652 DERMESTID. 
8. Hemirhopalum buprestoide, sp.n. (Tab. XIX. figg. 17; 17 a, antenna.) 
Oblongum, angustum, nigricans, vix nitidum, subtiliter pubescens, antennis pedibusque testaceis, subtiliter 
punctatum. 
Long. 3 millim. 
Hab. Guatemata, Cerro Zunil (Champion). 
Only one specimen, of uncertain sex, has been obtained of this very peculiar species. 
It is in facies somewhat like a Buprestid; it has the head very short and broad, the 
eyes prominent, and the parts of the mouth are free when the head is retracted. The 
club of the antenna is large, the two joints about equal in size, the terminal one a 
little infuscate. The thorax is strongly transverse, not greatly narrowed in front, all 
the angles obtuse, but the hinder ones only very slightly so; the punctuation along the 
middle is scanty and fine, at the sides denser; the pubescence is scanty and very fine, 
but not short. The elytra are long and narrow, dull blackish, with indications of a red 
tinge extending backwards from the shoulders; the punctuation is extremely shallow, 
but the punctures are not very small; the pubescence is like that of the thorax, ‘The 
legs are yellow, but infuscate. ‘The abdominal sculpture is very dense and fine. 
4, Hemirhopalum hadrotomoide, sp. n. (Tab. XIX. fig. 18.) 
Elongatum, angustum, nigricans, elytris plaga magna humerali rufa, antennis pedibusque testaceis, his infus- 
catis; haud nitidum, obsolete punctatum, tenuiter pubescens. 
Long. 4 millim. 
Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Hége). 
Of this species we have two female specimens. ‘lhe antenne are yellow, the terminal 
joint fuscescent, not quite so large as the preceding one. ‘The thorax is a good deal 
narrowed in front, finely punctate and with a scanty pubescence; the median basal 
lobe is emarginate. ‘The elytra are obsoletely punctate, and the pubescence is scanty 
and very fine; the red mark is large, but ill-defined. The tarsi are yellow, the femora 
nearly black. A large shallow impression occupies the greater part of the surface of 
the last ventral plate. In this species the prothoracic antennal cavity is less sharply 
defined than in the others. 
CRYPTORHOPALUM. 
Cryptorhopalum, Guérin, Icon. Régn. Anim., Ins. p. 67 (1838); Erichson, Ins. Deutschl. iii, 
p. 424, nota. 
Twelve species of this genus are enumerated in the Munich Catalogue, all from 
America, Erichson had, however, long previously stated that twenty-five were known 
to him. Reitter added about thirty species in 1881, five of them being from the Indo- 
Australian region; and in 1900 Casey described twelve new North-American forms. 
I have myself seen no true species of this genus from the Eastern Hemisphere, and - 
