‘430 TROGOSITIDA. 
This species is distinguished by the brilliant brassy colour of the upper surface and 
‘the deep striation of the elytra. The antenne are short, pale red, the club rather 
small. The head is coarsely, moderately closely punctate. ‘Thorax but little rounded 
‘at the sides, narrowed behind and sinuate, the lateral margin fine, the anterior angles 
broad and short, acuminate; surface very shining, coarsely and deeply, moderately 
closely, punctate. Elytra parallel, with deep regular strie extending to the apex, the 
striae marked by large and deep punctures, the interstitial punctuation being remote 
and indistinct. Under surface piceous, shining, the ventral segments with very coarse 
punctures. 
34, Tenebroides excellens, sp. n. 
Angustus, subparallelus, piceus, supra eneus, nitidus, antennis pedibusque rufis; elytris punctato-striatis, 
striis ad apicem nullis. 
Long. 7~8 millim. 
_ Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 
- At first sight very like 7. lucidus, but there can be no difficulty in distinguishing the 
two by the difference in the striation, the strie being in 7. excellens much less deeply 
impressed, and quite obsolete at the extremity. The head and thorax are black, 
strongly tinged with brassy tint, moderately coarsely and closely punctate, very shining ; 
lateral margin of the thorax fine, the anterior angles rather smali. Elytra with regular 
series of punctures, the interstices perfectly flat and distinctly biseriately punctate. 
Ventral segments in the male finely, in the female moderately coarsely, punctate. 
Two specimens. 
35. Tenebroides sallei, sp. n. 
Brevis, latus, depressus, opacus, rufescens, supra fuscescens, margine rufo-fusco ; prothorace fortiter transverso ; 
elytris seriatim punctatis, interstitiis haud perspicue punctatis. 
Long. 6 millim, 
Hab. Mexico (Sallé). 
Antenne with the joints of the funiculus very short, but the club large. Head flat, 
very dull, rather finely punctate. Thorax strongly transverse, curved at the sides in 
front and much narrowed behind, the hind angles rectangular, the lateral margin 
rather fine, the anterior angles large, but much produced and acute; the surface very 
dull, rather closely and finely punctate. Elytra with regular series of punctures, the 
punctures fine and connected so as to form very fine strie, which are obsolete at the 
apex; the interstices broad, flat, scarcely visibly punctate, not quite so dull as the 
thorax and head. Under surface shining, the ventral segments rather finely punctate. 
Only one example has been received of this distinct species. It is perhaps more 
nearly allied to 7. godmani than to any other species known to me. 
