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EHYNCHOPHOEA. 





H. erransj 



tly 7-jointe 



Lee, being closely related to the Indian insect. The funicul 





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H. pubescens, but in the American forms known to me th 



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1. Himatium rugicolle, sp. n. (Tab. I. fig. 26.) 



Elongate, narrow, depressed, subopaque, ferruginous ; thickly clothed with rather coarse, semierect, curled, 

 blunt, ochreous setae, those on the elytra uniseriately arranged down each interstice. Head between the 



eyes, and the rostrum also, densely, rugulosely punctate. Prothorax longer than broad, gradually 

 narrowing forwards, feebly constricted in front, narrower than the elytra ; densely, shallowly, confluently 

 punctate, a smoother bare space in the centre at the apex excepted. Elytra moderately long, with rows 

 of oblong, coarse punctures, separated by flat, rugulose interstices, which are of about the same width 

 as the punctures. Legs short and stout. 

 Length 2, breadth '4- millim. 



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Hob. Guatemala, Capetillo (Champion). 







One speci 



Extremely like the N.-American H. errans, Lee. (examples of which 





of H. conicum, Lee, have been sent me bv Mr. Barb 



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smaller, the nroth 





than the elytra and not so coarsely punctured, the elyt 

 aore scattered and the interstices Quite flat. 



with 



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CATOLETHRUS. 







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Catolethrus, Schonherr, Gen. Cure. iv. p. 1077 (1838) ; viii. 2, p. 285 ; Woll 



Lond. 1873, pp. 437, 474, 557, 617. 





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Woll 





This is one of the most easily 





recognized C 



genera 



inhabiting 



Tropical 





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the species * having the inner dorsal striae of the elytra deeply impressed 



















27 b) 



form of sculpture suggestive of 



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Phaceqaster, Wollaston, was based upon the male of Catoleth? 



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Boh 



insect, like C. fallax, h 



m flattened at the base and 











much broader than 



the same 



f C. longulus, the peculiar femoi 



characters ascribed to it being present in the type ( c? ) of the 



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Catolethrus 



C. Ion qui us 



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female of Phaceqaste 



pical Catoleth 



Catolethrus Iceoiusculus, Woll.) 



The species captured by mvself in Central America were found 



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m sappy wood 

 grouped thus : 



particularly/ 1 believe, of Musaceous pi 



The four for 



Rostrum subcylindrical in both sexes, slender in ? . [Catolethrus.] 

 Elytra with the sides indeterminately refescent and the sutural region 



darker; prothorax sparsely punctured; first ventral segment deeply 

 excavate and 4-foveate in $ 



may be 



longuluSj Boh. 

























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* The Tahitian and other forms referred to it belong elsewhere. 





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