GONICELUS. 619 
pube pallida vestitus; prothorace fortiter transverso, dorso crebre punctato; elytris regulariter, haud 
fortiter seriatim punctatis. 
Long. 3-33 millim. 
Hab. Mexico (Truqui), Cordova (Sallé), Jalapa (Hoge). 
The male of this species has a short carina on each side of the head, terminated by a 
very minute tubercle; on the front of the thorax there are two approximate minute 
tubercles or granules. The thorax is scarcely broader than the elytra and is not much 
narrowed in front; it has no distinct marginal lines, but there is a sort of hook-mark 
on each side of the front margin caused by two extremely short raised lines, one 
outside the other, both turning inwards. The series of punctures on the elytra are 
fine, and those on the interstices quite distinct. 
We have received about a dozen examples of this obscure and uninteresting species. 
34. Gonicelus monticola, sp. n. 
Oblongo-ovalis, convexus, niger, pube pallida conspicue vestitus, antennarum basi pedibusque piceis ; prothorace 
marginibus lateralibus minus obsolete serratis. 
Long. 34 millim. 
Hab. Guatemata, Totonicapam 8500 to 10,500 feet (Champion). 
We have only one example of this insect, but, like most of the other Coleoptera 
from this elevated locality, it appears to be a very distinct species. Head broad, dull, 
very little punctured, feebly and broadly bi-impressed, but without definite elevations. 
Thorax rather strongly transverse, scarcely broader than the elytra, a good deal 
narrowed in front; the front angles produced and acute, the hind angles rectangular ; 
the lateral margin distinct and more evidently serrate than in any other species of the 
genus ; there are no longitudinal elevations near the sides, and the coarse sculpture there 
is but little developed ; the middle of the thorax is moderately coarsely, rather closely 
punctured ; there is but little trace of an anterior marginal line, and none at all of a 
prolongation backward from it. The punctuation and pubescence of the elytra are 
well-marked ; but the obscure punctuation of the interstices is scanty and not regular. 
85. Gonicelus oopsis, sp. n. 
Ovalis, convexus, niger, pedibus piceis, minus dense et longe pubescens, fortiter punctatus, parum nitidus ; 
prothorace dorso subtiliter punctato, preterea punctis majoribus seriatis. 
Long. 33 millim. 
Hab. Guatemata, El Tumbador (Champion). 
Distinguished from the other members of the genus by the fact that there are 
distinct larger punctures on the disc of the thorax. In several species of Gonicalus 
traces of this serial punctuation can be seen, but in no other is it distinct. The head 
is broad. The thorax is rather strongly transverse, a good deal narrowed in front, the 
larger punctures near the sides very coarse, the outer series continued a short distance 
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