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rather fine; much narrowed and distinctly sinuate behind, coarsely and numerously 
punctate, shining. Elytra with regular series of punctures placed on obscure strie, 
the broad interstices distinctly and regularly biseriately punctate. Prosternal process 
broad and flat, finely punctate. Ventral segments moderately finely and remotely punc- 
tate ; in the male with much finer and denser punctuation extending over a large part 
of each segment. Three specimens. 
This species resembles 7’. mauritanicus, but is broader and more coarsely punctate, 
and the joints of the antenne preceding the club are not at all incrassate. 
7. Tenebroides ruber. 
Tenebrioides rubra, Reitter, Verh. Ver. Brinn, xiii., Abhandl. p. 73°. 
Valde depressus, rufo-ferrugineus, politus ; elytris obsolete striatis. 
Long. 63 millim. 
_ Had. Guatemata, San Gerénimo (Champion); Nicaragua, Chontales (Janson).— 
Soutu America, Brazil !. 
Antenne with rather large club. Head somewhat prolonged in front, moderately 
closely punctured. Thorax deplanate, very shining, very strongly transverse, a little 
narrowed behind ; hind angles not prominent, slightly obtuse; punctuation not coarse, 
subobsolete on the disc. Elytra rather broad and short, depressed, the lateral margin 
broad, the striz obsolete, the biseriate interstitial punctuation more distinct. Under 
surface polished, nearly impunctate. Submental area not distinct. Male with the 
anterior margin of the front femora pubescent. Seven specimens. 
This also is a very distinct species. M. Léveillé has compared some of our specimens 
with Reitter’s type, and I accept his determination ; the peculiar character of the front 
legs of the male is not, however, alluded to by Reitter. ‘The single specimen found at 
Chontales is a variety of large size, and differs in several points from the examples 
found at San Geronimo. 
8. Tenebroides chevrolati. . 
Tenebrioides chevrolati, Reitter, Verh. Ver. Briinn, xiii., Abhandl. p. 72°. 
Hab. Mextco!, Jalapa, Tehuantepec (Hége); Guaremata, Teleman (Champion) ; 
Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt). 
_ We have received five examples that I refer—on the authority of an examination of 
two of them by M. Léveillé—to this species. It appears to me to be distinguished from 
T. circumcinctus only by being of a uniformly piceous colour. 
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