366 NITIDULID. 
Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Hoge), Juquila (Sallé). 
This is not so rotund an insect as P. reversus, and has the colour of the upper surface 
more dilute, the pygidium being. pallid ferruginous; the large scutellum has no trace 
at all of punctuation; and it is not easy to detect any traces of interstitial punctuation 
on the wing-cases. ‘The middle femora are broad, and are much punctate on the lower 
face. The under surface is quite impunctate, except on the last ventral segment. 
Four specimens. 
3. Pallodes micans, sp. n. 
Ovalis, testaceo-ferrugineus, elytris leviter opalescentibus, antennarum clava nigra; prothorace obsolete punc- 
tato; elytris subtilius seriatim punctatis, interstitiis parce subtilissime punctatis. 
Long. 4 millim. 
Hab. Mexico, Cordova (Sailé) ; Guatemaua, Capetillo (Champion). 
?. Very shining. Antenne with elongate black club; all the joints preceding this 
yellow. Head rather finely, the thorax still more finely and sparingly, punctate, the 
latter extremely shining. Scutellum extremely finely and sparingly punctured. Elytra 
with distant series of punctures, which are very slightly impressed though not very 
small and with a scanty and fine interstitial punctuation. Middle tibie rather slender. 
This species is allied to P. stlaceus, Er., but is rather broader and has the serial 
punctuation on the elytra much less distinct, and the middle tibie a good deal more 
slender. Three specimens. 
4. Pallodes strongyliformis, sp.n. (Tab. XI. fig. 25,3.) 
Ovalis, convexus, nitidus, ferrugineo-testaceus, antennarum clava nigra; prothorace obsoletissime punctato, 
pernitido ; elytris subtilius seriatim punctatis, interstitiis fere impunctatis. 
Long. 4 millim. 
Hab. GuaTEMALA, San Gerénimo (Champion). 
We have received only a single example of this species, but it is of the male sex. 
The insect much resembles P. silaceus, but differs from that species and its allies by 
the metasternal border being much more sinuate and produced between the middle 
coxee, as well as by having a feeble punctuation of the breast and ventral segments. 
‘The middle tibize are about as broad as they are in P. silaceus, and the punctuation of 
the thorax is even more obsolete than it is in the North-American insect. In our unique 
example there are four indistinct blackish marks placed transversely on the middle of 
the thorax, but I am not sure whether this may not be the result of decay. 
I look on this species as a very interesting one, as it appears to me to indicate 
clearly that the affinities of Pallodes are with Teichostethus and Mecyllodes. 
