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the antenne, the latter being median in the male, slightly post-median in the female ; 
the prorostrum is flatter in the male and bicarinate behind. ‘The tarsal lobes are 
arge, and the femora very distinctly toothed. 
1. Hemipsalis crassus, sp.n. (Tab. II. figg. 3, 2; 3a, underside of head and 
rostrum, ¢; 30, mandibles from in front.) 
Rufus, nitidus, prothorace fusco-vittato ; elytris lineis flavis perbrevibus ornatis, profunde striatis, striis sub- 
crenatis, interstitiis convexis plus minusve obsolete transversim corrugatis. 
Long. 16-18 millim. 
Hab. Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt). 
Antenne thick, red, in the male 6 millim. long, in the female shorter; the tenth joint 
scarcely so long as the ninth, and not much more than half as long as the eleventh. 
Prorostrum finely granulate, in the male posteriorly with two convergent carine. The 
metarostrum has on the upper surface a very large deep depression ; this only extends 
back as far as the middle of the eyes, and is therefore widely separated from the nuchal 
constriction. Thorax short and broad, shining, not punctate and not canaliculate. 
Elytra red, each with numerous short yellow lines, six or seven of which form a trans- 
verse fascia behind the middle ; the deep striz are indefinitely punctured so as to be 
crenate, and the interstices are more or less wrinkled; the tips are rounded. The 
abdomen of the male is slightly, the breast very little, impressed ; the pygidium with a 
large excessively deep fovea. 
Two specimens. 
Group ARRHENODINA. 
EPISPHALES. 
Automolus, Kirsch, Berl. ent. Zeitschr. xi. p. 218 (1867) (nec Burm.). 
Episphales, Kirsch, op. cit. xiv. p. 878; Power, Pet. Nouy. Ent. i. p. 241. 
Cyriodontus, Kirsch, Berl. ent. Zeitschr. xi. p. 216. 
There are in tropical America certain Brenthide allied to Orychodes and Ectocemus 
of the Old World. For one of these Kirsch proposed the name of Episphales (originally 
Automolus), and for another that of Cyriodontus. In the ‘ Munich Catalogue’ Episphales 
is accepted as valid, but Cyriodontus is merged in Arrhenodes. ‘This latter point is, 
however, incorrect, for if Hpisphales be adopted and Cyriodontus rejected, the latter 
should be associated with Hpisphales rather than with Arrhenodes. ‘The best course to 
adopt in our present very imperfect condition of knowledge appears to be to recognize 
a single genus allied to Arrhenodes, but wanting the characteristic dilatation of the 
male rostrum; we may leave the subdivision of this genus to be treated when more is 
known of the species. | 
I now place in Episphales a considerable variety of forms, nearly all of which are 
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