608 RHYNCHOPHORA. 
GRAPHONOTUS. 
Graphonotus, Chevrolat, Bull. Soc. Ent, Fr. 1880, p. xevi. 
Chevrolat included in this genus various Tropical-American forms, the type being 
Cryptorhynchus albocaudatus, Ros., from Mexico. The name Graphonotus is here 
provisionally retained for a few species agreeing in the following characters :— 
Rostrum arcuate, nearly or quite reaching the metasternum, the antenne inserted at or behind the middle, 
the club oblong-ovate or ovate, with the sutures very distinct in the typical forms ; head convex, the 
eyes large and partly exposed ; prothorax with feebly-developed ocular lobes; scutellum visible ; elytra 
wider than the prothorax; mesosternal cavity oblong or horseshoe-shaped ; metathoracic episterna 
broad ; ventral segment 2 longer than 3; femora unidentate; tibie unguiculate at the outer apical 
angle, the anterior pair rarely (G. albocaudatus) mucronate at the inner apical angle in the ¢; anterior 
legs sometimes a little elongated in the ¢, the tarsi similarly formed in the two sexes. 
G. albocaudatus, G. leporinus, G. bituberculatus, G. biolleyi, and G. maculicollis 
agree very well inter se, but the other species differ from them in various details ; 
(. variisquamis has the facies of a Zygops, owing to its large, subcontiguous eyes. 
§ 1. Mesosternal walls converging and coalescent behind. 
1. Graphonotus albocaudatus. (Tab. XXX. figg. 1, 1la,3; 18, ant, leg, 3.) 
Cryptorhynchus albocaudatus, Ros. in Schonh. Gen. Cure. iv. p. 69". 
Graphonotus albocaudatus, Chevr. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1880, p. xevii?. 
Hab. Mexico? (Chevrolat!; ex coll. Flohr), Toxpam, Vera Cruz (Sallé), Jalapa, 
Tapachula (Hége), Teapa (H. H. Smith); Brivisn Honpvuras, Belize, Rio Sarstoon 
(Blancaneaux); Guatemaua, San J uan, San Joaquin, and San Gerénimo in Vera Paz, 
El Tumbador, Paraiso, El Reposo, Las Mercedes, Cerro Zunil, San Isidro, Volcan de 
Atitlan (Champion). 
A common insect in Vera Cruz, and on the Atlantic and Pacific slopes of Guatemala. 
It varies greatly in size. The male has the anterior femora a little longer and less 
clavate than in the female; the anterior tibia, too, are feebly serrulate within, and 
mucronate at the inner apical angle, as well as unguiculate at the outer angle. The 
antenne are inserted behind the middle of the rostrum in both sexes. I have seen 
the type belonging to the Stockholm Museum. 
2, Graphonotus leporinus, spn. (Tab. XXX. figg. 2, 2a, 3.) 
Macromerus leporinus, Chevr. in litt. 
Oblong-ovate, robust, black; clothed with small fulvous scales, which show a tendency to form two sinuous 
vitte: on the disc of the prothorax (the enclosed space being more sparsely squamose), the elytra mottled 
with black, the black scales more or less condensed into an angulate, anteriorly evanescent, median fascia, 
which is followed by a broad, oblique, dentate, fulvous band (this being bordered in front and behind with 
whitish), the two bands meeting at the suture and extending broadly down the disc to the apex (in some 
