RHYNCHOPHORA. A481 
Lechriops festivus (p. 107). 
To the localities given, add :—Nicaracua, Managua (Solar‘). 
Specimens of this species, and of L. infimus, Boh., have been sent us by Signor Solari 
from Managua. 
PHILIDES (p. 129). 
2. Philides comans, sp.n. (Tab. XXIII. figg. 11, lla, 4, 3.) 
Larger, broader, and more robust than P. anthonomoides; the erect bristly vestiture longer, coarser, and 
whiter, the imbricate white hairs along the suture more numerous ; the pectinate white scales at the base 
of the prothorax confined to a narrower space, but extending forward along the middle of the disc to the 
anterior margin and backward along the basal portion of the suture; the rostrum much stouter, thickly 
clothed with white hairs to the tip, closely punctate and finely carinate, the antenne inserted at a little 
beyond the middle, joint 2 of the funiculus slightly longer than 3; the legs stouter and more hairy ; the 
prothorax more convex, less densely and more coarsely punctate, the narrow interspaces shining; the 
elytra with broader and deeper striae and broader interstices, the latter with a scattered series of rather 
coarse transverse setigerous impressions and minute irregularly distributed punctures; metasternum with 
a polished, deep, rounded excavation in the middle at the apex ; ventral segments 1-4 sparsely squamose 
down the centre, 2 widened at the middle and somewhat raised posteriorly, 3 and 4 appearing depressed 
- to near the sides, 5 unimpressed at the apex *. 
Length 3, breadth 13 millim. (¢-) 
Hab. Mexico, ‘Sierra de Durango” (Hége, ex coll. Solari). 
Two specimens. It is not impossible that this Mexican insect may be the male of 
the Panama P. anthonomoides, and that the type of the latter is a female; but the 
differences are too numerous to be purely sexual. 
BARINA. 
AMBATES (p. 155). 
Ambates cretifer, var. (p. 156). 
To the localities given, add :—Costa Rica, Guapiles (Schaus, in U.S. Nat. Mus.). 
A second specimen of the variety has now been seen. 
5 (a). Ambates isthmicola, sp. n. (Tab. XXIII. figg. 12, 12a, ¢.) 
Flongate-ovate, flattened above, piceous, the antenne (the club excepted) and legs (the apices of the femora 
excepted) rufo-testaceous, the rostrum rufous in one specimen; above and beneath densely clothed with 
small scales, the head on each side between the eyes, the prothorax and elytra each with a broad sub- 
marginal vitta, which is constricted near the apex, the former also with an abbreviated median line and 
the latter with some scattered patches along the stria, sulphur-yellow, the rest of the vestiture of the 
upper surface blackish, that of the under surface coarser and denser and uniformly yellowish-white; the 
* The unique type of P. anthonomoides has a transverse almost bare depression at the apex of the fifth 
segment, not mentioned in the description. 
BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Coleopt., Vol. IV. Pt. 5, April 1909. 3QQ 
