BRUCHUS. 447 
conico, subinzequali; femoribus posterioribus dilatis, subtus dentibus 7 vel 8 armatis, tibiis valde curvatis, 
apice calcari parum elongato armatis. 
Long. 4 millim. (absque capite). 
Hab. Guatemata, Capetillo (Champion), 
Head broad, evidently rostrate; eyes prominent. Antenne a good deal longer than 
the head and thorax; second joint very small in comparison with the third. Thorax very 
narrow in front, the sides feebly concavely arcuate, the hind angles very acute, the posterior 
portion more elevated than the anterior ; clothed with pubescence chiefly of a griseous 
colour, with a curved series of six indefinite black spots across the middle; numerous 
coarse punctures are visible through the clothing. Elytra marked with fuscous and 
black, with a white spot on each close to the middle of the suture, and also with a few 
small white flecks. Pygidium and ventral plates densely clothed with white pubes- 
cence. Hind femora thickly clothed with pallid griseous pubescence. 
This species is not allied to any other found in our region, but may be placed in 
Stirps II of Schénherr’s Grex II. The metasternum is flat; the femoral armature 
consists of a raised ridge armed with about eight teeth, the anterior tooth of the series 
being broken off in the example obtained ; the apical ventral plates are evidently only 
extremely abbreviate in the middle. 
16. Bruchus columbinus. (Tab. XXVI. fig. 6.) 
Convexus, fusco-rufus, obscurus, griseo-vestitus, elytris hic inde subguttatis; capite lato, oculis haud magnis, 
distantibus ; antennis pedibusque anterioribus testaceis, illis brevibus crassis, intus subserratis ; prothorace 
elongato, conico, dorso fortiter punctato; femoribus posterioribus valde dilatatis, dente elongato denti- 
culisque tribus armatis ; pygidio elongato, obliquo; segmentis ventralibus apicalibus haud abbreviatig. 
Long. 53 millim. (capite deflexo). 
Hab. GuateMata, Rio Maria Linda 500 feet (Champion). 
The eyes are quite finely granulate, not very prominent, widely separated ; beak very 
short. Antenne with four basal joints slender, the others broad. Thorax very narrow 
in front, the sides concavely arcuate, the surface even, covered with a pale griseous 
pubescence, which allows the numerous deep ptinctures to be seen. Elytra finely striate, 
covered with slightly variegate pubescence in colour like that of the thorax, but here 
and there rather darker, and paler, and interrupted by rather more distinct oblong 
darker spots. Pygidium pubescent like the thorax, distinctly punctate. Hind femora 
armed with a long pointed tooth, and close to it, the anterior in fact on it, with three 
smaller but very distinct teeth. Hind tibie moderately curvate, armed with long apical 
spur. Terminal ventral plate emarginate in the middle and subtuberculate on either 
side of the emargination. 
This is a most anomalous species, the thorax and hind legs having the structure of 
the Pachymerus group, but the construction of the hind body is quite different and 
nearer to B. humeralis and its allies. Unfortunately only one example was met with. 
