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and obsoletely granulate. Ventral segments 1 and 2 somewhat sparsely, the others closely, finely 
punctate. Legs rather slender; femora sharply unidentate; anterior tarsi of the ¢ with a few fine 
projecting hairs. 
Length 33-53, breadth 2-24 millim. (¢ 9.) 
Hab. Guatemaua, Las Mercedes and Zapote, Pacific slope (Champion). 
Six specimens. Distinguishable by the well-developed scutellum, the mottled 
vestiture, and the sharply dentate femora. The males have the prothorax strongly 
rounded at the sides and fully as wide as the elytra. P. scutellaris is less convex than 
P. pilimanus, and its elytra are not constricted at the base. 
4. Phace polochice, sp.n. (Tab. XXX. figg. 16, 16a, 9°.) 
Oblong-ovate, black, the antenng obscure ferruginous ; densely clothed with pale brownish scales, with a few 
darker scales intermixed, the elytra with a very faint, paler, transverse, subapical fascia, followed by a 
small, oblong, black mark on the suture and a small black spot at the apex of the fifth interstice ; the 
surface also set with numerous, coarse, suberect sete. Head and base of the rostrum densely, and the 
rest of the latter very sparsely, punctate, the rostrum comparatively short and broad, the eyes very widely 
separated; antenne inserted at the middle of the rostrum, joints 1 and 2 of the funiculus nearly equal 
in length. Prothorax transverse, rounded at the sides, constricted and much narrowed in front ; densely 
punctate. Scutellum small. Elytra at the base a little wider than the base of the prothorax, widest at 
the middle, the humeri oblique ; punctate-striate, the interstices faintly granulate, slightly raised, 3 nodose 
just below the base. Beneath closely, finely punctate. Femora unidentate. 
Length 53, breadth 22 millim. (@.) 
Hab, GuateMata, Chacoj in the Polochic Valley (Champion). 
One specimen. ‘This insect has a shorter and broader rostrum than any other of 
the nearly related forms. It has the general facies of P. dentipes, with the third 
elytral interstice nodose near the base much as in P. binodosa. The elytra are less 
produced at the apex than in P. carinirostris. 
5. Phace dentipes, sp. n. 
Oblong-ovate, shining, black, the antenne and tarsi obscure ferruginous ; thickly clothed with brownish or 
ochreous scales intermixed with short, scattered, semierect, setiform scales. Head densely punctate, the 
eyes widely separated ; rostrum in the ¢ rugulosely punctate to the tip, and also subcarinate, in the 9 
sparsely punctate and bare from near the base, the antenne inserted at the middle in the 3, and a little 
further back in the 9, joint 2 of the funiculus shorter than 1. Prothorax transverse, rounded at the 
sides, constricted and much narrowed in front, subtruncate at the base; densely, finely punctate. 
Scutellum minute. Elytra at the base a little wider than the base of the prothorax, widening to the 
middle; rather coarsely punctate-striate, the interstices feebly convex and faintly granulate. Beneath 
somewhat sparsely, finely punctate. Legs rather slender; femora acutely unidentate, 
Length 33-47, breadth 14-27 millim. (¢ 9.) 
Hab. Guatemata, San Gerénimo (Champion). 
One pair. Closely resembling P. egena, but with a less conspicuous scutellum, and 
the ventral segments more finely and rather sparsely punctate. P. dentipes approaches 
Heterobothrus bipustulatus, Faust, but the latter has the base of the prothorax quite 
straight, a short second ventral segment, &c. 
