74 RHYNCHOPHORA. 
interstices feebly convex. Meso- and metasternum broadly flattened between the middle cox. Legs 
short ; femora unidentate, the posterior pair carinate externally, the knees without spines. 
Length 33, breadth 2 millim. 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 4000 feet (Champion). 
One specimen. This species has the elytra clothed with closely-packed, small, 
rounded scales, which are ochreous in colour, except upon the undulate, interrupted, 
ante-median fascia, where they are reddish-brown. The prothorax has three broad 
ochreous vitte. The legs are slender. 
10. Copturus lynceus, sp.n. (Tab. V. fig. 10.) 
Elliptic, flattened above, nigro-piceous or piceous, the prothorax sometimes rufescent, the antennee ferruginous ; 
the head with a line behind the eyes, the prothorax with a median vitta, a transverse patch on each side 
in front, and a patch at each hind angle, the scutellum, and the elytra with a sutural stripe (dilated 
at the base and at the middle) and two transverse fasciee on the outer part of the disc (the posterior one 
sometimes reduced to a small spot), ochreous, the elytra also with a white spot on the outer margin 
just before the apex, the rest of the vestiture of the upper surface very fine and sparse, and partaking of 
the ground-colour; the under surface and legs thickly clothed with narrow whitish or flavo-cinereous 
scales, the ventral segments 2-5 with a bare spot on each side. Eyes extremely large, contiguous. 
Rostrum arcuate, rugulose and carinate at the base, and smooth thence to the tip. Funiculus slender ; 
joint 2 nearly as long as 3-7 united, 3 and 4 subequal in length, each a little shorter than 1. Prothorax 
transverse, narrowing from the base, constricted in front; densely, minutely punctate. Elytra oblong- 
cordate, depressed along the suture ; finely striate, the stria feebly punctate, the interstices rather convex, 
minutely punctulate. Mesosternum slightly depressed. Legs moderately long, the femora bidentate 
beneath, the minute outer tooth sometimes wanting, the posterior pair strongly compressed and about 
reaching the apex of the elytra, the intermediate and posterior pairs carinate on their outer face ; inter- 
mediate and posterior tibie rather broad, rounded externally. 
Length 6-61, breadth 24-3 millim. 
Hab. Guatemata, San Juan in Vera Paz (Champion); Nicaracua, Chontales (Belt). 
The Guatemalan specimen is taken as the type, the other two being somewhat 
rubbed and having the ochreous markings reduced in size. C. lynceus belongs to the 
subgenus Ewcopturus of Heller; it is nearly related to C. rhombifer and C. suturalis, 
from Cayenne. 
11. Copturus fulvomaculatus, sp.n. (Tab. V. fig. 11.) 
Elliptic, concave above, black, the antenne and the tips of the tarsi ferruginous; variegated above with a 
dense clothing of small narrow scales: the head with a line behind the eyes, and the prothorax with five 
vittee (the central one narrow, angularly dilated at about the middle, the submarginal one mesially 
constricted, the outer one angulate and almost invisible from above), fulvous, the exterior one edged with 
white; the elytra blackish-brown, with various irregular fulvous spots, one on either side of the suture 
just below the base and a smaller one close to the middle of the suture edged with white, the intervening 
portion of the suture also white; the under surface variegated on each side with coarser white, fulvous, 
and blackish-brown scales, the ventral segments 2-5 blackish-brown, maculated with white; the legs 
with intermixed narrow fulvous and white scales, the intermediate femora narrowly, and the posterior 
femora broadly, annulate with blackish-brown. Eyes very large, subcontiguous, Rostrum carinate and 
closely punctate at the base, smooth thence to the tip. Joint 2 of the funiculus elongate, nearly as long 
as 3-6 united, 3 very little longer than 5, 4 fully twice as long as 3, 5-7 short. Prothorax transverse, 
narrowing from the base, constricted in front; densely, very finely punctate. Elytra oval, obliquely 
