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EXPLANATION OF PLATE II. 



Fig. 1 5 . Colparthrum hicinctum, n. sp. [Peru]. 



„ fasciatum Makl. [Brazil] ; 2 «, sixth ventral segment 



and penis-sheath ; 2 b, ditto, in profile. 

 „ (?) subsiynatum, n. sp. [Brazil]. 



Diseina inlateralis (= arcuatipes) Pic [Brazil]; 4 a, anterior leg. 

 „ sinuatipes, n. sp. [Amazons] ; 5 a, genital armature. 

 „ plicatilis, u. sp. [Amazons] ; 6 a, tip of antenna. 

 „ macroptera, n. sp. [Brazil]. 



„ appendiculata Pie [Brazil] ; 8 a, intermediate femur. 

 „ ohscura Makl. [Brazil], intermediate leg; 9ft, posterior leg. 

 ,, xanthostif/ma, n. sp. [Brazil]. 

 „ {Barsenis) fulmpes Pasc. [Brazil]. 

 Uroplato2}sis ochreofasciata, n. sp. [Ecuador]. 



,, a?nH///)ies Pic [Brazil] ; 1.3 «, genital armature. 



Pseudolagria mutahilis, n.gen. and sp. [Brazil], mentum, labial palpi, 

 etc. ; 14 a, maxillary palpus, etc. ; 14 b, mandible. 

 15 2 . ,, lycoides. 



A NEW BARID FROM A COSTA EICAN BROMELIAD. 

 BT G. C. CHAMPIO^^ F.Z.S. 



In the Ent. Mo. Mag. for 1913, pp. 2-7, an account was given of 

 various beetles, etc., found in epiphytic Bromeliads in Costa Rica. 

 Shortly afterwards Dr. P. P. Calvert sent me numerous other insects 

 from the same plants for determination, including a fine new weevil, a 

 description of which is appended below. The publication of his in- 

 teresting book on the Natural History of Costa Rica * has reminded 

 me of the Coleoptera received from him, and still in my possession, to 

 be handed over to the British Museum when named. 



Diastethus hromelianim, n. sp. 



$. Broad, rhomboidal, moderately convex, flattened above; polished, 

 brassy-green, the rostrum and antennae black, the knees, tibiae, and tarsi 

 nigro-violaceous ; glabrous above, the coarser punctures beneath each bearing 

 a curled, squamifurm hair. Head transversely depressed between the eyes, 

 sparsely punctate ; rostrum longer than the head and prothorax, abruptly 

 curved downward, rather slender, moderately thickened towards the base, 

 sparseh', finely punctate, the antennae inserted at about the basal third. 

 Prothorax broader than long, deeply sinuate at the base, the sides arcuately 

 converging to the narrow, tubulate anterior portion ; very sparsely, finely 

 punctate. Scutellum broad, short, smooth. Elytra much wider than the 

 prothorax, rounded-triangular, hollowed down the suture, transversely de- 

 pressed on the disc at and beyond the middle, and more broadly so at the 

 base, the humeri tumid ; finely striate, the sutural stria deeply impressed, 



* Ri'viewed, ante, p. 181. 



