ALEOCHARA. 149 
This insect, very readily identified by its peculiar sculpture, is similar in facies to 
A. notula. Only one specimen has been found; it has the hind margin of the last 
dorsal plate of the hind body rather broad, straight, densely and extremely finely 
crenulate. 
7. Aleochara verberans. 
Aleochara verberans, Er. Gen. et Sp. Staph. p. 164’. 
Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Hége), Puebla (Sad/é)—Sovurn America, Colombia? to Brazil. 
This species apparently varies a good deal in the closeness of the punctuation of the 
hind body: and in this respect the two Mexican individuals before me show considerable 
discrepancy ; but they are pretty certainly conspecific with examples from Para and Rio 
de Janeiro, considered by Fauvel and myself to agree sufficiently with Erichson’s 
description of A. verberans. 
8. Aleochara quadrata. 
Nigra, nitida, parce punctata; elytris rufo-obscuris, pedibus fuscis; antennis parum elongatis, articulis penul- 
timis leviter transversis. 
Long. 5 millim. 
Hab. Mexico (Truqut). 
Antenne neither elongate nor stout, third joint slightly longer than the second ; fourth 
not stout, as long as broad, fifth also about as long as broad ; seventh to tenth transverse, 
the first of them very slightly so, the last quite evidently; terminal joint rather large, 
acuminate, quite as long as the two preceding together. Palpi dark. Head sparingly 
and indistinctly punctate. Thorax strongly transverse, quite sparingly but not finely 
punctate, shining. EHlytra indistinctly rufescent on their disk, shining, sparingly and 
coarsely punctate. Hind body with a transverse depression at the base of each of 
segments 2, 8 and 4, and in this depression coarsely punctate, elsewhere almost 
impunctate. Legs dark piceous, with the tarsi reddish. 
This species is allied to A. verberans, and has like it four very indistinct punctures 
placed so as to form a square on the middle of the thorax; but A. guadrata is very 
much more sparingly punctate than is A. verberans. I have seen only one specimen. 
9. Aleochara mexicana. 
Nigra, elytris brunneis, ad angulum externum fuscescentibus, antennarum basi fusco-rufa, pedibus rufis 
abdomine apicem versus fortiter attenuato, crebrius fortiter punctato. 
Long. 6-8 millim. 
Hab. Mexico, Tehuacan and Mirador ({ége), Juquila (Boucard, coll. Sallé); 
GvuaTEMALA, San Gerdénimo 3000 feet (Champion). 
Antenne stout, third joint rather longer than the second, fourth rather longer than 
