Pseudhypoptus parcus Fahraeus 1842

Oblong-ovate (♀), narrow and subfusiform (♂), convex, black, the femora sometimes rufescent; sparsely cinereo-squamose beneath, the upper surface (abraded) almost bare, the elytra in one specimen (♀) with a common v-shaped patch of cinereous scales near the apex, the interstices each with a row of scattered setæ on the apical declivity. Head densely punctate, the rostrum coarsely longitudinally rugose, in one specimen feebly carinate down the middle. Prothorax transverse, arcuately narrowed anteriorly, feebly constricted towards the apex, the sides subparallel behind in ♂, the hind angles subrectangular, the base sharply margined; the surface closely impressed with rather coarse rounded punctures. Elytra in ♂ with the sides forming an almost continuous outline with those of the prothorax, in ♀ much broader, margined at the base; coarsely punctate-striate, the striæ becoming deep towards the apex, the interstices transversely rugose on the disc. Beneath rugosely punctate; ocular lobes of the prothorax continued round to near the anterior coxæ; first ventral segment deeply excavate down the middle, and the fifth slightly depressed along the centre posteriorly, in ♂. Tibiæ unguiculate and closely serrulate in ♂, serrulate and without apical uncus in ♀.
 
Length 7—10¼, breadth 2 4/5—4½ millim. (♂ ♀.)

Hab.MEXICO (coll. Sommer¹, in Mus. Oxon.).

The above description is taken from the types in the Sommer collection—three males and two females. The elytra in this species have the latero-inferior portion considerably developed below the base beneath, so that in the narrow males they appear to be rapidly narrowed from about the basal fifth.

Since my remarks on the abraded types of this Mexican species were published, a good specimen of it (a large female) has been detected in the Sommer collection, placed under the name Epicærus fallax, Boh. This example is somewhat thickly clothed with brownish-cinereous scales, which are condensed into a faint spot on each elytron near the middle and an indeterminate oblique fascia on the outer part of the disc towards the apex; it has the rostrum sharply carinate.