HOPLOCOPTURUS. o9 
Hab. GuateMAaLa, Rio Maria Linda, Pacific slope (Champion). 
One specimen. 
13. Hoplocopturus densus, sp. n. (Tab. IV. fig. 15.) 
Very like H. eleguns, but with the vestiture denser above, especially on the elytra: the line around the eyes 
and the anterior half of the prothorax rust-red, the three large patches at the base of the latter white ; the 
elytra with an interrupted angulate dark fascia just below the base, the suture with ashort whitish streak 
behind the scutellum, the interstices each with three or more rows (two rows only on the disc in 
H. elegans) of pallid hair-like scales; the whitish scales on the under surface narrower; the elytral 
interstices flat, broader than the striz; the spines at the apex of the femora sharp. 
Length 24, breadth 13 millim. (9.) 
Hab. Guatemaa, Cerro Zunil (Champion). 
One specimen. Perhaps an extreme form of ZH. elegans? 
14. Hoplocopturus leptopus. (Tab. IV. fig. 16.) 
Hoplocopturus leptopus, Heller, Abhandl. Mus. Dresd. no. 11, p. 51, tab. fig. 28". 
Hab. Mexico, Toxpam in Vera Cruz (Sallé), Teapa (H. H. Smith), Orizaba}, 
Oaxaca’; GuatemaLa (Sallé), San Juan, Panima, and Chacoj in Vera Paz (Champion) ; 
Costa Rica, Surubres near San Mateo, 250 metres, Pacific slope (Biolley). 
Numerous specimens, varying a good deal in size and colour, the legs often entirely 
rufo-testaceous. ‘The head is rather small, as in H. armatus (Boh.) and H. varipes. 
The rostrum of the female sometimes reaches the middle of the metasternum. The 
white scales on the elytra are condensed into two undulate fasciz and a narrow sutural 
stripe, the latter being wanting in the allied H. varipes. The length varies from 
24-4 millim. 
15. Hoplocopturus varipes, sp. n. (Tab. IV. fig. 17.) 
Subrhomboidal, shining, nigro-piceous or black, the tip of the rostrum, the antenne, the anterior and 
intermediate legs, and the posterior tarsi (and in one specimen the posterior tibize also), rufo-testaceous 
or ferruginous ; thickly clothed above with piliform scales: the head and prothorax fulvous (or whitish) ; 
the latter with two darker patches on the disc and a transverse white line running outwards from each 
of them (these lines extending forwards on the flanks), the elytra mottled with fulvous, white, and 
black, the fulvous scales showing a tendency to form undulate fascise, the white scales condensed into a 
small spot at the middle of the second interstice and another on the eighth towards the apex; the under 
surface with coarser white scales, the vestiture of the legs sparse, white. Head comparatively small, 
with a smooth space on the middle of the vertex, the eyes narrow; rostrum rugulosely punctate and 
sharply carinate at the base ; joint 2 of the funiculus elongate, twice as long as 3, 3 slightly longer 
than 1, the others very short. Prothorax short, rapidly narrowing from the base, constricted in front ; 
densely, rugulosely punctate, and carinate. Elytra broad, rounded-triangular ; deeply punctate-striate, 
the interstices punctulate and almost flat. Metasternum broadly flattened between the middle cox, the 
mesosternum with a narrow transverse depression. Legs moderately long, slender ; femora feebly 
unidentate, the posterior pair with a faint external carina, their knees with a sharp spine. 
Length 43-44, breadth 23-8 millim. 
Hab. Costa Rica, Caché and Irazu (Roger's).—Ecvapor, Paramba (coll. Fry), 
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