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broader scutellurn, and the rufofulvoiis elytra, with a broad sharply- defined black 

 sutural stripe. From the Venezuelan C. interstitialis, Faust, the type ( $ ) of which I 

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3. Catolethrus ebeninus, sp. n. (Tab. I. fig. 29, s .) 



Elongate, shining, black, the antenna at the base or entirely, and sometimes the tarsi also, ferruginous. 

 Head with a few minute scattered punctures, transversely grooved between the eyes ; rostrum ( <$ ) stout, 

 subcylindrical, feebly curved, distinctly widened at the apex and behind the middle, sparsely, finely 

 punctate, ( $ ) shorter, arcuate, much more slender, and almost smooth. Prothorax ( 6 ) longer than 

 broad, suboval, about equally narrowed in front and behind, abruply constricted and tubulate at the 

 apex, sparsely, finely punctate, except along a narrow space down the middle, ( $ ) less elongate and not 

 so abruptly constricted in front. Scutellurn small, transverse. Elytra very little wider than the pro- 

 thorax, gradually narrowing from the base, the apices each rather broadly and bluntly rounded; finely 

 seriate-punctate, the punctures placed in fine shallow striae, the two inner striae divergent at the apex, 

 the interstices flat, minutely uniseriate-punctate, the first (sutural) and third raised and convex on the 

 apical declivity, the third and ninth confluent just before the tip. Beneath sparsely, somewhat coarsely 

 punctate, the first ventral segment very slightly depressed down the middle in the <$ . Legs short and 

 stout, the femora so abruptly excavate near the tip as to appear subdentate, glabrous in the S ; tibiae 

 sinuate within in both sexes. 



Length 3|-4|, breadth 1-1$ minim. ( 8 2 •) 



Hob. Mexico, Motzorongo in Vera Cruz (Flohr : 2); British Honduras, Belize 

 (Blancaneaux : 8). 



Two males and one female. A smaller, less elongate female (length 3 mm.) from 

 Las Vigas, Mexico (Hbge), piceous in colour, with more slender antennse and more 

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are uniformly coloured, and the abdomen is neither foveate nor excavate in the male. 

 C. basalis. Woll., is another allied form. 



4. Catolethrus fallax. (Tab. I. figg. 30, 30 «, 8 .) 



Catolethrus fallax, Boh. in Schonh. Gen. Cure. viii. 2, p. 285 ( <J ) 1 . 



8. Rostrum moderately curved, very stout, broad, slightly widened at the apex and at the basal third, 

 depressed (and sometimes slightly hollowed down the middle) at the base, closely, finely punctate ; femora 

 almost glabrous beneath ; ventral segments 1 and 2 excavate and bit'oveate as in C. longulus, the fovea? 

 on 2 sometimes coalescent, 5 also with a large deep foveiform depression (fig. 30 a). 



2 . Rostrum arcuate, much more slender, cylindrical, wideued towards the base, very sparsely, finely punctate. 



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Broader and more robust than C. longulus. the elytra subtruncate at the apex, the 



femora more strongly clavate, the posterior pair sometimes armed with a small tooth, 

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