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BH1NAKIS.US. 



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sufficiently with the species of BMnanims (type, Pent art hrum fulvicorn e , Broun), from 



New Zealand, to be included in the same genus. The tarsi are comparatively stout 



in R. jpilicauda. 



The American forms may be tabulated thus : 



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a. Tarsi with the 3rd joint comparatively broad, distinctly emarginate ; the basal 



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joints rather narrow. 



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species larger and more robust . 



hirtipennis. 



b\ Rostrum very feebly widened towards the tip in both sexes : species smaller 



and narrower. 





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a 2 . Elytra very elongate and depressed ; eyes small. 



a\ Rostrum relatively stouter ; ventral segments 1 and 2 broadly sulcate 



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b\ Rostrum more slender; elytra flatter planatus. 



b 1 . Elytra shorter and less depressed. 



a\ Body piceous ; elytral interstices very feebly convex ; eyes larger . . tenuiculus. 

 b\ Body ferruginous ; elytral interstices flat ; eyes smaller . . . . . [peruanus*.] 

 b. Tarsi shorter, with the 3rd joint very little wider than the first and second, 



these latter comparatively stout; elytra as in R. tenuiculus; eyes rather large, pilicauda. 



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1. Rhinanisus hirtipennis, sp. n. (Tab. I. fig. 13, j .) 



Elongate, narrow, depressed, moderately shining, finely alutaceous, fuseo-castaneous, the eyes, the space 

 between them, and the under surface blackish ; clothed with a very fine scattered pubescence, the elytra 

 with longer, semierect, pallid, setiform hairs at the apex. Head (the globose basal portion excepted) 

 somewhat coarsely punctate ; eyes rather large ; rostrum nearly as long as the posterior portion of the 

 prothorax, slender and sparsely punctured in the $ , a little shorter, stouter, considerably widened 

 towards the tip, and more closely punctured in the tf , the antennae inserted at about the basal third ( tf ) 

 or fourth ( 2 ), the scape reaching the posterior limit of the eyes. Prothorax a little longer than broad, 

 abruptly constricted in front, somewhat rounded at the sides and gradually narrowing from the middle 

 forwards, closely punctate. Scutellum small, transverse. Elytra elongate, flattened, slightly wider than 

 the prothorax, subparallel in their basal two-thirds ; closely punctate-striate, the interstices narrow and 

 feebly uniseriate-punctate, the punctures becoming more conspicuous on the apical declivity. Beneath 

 closely, finely punctate ; ventral segments 1 and 2 sulcate down the middle in the d 1 . Tarsi rather 









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Length 3L breadth T \ millira. ( tf ? 



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* RllinamSUS peruanus, sp. n.— Elongate, narrow, depressed, faintly alutaceous, shining, ferruginous, the 

 eyes black, the elytra with numerous erect pallid setae at the apex. Head and rostrum somewhat coarsely, 

 closely punctate, the rostrum subcylindrical, very slightly widened towards the tip : eyes small. Pro- 

 thorax longer than broad, constricted in front, rather sparsely punctate. Elytra moderately elongate, 

 parallel in their basal half, coarsely seriate-punctate, the punctures placed along faint striae, the inter- 

 stices flat. Length 24 millim. ( $ ?) 



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Hob. Peru, Maropan (coll. Fry. in Mus 









One specimen. Near B. tenuiculus, but more depressed, entirely ferruginous in colour (the eyes excepted), 

 the elytral interstices flat. Very like the New Zealand R 

 at the apex), the anterior coxae more approximate. 



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