OOO [October, 



posterior margins of the segments scarcely pitchy, finely, and not very closely 

 punctured and jxibescent, more spiiriniily behind. . 



c?. 6th ventral j-e^meut tiia;:y;u]arly excised. 



Hah. Nilgiri Hills {II. L. Andrewes). 



Erratum.— In the description of tlie {ienus Metolinus, ante, p. 147, line 16, 

 for " characters applying " read " charactei's not applying." 



Aiwil 1920. 



SOME NEW COLEOPTERA FEOM COSTA EICA, 

 BT G. C. CHAMPION, F.Z.S. 



My friend, Dr. P. P. Calvert, of Pliiladclpliia, has recently sent me 

 for determination a number of small Coleoptera captured by himself in 

 various j^arts of Costa liica in 1909, few of which are recorded from 

 that country in the " Piologia Centrali- Americana." There are several 

 novelties amongst the insects sent, four of which are described in this 

 paper, co-types of these being presented to the British Museum. Some 

 others from the same region, found by Dr. Calvert or M. Picado, have 

 been recorded in preceding volumes of tliis Magazine [c/". xlix, pp. 2-6 

 (1913), liii, pp. 223, 224 (1917)], in which Dr. and Mrs. Calvert's 

 book, entitled "A year of Costa Rica Natural History^" was also 

 reviewed {op. cit. liii, p. 184). The other additions to the local fauna 

 wnll be included in the complete list to be published eventually in an 

 American periodical by Dr. Calvert. The description of a remarkable 

 new species of Sispidae, captured b}' Mr. C. H. Lankester in Costa 

 Kica in April last, is also given in the j^resent paper. 



The insects described are as follows : — 



CURCULIONIDAE. HALTICIDAE. 



Hypocoeliodes sexnodosus. Ejntrix j^alwlicola. 



Galeeucidae. Hispidae. 



Diabrotica occliisa. Homalispa sulcicollie. 



Cephalodonta tetracantha. 



Hypocoeliodes sexnodosus, n. sp. 



Short, suhrhomboidal ; nigro- or rufo-piceous, the anterior part of the pro- 

 thorax rufescent, the depressed basal portion of the elytral suture black, the 

 antennae, tarsi, and apical margin of the elytra rufo-te?>taceous ; variegated 

 with small cinereous and brown adpressed scales. Head densely, rugulosely 

 punctured, without trace of supra-orbital ridges, the eyes large and somewhat 

 prominent ; rostrum very stout, curved, moderately long, rugulosely punctate, 

 smoother in their apical half in 5 > the antennae inserted at about the middle 

 in 2 and at a little nearer the tip in (T, the fmiiculus 7-jointed. Prothorax 



