450 BRUCHIDES., 
Thorax dark red, indefinitely marked with shining pallid pubescence, rather coarsely 
punctate, greatly narrowed in front. Scutellum with two minute patches of dense 
nearly white pubescence. Elytra of an obscure rufous colour, with a dark mark round 
the scutellum, and behind this a broad pallid band; finely striate. Pygidium very 
elongate, clothed with pallid subochreous pubescence. Hind tibie not arcuate, pro- 
longed at the apex to form a very short sharp spur. 
This species agrees with the Bruchi with conical thorax of Schénherr’s Grex I, 
Stirps I, Manipulus I, but has the pygidium formed as in the Pachymeri. Only two 
examples have been obtained. 
21. Bruchus lituratus. 
Convexus, rufus ; antennis crassis fuscis, thorace lineis tenu‘ssimis duabus ornato ; elytris fascia angusta mediali 
albida; pygidio basi albido-pubescente; corpore subtus tenuiter griseo-vestito, parapleuris coxisque 
posterioribus fusco-rufis, albido-maculatis. 
Long. 23 millim. (capite deflexo). 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2500-4000 feet (Champion). 
This species is very distinct on account of its remarkable coloration, but it also is 
structurally peculiar, as by the abbreviation in the middle of the three penultimate 
ventral segments it accords with the small species of the Pachymerus group, while by 
its other characters it might be placed in Schénherr’s Manipulus I of Grex I. The 
three basal joints of the antenne are small and red in colour, the other joints being 
much larger ; joints 6-10 each broader than long, red, but clothed with a dark fuscous 
pile. The thorax is transversely conic, the sides oblique, not concave; surface quite 
even, red in colour, near each side with a very fine line formed by three connected, very 
slender gutte, and there is also a very minute pallid spot in front of the scutellum. The 
elytra are red, and have across the middle a very slender angulate white band; this 
band is connected on each wing-case with a few minute transverse pallid spots near the 
outside, so that the band appears furcate on each elytron. The posterior femora are 
armed with one rather short tooth; the tibie are rather short and stout, curved only 
slightly at the knee, and with a short apical spur; basal joint of hind tarsus very long. 
22. Bruchus suaveolus. (Tab. XXVI. fig. 8.) 
Niger, albido-vestitus ; elytris dimidio basali nigro-vestito, albido-signato; antennis pedibusque rufis, femoribus 
posterioribus nigris, apice rufo, albido-vestitis ; femoribus posterioribus dente gracili denticuloque minuto 
bifido instructis. 
Long. 23 millim. (capite deflexo). 
Hab. Nicaragua, Chontales (Janson); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui, Tolé (Champion). 
Antenne pale red, short ; joints 5-10 transverse. Head short. Thorax conic, scarcely 
transverse, covered with a pale ashen pile ; the sculpture is rather coarse, though much 
concealed by the clothing. Elytra with the basal half black, an abbreviated transverse 
