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BEACHTS. 133 



Hah. Guatemala, San Isidro 1600 feet (Champion). 



The thorax is marked with small punctures in front, and with large shallow punc- 

 tures at the base ; the surface is sprinkled with fulvous hairs (with a few white ones 

 here and there), leaving two round approximate bare spots on the disc ; at the base, 

 close to the scutellum, there are two fulvous spots. Each elytron has two fine lines of 

 fulvous hairs extending to about the middle, with a series of punctures on each side of 

 the lines ; the basal quarter is more or less covered with whitish hairs (with a few 

 fulvous ones intermixed), leaving a small bare spot near the base ; at the middle there 

 is a well-marked, moderately broad fascia of fulvous hair (bordered above and below 

 with white) — commencing at the lateral costa it slopes slightly upwards to the fine line 

 of fulvous hair nearest to the suture, and then turns obliquely down to the suture ; at 

 a short distance from the apex there is a curved line of white hairs, widening out into 

 a spot near the suture ; the apex is covered with fulvous hair, bordered above with 

 white hair. 



This species is relatively longer than the preceding, with the head a little wider ; it 

 is not so angular at the shoulders, and the elytra are more gradually narrowed poste- 

 riorly (less angular at the sides behind the middle), with the extreme apex slightly 

 obtuse and obscurely serrulate. 



6. Brachys pulverosus. 



Statura fere B. anthrenoidis at postice paullo minus attenuates, major, cupreus, nitidus, sat dense fulvo-aureo- 



pubescens, albo-maculatus ; elytris medio purpurascentibus, maculis fasciaque post medium calvis. 

 Long. 1| lin. 



Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Edge). 



The head and thorax are clothed with somewhat golden pubescence, but the pubes- 

 cence is not dense; the thorax has two small white spots just above the scutellum. 

 The elytra have the markings very similar to those in JB. anthrenoides, but they are 

 larger and leave less of the surface bare ; each elytron has two lines of fulvous-golden 

 pubescence, the outer one being on a slight obtuse costa, more conspicuous before and 

 behind the median band, and on the inner side of this costa there is a fairly well- 

 marked impression before the median band, and another behind it; the humeral 

 region and the space near the scutellum (between the suture and the first pubescent 

 line) are. clothed with golden pubescence ; at a short distance from the base, between 

 the first and second pubescent lines, there is a small white spot; across the middle of 

 the elytron there is a broad band of golden pubescence (bordered above with white), 

 obliquely sinuate above near the suture ; behind this there is a rather broad space almost 

 without pubescence ; and near the apex there is a rather broad crescent-shaped white 

 spot (not quite reaching the suture, but extending beyond the lateral costa), followed 

 by golden pubescence to the apex, with a small white spot near the outer angle ; the 

 median band beyond the lateral costa is golden anteriorly and white posteriorly. 



