332 NITIDULID. 
Head and thorax distinctly, moderately closely, punctate, the punctuation of the 
latter not finer on the middle. Elytra very short and broad, rather sparingly punctate, 
between the punctuation with very minute definite sculpture on the parts near the 
suture. Pygidium rather closely but obsoletely sculptured, dull. 
We have received a single male example of this elegant and distinct species; it has 
the mentum and submentum covered with long pale, silky pubescence. 
13. Camptodes divisus, sp. n. 
Rotundatus, convexus, nitidior, lete rufo-testaceus, scutello, elytris, mesosterno abdomineque nigerrimis. 
Long. 3 millim. 
Hab. Mexico, Atoyac in Vera Cruz (H. H. Smith); Guatemata, Zapote (Champion). 
—Souts America, Brazil (coll. Sharp), Para (Mus. Brit.). 
Antenne very short ; club with the angle in the middle of the apical joint very obtuse. 
Head (with the antenne, thorax, mesosternum, and legs) bright yellow-red. Thorax 
and elytra sparingly punctate. Mesosternal carina short. 
We have received only two pairs of this pretty little insect; the female does not 
differ from the male except by the slight distinctions at the extremity of the hind body. 
The examples in the National Collection are labelled C. nigripennis, Er., but Erichson’s 
species no doubt belongs to the subgenus Camptodes. 
14. Camptodes flohri, sp. n. 
Rotundatus, convexus, nitidus, rufo-testaceus, abdomine elytrisque nigris, his testaceo-plagiatis. 
Long. 34 millim. 
Hab. Mexico, Guadalajara (Flohr). 
Antenne short, red, the club not at all darker. Head and thorax sparingly punctured, 
bright red. Hlytra black, with distant but not fine punctures, and each with a large 
yellow mark on the middle. Pygidium blackish, almost impunctate. Beneath, the 
front parts of the body are clear red, the metasternum is more obscure in colour, and 
the ventral segments are blackish. The prosternal process is extremely short, and 
becomes very much wider immediately behind the front coxe. 
I have only seen one specimen of this distinct species; when contracted, it looks like 
a Litolibrus. 
15. Camptodes collaris. 
Camptodes collaris, Reitter, Verh. Ver. Briinn, xii. 1, p. 109". 
Hab. Mexico (coll. von Bruck }). 
The description points to a species allied to C. divisus, but having a black head. We 
have not received any such insect. 
