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Bah. Nicaragua, Chontales {Belt, Janson) ; Costa Rica ( Van Patten), Cariblanco 



835 metres (LanTcester) ; Panama, Chiriqui (coll. Fry). 



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examples. 





Very like P. ornatus, but with the oblique fascia on the elytra 



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straighter and not formed by a row of distinctly-separated spots, the striae not sinuate, 



the rostrum more deeply sulcate towards the base above. 





The humeral spot is scarcely 



from above. The allied P. circumjectus has the oblique fascia on the elytra 



nger and placed at 



a different angle, and continued forwards along the sides of the 



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prothorax. 



4. Phyllerythruriis miniatopunctatus. 



(Tab. IV. figg. 23, 23 a, <s .) 



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Cactophagus miniatopunctatus, Chevr. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1882, p. 580 l . 



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Somewhat fusiform, opaque above, black ; the elytra each with seven or eight ferruginous or ochreous spots — 

 three or four in an oblique line on the disc beyond the middle, two in a line with these on the outer 



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margin below the humeri, one on the third and another on the fifth interstice below the base (placed 

 transversely, both small), and one on the outer margin towards the apex ; the prothorax with a broad, 

 lanciform, basally-widened median vitta and an oblong patch at the sides, and the elytra with a stripe 

 along the sides and a broader one on the disc (the latter extending from the two sub-basal spots to near 

 the tip), velvety-black ; the rest of the surface covered with a purplish or brownish- cinereous pruinosity. 











Rostrum stout, curved, about as long as the prothorax, rugosely punctate to about the middle, shallowly 

 sulcate beneath in the <5, the widened basal portion narrowly sulcate, the apical portion almost smooth 



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from near the base in the 9 . Prothorax about as long as broad, subconical, bisinuate at the base, 

 broadly depressed on the disc posteriorly, sparsely, finely punctate. Scutellum elongate-triangular, 



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flattened. Elytra finely striate, the ninth stria sinuate and all with scattered small punctures, the inter- 



flat. Pygidium sparsely punctured, setulose. Beneath sparsely punctate ; 



ventral segment 1 



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broadly flattened or depressed down the middle, and 5 transversely foveate at the apex, in the $ . 



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emora with a few short erect hairs beneath. 



Length 11-13, breadth 4|-5| inillim. ( tf ? .) 



Hal. Mexico l (Mus. Holm.) ; Guatemala, Cubilguitz and San Juan in Alta Vera 



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Paz (Champion) ; Nicaragua, Chontales (Janson). 



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have seen four examples of this species 



including the 





type ( cf ), the one from 

 Nicaragua with the small ferruginous spots on the disc of the elytra showing a tendency 

 to surround a common, interrupted, heart-shaped, black patch. Viewed laterally, the 

 velvety-black streaks are very conspicuous. The dense pruinosity modifies the colour 

 r the rest of the dark portion of the surface. 











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Phyllerythruriis sinuatus, sp. n. (Tab. IV. figg. 24, 24 #, <$ .) 



Somewhat fusiform, opaque above, black ; the elytra each, with a strongly sinuate oblique series of eight rather 

 large fulvous spots extending around the lower portion of the humeri to near tne apex of the third 

 interstice (the humeral spot curved, elongate, and in great part hidden from above, the last two also 



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elongate) : the rest of the surface covered with a brownish-cinereous or bluish-grey pruinosity. Rostrum 



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very stout, as long as the prothorax, strongly arcuate, rugosely punctate to near the tip, the latter almost 

 smooth, the abruptly-widened basal portion narrowly sulcate up to the deep frontal fovea, the apical 



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portion much smoother in the $ . Prothorax as long as broad, somewhat conical, bisinuate at the base, 

 broadly depressed on the disc posteriorly, very sparsely, finely punctate. 



Scutellum triangular, flattened. 

 Elytra finely punctate-striate, the striae 4-9 abruptly sinuate between the fulvous spots, the interstices 



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