EUCICONES.—HYSTRICONES. 453 
Head short; epistome emarginate in front, leaving the labrum visible. The body 
above clothed with erect scales or sete, without coste. Antennary grooves very perfect, 
curved outwards behind the eye, much concealed by the prominent edge of the flat 
under surface of the head. All the coxe are approximate, and the anterior acetabula 
open. Metasternum moderately long; ventral segments short.* Epipleuree broad. 
Femora short, not extending at all beyond the sides of the body. ‘Tibie moderately 
stout, clothed externally with short scales. Tarsi 4-jointed, the three basal joints 
short and subequal, together scarcely equal in length to the fourth. 
1. Kucicones perfectus, sp. n. (Tab. XIV. fig. 13.) 
Oblongo-ovalis, transversim convexus, squamis erectis seriatis ornatus ; subtus ferrugineus, supra nigricans ; 
limbo antennis pedibusque testaceis ; elytris ferrugineo-signatis. 
Long. 3} millim. 
Hab. Guatemata, El Tumbador, Cerro Zunil, Capetillo (Champion). 
Antenne yellow ; the first joint concealed, the third small, the ninth transverse ; 
club rounded, quite solid. Head short, quite even above, clothed with short erect 
sete. Thorax transverse, rounded at the sides and narrowed in front ; sides explanate, 
set with short sete; the surface not distinctly sculptured, but bearing numerous closely- 
placed erect sete. lytra blackish, with some ferruginous marks transversely placed 
near the base, and with another series of pallid marks behind the middle; sculpture 
consisting of series of punctures with crenulations between them, the longitudinal 
intervals set with very regular erect sete, some of which are black, others white; the 
lateral margins are densely set with short setz directed backwards. Ten specimens. 
HYSTRICONES, gen. nov. 
Corpus hispidum, prothorace basin versus angustatum. Antenne decem-articulate ; clava uniarticulata. Sulci 
antennarii imperfecti, breves, Pedes elongati, tibiis hispidis. 
Allied to Cicones and Glyphocryptus, but not very close to either. 
Antennary grooves short and oblique, almost as in Cicones. Anterior acetabula open ; 
all the coxe distinctly separated. Metasternum rather short. First ventral segment 
unusually short. Legs long and slender; tibie thin at the tips, without apical spurs, 
but armed externally with erect sete; tarsi with three subequal short joints and a 
fourth very long apical one. | 
1. Hystricones armatus, sp. n. (Tab. XIV. fig. 14.) 
Parvus, supra sat convexus, setis crassis erectis armatus, niger, supra testaceo nigroque variegatus; antennis 
tibiis tarsisque testaceis ; prothorace brevi, lateribus denticulatis, denticulo singulo seta erecta aucto. - 
Long. 2 millim. 
Hab. Mexico, Motzorongo (Flohr); Guatemata, El Tumbador, Las Mercedes, Cerro 
