702 RHYNCHOPHORA. 
subannulate with brown. Head rugulosely punctate, the eyes large, finely facetted, and moderately 
distant ; rostrum stout, curved, about as long as the prothorax, depressed and widened at the base, 
rugosely punctate and feebly carinate in the ¢, sparsely punctured from near the base in the 2, the 
antenne inserted behind the middle, joints 1 and 2 of the funiculus subequal in length, 3-7 transverse 
and closely articulated, the club fully as long as the preceding five joints united. Prothorax transverse, 
abruptly narrowed and constricted in front, deeply bisinuate at the base; densely, finely punctate, 
quadrinodose across the middle. Scutellum small, rounded. Elytra slightly wider than the prothorax, 
subparallel in their basal half, the humeri obtuse; seriate-punctate, the interstices punctulate, becoming 
feebly convex towards the sides. Beneath densely punctate. Mesosternum prominent, v-shaped. Legs 
short ; femora unidentate, the anterior pair strongly, the others more feebly, clavate. 
Length 4-43, breadth 1,%-2 millim. (d 2.) 
Hab. Guatremata, Las Mercedes and Pantaleon, Pacific slope (Champion). 
Two specimens. This species bears a certain resemblance to MHomeostethus 
triangularis, Faust, from Venezuela, but the markings are different, the prothorax 
is quadrinodose on the disc and strongly bisinuate at the base, the legs are longer, 
and the ventral segments are densely punctate. 
Species small, subovate, densely squamose, with the eyes large, the rostrum short and arcuate, 
the antennal club ovate, the prothorax short, the elytra much wider than the prothorax, 
with the alternate interstices convex, the mesosternum arcuate-emarginate, the ventral 
segment 2 much longer than 3, the legs short, the femora deeply sulcate beneath and 
unarmed. (No. 1383.) 
133. Cryptorrhynchus festivus, sp.n. (Tab. XXXIV. figg. 25, 25a; 258, 
femur from beneath.) 
Subovate, piceous, the rostrum, antenne, tibie, and tarsi reddish ; thickly clothed with intermixed fulvous 
and whitish scales, and also with a few scattered fuscous scales, the whitish scales on the prothorax 
clustered into a faint median line and several small spots, and those on the elytra into small irregularly 
distributed spots. Head densely punctate, the eyes very large and well-separated; rostrum arcuate, 
short, sparsely punctate, rugulose at the base, the antenne inserted far behind the middle, joint 2 of the 
funiculus short, the club ovate. Prothorax short, narrowing from the base, constricted towards the 
apex ; densely punctate. Scutellum rounded. LElytra much wider than the prothorax, gradually 
narrowing from the base, the humeri rounded and rather prominent; seriate-punctate, the interstices 
punctulate, 3, 5, and 7 raised. Beneath dull, somewhat closely punctate. Mesosternum raised, very 
prominent, arcuate-emarginate. Legs short; femora strongly incrassate, deeply sulcate beneath from 
the base to the apex, unarmed ; tibiae broad and compressed, short. 
Length 33, breadth 14 millim. (9?) 
Hab, Guatemata, Capetillo (Champion). 
One specimen. Not unlike C. rubicundus, but smaller and with the vestiture 
variegate, the setiform scales inconspicuous and not clustered into fascicles; the legs 
shorter, the femora relatively stouter, deeply sulcate from the base to the apex, and 
unarmed. This insect will certainly have to form the type of a new genus. 
