806 J SEKBICOKNIA. 



d". Elytra as wide as the prothorax ; mesosternum not raised at the 

 sides ; colour testaceous or brownish-testaceous. 

 ■d'". Hind angles of the prothorax not divergent ; posterior coxal plates 



obliquely narrowing outwards Species 22. 



•£". Hind angles of the prothorax divergent ; posterior coxal plates 



subangularly widened inwards . Species 23. 



i. Anoplischius piliger. (Tab. xill. fig. 19, 2 .) 



Moderately elongate, broad, piceous or pitchy-brown, shining, thickly clothed above and beneath with long 

 fulvo-cinereous hairs, the legs pitchy-brown or fusco-testaceous. Head convex, short, densely, rugosely 

 punctured, shallowly longitudinally depressed or sulcate in the middle between the eyes, the frontal carina 

 moderately prominent, rounded anteriorly ; antennas rather slender, feebly serrate, extending to about 

 the basal third of the elytra in the male, a little shorter in the female, joint 3 small, not much longer 

 than 2. Prothorax convex, transverse, the sides rapidly converging from about the basal third, subparallel 

 behind and slightly rounded in front ) the hind angles considerably produced, parallel, finely carinate 

 above ; the surface very densely, rather finely punctate, and obsoletely canaliculate behind. Scutellum 

 thickly punctured. Elytra three and one-half times the length of the prothorax, subparallel to about the 

 middle, and narrowing thence to the apex ; finely and rather deeply punctate-striate ; the interstices 

 almost flat, thickly and somewhat roughly punctured. Beneath thickly, rather coarsely punctured ; 

 prosternal sutures deeply excavate in front ; mesosternum declivous, the sides not raised ; posterior coxal 

 plates very feebly subangularly widened near the point of insertion of the femora. 



Length 11-12, breadth 3± millim. ( J $ .) 



Hab. Guatemala, Sabo and Sinanja in Vera Paz {Champion). 



Three examples. Smaller and less elongate than A. atractodes ; the head and thorax 

 more densely punctured, the latter parallel at the base and more transverse ; the 

 antennae with the third joint very little longer than the second. The male, from Sabo, 

 is in a bad state of preservation. 



2. Anoplischius glis. 



$ . Heterocrepidius glis, Cand. Monogr. Elat. ii. p. 38 \ 

 ? . Anoplischius catulus, Cand. loc. cit. p. 59 2 . 



Hab. Mexico, San Andres Tuxtla in Vera Cruz (Salle x 2 ). 



I have examined the types of these insects, both of which are contained in the Salle 

 collection. The type of A. catulus has the punctures of the elytral striae finer than 

 usual towards the suture, our other specimens being intermediate. The apical joint of 

 the maxillary palpi is narrow and subtriangular. The antennae are more elongate in 

 the male than in the female ; the third joint is short, not longer than the second. 



3. Anoplischius parvulus. 



Moderately elongate, rather convex ; fuscous, the hind angles and the anterior margin of the prothorax, and the 

 head also, sometimes ferruginous, the antennae more or less fuscous, the legs testaceous, the under surface 

 ferruginous ; above and beneath thickly clothed with long fulvo-cinereous hairs. Head convex, opaque, 

 very densely punctured, the punctures umbilicate ; the frontal carina moderately prominent, reflexed, 

 rounded anteriorly ; the eyes distinctly granulated ; antennas rather slender, half the length of the 

 body in the male, shorter in the female, joint 3 short, slightly longer than 2, 4 more than twice the length 



