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96 Mr. F. P. Pascoe on the genus Hilipus, 
ARNITICUS. 
Scrobes apicales vel subapicales, rostro infra antice 
paulo dilatato. Tibie@ submucronate, mucrone _hori- 
zontali, haud curvato. Ceteris fere ut in Hilipodo. 
The rostrum in this genus is so dilated beneath as to 
show the scrobes about half their length when viewed 
from above; this character occurs, although rarely, in 
Hilipus, at least as the genus now stands. The mucro, 
however, at the apex of the tibiz is a more important 
character, but which is also shared by the next genus, 
from which it may be distinguished by its normal elytra. 
The type is Hilipus gladiator of M. Jekel’s MS. The 
second species differs structurally in the scrobes com- 
mencing a little further away from the apex of the 
rostrum. dA. brevicollis has a shorter prothorax and 
longer elytra in proportion. 
Arniticus gladiator. (PI. L., fig. 8.) 
A. ovatus, fuseus, setulis fulvis sat dense tectus, 
plagis pallidioribus variegatus, supra granulatus ; elytris 
convexis, striato-punctatis, interstitiis et sutura ad 
apicem, elevatis; rostro basi striolate. Long. 8 lin. 
Hab. Brazil. 
Ovate, dark brown, rather closely covered with fulvous 
setulose scales, the disk of the prothorax at the sides 
with an oblong patch, each elytron with a smaller one 
near the shoulder, and a large cordate one—common to 
both elytra, and enclosing a lozenge-shaped fulvous spot— 
posteriorly and nearly touching the apex, pale silaceous, 
but whitish towards the margins; rostrum much longer 
than the prothorax, slightly curved, finely striated at 
the base, and punctured; a small but very deep fovea 
between the eyes, the latter somewhat reniform; an- 
tenne brown; second joint of the funicle twice as long 
as the first; club only a little longer than the last three 
together; prothorax transverse, well rounded at the 
sides, a slightly elevated line in the middle, granules 
small, and in the middle of the disk rather crowded ; 
scutellum oblong-cordate; elytra rather broad, a little 
incurved at the sides, abruptly convex from the base, 
but less so posteriorly, striate-punctate, punctures 
minute, interstices sharply raised, each bearing a row of 
small glossy granules less in size and number on the 
