BY ARTHUR M. LEA. 471 



PoROPTERUS VERRES, Pasc; Mast. Cat. Sp. No. 5445. 



5. Upper surface, head and femora densely clothed with brown 

 rounded or moderately elongate scales, densest on tubercles; scape 

 with a few elongate scales towards apex, under surface and tibiae 

 with elongate scales. Ciliation minute, sparse and dark, almost 

 invisible with head in position. 



Convex, subcylindric, strongly tuberculate. Head convex, 

 ocular fovea small; eyes moderately granulate, produced at apex; 

 rostrum elongate, almost straight, feebly widening from scape to 

 base and apex, with large and dense punctures becoming obsolete 

 near base, scape inserted a little in front of the middle, not 

 reaching apex; basal joint of funicle distinctly longer than 2nd, 

 2nd not as long as three following combined; club subadnate to 

 funicle. Prothorax distinctly longer than wide, apex produced, 

 bifilrcate, about half the width of base ; ocular lobes slightly 

 rounded ; constriction deep, continued as a depression across 

 summit; without carina (except as a small scutellar lobe) but a 

 median line extending its whole length; two transverse series of 

 4 small and distinct tubercles. Elytra about once and one-half 

 as long as prothorax and scarcely wider about its middle ; 

 2nd interstice with a distinctly elevated granule at side of 

 scutellar lobe, with three large equidistant tubercles, the third at 

 summit of declivity (which is abrupt), below it a very small 

 tubercle; 4th interstice with 3 large ones but smaller than those 

 of 2nd, the 1st level with 1st, 2nd and 3rd a little behind 2nd 

 and 3rd of 2nd interstice, between 1st and 2nd a ver}' small 

 tubercle, and lielow third another small one, 6th interstice with 

 an elongate obtuse tubercle; shoulders somewhat thickened; sides 

 with regular I'ows of large punctures, much smaller and less 

 distinct on disc; apex very feebly bisinuate. Abdominal segments 

 almost level, sutures very distinct, basal flat, twice as long as 2nd 

 intercoxal process narrow, rounded, its sides feebly raised; 2nd 

 longest at sides; intermediates feebly convex, longer than 2nd 



