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2. Cactophagoides gibberosus, sp. n. (Tab. IV. figg. 19, 19 



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Flattened above, black, opaque, the surface in great part covered with a brown incrustation. Rostrum as 

 long as the prothorax, somewhat tapering outwards, the basal portion moderately widened, silicate, and 

 coarsely, confidently punctate, the apical portion shining and very sparsely, finely punctate, becoming rugose 

 laterally towards the base. Prothorax as long as broad, subquadrate, sinuate at the sides, becoming a 

 little narrower towards the deep subapical excision ; the surface impressed with very coarse, confluent 

 punctures, the interspaces between which are obliquely or sinuously raised, the disc broadly excavate in 

 the middle posteriorly. Scutellum flattened. Elytra scarcely wider than the prothorax, subparallel at the 

 base, rapidly narrowed from about the basal third ; uneven, punctate-striate, each elytron with three 

 stout, elongate elevations on the disc, together forming an interrupted oblique ridge (one on each of the 

 interstices 2, 3, 4, that on 3 longer than the others), and the seventh interstice also raised from about 

 the basal third to near the apex. Pygidium sparsely punctate, tumid along the middle. Beneath 

 coarsely punctate ; first ventral segment hollowed down the middle, the fifth shallowly foveate at the 

 apex. Anterior coxae rather narrowly separated, the intercoxal portion of the presternum with an oblong 

 prominence in the middle anteriorly ; intermediate coxae separated by nearly their own width. 



Length 16, breadth 6| millim. ( c? •) 



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Flatter than C, 



the rostrum more 



tapering 



bquadrate, without longitudinal ridges on the disc and 



g the blunt marginal tooth ; the elytra with fewer longitudinal elevations on 



the disc (three only in an obi 



f punctures less interrupted 



the anterior and intermediate coxse less approximate, the prosternum with an oblong 





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Sphenophorus (genre 



error) . 



38° 



Calandrides), Chevrolat, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1882^ p. 578 (part.) (in 





Phyllerythrurus *, Chevrolat^ op. cit. 1885, p. 92 (part.) *. 



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Kostrum stout, arcuate, subeylindrical ; peduncle of the submentum sulcate and vertically bilamellate as in 

 Cactophagus and Cactophagoides ; anterior coxae very narrowly, the intermediate coxse moderately 

 separated; prosternum feebly developed behind the anterior coxae; antero-intercoxal process of the 

 metasternum triangular or subcorneal ; femora unarmed ; tibiae rounded at the outer apical angle, fringed 

 with extremely short hairs in both sexes; third tarsal joint large, spongy-pubescent beneath; body 

 rhomboidal or subfusiform, the prothorax or elytra with sanguineous or ochreous stripes or fasciae. 



Type, Gurculio sanguinolentus^ Oliv. 







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Chevrolat included five Tropical-Amer 



under Phyllerythrurus, but th 



character he gave for it was the red band at the base of the ely 



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includes numerous handsomely - marked Tropical - American forms, differing from 



Uucactophagus (type, Calandra 



sternum and the sulcate pedu] 

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of the submentum, and from Cactophagus 



process of the metasternum and the general rhomboidal 



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The name is misprinted Phylleruihrus in the Zool. Eecord, 1885, Ins. p. 121, and the wrong volume 



quoted " (6) iv.," instead of " (6) v." 























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