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EHTNCHOPHOEA : CTJRCULIONIN^. 205 



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similar crest a little nearer the middle, the prothorax with intermixed darker decumbent scales on the 

 disc, those on the flanks uniformly reddish-brown. Head rugosely punctate, the eyes large and 

 somewhat distant ; rostrum about as long as the head and prothorax, curved, moderately stout, rugosely 

 punctate and carinate in its basal half, the apical portion bare and sparsely, finely punctate ; antennae 

 (fig. 25 b) inserted at the middle of the rostrum, joints 1 and 2 of the funiculus equal in length, the club 





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elongate, compact, as long as the four preceding joints united. Prothorax strongly transverse, rounded 

 at the sides from near the base, narrow in front; densely, uniformly punctate, and sharply, finely 

 carinate. Scutellum small, oval. Elytra much wider than the prothorax, transversely convex, 

 arcuately narrowing from near the base ; punctate-striate, the interstices densely punctate, 3, 5, 7, and 

 very sharply costate, 8 also with a short humeral ridge, the ridge on 3 and 5 undulate and cristate 



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below the base. Beneath densely punctate ; first ventral segment with a transverse, interrupted, 

 densely squamose, median ridge. Eostral canal not quite reaching the metasternum. Legs moderately 

 long; femora unidentate ; tibiae curved. 

 Length 7, breadth 4 millim. ( <$ ?) 



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Hab. Guatemala 1 ? (ex Staudinger) 





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One specimen, labelled with the MS. name Coelostemus cristtda, Fst. This species 

 somewhat resembles Coelostemus tardives, Boh., but it is more nearly related to 



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Eubulus flavovariegatus and its allies. E. eristula may be known by 



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club, basally cristate elytra, unidentate femora, curved tibiae, &c. The transverse 

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METRIOPHILOIDES, gen. nov. (to follow the genus Metoposoma, p. 58 





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pilose club and a closely setose funiculus ; prothorax with prominent ocular lobes ; scutellum rounded, 





Head small; eyes large, rounded, widely separated above, coarsely facetted; rostrum deflexed, slender, 

 arcuate, the antenna inserted behind the middle, the latter with a long, cylindrical, slender, annulate, 



convex ; elytra broad, subtrian gular ; rostral canal very deep, closed behind, reaching about as far as 

 the hind margin of the intermediate coxse, and occupying the entire space between them ; mesosternum 

 depressed; anterior and intermediate coxae about equally, the posterior pair widely, separated; 

 ventral segment 2 longer than 3 and 4 united, the first suture arcuate and sharply denned; legs 

 elongate; femora linear, unidentate; tarsi rather slender, the third joint strongly bilobed, the claws 



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simple and divergent ; body subovate, rugose, squamose 





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Type, M. 



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The type of this genus is related to Metriophilus and Metoj 



them in having an elongate antennal club, a closely setose funiculus, long, 



femora, a longer rostrum, a depressed mesosternum (the raised u-shaped 

 being altogether wanting), &c. The distinctly annulate antennal club, dep 



mesosternum, &c, separate Metriophiloides from Oylmdrocoryms, Schonh. 





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Metriophiloides barbicornis, sp. n. (Tab. IX. figg. 26, 26 «, b.) 



maque, black, the antenna and the tips of the tarsi ferruginous ; variegated above with a somewhat 

 dense clothing of rather broad, ochreous, pale brown, and white scales (the white scales on the elytra 

 here and there clustered into small spots or patches), the elytral interstices and legs also set with 

 intermixed, longer, setif orm, decumbent or semierect ochreous scales ; the vestiture of the under 

 surface much sparser, the scales on the propleura large and broad. Head densely, rugosely punctate, 

 deeply sulcate between the eyes ; rostrum reaching the front of the metasternum flattened at the apex, 

 shining, closely, finely punctate and tricarinate at the base, almost smooth in its outer half ; antenna 









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