70 RHYNCHOPHORA. 
B. Species subovate, with broad elytra, the interstices of which are feebly convex 
or costate, and slender legs . . . . «© ee es oe ; . Nos. 5, 6. 
C. Species subovate, with gibbous, sharply carinate prothorax, broad, nodose 
elytra, and slender legs . . . . . Le toe ew ew ew ew we 6NO. 7. 
D. Species subelliptic, with narrow eyes and laterally constricted elytra, the latter 
nodose towards the apex, and with the apex itself dentiform . . . - + + | No. 8. 
E. Species subelliptic, with the vestiture close above and sparse beneath, the 
scales on the elytra small and rounded, the legs slender, the eyes large . . No.9. 
F. Species elliptic, with finely striate elytra and strongly compressed posterior 
femora, the vestiture of the upper surface fine, the femora bi- or unidentate. 
[Evcorrurvs, Heller.} . . . . Nos. 10-14. 
G. Species elliptic or subelliptic, with deeply striate © elytra, the interstices 5 of 
which are somewhat costate, the eyes large, the femora unidentate, the 
posterior pair seldom extending beyond the apex of the abdomen. [Group IV. 
and part of Group III. of Heller.]. 2. 2. 1 ee ee ee ees Nos. 15-33. 
H. Species subelliptic, with a subconical prothorax, deeply punctate-striate elytra, 
and short, stout legs, the anterior femora unarmed, the others sharply 
unidentate . . . ee Lo wee ew ee ee «UNO. 84, 
II. Mesosternum hollowed down the centre, with a flattened prominence on each 
side between the middle coxe ; joint 2 of the funiculus very little longer than 3 ; 
femora unidentate ; eyes large: speciessmall . . . . . . « ~ + « + No. 35. 
III. Mesosternum depressed anteriorly, with a triangular, flattened prominence on 
each side between the middle coxe, the tip of the rostrum received in a deep 
foveiform cavity in the front of the metasternum ; eyes large; joint 2 of the 
funiculus elongate; femora unidentate. . . . . . . ee ee ee + No. 36. 
IV. Mesosternum vertical, deeply excavate, the metasternum also excavate in 
front ; joint 2 of the funiculus elongate; prothorax conical; ventral segments 
gradually ascending ; femora unidentate, the knees with along spine. . . . No. 87. 
1. Copturus martz. (Tab. V. fig. 1.) 
Copturus (Macrocopturus) marte, Heller, Abhandl. Mus. Dresd. no. 11, p. 25°. 
Copturus orpheus, in coll. Pascoe. 
3g. Ventral segment 1 broadly and shallowly depressed down the middle, 5 truncate at the apex. 
Hab. Panama, Bugaba (Champion).—CoLomBiA, Santa Marta}. 
One specimen, differing from the type, and from examples from the same locality in 
the Pascoe and Fry Collections, in having a more distinct short median carina on the 
prothorax. C. martw is scarcely more than a variety of C. exrpletus, Pasc., from Para, 
the latter having the three narrow vitte on the prothorax straight and the sutural 
region of the elytra broadly depressed and squamose. 
2, Copturus avicularis. (Tab. V. fig. 2.) 
Copturus avicularis, Boh. in Schonh. Gen. Cure. iv. p. 680°; Heller, Abhandl. Mus. Dresd. 
no. 11, p. 27, tab. fig. 26°. 
