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9. Phieotribus setulosus. 
Phleotribus setulosus, Eichh. Berl. ent. Zeitschr. 1868, p. 149’; Chap. Syn. Scol. p. 44 (Mém. Soc. 
Liége, 1873, p. 252). 
Oblong-oval, rather shining, lighter or darker piceous-brown or obscure ferruginous, the elytra usually lighter 
than the prothorax,. Head (¢) sulcate, with the antennal ridges prominent ; head ( 2 ) subconvex, with 
an arcuate impression at the base of the rostrum; antenne testaceous, with the club infuscate, its lamelle 
long; scape (¢) ciliate with a pencil of very long hairs. Prothorax little broader than long, semi- 
elliptical (¢), with weak uniformly-scattered tubercles towards the apex ; subtrapezoidal (9 ), with the 
anterior angles muricate; the basal half with shallow subvariolose punctures intermingled with finer 
points. Elytra scarcely wider than the prothorax, their basal borders not very prominent, the sides sub- 
parallel], the apical margins serrate, but not acutely; surface usually with an infuscate spot in the middle 
of each lateral margin, crenate-striate, interstices flat, with series of transverse ruge becoming tuberculi- 
- form posteriorly and short pale erect sete, more apparent towards the apex. 
Length 1:8-2°4 millim. 
Hab. Guatemata, Cerro Zunil, El Tumbador, Chacoj (Champion); Panama, Bugaba 
(Champion).—CoLomBIA ?. 
The numerous examples we have received, chiefly from Bugaba, vary in size, depth 
of colour, shape, and in the length of the lamelle of the antennal club. Some five or 
six specimens from Cerro Zunil and Bugaba are smaller than the rest and more oval 
in shape; they may possibly be distinct, and there are indications that the series may 
prove to consist of as many as three species, though it would be premature to divide it 
without study of more material. 
The species appears to be common in Tropical America, and may have a wider 
distribution than that given above, for examples occur in various collections under the 
name P. setulosus, the authorship of which was referred by Chapuis? to Klug, who 
appears never to have published an account of the insect. Hichhoff! described the 
species, under Klug’s MS. name, as from “ Carolina”; this was obviously a slip of the 
pen. His type, which I have seen, is labelled ‘‘ Columbia.” 
10. Phleotribus subovatus, sp. n. 
Breviter ovalis, convexus, subnitidus, niger vel testaceus (immaturus), parce pilosus; fronte media impressa ; 
prothorace hemispherico, antice tuberculato, postice irregulariter punctato, ante basin utrinque leviter 
impresso ; elytris crenato-striatis, interstitiis fere planis, uniseriatim tuberculatis et nigro-setosis. 
Mas. Fronte latius sulcata, prothorace equaliter tuberculato. 
Fem. Prothorace ad angulos anticos muricato. 
Long. 2°3 millim. 
Short-oval, convex, black or testaceous (immature). Head with a frontal impression in both sexes, varying 
from a short linear sulcus to a small depressed pit; front (¢) broadly sulcate in addition; antenne 
piceous-red with the club black, scape ciliate in the male. Prothorax hemispherical ( ¢ ), somewhat 
truncate (@) with the anterior angles indicated by a few prominent tubercles, the disc subimpressed on 
either side behind the middle and with the posterior median process rather acute and slightly elevated, 
moderately shining, with rather close shallow punctures, the anterior third (d) with uniform scattered 
tubercles, finer and less frequent (@ ), except at the anterior angles. Scutellum rounded, convex. Elytra 
not evidently wider than the prothorax, and one-half longer, their basal borders strongly crenate, the 
sides rounded throughout, more strongly towards the apex, the lateral border of which is not prominently 
