CRYPTORRHYNCHUS. 683 
densely punctate, the eyes rather large and well-separated ; rostrum short, stout, curved, rugulosely 
punctate, carinate, and slightly widened at the base, and sparsely punctate from the middle to the tip, 
the antenn © inserted midway, joints 1 and 2 of the funiculus subequal in length, 3-7 transverse, the 
club ovate, acuminate. Prothorax transverse, narrowed and feebly constricted in front ; densely punctate, 
binodose at the apex. Scutellum small. Elytra much wider than the prothorax, narrowing almost from 
the base ; with rows of rather coarse subquadrate punctures separated by the narrow raised interstices, 
the second gradually becoming more swollen towards the middle and here maculated with white. 
Beneath closely punctate. Mesosternum raised and very prominent, feebly emarginate. Legs short, the 
anterior pair longer, the femora feebly unidentate. 
Length 31, breadth 23 millim. (¢.) 
Hab. GuatEMALA, Senahu in Vera Paz (Champion). 
One specimen, perhaps slightly abraded. The long elevation on the second elytral 
interstice followed by a small white spot is a curious character. The two dark 
setigerous prominences at the apex of the prothorax are conspicuous, C. guttatus is 
perhaps nearest related to C. nigroplagiatus. 
Species small, oblong-ovate, squamose and setulose, with the rostrum very feebly curved, the 
eyes large, the antennal club elongate, the prothorax bisinuate at the base and strongly 
fasciculate at the apex, the elytra wider than the prothorax, with a very large black lateral 
patch, the mesosternum prominent and feebly emarginate, the metathoracic episterna 
broad, the ventral segment 2 longer than 8, the legs rather slender, the femora feebly 
clavate and unidentate. (No. 95.) 
95. Cryptorrhynchus nigroplagiatus, sp.n. (Tab. XXXIIL figg. 26, 26 a.) 
Oblong-ovate, shining, nigro-piceous, the antenne ferruginous; the prothorax rather sparsely, the head and 
elytra thickly, clothed with small fulvous or brownish scales, with cinereous scales intermixed, the elytra 
each with a very large, inwardly rounded, black lateral patch extending forwards to the shoulder; the 
upper surface also set with short, semierect sete, the prothorax with two fascicles of long, erect, dark 
setze at the apex; the vestiture of the legs and under surface cinereous, the femora annulate with dark 
brown. Head densely punctate, slightly swollen above the eyes, the latter large, rounded, and rather 
narrowly separated ; rostrum short, stout, feebly curved, rugose and depressed at the base, and thickly 
punctate thence to the tip, the antenne inserted behind the middle, joints 1 and 2 of the funiculus 
subequal in length, 3-7 transverse, the club elongate, as long as the preceding five joints united. 
Prothorax transverse, rounded at the sides, narrowed and feebly constricted in front; densely punctate. 
Scutellum small, Elytra considerably wider than the prothorax, subparallel in their basal half; seriate- 
punctate, the interstices rugulose, 3 raised near the base, the outer ones rather convex. Beneath coarsely 
punctate. Mesosternum raised and very prominent, feebly emarginate. Femora unidentate. 
Length 33-42, breadth 13-2 millim. (<7?) 
Hab. Panama, Bugaba, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 
Four specimens. A species easily recognized by the two long fascicles of erect dark 
setee at the apex of the prothorax, the very large, inwardly-rounded, black lateral 
patch on each elytron, and the feebly emarginate, prominent mesosternum. The 
prothorax is less deeply sinuate at the base than in C. biguttatus and C. bimaculatus. 
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