300 STAPHYLINIDA. 
Hab. Guatemata, Zapote, Senahu in Vera Paz (Champion); Nicaragua, Chontales 
(Janson). 
Closely allied to HL. distans, but distinguished by the more pallid colour and by the 
fact that the whole of the last joint of the antenna is pale; the punctuation of the 
hind body is not so dense and regular. 
Three specimens have been found ; the one represented is from Senahu. 
6. Erchomus truncatus. 
Depressus, nitidissimus, niger; antennis fuscis, basi pedibusque testaceis, abdomine apicem versus flavescente ; 
capite, thorace elytrisque levigatis, his ad apicem fere recte truncatis; prothorace basi truncato, angulis 
posterioribus fere rectis; abdomine parce obsoleteque punctulato. 
Long. 27 millim. 
Hab. Guatemaa, Zapote, Cerro Zunil 4000 to 5000 feet (Champion); Nicaraaua, 
Grenada (SaJ/é). 
Extremely similar to £. politulus, but readily distinguished by several characters of 
the antenne, thorax, and elytra. The former are brownish in colour, with the two 
basal joints paler; joints 4-10 are each almost of one length, and about as long as 
broad. ‘The thorax has no distinct emargination on each side of the base, but the hind 
angles are not broadly rounded, in fact depart but little from the rectangular form. The 
elytra are very little convex, and only finely impressed along the side in contact with 
the epipleural margin; the outer angle is only slightly obtuse, and the hind margin of 
the two wing-cases taken together appears nearly straight, being scarcely at all emarginate 
in the middle. 
Two individuals were found at Zapote, and one in each of the other localities ; these 
latter have the antenne rather larger and darker in colour. 
7. Erchomus glabripennis. (Tab. VII. fig. 5.) 
Subconvexus, niger; pedibus testaceis, antennarum basi palpisque fusco-testaceis ; prothorace versus latera 
picescente ; capite, thorace elytrisque levigatis, nitidissimis ; abdomine subtilius sat crebre punctulato. 
Long. 34 millim. 
Hab. GUATEMALA, Zapote, San Gerénimo (Champion) ; NicaRacua, Chontales (Janson). 
Antenne rather slender, scarcely thicker externally, black, with the two or three 
basal joints obscure yellow ; the tenth joint about as long as broad. Thorax convex, 
very shining, entirely impunctate; the base slightly sinuate on each side; the hind 
angles scarcely at all prominent behind, very little rounded. Elytra deeply and rather 
broadly impressed along nearly the whole length of the lateral margin. Hind body 
finely but distinctly punctate, the segments at the base not at all rugose or strigose. 
This is a peculiar species, having slender and elongate hind tarsi, and thus approaching 
to Cilea ; but the margin of the epipleura is decidedly perpendicular; the hind tibiz are 
