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100 Mr. F. P. Pascoe on the genus Hilipus, 
Plethes verrucosus. 
P. pyriformis, niger, subnitidus, elytris concoloribus, 
verrucis majusculis omnino tectus, apicibus obtuse pro- 
ductis. Long. 7 lin. 
Hab. Colombia. 
Pyriform, black, glossy, elytra entirely black and 
covered with large warts or tubercles; rostrum rather 
stout, smooth, finely punctured; scrobes and antenne 
as in the preceding species; eyes lateral; prothorax 
small, transverse, rounded at the sides and granulate, 
the disk smooth, abruptly constricted anteriorly ; scutel- 
lum subscutiform ; elytra shortly ovate, broadest behind 
the middle, entirely and closely covered with large oblong 
flattish tubercles arranged in rows, the longitudinal 
intervals very narrow with very few punctures, apex of 
each elytron produced in a short rounded knob; body 
beneath and legs glossy, smooth, the abdominal segments 
minutely punctured. 
The sculpture alone will at once distinguish this 
species from the preceding. 
ACALLESTES. 
Characteres ut in Hilipodo sed scutellum nullum, et 
elytra connata, basi utrinque rotundata. Tibie bimucro- 
nate. 
At the first glance this Curculionid might readily be 
passed over as an Acalles; except, however, in the cha- 
racters mentioned above, it could not be well separated 
from Hilipus as the genus stands at present. The 
straight, not bisinuate, base of the prothorax might also 
be cited, were it not that a close approach to this is 
made in some of the Hilipoda. The metasternum is 
unusually short. 
Acallestes talpa. (PI. IL., fig. 8.) 
A. obovatus, nigrescens, pallide silaceo-squamosus, 
supra granulis nitidis nigris obsitus; elytris striato- 
punctatis. Long. 4} lin. 
Hab. Colombia. 
Obovate, blackish, with round, brownish silaceous 
scales, and numerous glossy black granules above, those 
on the prothorax with a pale narrow seta at the base 
directed forwards, those on the elytra with a similar seta 
