1889. ] COLLECTED IN VENEZUELA. 279 
sides, the middle of the disk darker, sometimes in shape of two longi- 
tudinal bands; elytra distinctly broader than the thorax, the basal 
portion raised, the punctured striz fine, obscured by short pubescence 
which forms longitudinal short stripes interrupted by darker spaces 
below the base, before and below the middle, the interstices slightly 
convex; underside dark, legs lighter fulvous; posterior claws 
piceous. 
Caracas, Colonia Tovar, and San Esteban. 
The present species of Physimerus shows very little difference to 
distinguish it from several other closely allied forms, yet seems to me 
to be distinct from the hitherto described species, the nearest allied 
one of which seems to be P. vaviegatus, Harold, from Colombia; in 
this species, however, the eighth interspace of the elytra is described 
as more strongly raised and as specially characteristic of that insect. 
In P. simoni there is no trace of any stronger convex interspace, and 
the punctures are not deeply but finely impressed ; the pubescence 
varies from golden yellow to grey, and is intermixed with single 
longer stiff hairs, as is frequently the case in other species of the genus ; 
the darker places or spots of the elytra are to be found below the 
basal raised portion, at the middle and below the latter, where a kind 
of zigzag obsolete transverse band is formed; all these spots are in 
some specimens scarcely visible. 
EvuPHENGES (?) SUBCOSTATUS, n. sp. 
Fulvous, glabrous above; thorax very finely punctured; elytra 
black, finely punctate-striate, the punctuation obsolete below the 
middle, the sides with an acute short ridge from the shoulder to the 
middle. 
Var. The lateral margin of the elytra more or less narrowly 
fulvous. 
Length 14-2 lines. 
Head rather deeply punctured near the eyes; palpi scarcely 
widened ; antennze fulvous, the terminal joints strongly incrassate ; 
the third joint slightly longer than the following oues ; thorax about 
one half broader than long, glabrous, the sides subangulate before 
the middle, the surface with a few scarcely visible and irregularly 
placed punctures, fulvous ; scutellum fulvous ; elytra with a shallow 
depression below the base, impubescent, the punctures rather deep 
at the anterior half, gradually finer and nearly disappearing towards 
the apex; underside and legs pale fulvous; tibize armed with a 
single spur at the apex ; claws appendiculate. 
San Esteban. 
The incrassate antennz, glabrous upper surface, and the sub- 
angulate thorax seem to place this species in Huphenges, the fili- 
form palpi preventing the incorporation in Allochroma, which other- 
wise seems closely allied. Huphenges seems, moreover, a very doubtful 
genus and contains two species with filiform and incrassate antennze 
respectively. In the present insect a distinct acute ridge runs from 
the shoulders to the middle of the elytra; these have in some 
specimens the sutural and lateral margins narrowly fulvous. 
Eo? 
