164 RHYNCHOPHORA. 
rounded ; piceous, with basal border lighter, closely pubescent, striate, the interstices nearly flat, granu- 
late towards base, and with a single series each of erect bristles. Underside and legs piceous, the former 
rather closely pubescent; anterior tibis with the upper border dilated at apex into a rounded, shortly 
dentate lobe. 
Hab. Mexico, Motzorongo in Vera Cruz (Flohr); GuaTemata, Cerro Zunil 
(Champion); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 
Numerous specimens were taken. The vestiture and coloration of this species are 
of a very common Hylesinid type, and resemble that of Cissophagus. ‘They are, 
however, unusual in Phiwotribus, with which the generic characters of this species 
agree. 
3. Phleotribus scabratus, sp. n. 
Oblongo-ovalis, opacus, piceus, breviter fulvo-setosus ; prothorace valde transverso, lateribus rotundatis, antice 
constrictis, supra dense exasperato ; elytris striatis, interstitiis fortiter rugosis et setis squameformibus 
prope suturam modo biseriatim compositis instructis. 
Long. 2°8 millim. 
Oblong-oval, dull, piceous-brown, with short, fulvous, setose hairs. Head finely shagreened, front impressed, 
shortly pubescent; antennw red, the scape fringed, the club infuscate, with moderately long lamelle. 
Prothorax transverse, the hind angles rounded, the sides obliquely rounded from before the base and 
constricted anteriorly, surface covered with close rugose asperities and scattered, short, decumbent hairs. 
Scutellum rounded, rugose. Elytra a little wider than the prothorax and two-thirds longer, rounded 
and crenate at base, the sides parallel, the apex rounded, its margin not prominent; rather coarsely 
striate, the interstices subconvex, with close, strong, transverse rugee and short, erect, squamiform hairs 
arranged in an irregular double or treble row on the sutural interstice throughout, and on the inner 
interstices from the base to the middle, towards the apex and sides in a single row. Underside and legs 
piceous or ferruginous; anterior tibia widened and subtruncate at apex, rather strongly toothed on the 
upper margin. 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 
This insect, described from two examples, rather strongly resembles Lulytocerus 
championi in shape and the character of its sculpture, though it does not approach it 
in the antennal structure. ‘The specimens show no sexual difference, and are probably 
both males. 
4, Phleotribus obliquus. 
Phleotribus obliquus, Chap. Syn. Scol. p. 45 (Mém. Soc. Liége, 1873, p. 253) '. 
Short-oval, rather dull, black, the antennz and legs piceous. Head large, short, finely punctured, with short, 
erect pubescence, front impressed ( g ), convex (2); antennz inserted far forward, the scape ( ¢ ) fringed. 
Prothorax subhemispherical, slightly contracted in front, densely punctured except over an irregular 
subcarinate median line from the base to the middle, scarcely pubescent, the sides and apex muricate. 
Elytra wider than the prothorax and nearly twice as long, the sides rounded throughout, more strongly 
towards the apex, of which the margin is not prominent ; with crenate strie, the interstices subconvex, 
with elevated rugs, close and irregular at the base, becoming transverse and more remote about the 
middle and diminishing to single series of tubercles on the apical third, which, except for these, is smooth 
and shining. Anterior tibia gradually dilated and obsoletely spined. 
Length 3°5 millim. 
Hab. Mexico 1.—Co.omsia }. 
