590 Mr. F. P. Pascoe's additional 



Stout, broadly ovate, black, closely covered, except the tubercles, 

 with minute ^n-eyish or grej'ish-yellow scales ; rostrum much 

 longer than the prothorax, minutely punctured ; antennae pitchy ; 

 funicle elongate, second joint twice as long as the first, the third 

 and fourth gradually shorter, the next two round, the last tri- 

 angular ; club not longer than the first two joints of the funicle 

 together ; prothorax transverse, rounded at the sides, slightly 

 narrower at the base, the apex smooth, the disc with scattered 

 glossy black granules, at the side the granules smaller and less 

 scattered ; scutellum triangular ; elytra subcordate, convex, con- 

 spicuously broader than the prothorax at the base, the apex of 

 each acuminate, apical callus prominent, each elytron in th 

 middle with two principal rows of conical tubercles — about five in 

 each — and a few mostly smaller ones along the sutural margin 

 and at the sides ; body beneath pitchy black, with few scales. 



There are several species of Hilipus having the facies 

 of this, but most of them have the aj^ex of the elytra 

 romided. H. yrodigialis, an exception, has the rostrum 

 striate, narrower elytra, nearly parallel at the sides, 

 differently tuberculate, and "with a velvety brown patch 

 on each behind the middle, 



Hilipus arrogans. (PL XVII. , fig. 6). 



H. validus, late ovatus, fuscus, griseo-squamosus ; capite inter 

 oculos longitudinaliter impresso ; rostro elongato, confertim punc- 

 tate ; elytris tuberculatis, apice subacuminatis. Long. 8 lin. 



Hah. Brazil. 



Stout, broadly ovate, brown, with greyish scales ; head longi- 

 tudinally grooved between the eyes ; rostrum elongate, scarcely 

 curved, closely punctured; antennae ferruginous; second joint of 

 the funicle twice as long as the second, and as long as the next 

 three together ; club moderately long ; prothorax ti'ansverse, the 

 sides well-rounded, and a little narrowed at the base, the disc pale 

 greyish, with two rows of small opaque granules in the middle, the 

 sides beneath also granulate ; scutellum oblong ; elytra convex, 

 much broader than the prothorax, the sides nearly parallel, the 

 apex subacuminate, seriate-punctate, punctures minute, each with 

 a grey scale, the middle of each elytron with two rows — the inner 

 with four, the outer with five — conical tubercles, and with smaller 

 tubercles near the suture and at the sides, all very glossy black, 

 basal two-thirds of the elytra brown, the apical third pale greyish ; 

 body beneath and legs dull blackish brown with remote minute 



