LECHRILOPS. 93 
gradually narrowing from about the basal third, constricted in front; densely, finely punctate, and also 
carinate. Elytra a little wider than the prothorax, rather long, bluntly rounded at the apex, the sutural 
region strongly depressed from the base to the middle; shallowly punctate-striate, the interstices flat 
and rugulose. Rostral canal reaching as far as the posterior margin of the middle coxe, becoming 
shallow posteriorly. Femora dentate, the tooth on the anterior pair almost obsolete. 
Length 3-3}, breadth 12-14 millim. 
Hab. Mexico, Ciudad in Durango (//6ge). 
Two specimens. Very like a Californian insect sent me by Mr. Wickham under 
the name of Piazurus californicus, Lec.*, but with the vestiture of the elytra 
finer and that of the prothorax almost entirely fulvous, the sutural depression much 
deeper, the alternate elytral interstices rufescent, and the rostral canal a little longer. 
Both species are rather elongate in shape. 
3. Lechriops albisquamis, sp. n. (Tab. VI. figg. 15, 15a.) 
Subovate, robust, black, the antenne and the tips of the tarsi obscure ferruginous ; rather sparsely clothed 
with coarse, narrow, white scales, the prothorax with two small, elongate-triangular spaces on the disc, 
and the elytra with a narrow, irregular, angulate fascia below the base, a spot on the shoulder, another 
on the disc towards the apex, and a patch at the sides, almost bare, the seriate punctures of the elytra 
each with a narrow white scale; the posterior femora with a broad black patch at the middle. Head 
broad ; eyes very large, narrowly separated; rostrum carinate and rugosely punctate at the base, very 
sparsely, finely punctate in its outer half; joint 2 of the funiculus a little longer than 1. Prothorax 
short, somewhat gibbous on the disc, gradually narrowing forwards, constricted in front, deeply bisinuate 
at the base; coarsely, closely punctate, and sharply arcuato-carinate. LElytra subcordate, truncate at 
the apex; deeply punctate-striate, the interstices a little wider than the strie, flattened, and rugose. 
Mesosternal depression shallow, that of the metasternum small and foveiform. Legs short and stout ; 
femora sharply unidentate ; intermediate and posterior knees dentate. 
Length 34, breadth 2 millim. 
Hab. Guatemaua, San Juan in Vera Paz (Champion). 
One specimen. JL. albisquamis is one of those forms that are almost intermediate 
between Copturus and Lechriops, the mesosternal depression being shallow. The 
coarse white vestiture of the prothorax and elytra is somewhat evenly distributed ; 
the bare spaces are small and inconspicuous. 
4. Lechriops canescens, sp.n. (Tab. VI. fig. 16.) 
Very near L. albisquamis, the vestiture a little finer; the prothorax with the two bare spaces on the disc 
larger, the elytra with a broad triangular space below the base (extending inwards to the second stria) 
and a large apical patch sparsely clothed with black or black and white scales (leaving the base, suture, 
and a broad oblique fascia beyond the middle white); the prothorax less convex on the disc and with the 
median carina not so prominent; the elytral interstices scarcely wider than the strie; the legs more 
slender, the tooth on the anterior femora long and narrow; the meso- and metasternal excavations 
shallow. 
Length 22-3, breadth 1? millim. 
Hab. PanaMa, Bugaba (Champion).—CotomBia (Mus. Brit.). 
* Placed by Casey in his genus Gelus. 
