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EHODOB^NUS. 



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i like Homalostylus nigrofasciatus, but separable therefrom by the slender, apically 



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thickened antennal scape, the non-cremilate rostrum of the male, the non-excavate 



x, &c. 



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15. Ehodobseiras pinguis. (Tab. VI. figg. 16, 16 a, $ .) 



Rhodobanus pinguis, Chevr. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1885, p. 283 \ 









Broad, black, above and beneath sometimes rufo-variegate, the shallow depressions and punctures of the surface 

 each filled with a brownish-cinereous incrustation, the larger rounded spots thus formed more or less 



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condensed into two broad vittae on the disc of the prothorax and two irregular transverse fasciae on 



the elytra (one before, the other beyond the middle), the space between the fasciae in great part black. 

 Rostrum stout, strongly arcuate, the apical portion smoother in the $ than in the <S and with an angular 



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prominence near the tip beneath. Ventral excavation of the <$ broad and rather shallow. 



Length 12-13*, breadth 5-54 millim. ( 6 2 .) 





Hab. Mexico x (Truqtii), Cuernavaca (C. C. Learn, 



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U.S. Nat. Mies.), Juquila 



?), Tehuantepec (Mus. Brit.). 





T ' ave seen eleven examples of this species, including the type ( 8 ), and th 





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ping 



described as a 



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ariable B. pustulosis with the large intermixed greyish spots on the elytra condensed 





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fasciae and the space between them in great part black 













16. Khodobaenu s confusus. (Tab. VI. figg. 17, 1 



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c? • Eostrum shorter than the prothorax, abruptly bent inwards from the widened basal portion, closely 

 punctate to near the tip, the peduncle of the submentum angulate or with an inconspicuous prominence 



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ventral excavation narrow, almost obsolete. 



.9 . Rostrum with the apical portion smoother and a little longer, the peduncle of the submentum sharplj 



dentate in front. 

 Length 9-11, breadth 3^-34 millim. 



Hab. Mexico (Truqui ; Mus. Brit.; Flohr), Toxpam {Salle 1 ), Jalapa, C 



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Palm as (Hoge 









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not rare in E 



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This 



is a 



hat 



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B. pustuloses, with two broad, transverse, cinereous fa 



base* the other 





the middle) separated by a still broader black space, upon 



hich the cinereous dots along the interstices are more 



The tooth 







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IS VI 



d in profil 



monsrst the seventeen specimens before me, some 



obscure 



ferruginous maculate with black 



female aooears to be commoner 









17. Khodobsenus maculifer 



VI. figg. 18, 18a, b, 8.) 





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1885, p. 111 2 . 



Rhodobcsnus eentromaculatus, Chevr. loc. cit. pp. 276, 280 3 . 





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