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and the velvety-black patches on the elytra are nearly as large as in B. nawradi. T 



males are all in bad condition and they want the bristly hairs on the rostrum. It 





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7. Ehodobsenus tessellatus, sp. n. (Tab. VI. figg. 7, 7 a, 2 .) 



2 . Very like B. interrupts (infra), but with the depressed brownish spots on the elytra longer and more 

 equally distributed (showing no tendency to become coalescent into fasciae), those on the interstices large 

 throughout, transverse or rounded, and more or less confluent with the much smaller spots along the 



striee ; the spots on the prothorax closely placed, the two fovese on the disc obsolete ; the peduncle of 

 the submentum with a more or less prominent tooth at the base ; the legs stout. 



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ngth 17-191 breadth 6|-7f millim. 





iT.au. Guatemala, Cerro Zunil, Pacific slope 4000 feet {Champion). 



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c examples, precisely similar, except that in one of them the dentiform prominence 



at the base of the peduncle of submentum is sm 



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8. Khodobseims saginatus, sp. n. (Tab. VI. figg. 8, 8 a, s .) 



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Subelliptic, broad, robust, opaque, black, the depressions of the rather uneven surface filled with a brownish 



incrustation, the large spots thus formed around the punctures on the prothorax and elytra here and 

 there confluent and giving an irregular tessellated appearance to their surface. Rostrum arcuate, a little 

 shorter than the prothorax, very stout, somewhat closely punctate to near the tip, the basal portion 



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moderately widened, the peduncle of the submentum with a small tubercle in front in the $ . Antennae 

 stout, the funiculus pruinose. Prothorax nearly as long as broad, rounded at the sides anteriorly, 

 moderately sinuate at the base ; sparsely, rather coarsely punctate, the disc uneven and with one or two 

 distinct foveas on each side about midway between the base and apex, Scutellum triangular, depressed. 

 Elytra much wider than the prothorax, oblong-subcordate, comparatively short ; finely punctate-striate, 

 the interstices each with a row of scattered punctures, the very shallow, rounded, incrustate depressions 

 surrounding most of them as wide as the interstice itself. Pygidium sparsely punctate, setulose. 



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Beneath sparsely, coarsely punctured ; ventral excavation of the <J shallow. Legs robust ; femora 

 fringed with moderately long, and the dilated tibiae with short, hairs. 4 

 Length 13.1-15, breadth 54-6 h millim. ( 6 $ .) 



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Guatemala, Cerro Zunil and Dueiias, 4000-5000 feet (Champion). 



the Pacific slope. Less elongate than B. tessellatus, the 



more uneven and the brownish tessellation irregularly distributed, 



the prothorax distinctly bifoveate on the disc, the intermediate coxae less approximate. 



Broader and more robust than the Mexican B. pinguis, the upper surface more uneven, 



Two specimens, both from 





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e incrustation not condensed into stripes or bands. 





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9. Khodobaenus interruptus, sp. n. (Tab. VI. figg. 9, 9 a, $ .) 



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Oblong, rather broad, robust, opaque, black, the depressions and the umbilicate punctures of the upper and 

 under surfaces filled with a brown or greyish-brown incrustation, the rather large spots thus formed 



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the fascia* separated and followed by a darker space. Rostrum ( c? ) stout, considerably shorter than the 



more or less condensed on the elytra into two transverse fasciae Cone before, the other beyond the middle), 



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