Pseudhypoptus

Ocular lobes of the prothorax extended inferiorly, more or less raised above, or separated from, the short ante-coxal portion of the prosternum, in P. eurylobus reaching as far as the anterior coxæ; scutellum very small; elytra subconnate and with the humeri obtuse, in ♂ very little wider than the prothorax; metasternum short; wings rudimentary or wanting†; body very sparsely squamose; the other characters as in Hypoptus.† Definitely ascertained in P. eurylobus only.

The two species placed under this genus have the general facies of an Otiorhynchus. The apically widened rostrum separates them at once from Lordops. P. eurylobus has the ocular lobes so sharply separated from the prosternum beneath that the latter appears depressed between them. The metathoracic episterna are angularly dilated anteriorly and as broad as in the winged forms, and the genus cannot therfore be placed in the “Series Apteræ.” No definite locality in Mexico is known for P. parcus‡, but we have received an allied form from Michoacan.

‡ Apparently omitted from the Munich Catalogue.