600 CRYPTOPHAGIDA. 
the lobes of the meso- and metasternum, without the intervention of any side-piece. The 
metasternum is elongate. The first ventral segment is, behind the coxe, slightly longer 
than the second, which itself is scarcely longer than the third; this and the fourth and 
fifth are of about equal length, The epipleure are narrow. The palpi are small; the 
terminal joints are not enlarged, that of the maxillary pair twice as long as the preceding. 
The tibie are slender, a little larger towards the tip, which externally is angular. 
1. Holosternus distans, sp.n. (Tab. XVIII. fig. 18.) 
Subdepressus, pallide ferrugineus, nitidus, crebre punctatus ; elytris seriatim punctatis; prothorace sub- 
quadrato, haud impresso. 
Long. 3-33 millim. 
Hab. Guatemata, Capetillo (Champion). 
Eyes scarcely convex. Thorax subquadrate, nearly straight at the sides, front angles 
depressed, obscure, rounded; lateral margin extremely fine, basal margin scarcely 
visible, hind angles rectangular; surface moderately finely and closely punctured, 
without any trace of impressions. Elytra with regular series of fine punctures, the 
sutural one of which terminates behind as a stria, the outer strie quite obsolete ; the 
interstices sparingly punctate. Under surface rather more coarsely punctured than 
the upper, especially on the prosternum ; the punctuation not so coarse towards the 
hinder extremity, especially on the last ventral segment. Two specimens. 
ANEPSICUS, gen. nov. 
Characteres fere generis Holosterni, prosterni suturis profundis discedit. 
Although very closely allied to Holosternus, I think this must be a distinct genus, 
the prosternum being shorter and the oblique sutures limiting it remarkably definite. 
All the coxe are very slightly separated, and the small size of the front pair and of the 
prosternal process between them is remarkable. 
This genus is one of several that indicate that the condition of the anterior acetabula 
as regards their being open or closed is of very little importance in this family. 
In Anepsicus the minute prosternal process is greatly bent up behind, and the tips of 
the side-pieces come very close to it without actually touching it. In Trogocryptus 
the side-pieces reach the prosternal process. | 
1. Anepsicus brunneus, sp.n. (Tab. XVIII. fig. 19.) 
Parallelus, nitidus, ferrugineo-testaceus ; prothorace subquadrato, margine laterali inconspicuo; elytris seriatim 
punctatis. 
Long. 2-23 millim. 
Hab. Mexico, Motzorongo (Flohr); Guatemaa, Sinanja in Vera Paz (Champion). 
Antenne small, the eighth joint transverse though small, the club nevertheless abrupt. 
