confluently punctate, and subcarinate. Scutellum convex. LHlytra about one-half wider 
than the prothorax, subparallel in their basal third, depressed along the suture anteriorly; seriate- 
punctate, the interstices closely punctulate, flat on the disc, 9 narrowly costate, except towards the base. 
Beneath coarsely, sparsely punctate; fifth ventral segment densely punctate and squamose at the apex 
in the ¢. Legs short and stout, the femora feebly dentate. 
Length 53-7, breadth 24-3} millim. (¢d @.) 
Hab. GuatEMaLa, Cerro Zunil, 4000 feet, Pacific slope (Champion). 
Five specimens. Less elongate than MJ. lugubre (Boh.), the prothorax more trans- 
verse, the elytra with a complete, broad, angulate, black fascia, the alternate dorsal 
interstices not raised. There are several other Central-American forms very like 
M. nigrofasciatum, and with somewhat similar elytral vestiture, as Staseas pullatus, &c. 
