88 RHYNCHOPHORA. 
1 (except at the sides in front) and 2, and a spot on each side of 5, clothed with coarse white scales; the 
rest of the upper and under surfaces bare or with scattered fine, narrow, dark scales ; the vestiture of the 
legs whitish. Eyes almost contiguous in front. Joint 2 of the funiculus as long as 3 and 4 united. 
Prothorax short, rather convex, narrowing from the base, constricted in front; closely, coarsely punctate, 
and subcarinate. Elytra broad, subcordate, broadly flattened on the disc, sharply margined at the base ; 
punctate-striate, the interstices rugose. Beneath closely punctate, the mesothoracic episterna bare and 
almost smooth. Femora sharply unidentate. 
Length 43-44, breadth 23 millim. 
Hab. Nicaracua, Chontales (elt). 
Two specimens. Distinguishable by its rhomboidal’ form and the vermilion-red 
markings. ‘The elytral spots are placed very much as in Z. aurivillianus, but the apical 
one is strongly curved. 
8. Zurus maculicollis, sp.n. (Tab. VI. fig. 7.) 
Subelliptic, black, the antennez ferruginous ; the head with a line of fulvous scales around the eyes above, the 
prothorax vermilion-red, with a transverse black patch on the middle of the disc, the elytra with a 
sinuous stripe on each side of the suture (the stripes becoming coalescent towards the base and apex) and 
a large, elongate, anteriorly attenuate patch at the sides, vermilion-red ; the vestiture of the legs and 
under surface white or yellowish-white, a patch on the flanks of the prothorax and another in the middle 
of the ventral segments 3 and 4 sparsely squamose or almost bare, Eyes almost contiguous in front. 
Joint 2 of the funiculus scarcely so long as 1. Prothorax transverse, rather convex, narrowing from near 
the base; densely punctate and subcarinate. Elytra subcordate, flattened on the disc; deeply punctate- 
striate, the interstices rugose. Femora unidentate. Ventral segment 1 broadly depressed down the 
middle, and 5 sharply, narrowly sulcate, and pilose at the tip, in the ¢. 
Length 3-33, breadth 12 millim. (6 @.) 
Hab. Panama, Bugaba, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 
One pair. Near Z. aurivillianus, but with the elytral markings red and in the 
form of longitudinal stripes or patches. Z. besckei (Boh.) is another allied form, with 
transverse red fascia on the elytra. 
4, Zurus aurivillianus, (Tab. VI. fig. 8.) 
Zurus aurivillianus, Heller, Abhandl. Mus. Dresd. no. 11, pp. 6, 9". 
Copturus quadrimaculatus, Jekel, in litt.’. 
Hab. Mexico, Guadalajara (Flohr), Amula (H. H. Smith).—Coromsra (Mus. Brit.) ; 
VENEZUELA!; Braziu!. 
Four specimens of this widely-distributed Tropical-American insect have been 
received by us from Mexico. It is easily known by the red vestiture of the prothorax, 
with a transverse black patch of variable extent on the disc, and the four large white 
spots on the elytra, the vertex and humeri often with a small white spot, the meta- 
sternum and first two ventral segments in great part white, the other segments black 
with the sides white. ‘The second joint of the funiculus is scarcely so long as the first. 
| have seen one of the types from Caracas. 
