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yellow lines longer, the antenne more slender and somewhat differently formed, the 
underside of the head with coarse seriate foveoles. Antenne black; terminal joint 
elongate, twice as long as the tenth, bluntly pointed at the tip. Metarostrum deeply 
impressed longitudinally, the impression not divided into two parts. Thorax broad, 
dull, brassy, with traces of an obsolete fine channel along the middle of the posterior 
part. Elytra deeply striate, the stria next the suture nearly impunctate, the second 
and third with distant punctures; externally the punctures are larger and the striz less 
definite; the punctures are very deep, but are separated from one another by rather 
large intervals; the third interstice more or less distinctly yellow at the base and 
behind the middle, the fourth yellow on the middle; there is also some indefinite 
yellow colour on the outside behind the shoulder. Underside of head and metarostrum 
with very large foveoles closely packed and regularly arranged. 
Two specimens. 
7. Episphales minor, sp. n. 
Fusco-rufus, prothorace opaco, subznescente ; elytris flavo-lineatis, multi-striatis, stria suturali impunctata, 
ceteris plus minus fortiter crenatis. 
Long. 13 millim. 
Hab. Mxxico, Las Vigas (f6ge). 
Of this we have received but a solitary female; though very closely allied to 
EF. similis, I think there can be no doubt that it is distinct. The underside of the head 
and rostrum with some large foveoles, which are rather widely separated and irregularly 
placed. ‘The strize on the elytra are only moderately broad, and the longitudinal 
intervals are definite and well-marked ; the third interstice is yellow on the basal and 
apical thirds, the fourth is yellow on the middle, the seventh has a small yellow mark 
behind the middle, and the eighth a short mark behind the shoulder. 
8. Episphales elegans, sp. n. (Tab. IT. fig. 8, ¢.) 
Rufo-castaneus, capite thoraceque opacis, elytris piceo-rufis, flavo-lineatis, externe fortissime punctatis, inter- 
stitiis minutis. 
Long. 18-21 millim. 
- Ilab. Muxico, Omilteme in Guerrero 8000 feet (H. H. Smith), Mochitlan in 
Guerrero (Harford). 
Male with the rostrum elongate, suddenly dilated at the tip so as to form a prominent 
angle on each side of the apex; prorostrum sparingly granulate, with two series of 
larger prominences on the upper surface; metarostrum elongate, vertex rather deeply im- 
pressed ; antenne elongate, terminal joint very acuminate. Female with the prorostrum 
elongate, the metarostrum much shorter than in the male, the antenne less elongate. 
Thorax 5 millim. long, 3 broad, broadest near the base, much narrowed in front, very 
dull. Hlytra very deeply and coarsely sculptured, the sutural stria nearly impunctate, 
