648 RHYNCHOPHORA. 
fulvous, and blackish scales, the whitish scales condensed on the prothorax into a large spot at the middle 
of the base and on the elytra into a transverse basal and a broader subapical fascia (the two fascic 
divided at the suture), the scales on the prothorax very coarse and imbricate, those on the elytra small, 
the elevations on the latter set with dense clusters of long, erect, flattened, fulvous and white scales ; the 
legs variegated with white and brown scales; the ventral segments 2-5 with small scattered scales, 
the rest of the under surface very coarsely squamose. Head rugulosely punctate, the eyes very large, 
coarsely facetted, and subcontiguous; rostrum strongly curved, moderately stout, about as long as the 
prothorax, widened, rugulosely punctate, and subcarinate at the base, and minutely punctate thence to 
the tip, smoother in the 9, the antennz inserted towards the base, joint 2 of the funiculus shorter 
than I, the club stout, oblong-ovate, as long as the preceding five joints united. Prothorax nearly twice 
as broad as long, abruptly narrowed in front; densely, finely punctate. Scutellum rounded. Elytra 
wider than the prothorax, triangular, the humeri angular; seriate-punctate, the interstices rugulose, 
3, 5, and 7 with scattered, compressed, setigerous prominences (the second and third on 3 very sharply 
raised, and angulate behind), and 9 with a triangular prominence below the base. Ventral segments 2-5 
finely, the rest of the under surface more coarsely, punctate. Rostral canal reaching the front of the 
metasternum. Legs stout; femora clavate, very sharply unidentate, the anterior pair with a small 
additional tooth. 
Length 33-44, breadth 2-23 millim. (¢ @.) 
Hab. Panama, Bugaba (Champion). 
One pair. <A very remarkable species, with the elytral elevations, &c., formed 
somewhat as in Conotrachelus cestrotus, Faust. It has no near Central-American ally, 
though I have seen an undescribed Brazilian insect something like it. C. formosus 
will doubtless form the type of a new genus. 
Species moderately large, elongate, squamose, with the rostrum feebly curved, the eyes rather 
small, the prothorax nearly or quite as long as broad, bisinuate at the base, the elytra 
oblong, with elongate elevations on the disc, the mesosternum arcuate-emarginate, the 
ventral segment 2 longer than 3, the femora unidentate. (Nos. 27, 28.) 
27. Cryptorrhynchus inelegans, sp.n. (Tab. XXXII. figg. 1, 1a, ¢.) 
Oblong, somewhat flattened above, nigro-piceous or black, the antenne ferruginous ; densely clothed with 
greyish scales, the prothorax with two interrupted lines on the disc and the elytra with a large 
triangular space at the sides brown, the upper surface also set with short, scattered, setiform scales, 
which are more or less clustered into fascicles on the prothoracic and elytral elevations, the legs greyish- 
brown, setose. Head densely punctate, flattened between the rather small, widely separated eyes; 
rostrum feebly curved, stout, shorter than the prothorax, squamose, and rugulosely punctate, that of the 
Q longer, with the apical half bare and not so closely punctate, the antenne inserted behind the middle, 
joint 2 of the funiculus shorter than 1, the club ovate, blunt at the tip. Prothorax nearly as long 
as broad, abruptly narrowed and constricted in front, arcuately produced at the apex, strongly sinuate at 
the base; closely punctate, slightly depressed along the centre, with four setiform prominences placed 
transversely across the middle and two at the apex. Scutellum oblong. Elytra moderately long, much 
wider than the prothorax, parallel in their basal half, blunt at the apex, the humeri prominent ; coarsely 
seriate-punctate, the interstices punctate, uneven, 3 with two elongate ridges between the base and 
middle, 5 with four scattered prominences, and 7 nodose at its apex. Beneath rather sparsely punctate. 
Ventral segment 2 longer than 3 and 4 united. Mesosternum very prominent, arcuate-emarginate. 
Legs moderately long; femora feebly clavate and sharply unidentate; anterior tibie in both sexes 
dilated on the inner side at about the middle, the others feebly sinuate within. 
Length 5-6, breadth 2-23 millim. (¢ 9.) 
Hab. Guatumaus, El Tumbador, Pacific slope (Champion). 
