Pantomorus faber Sharp 1891

Hab.COSTA RICA, Volcan de Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers).

Niger, sat dense squamosus, antennarum scapo tibiisque rufis; elytris ovalibus, ad latera circaque suturam pallide squamosis, setis tenuibus erectis parce vestitis.
 
Long. 7—8 millim.

Antennæ rather long, moderately stout; second joint of funiculus less than one and a half times as long as the first; the joint before the club nearly twice as long as broad. Rostrum sparingly squamose, not elongate, the channel deep. Thorax strongly transverse, much rounded at the sides; black, with a line of dense pallid squamosity on the flank and with a slight condensation of the scanty scales along a vague space on each side of the middle; obsoletely canaliculate. Elytra slender, curvate at the sides; with an elongate lateral mark of pallid scales, twice nearly interrupted by the dark colour, and also with pallid scales distributed broadly along the sutural region; the erect hairs fine and rather long, but scanty. Legs red, with the femora more or less obscure. Two specimens.
 
The only species this much resembles is P. subcinctus; but besides differing from that insect in colour and in its more oval elytra, it has the second joint of the funiculus rather shorter and thicker.

This insect, to judge from a specimen incorrectly labelled “Guat.

” in the British Museum, appears to be the P. subcinctus of Jekel's collection, and not the one identified under that name by Dr. Sharp.