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and narrow. Elytra a little wider than the prothorax, finely punctate-striate, the interstices uniseriate- 

 punctate. Pygidium conical. Beneath somewhat closely punctured; first ventral segment slightly 

 depressed down the middle in the J . Femora sparsely fringed with short hairs beneath. 

 Length 6-7£, breadth 2-2£ millim. ( d $ .) 



Hab. Panama, Voican de Chiriqui [Champion). 



Six examples. A small species near B. bieinctus, but differently marked above, the 



rostrum shorter, more curved, and much thickened towards the base, the ventral 



depression of the male indistinct and without trace of carina. The two triangular 

 marks at the base of the prothorax and the one on the scutellar region together form 

 a v-shaped patch. The sexes, if rightly identified, are very similar. 



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47. Khodobsenus pantherinus, sp. n. (Tab. VII. figg. 18, 18 a, 6 .) 





Moderately elongate, subelliptic, opaque above, shining beneath ; ferruginous or sanguineous, the prothorax 

 with two spots along the middle of the disc (sometimes united into an incomplete vitta or the posterior 

 one wanting) and two others along the sides, and the elytra with a transverse or oblique patch on the outer 

 part of the disc below the base, a scutellar patch, a spot near the middle of the suture (sometimes coalescent 

 with the one on the opposite elytron and extending up the suture to the scutellar patch), a smaller spot 

 in a line with it on the outer margin, and a common, angulate, oblique, subapical fascia, black, the 

 metathoracic episterna, a spot on the lower part of the propleura, the knees, and antennae also black or 

 piceous ; the under surface cinereo-pruinose. Rostrum stout, about as long as the prothorax, abruptly 

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the $ a little longer and smooth throughout, the peduncle of the submentum with a small dentiform 

 prominence in front in this sex. Prothorax nearly as long as broad, rounded at the sides anteriorly, 

 constricted in front, very sparsely, obsoletely punctate, the disc with a conspicuous transverse, arcuate, 

 depression towards the base. Elytra much wider than the prothorax, finely punctate-striate. Beneath 

 very sparsely, finely punctate ; first ventral segment broadly flattened or depressed down the middle 

 anteriorly. 

 Length 9-12&, breadth 3±-4| millim. ( rf $ •) 



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Hab. Mexico (Flohr), San Andres Tuxtla (Salle), Cordova (Knab, in US. Nat. 



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This is a rather large, red-legged, ferruginous form of B. IZ-punctatus, with 



denned black spots on both the prothorax and elytra, and a conspicuous, 



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 twenty-three specimens seen vary but little inter se, and amongst the very long series 

 of B. IZ-punctatus before me there is nothing intermediate. The present insect 



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Moderately elongate, subfusiform, opaque above, ferruginous, variegated with black, the black markings 

 on the upper surface condensed into a spot on the head, a lanciform median vitta and two spots on 

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