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6 (a). Hilipus trifurcatus, sp. n. (Tab. VIII. fig. 22 



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. Elongate, narrow, shining, the prothorax dull, except along the incomplete smooth median line, black ; 

 the rostrum, legs, prothorax, and apex of the elytra clothed with scattered fine, hair-like, white scales, 

 the sides of the prothorax and the tip of the elytra with narrow minute bluish scales intermixed ; the 

 elytra each with two dense patches of rather broad, imbricate, white scales on the disc — one extending 

 down the basal third, trifurcate within and extending broadly outwards posteriorly, the other transverse, 

 undulate, and excised behind, at about one-fourth from the apex. Head foveate between the eyes ; 













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rostrum stout, feebly curved, somewhat closely punctate to near the tip, and with indications of a smooth, 



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raised median line. Prothorax narrow, longer than broad, gradually narrowed anteriorly, deeply 

 bisinuate at the base ; very sparsely, finely punctate, the interspaces alutaceous. Elytra very elongate, 



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one half wider than the prothorax : rather finely seriate-punctate, the interstices flat and subalutaceous. 





Yentral segments 1 and 2 broadly sulcate down the middle. 



Length 15-J-, breadth 5 millim. 



Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (coll. Fry, in Mus. Brit 



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specimen. Longer and narrower than E. hieroglyphic us ; the rostrum much 

 the prothorax relatively narrower and without submarginal vitta ; the elytra 

 somewhat similarly-shaped, inwardly trifurcate, white streak at the base, the 

 markings reduced to a transverse undulate fascia ; the ventral excavation ( 6 ) 



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HilipuS CollectllS (p. 14). (Tab. IX. fig. 3, var.) 

 We are indebted to Dr. K. M. Heller for a variety of this insect, from Tucurriqr 

 Costa Eica (ex coll. 8 child-Burg dor f), with the elytral markings reduced to a few sm 

 S p t s _one at the base, two, placed obliquely, at the sides before the middle, tv 



anex. and three or four (still smalh 



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obliquely placed, on the disc towards the apex, 



g the sides beyond the middle. This insect ( 6 ) also has the prothorax 

 tudinally grooved at the middle of the basal margin {% accidental), and it may h 

 be separated from the Nicaraguan H. collectus when 

 for examination. 



further specimens 





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spinipennis (p. 716) 



To the locality given, add :— Nicaragua {Belt, in coll. Fry) 





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47 (a). Hilipus patens, sp. n. (Tab. VIII. figg. 23, 23 a, ? .) 



Oblong-ovate, broad, black, the antenna, apices of tbe tibiae, and tarsi ferruginous or obscure ferruginous ; 

 above (tbe granules excepted) thickly clothed with small reddish-brown scales, the elytra each with a 

 very large, elongate-triangular, velvety-brownish-black patch on the outer part of the disc at about the 

 middle, the patch bordered along the inner edge by a pallid line, which shows a tendency to coalesce 

 with a similarly-coloured oblique line running down the sides of the prothorax posteriorly on to the 

 humeri the inner part of the disc of the elytra also streaked with brownish-black, the scutellum and 

 prothorax with whitish or ochreous scales intermixed, the eyes bordered with a narrow line of pallid 

 scales ; the legs and under surface sparsely clothed with long, hair-like, ochreous scales. Head foveate 

 between the eyes, closely punctate ; rostrum stout, almost straight, about as long as the head and 





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