CREONTIADES.—MINYTUS. 237 
narrowly of the same colour. Legs pilose, femora more or less spotted with fuscous; tibie with their 
bases and apices fuscous; tarsi fuscous. Rostrum long, about reaching the second abdominal segment, its 
apex fuscous. 
Long. 7 millim. 
Hab. Mexico, Oaxaca (Deppe, Mus. Berol.). 
CREONTIADES, gen. nov. 
Body elongate. Head moderately and obliquely deflexed before eyes, and with a distinct, narrow central longi- 
tudinal sulcation; eyes somewhat prominent, and contiguous to the anterior margin of the pronotum ; 
antenne about as long as the body; basal joint stoutest, considerably longer than the head, and sparingly 
but prominently hirsute; second joint about twice the length of the first, somewhat slender, slightly 
curved, and a little incrassated at apex; third joint a little shorter than the second; fourth joint about or 
less than half the length of the third. Pronotum subtriangular, with a distinct anterior collar, and the 
anterior margin about half the width of the posterior. Scutellum large, the disk somewhat longitudinally 
raised, and the lateral margins obliquely rounded. Corium with the costal margins subparallel. Legs 
long, sparingly hirsute, the tibia with long and prominent set. Rostrum reaching the posterior cox. 
The length of the posterior legs and its general superficial appearance give this 
genus a considerable resemblance to those comprised in the division Phytocaria; but 
the central sulcation of the head and the insertion of the antenne well in front of the 
eyes and at the lateral margins of the head, in my opinion clearly denote its position 
in the Miraria. 
1. Creontiades rubrinervus. (Megacelwm rubrinerve, Tab. XXIII. fig. 12.) 
Megacelum rubrinerve, Stal, Stett. ent. Zeit. xxiii. p. 821. 2501. 
Hab. Mexico? (coll. Sign. and Mus. Holm.); Guaremana, San Gerénimo, Capetillo, 
Volcan de Atitlan, and near the city of Guatemala (Champion). 
Since figuring the above Mexican specimen, which was considerably mutilated, I have 
been enabled to examine the type (also imperfect), in the collection of Dr. Signoret and 
to again compare both of these with perfect specimens collected by Mr. Champion. 
The legs are concolorous with the body, the posterior femora with their apical halves 
bright castaneous, and the apices of all the tarsi blackish. 
In lettering the Plate I followed Dr. Stal in considering the species as belonging to 
the genus Megacelum, but on further examination I was compelled to form a new 
genus for its reception as above. 
MINYTUS, gen. nov. 
Body subelongate, opaque. Head long, the lateral lobes slightly but angularly produced on each side in short, 
obtuse spines ; central sulcation long and distinct; antenne not so long as the body, first and second 
joints very strongly incrassated ; first joint pilose, about as long as the head, slightly curved outwardly 
and narrowed at base; second joint about three times as long as the first, pilose at base, its apex very 
slightly and globosely thickened; third and fourth joints minute, very slender, and subequal in length. 
Pronotum with the anterior margin truncate, the posterior margin concavely sinuate before scutellum, 
and from thence oblique to the lateral angles, the lateral margins concavely sinuate, the lateral angles 
distinctly produced in obtusely angulated, subprominent spines, the width between which is about twice 
