CAMPTODES. 343 
C. communis, var. vilis, they differ by the blacker elytra, the more finely punctate disc 
of the thorax, and the broader mesosternal carina. The apex of each wing-case is a 
good deal rounded. ‘The punctuation of the breast and ventral segments is more scanty 
than usual. The legs are slender, as in C. dimorphus. 
38. Camptodes bicolor. 
Camptodes bicolor, Er. in Germ. Zeitschr. iv. p. 333". 
Hab. Mexico (Deppe'). 
I hesitated long whether this description might not be applicable to C. melanopterus ; 
but I think not. It is, however, possible that the brief description was drawn from 
two species, of which C. melanopterus might be one, C. heterocheilus or C. laticornis the 
other. The expression “ clava subfuscescente” suggests an insect with a yellow club 
to the antenne which had been a little discoloured by decay. 
39. Camptodes erythroderus, sp. n. 
Rotundato-ovalis, sat convexus, dilute rufus, capite supra, pectore abdomineque nigricantibus, elytris nigris ; 
antennarum clava sat lata, brunnea. 
Long. 4-5 millim. 
Hab. Mexico, Playa Vicente, Cordova, Tuxtla, Juquila, Cosamaloapam (Sad/é), 
Atoyac in Vera Cruz, Teapa (H. H. Smith); Brirtse Honpuras, R. Hondo (Blanca- 
neaux) ; GUATEMALA, Chacoj (Champion); Costa Rica, Irazu (Rogers). 
Head moderately finely punctate, scarcely shining, with a larger puncture on each 
side near the front. Thorax extremely finely punctate; on the disc the punctures are 
very distant and so minute that they can scarcely be detected, and even at the sides they 
are very fine. Scutellum piceous. Elytra quite black, moderately finely punctate, 
each strongly rounded at the apex. Pygidium black, shining, moderately finely, rather 
distantly, punctate. In the male the surface of the thorax and elytra is less shining 
than it is in the female, and in the largest examples of the sex the punctuation of the 
thorax and elytra is almost entirely obliterated. 
This insect much resembles the female sex of C. laticornis, but in addition to the 
colour of the head and of the pygidium, it differs in having the club of the antenne 
narrower and the mesosternal carina rather broader at the base. The examples of the 
species in Sallé’s collection were labelled C. collaris, Reitter; but that insect I have 
already recorded as belonging to another group of the genus. The claws of the tarsi of 
C. erythroderus are almost destitute of basal lobe. The species is apparently far from 
common ; the localities outside of Mexico have each yielded only a single example. 
40. Camptodes terminalis, sp. n. 
Rotundato-ovalis, sat convexus, late rufus, elytris nigris ad apicem rufo-marginatis. 
Long. 33 millim. 
