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42. Khodobaenus ypsilon. (Tab. VII. figg. 13, 13 



c?.) 



Rhodobamus ypsilon, Chevr. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1885, p. 280 l . 



$ . Rostrum about as long as the prothorax, abruptly deflexed from the broad, coarsely punctate, basal 

 portion, the apical portion compressed and punctured to near the tip ; first ventral segment slightly 



depressed in the middle at the base. 

 § . Rostrum with the apical portion longer and almost smooth, the peduncle of the submentum with a small 



compressed prominence in front. 



Length 5 



9, breadth If -3 millim. 



Hob. Mexico x (Mus. Brit.), San Andres Tuxtla, Toxpam, Juquila (Salle), Cordova 

 (U.S. Nat. Mus.), Oaxaca, Tapachula (Hoge); Guatemala, San Juan and San Geronimo 

 in Vera Paz, Cerro Zunil, Zapote {Champion) ; Nicaragua, Chontales (Bichardsori) ; 

 Costa Kica (coll. Sharp), Tucurrique ( U.S. Nat. Mus.) ; Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui, 



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Tole (Champion). 



Numerous examples. 



A small, narrow, elongate form, ferruginous, variegated 



with black 



the black markings on 



the prothorax condensed into three vittae (the 



outer two marginal), and those 



sutural streak 



more 



less interrupted oblique stripe on the disc (extending from below the shoulder to the 



middle of the suture, and sometimes reduced to two spots), a common oblong patch 

 on the suture at the apex, and a longer one along the sides posteriorly ; the prothorax 

 longer than broad, sparsely punctate, and with a transverse, arcuate depression on the 

 disc towards the base, which is limited on each side by an oblique, cinereo-pruinose 



streak and sometimes preceded 



four transversely placed small cinereous spots ; 



the elytra comparatively short and very little wider than the prothorax ; the scutellum 

 narrow ; the rostrum (viewed in profile) subdentate at the base on each side, and 

 somewhat abruptly separated from the head ; the antennal scape nearly twice as long 



as the funiculus. 



A male from San Geronimo is figured. 



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43. Rhodobsenus cariniventris, sp. n. (Tab. VII. figg. 14, 14 a, b, <j .) 



Somewhat fusiform, opaque above, pruinose beneath, ferruginous, the prothorax with five vittae (one down 

 the middle, one along each outer margin, and one along the lower part of the flanks), the elytra with 

 two interrupted oblique fasciae (one extending from a little below the shoulder to the middle of the 

 suture, the other subapical, and each formed by two or three spots, which are sometimes coalescent) 

 and a short streak at the base of the suture, and the metasternum and abdomen in part, black ; the 

 fine scattered punctures (in fresh specimens) surrounded by a whitish dot. Kostrum about as long as 

 the prothorax, abruptly deflexed from the broad, narrowly sulcate basal portion, the apical portion 

 compressed, sparsely punctured at its base in the $ , smooth throughout and slightly longer in the $ , 

 the peduncle of the submentum with a very small prominence in front in both sexes. Prothorax 

 about as long as broad, obliquely narrowed in front, bisinuate at the base, transversely excavate on the 

 disc posteriorly, very sparsely, finely punctate. Scutellum elongate-triangular. Elytra a little wider 

 than the prothorax, finely punctate-striate, the interstices each with a row of very fine scattered 

 punctures. Pygidium conical. Beneath very sparsely, finely punctate ; first ventral segment of the <5 

 broadly depressed and with a short, conspicuous, cariniform prominence in the middle (fig. 14 b), this 

 being just traceable in the $. 



Length 8|-10§, breadth 3-3§ millim. ( tf $ .) 





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