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glance by the large tuft of erect black sete at each shoulder of the elytra*. It is 
evidently related to the following genus, Philides, though very dissimilar in facies. 
1. Philinna bicristata, sp. n. (Tab. VIII. figg. 9, 9 a-c.) 
Ferruginous, variegated with black, the black markings on the elytra condensed into a common x -shaped 
patch on the basal half of the disc and a streak at the sides towards the apex; the rostrum testaceous, 
the base of the femora, tibize, and joints 1-3 of the tarsi black, the rest of the legs ferruginous ; the 
elytra sparsely, the rest of the upper surface thickly, clothed with rather long, decumbent, piliform, 
ochreous and white scales—which are coarser, imbricate, and almost entirely ochreous along the apical 
half of the suture,—intermixed with very long, erect, scattered, black and white sete, the black sete 
clustered into a large dense tuft on each shoulder, the elytra also with a few radiato-pectinate white 
scales at the sides and apex; the under surface densely set with pectinate white and ochreous scales, 
those on the metasternum almost wholly silvery-white; the legs with pallid piliform and pectinate 
scales and scattered sete. Rostrum very slender, almost smooth, nearly reaching the apex of the 
metasternum in the 9, a little shorter in the g. Prothorax densely, finely punctate, and also carinate. 
Elytra deeply punctate-striate, the interstices convex and not wider than the striz. Pygidium with two 
visible segments in the g, and one only in the 9. Beneath closely punctate ; ventral segment 5 very 
deeply emarginate in both sexes, shallowly foveate at the apex in the ?. 
Length 24-21, breadth 13-132 millim. (¢ 9.) 
Hab. GuateMALa, Zapote, Pacific slope (Champion). 
Two specimens only of this extraordinary Curculionid have been obtained. 
PHILIDES, gen. nov. 
Head globose; rostrum long, filiform, arcuate, the scrobes rapidly descending; antenne inserted at the middle 
of the rostrum, the funiculus 6-jointed, the club acuminate-ovate, with its basal joint short, not longer 
than the second ; eyes oval, exposed, rather large, well-separated ; prothorax convex, bisinuate at the 
base, rounded at the apex, without ocular lobes; scutellum small, exposed; elytra oblong, separately 
rounded at the apex, leaving the vertical bisegmented pygidium exposed ; rostral canal deep, confined to 
the prosternum ; anterior coxs narrowly separated, unarmed ; mesosternum flattened, subvertical ; inter- 
mediate cox moderately distant ; metathoracic episterna very broad; ventral segments 1 and 2 rather 
convex, 3-5 flattened down the middle, 3 and 4 very short, the second suture bisinuate; legs very slender, 
moderately long; femora unarmed, the posterior pair not extending beyond the apex of the abdomen ; 
tibiee unarmed at the inner apical angle; third tarsal joint broad and bilobed; tarsal claws with a 
broad blunt tooth at the base ; body oblong-ovate, hairy and also clothed in part with radiato-pectinate 
scales. 
The single species referred to this genus has the general facies of an Anthonomus or 
Balanobius. It seems best placed in the Zygopina, near Philinna. The exposed 
vertical pygidium is suggestive of the Ceuthorrhynchina. The unique type is 
apparently a male, though it has the tibiz unarmed at the inner apical angle. 
1. Philides anthonomoides, sp. n. (Tab. VIII. figg. 10, 10 a, 8.) 
Oblong-ovate, moderately convex, shining, black, the antenne (the club excepted) and the tips of the tarsi 
ferruginous; above sparsely clothed with long, fine, erect, white hairs, which become coarser and 
imbricate along the elytral suture, the basal margin of the prothorax, scutellum, under surface, and 
* In the British Museum there is a somewhat similar unnamed S.-American form, with two long spines 
projecting from each side of the elytra, as in the genus Pteracanthus. 
BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Coleopt., Vol. IV. Pt. 5, December 1906. SS 
