38 RHINOTMETUS. 



beating in the forests near to Constancia (the English boarding- 

 house kept by Mr. E. Heath, in the heart of the Organ Mountains), 

 December 1856. 



3. Rhinotmetus cruciatus. (Fboxt. fig. 4.) 



R. oblongo-ovatus, subparallelus, elongatus, fulvo-piibescens, punc- 

 tato-striatus, niger ; capite antice producto et ad medium cari- 

 nato, ad basin antennarum bitubercidato, fulvo-pid>esccnti, ad 

 basin granulato, inter ocidos nigro, ad basin fusco-rufo ; thorace 

 elongato, subdepresso, lateribus p>arallelis, antice constricto, plus 

 minus fid vo-pubcscenti, rufo, ad marginem et ad medium fusco ; 

 ehjtris robustis, distincte punctato-striatis, nigris, pilo flavo 

 testaeeo brevi dense vestitis, apud humeros macida subcirculari 

 nigra, et apicem juxta altera oblongo-ovali, Jiis macidis quatuor 

 denudatis ; antennis filiformibus, nigro-fuscis, art. 2-4 rufo 

 suffusis ; pedibus nigro-fuscis, posticorum tibiis tarsisque rufo- 

 fia vescentibus. 



Long. corp. 3 lin., lat. 1 lin. 



Oblong-ovate, subparallel, subelongate, for the most part flavo- 

 fulvous, pubescent, punctate-striate, black. Head narrow (as com- 

 pared with the thorax), produced broadly in front (the labrum being 

 abruptly narrower than the apex of the head) : from the base of the 

 antennas are two oblique carinations extending to the outer margins 

 of the labrum; between these is a medial longitudinal carination 

 which reaches the base of the antennae ; immediately above the base 

 are two longitudinal tubercular elevations, divided the one from the 

 other by an abrupt and short fovea : eyes tolerably large and glo- 

 bose, situated at some little distance from the base of the head ; the 

 surface between the eyes is fulvo-pubescent ; at the base distinctly 

 granulated ; near the insertion of the antennae the colour is black, 

 at the base rufous or fusco-rufous. Thorax broader than the head, 

 elongate, subdepressed ; the sides parallel, constricted in front, and 

 slightly marginate; the base (when viewed laterally) is subde- 

 pressed; the anterior angles are obsolete; the surface is clothed 

 throughout with a fine fulvous pubescence (more distinctly near the 

 base and sides) ; in colour fulvo-rufous, the margins, and also a 

 medial longitudinal line, being fuscous. Scutellum triangular, im- 

 punctate, flavous. Elytra broader than the thorax, subparallel, 

 tolerably robust, rounded at the apex, punctate-striate (the striae 

 being, except at the sides, obsolete, and the punctures deep and 

 distinct) ; the colour is black, — a broad antcmedial band, the apex, 

 and alstf the suture, being rufous ; these cause the rest of the sur- 

 face to constitute four large and subcircular black spots (those at the 



