Amphidees major Sharp 1891

Hab.MEXICO, Tepansacualco (Sallé).

Sat elongatus, æqualiter squamosus; elytris versus apicem breviter setosis, seriatim sat remote punctatis, interstitiis 3° et 5° parum elevatis, ceteris planis.
 
Long. cumque rostro 10 millim.

This greatly resembles an elongate Eupagoderes of the E. cinereus group of species, and is covered with scales in a similar manner; the rostrum, too, is only a little more slender, but its scrobes are excessively broad and vague posteriorly, so that a glance is sufficient to enable one to appreciate the distinction between the two genera. The forehead has a convexity slightly separate from the plane of the rostrum; the latter has a vague elevation of its middle near the base, and in a line with this there is a small longitudinal fovea on the forehead; the antennæ are elongate and slender, the first and second joints of the funiculus equal in length, the club elongate, slender, and acuminate, the sutures distinct, the eighth joint very abruptly separated from the club. Thorax strongly transverse, evenly rounded at the sides. Elytra considerably broader than the thorax, with a raised margin behind the scutellum, which is unusually distinct; with regular series of evident, though lightly impressed and somewhat remote, punctures, and on the declivous part with erect setæ. Hind tibiæ with a definite space at the apical truncature, formed by the divergent spinules. First ventral suture feebly arcuate in the middle, about equal in length to the second and third together; sutures extremely deep; apical segment with an indefinite raised glabrous space along the middle near the apex. One specimen.