96 Mr. G. C. Champion on 7iew Cuiculiouiuae 



with the elytra more distinctly tuberculate, and the pro- 

 thorax more uneven, than the insect in the Fry collection, 

 the Nicaraguau locality for which seems to require coutirma- 

 tion. The prominences on the elytra are equal in size and 

 less conspicuous than in the nearest allied Central-American 

 forms, from most of which the present species also differs in 

 its large size and in the trinodose l3asal margin of the elytra. 

 The Colombian specimen is labelled with the MS. name 

 A. sphcBricus, Buq., in the British Museum. 



Anchonus rufipes, sp. n. 



Oblong, convex, opaque, black, the antennae and legs 

 ferruginous, the surface more or less coated with a brownish 

 exudation and also set with very minute, short, scattered 

 setse. Rostrum stout, feebly curved, about as long as the 

 ]H'othorax, rugosely punctate to the tip, not constricted at 

 the base. Eyes depressed, transverse. Antennae inserted 

 near the apex of the rostrum, the eighth joint of the funiculus 

 transverse. Protborax broader than long, rounded at the 

 sides, abruptly constricted in front ; densely foveolato- 

 punctate, the narrow interspaces here and there obliquely 

 raised or granulate. Elytra oval, at the base a little wider 

 than the base of the prothorax, moderately produced at the 

 apex ; with rows of closely placed rather fine punctures, the 

 interstices subcostate, the ridges broken up into small 

 tubercles on the apical half, and with a few widely scattered, 

 minute, shining granules. Beneath coarsely puuctate ; 

 ventral segments 1 and 2 connate in their median third. 



Length 5^, breadth 2^ millim. 



Hah. Mexico [Dupont). 



One specimen, contained in the Bowring collection, 

 purchased in 1863, and iucorrectU IdiheWeH A. elongatus, Sch., 

 in the British Museum. This species is abundantly distinct 

 from any of the Anchoni described or enumerated in the 

 ' Biologia.'' The ridges on the elytra, except towards the 

 apex, are less interrupted than in most of the Mexican forms, 

 the insect in this respect approaching A. jmnamensis; the 

 tubercles, too, on the apical declivity are small. Compared 

 with A. elongatus (the type of which I have seen), the present 

 species is less elongate and has a shorter prothorax, with the 

 sides strongly rounded, and the seriate punctures on the 

 elytra are small and closely placed. 



