ECBLETUS.—CHARHYPHUS. 709 
visible. Elytra elongate, without punctures, but shining and with a feeble irregular 
longitudinal wrinkling. Hind tarsi about as long as the tibie. 
Three examples were obtained of this unattractive but anomalous insect. 
CHARHYPHUS. 
Corpus elongatum, depressum, punctatum. Palpi maxillares breves; articulo ultimo sat elongato, tenui, 
subulato. Coxe anteriores parve, subglobose. Prosternum utrinque posterius processu brevi munitum. 
This genus consists of a single species, of which only one example has been found, 
and is allied to Phiwocharis and to Eleusis; it appears to connect the “ Phlceocharina” 
satisfactorily with the “Piestina.” The mandibles are prominent; the labrum short 
and broad, slightly emarginate. The antenne are short, simple; inserted at the sides 
of the head considerably in front of the eyes. The maxillary palpi are small, the 
terminal joint shorter and very much more slender than that preceding it. The pro- 
thorax is transverse. The anterior coxe are only very slightly prominent, and placed at 
the posterior part of the prothorax ; the side-piece of the latter sending off behind them 
an acuminate though rather short prolongation, which leaves a rather narrow parallel 
fissure between it and the hind margin of the prosternum. ‘The middle coxe are 
rather small and minutely separated; the hind coxe very nearly contiguous, their 
internal lamine rather large. The legs are feeble, the tibia slender and unarmed ; 
the tarsi short, apparently 4-jointed, the three basal joints being short and broad and 
difficult to discriminate, while the terminal joint is quite equal in length to the 
remaining three together. The hind body is provided with a broad but not much 
elevated lateral margin. 
1, Charhyphus brevicollis. (Tab. XVIII. fig. 25.) 
Depressus, subopacus, subtiliter pubescens, fuscus; capite nigricante; antennis, pedibus abdominisque apice 
testaceis ; prothorace fortiter transverso, medio basin versus late bi-impresso. 
Long. 33 millim. 
Hab. Guatemata, Totonicapam 8500 to 10,500 feet (Champion). 
Antenne with the third joint slender and but little shorter than the second, the 
fourth joint minute, the fifth also small; joints 6-10 transverse, the terminal joint 
small. Head large, flat, coarsely punctate; eyes small. Thorax twice as broad as long, 
but little curved at the sides, feebly narrowed behind, punctured like the head; the 
two large impressions in front of the base shallow, but quite distinct. Elytra much 
longer than the thorax; fuscous, the base and apex more rufescent; more obsoletely 
punctured than the thorax. Hind body obsoletely punctate, rather closely and distinctly 
pubescent. 
A single example was found under the bark of a pine-tree. 
