90 RHYNCHOPHORA. 
trace of lamin. Intercoxal portion of the metasternum very broad, flattened, declivous in front. Legs 
short and stout; femora unarmed, the anterior pair subclavate; third tarsal joint broadly bilobed, the 
claws very minute. 
Length 14, breadth 145 millim. 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 
One specimen, with the prothorax slightly malformed on the right side. 
PSEUDOLECHRIOPS, gen. nov. 
Head with the eyes abeut as broad as the prothorax, the eyes large and separated in front by rather more 
than the width of the smooth apical portion of the rostrum; rostrum as long as the head and prothorax, 
flattened, almost straight, widened at the base, the antenne inserted behind the middle, joint 2 of the 
funiculus much longer than 1, joint 1 of the club as long as the others united; prothorax short, 
subcylindrical, deeply sinuate at the base, without ocular lobes; scutellum convex, exposed ; elytra 
proad, subcordate ; pygidium not visible ; mesothoracic epimera narrowly ascending ; rostral canal deep, 
reaching as far as the apical margin of the middle coxa, the walls complete ; ventral segments rapidly 
ascending ; legs moderately long; femora sharply unidentate, the posterior pair reaching a little beyond 
the apex of the abdomen, the intermediate and posterior pairs finely carinate externally, the knees 
unarmed ; posterior tibie broadly dilated to near the apex and abruptly narrowed thence to the tip; 
third tarsal joint bilobed, a little wider than the second, the claws divergent. 
Type, Ps. megacephalus. 
This genus approaches Tachylechriops, Heller, based on a single species from 
Cayenne, from which it differs in the broad head, the somewhat widely separated 
eyes, the almost straight, flattened rostrum, the short, subcylindrical prothorax, the 
less elongated hind legs, the broad, emarginate posterior tibia, &c.* The form 
of the hind legs, the non-contiguous eyes, &c., distinguish Pseudolechriops from 
Lechriops. | 
1. Pseudolechriops megacephalus, sp.n. (Tab. VI. figg. 12, 124, 6.) 
Black, the antenna, tarsi, anterior tibia, and outer half of the rostrum ferruginous (the prothorax and elytra 
rufescent in one specimen); the vestiture sparse and fine, ochreous and uniformly distributed on 
the head and prothorax; the elytra each with a broad oblique whitish fascia beyond the middle, 
a space along the suture thence to the base, and the base itself, clothed with fine ochreous hair- 
like scales, the rest of their vestiture sparser and darker, that of the under surface and legs white. 
Head densely, rugulosely punctate, hollowed between the eyes; rostrum rugulose at the base, shining, 
the outer half smooth. Prothorax transverse, scarcely widened at the base, constricted in front; densely 
punctate and obsoletely carinate. Elytra depressed along the suture anteriorly, sharply punctate-striate 
(the strive narrow, with oblong punctures), the interstices broad, rugulose, and almost flat. 
Length 3,1,-34, breadth 1§ millim. 
Hab. Guatemata, San Isidro and Pantaleon (Champion). 
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‘Two specimens, both from the “tierra caliente” of the Pacific slope, one of them 
slightly immature. 
* In the Fry Collection at the British Museum there is an allied undescribed form from Brazil, but it could 
not be included in either of these genera. 
