CRYPTORRHYNCHUS. 679 
convex. Beneath dull, densely punctate. Mesosternum prominent, feebly arcuate-emarginate. Legs 
short, anterior femora unarmed, the others obsoletely dentate. 
Length 22, breadth 1,, millim. (<¢.) 
Hab, Panama, Bugaba (Champion). 
One specimen. In this little insect the elytra have a common, oblong, broad, some- 
what X-shaped, whitish patch on the disc, and the space exterior to it mottled with 
fuscous, and the prothorax has a narrow pallid median vitta. 
88. Cryptorrhynchus consobrinus. (Tab. XXXIII. fig. 21, 2, var.) 
2. Cryptorhynchus consobrinus, Ros. in Schénh. Gen. Cure. iv. p. 95°. 
Hab. Mexico, Vera Cruz (Chevrolat 1); Guatemata, Chacoj and Senahu in Vera Paz 
(Champion). 
A pair from Guatemala agree very nearly with the type of this species. The 
vestiture is coarse and dense, in part erect, fulvous, variegated with black, with a few 
whitish or ochreous scales intermixed, these latter condensed into a curved, oblique 
streak on the disc of each elytron below the base and a faint median line on the 
prothorax. The elytra have the dorsal striz sinuous and the interstices (the sutural 
one excepted) convex. The rostrum is short, that of the male rugose to the tip, that 
of the female thickly punctate in its apical half; the antenne are inserted towards the 
base in both sexes. The eyes are completely hidden in repose. The mesosternum is 
prominent, arcuate-emarginate in front. The metathoracic episterna are very narrow. 
The tenth row of punctures on the elytraiscomplete. ‘The ventral segments are densely 
punctate, 2 slightly longer than 3. The femora and tibie are nigro-annulate. 
Species small, oblong-ovate, densely squamose, and also set with coarse, semierect scales, with 
the eyes distant, the rostrum arcuate and rather long, the antennal club ovate, the prothorax 
and elytra feebly sinuate at the base, the scutellum rounded, the mesosternum horseshoe- 
shaped, the metathoracic episterna moderately broad, the ventral segment 2 as long as 
3 and 4 united, the first suture arched, the femora sharply unidentate. (No. 89.) 
89. Cryptorrhynchus silaceus, sp.n. (Tab. XX XIII. figg. 22, 22a, ¢ .) 
Oblong-ovate, nigro-piceous, the antenne and tarsi ferruginous; densely clothed with pale brownish scales, the 
elytra mottled with darker brown on the basal half, the prothorax brownish-white, with a broad infuscate 
space down the middle, which is abruptly narrowed anteriorly and encloses a short pallid median line at 
the base, the scutellum whitish, the femora and tibie fusco-annulate; the upper surface also set with 
coarse, erect, pallid and blackish scales, the latter clustered into four small fascicles on the prothorax 
(two at the apex and two on the disc), the erect scales on the elytra larger and mainly placed along the 
suture and alternate interstices, those on the third condensed into two fascicles (one near the base and 
another at the middle) ; the legs coarsely setose. Head densely punctate, the eyes distant, finely facetted ; 
rostrum arcuate, shining, as long as the prothorax, sparsely, very finely punctate, the antenne inserted 
just behind the middle, joint 2 of the funiculus nearly as long as 1, the club ovate. Prothorax a little 
broader than long, dilated at the sides, abruptly narrowed and constricted in front, feebly bisinuate at 
the base, the ocular lobes prominent; densely punctate, slightly depressed down the middle and towards 
