1 'tis. I F. II. (ili.WKl.v: J'liss/ilidiir i,j tlir W'orhl. 37 



an;.jlt'. A wclI-mMrkcd tiilxTcli' i.s .sometime.-^ pic^ciit between the frontal tubercles. The 

 scutelhim is stronuly jninctiired, except (iver a more or less well developed posterior median 

 band and in the lateral angles. The whole of the mesothoracic episterna are punctured ; 

 in the matt areas the punctures bear hairs, but not elsewhere. The meso.sternum bears a 

 pair of t^lossv patches in an '^-shaped matt figure as in 1'. siimulosnlcalus ; the.se patches 

 bear a iiinnlici of hair-bearing punctures, which beccjme thicker on the matt .surface 

 anterior and lateral to them, but the median matt band is hairle.ss and unpunctured. 

 The metasternum is almost as extensively smooth as in 1'. miiconiis. In ail other respects 

 V. simillimiis resembles V. sjiinijcf. 



Veturius cephalotus (Saint -Kargeau and 8erville). 

 Piissiiliis (rijlialoliis. Saint -Kai-;;e;iU and Serville. IS2.J. j). 20 (iier Kuwert). 



(^ne .specimen from Cayenne, one fmrn Surinam, and five from the Peruvian Amazon. 

 Length 35-40 mm. 



]'eti(rin>t ccplialohis was first doscril^ed from Cayenne, and our specimen from that 

 locality bears a label showing that it was identified by Kaup. The species in our collection 

 which most closely resembles Kiiwerts T'. cepJidlotus appears to me to be V . sinuadis, and (jne 

 of these has been determined as V. cephalotus by Kaup, who regarded the two as identical. 

 Kuwert's V. sinuafus is probably the .species described above as V. spinifer although this 

 lacks the hairy shoulders of the true sinndtiis of Eschscholtz. 



r. ccplidlolut! differs fnmi T'. siiniUitinis chiefly in the absence of the .spines above the 

 ends of the ni'ddle and hind tiliiac. and in the uniformly punctured and hairv anterior 

 intermediate areas of the metasterni ni. !ii addition, the two lowest terminal teeth are 

 usually distinct at the apex on the right mandible and .sometimes also on the left : the 

 maiginal grooves oi the pronotum are inclined t(» be narrower in the anterior angles and 

 more strongly punctured behind them ; and the median matt band of the meso.sternum is 

 inilined to be broader, and the hair-bearing punctures to be more definitely concentrated 

 into margin il bands. 



Veturius sinuatus (l*]s( hsc ht)ltz). 



P<ix.sfilii.s .siniKiDis. Esch.sclioltz, 1829, pp. 2o-'H\. 

 ''.Veturius cephalol us (nee siiiuolus). Kuwert 1898. p. IflS. 



Seven specimens from Brazil, including one from Rio (!rande do Sul. one from Bahia, 

 and two from Blumenau. Length 37-44 mm. 



V. sixuatiis is closely allied to V. ccplidlnlns. l)ut the two h)west terminal teeth, though 

 fused at the base, are distinct di.stally nn t)oth mandibles; the frontal ridges are often 

 obsolete ; the matt posterior angles of the mesothoracic episterna are hairless and 

 unpunctured ; the meta.sternum resembles that of V. sitnilliiiiits ; and the elytra have a tuft 

 of hair on the shoulders. 



Veturius criniceps, Kuwert 

 Fig. V. 7. p. :{|. 

 Veturius eriiiieeps. Kuwert. 1898. p. 170. 

 Two specimens from Chiriqui, Panama, 32 mm. long. 



The head difTers from that of !'. sioiilliniiis in having the central tubercle less elevated 

 and set further forward, with the result that the fnuital ridges meet in a veryobtu.se angle. 



