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Ischiomastus, Kirsch, Abhandl. Zool. Mus. Dresden, 1888-89, no. 4, p. 27 : Faust, Stett. ent. 



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Zeit. 1893, p. 6. 





Lixomorpha, Champ, ante&, iv. 4, p. 62 (1902). 







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I marginatus was omitted from our enumeration of the Hylobiina. 



Ischiomastus albomarginatus. 



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Lixomorpha albomarginata, Champ, antek, iv. 4, pp. 63, 719. 





Ischiomastus marginatus. 



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Ischiomastus marginatus. Faust. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1893, p. 10 \ 



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Bab. Costa Eica [ 6 ] \ — Colombia, Cauca Valley [ $ ] 1 . 





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examination. It is allied to /. albomarqinatus. 



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ANCHONINA. 



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DIOPTBOPHORUS (p. 93). 



Vmongst some Dioptrophori recently sent us by Mr. Wickham, from Tres Marias 



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os) * and Salazar, Mexico, there is one specimen (from Tres Marias) perhaps 



" "e to D. ocularis, the type of which cannot now be found in the "Sommer" 



. It is a little larger and broader than D. simplex, and has the prothorax 





more uneven, more widened forwards, and abruptly constricted anteriorly. 





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 LIXUS (p. 101). 







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15 (a). Lixus breviculus, sp. n. 



<3 . Comparatively short, rather narrow, black, the antennae (joints 1-3 of the club excepted) and tarsi obscure 

 ferruginous ; sparsely clothed with very fine cinereous pubescence. Head and rostrum densely, finely 

 punctate, the latter curved, stout, and a little shorter than the prothorax, the eyes somewhat prominent, 

 the head feeblv foveate between them. Prothorax strongly transverse, gradually narrowing from the 





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base; densely, minutely punctate, with numerous coarser punctures intermixed, the disc slightly 

 depressed down the middle at the base and apex. Elytra very little wider than the prothorax, mode- 

 rately long, rouuded at the tip ; seriate-punctate, the interstices flat, densely punctulate, the scutellar 

 region transversely depressed, the disc also with a shallow rounded foveiform depression at about one- 

 third from the apex. Beneath densely, finely punctate, with a few coarser pxinctures intermixed ; first 

 ventral segment shallowly sulcate down the middle. Legs comparatively slender, the anterior femora 

 unarmed. Wings (apparently) wanting. 



Length 8, breadth 2i millim. 



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