224 RHYNCHOPHORA. 
Male. Deep piceous, the prothorax between the discal elevation and the base, and the apical half of the elytra, 
blackish. Similar to the female in shape and sculpture except towards the apex of the elytra, which are 
not dilated posteriorly ; the interstices not declivous behind, ending round the declivity in a series of 
blunt tubercles set with scattered sete; declivity circular, convex, somewhat oblique, subopaque, with 
rather indistinctly impressed radial lines of punctures on its upper half, the sutural margins narrowly 
elevated and furnished with small seriate tubercles bearing subsquamous sete, the rest of the surface not 
- tuberculate. 
Hab. * Mexico.—ANTILLES, Cuba 1. 
I refer to this species three specimens probably from Mexican, perhaps from San 
Domingo, tobacco. The male can be separated from that of other species by the 
parallel elytra and the absence of lateral tubercles on the declivity. 
Hylocurus errans, sp. n. 
Fem. Cylindrica, subopaca, piceo-nigra, elytris piceis; prothorace superne ad basin crebre punctato; elytris 
cylindricis, haud profunde punctato-striatis, interstitiis angustis, transverse rugosis, punctatis, posterius 
tuberculis setiferis parvis uniseriatim ornatis; declivitate convexa, striata, interstitiis aqualiter tubercu- 
latis, 2° 4° tamen abbreviatis. 
Long. 2°6 millim, 
Female. Cylindric, a little smaller and more slender than H. cancellatus, 2 , dull, piceous-black, the prothoracic 
elevation and the elytra (at least at the base) brown. Front flattened, subimpressed over the mouth, 
densely and rugosely punctured, with no median elevated line; antennz fusco-testaceous. Prothorax 
a little narrower than in f. cancellatus, 2 , rather more evidently constricted in front ; surface entirely 
dull, rough with rather fine granules, intermingled with scattered stronger ones over the anterior third, 
weaker about the middle, and gradually replaced towards the base by close shallow punctures. Scutellum 
large, obtuse triangular, punctured. Elytra more than a half longer than the prothorax, the sides 
parallel, gradually rounded behind into the oblique but rounded apical margins, the terminal mucro short, 
broad, and blunt; surface with close punctured strie, rather deeper behind, crenate with large close 
shallow punctures; interstices narrow, convex, transversely rugose, with single series of small close 
tubercles beginning above the declivity, and carrying short sete; declivity convex, more weakly striate, 
the interstices convex, continued to the apex and uniformly tuberculate, the second and fourth abbreviated 
by the union of the adjacent striw, the interspaces dull, closely reticulate. Underside black; legs 
piceous, the tarsi lighter. 
Hab. tMExico. 
I have four examples of this insect from tobacco. It requires careful discrimination 
from H. cancellatus, 2 , but can be distinguished by the shallower non-dilated punctures 
of the striz, the more rugose and less shining interstices, and the opaque declivity, the 
interstices of which are evidently convex and the punctures finer. 
Hylocurus vagabundus, sp. n. 
Fem. Cylindrica, subelongata, subnitida, piceo-nigra, antennis pedibusque rufo-piceis ; prothoracis basi sub- 
nitida, granulato-punctata; elytris striato-punctatis, striis in dimidia parte apicali solum impressis, 
interstitiis angustis, subrugosis, in declivitate convexa equaliter subtiliter seriato-tuberculatis, 2°, 4° ante 
apicem abbreviatis. 
Long. vix 2 millim. 
Female. Cylindric, subelongate, piceous-black, the thoracic elevation, antenne, and legs rufescent. Prothorax 
evidently longer than broad, widest at the base, the sides straight to before the middle, the apex broadly 
