402 RHYNCHOPHORA. 
clavate, the anterior and intermediate pairs dentate ; tibie feebly unguiculate ; tarsal claws divergent ; 
body cuneiform, flattened and opaque above, squamose. 
Type, S. guadridens. 
The single species referred to Sphenobaris is not unlike a Madarellus in general 
facies (except that it has the upper surface opaque and squamose, instead of polished 
and bare), but as the transverse flattened portion of the mesosternum is fully exposed, 
the genus seems best placed among the “ Baridiides vrais.” ‘The prothorax is much 
more feebly sinuate at the base than in Madarellus, Radamus, and Ampeloglypter. 
1. Sphenobaris quadridens, sp. n. (Tab. XX. figg. 7, 7.) 
Moderately elongate, alutaceous and opaque above, somewhat shining beneath, piceous ; clothed with widely 
scattered, intermixed, coarse, narrow, oblong, ochreous and minute darker scales, the larger ochreous 
scales on the elytra condensed into two small spots at the base and a dense angulate median fascia, and 
those on the metathoracic episterna into a dense elongate patch, the head and base of the rostrum also 
somewhat thickly squamose, the legs with small hair-like ochreous scales. Head closely punctate ; 
rostrum about as long as the head and prothorax, moderately stout, densely punctate and finely carinate, 
bare, shining, and almost smooth at the tip. Prothorax transverse, narrow and feebly constricted in 
front, the sides rounded anteriorly and parallel at the base; densely, finely punctate, except along the 
faint median line, the very narrow interspaces becoming obliquely confluent towards the sides. Elytra 
transversely depressed at the middle, very finely punctate-striate, the interstices broad, flat, densely 
rugulose, shallowly uniseriate-punctate near the suture. Beneath coarsely and deusely, the abdomen 
sparsely and finely, punctate. Anterior tibia sinuate, widened in their outer half. 
~ Length 3, breadth 14 millim. (2?) 
Hab. Panama, Bugaba (Champion). 
One specimen in very fresh condition. 
DEIPYLE, gen. nov. 
Mandibles curved, toothed within, slightly decussate at the tip; rostrum curved, stout, elongate, the 
antenne inserted at or slightly behind the middle, the antennal club acuminate-ovate; prothorax 
subconical, transverse, tubulate in front, strongly bisinuate at the base, the median lobe rounded and 
impinging on the scutellum, the latter small and transverse ; elytra rounded-triangular; pygidium 
exposed, vertical, not visible from above, transverse, dissimilar in size in the two sexes of D. induta; 
prosternum (fig. 8 6) with a broad polished sulcus extending from the apex to as far as the middle of the 
widely-separated anterior cox, the ante-coxal portion short, not longer than the broadly truncated basal 
process; mesosternum depressed, connate with the metasternum; femora sublinear, unarmed; tibie 
strongly unguiculate ; tarsal claws long, divergent; body rhomboid-ovate, short, sparsely squamose. 
Type, D. induta. 
The type of Deipyle looks like a Centrinid, at first sight, but it has a vertical and 
fully exposed pygidium in both sexes, and is perhaps best placed near G/yptobaris, 
Casey. D. seminuda may be included under the same genus for the present. 
1. Deipyle induta, sp.n. (Tab. XX. figg. 8, 8a, b, 2.) 
Rhomboid-ovate, rather convex, shining, rufo-piceous, variegated above with black; the upper surface 
. somewhat thickly clothed with long, coarse, hair-like, ochreous scales, which are transversely arranged 
on the prothorax and tend to form a basal and median fascia and various interrupted lines on the 
_. elytra, the vestiture of the under surface much sparser and fiver. Head densely punctate rostrum 
