312 SEEEICOENIA. 



Two specimens. Amongst the various Central-American species allied to A. 

 jpyronotus, Cand., this perhaps approaches it the nearest, the antennae being similarly 

 formed in the male sex ; the male, however, is narrower and more elongate than the 

 corresponding sex of that insect, and has the thorax maculated with black. The sexes 

 of A. maculicollis are very dissimilar in appearance. 



16. Anoplischius divisus. (Tab. XIII. fig. 21, $ .) 



Moderately elongate, rather narrow, convex, subparallel, the head, prothorax, and under surface shining, the 

 elytra subopaque ; the head, antennaa, elytra, and legs (the knees excepted) black ; the prothorax flavo- 

 testaceous, with a very broad black median vitta, which is constricted behind ; the under surface, the pro- 

 pleurae excepted, black, the first ventral segment and the epipleurse partly ferruginous ; the upper surface 

 thickly clothed with long, coarse, fulvo-cinereous hairs, the under surface more sparsely pilose. Head 

 closely, rather coarsely punctate, broadly concave in front, and sulcate in the middle, the frontal carina 

 prominent ; antennae extending to a little beyond the humeri, the joints from the third rather broadly 

 widened, slightly longer than broad, 3 and 4 equal. Prothorax broader than long, convex, the sides 

 subparallel behind, rounded and slightly converging in front ; the hind angles strongly produced, slightly 

 divergent, sharply carinate above ; the surface thickly, rather finely punctate, deeply canaliculate behind. 

 Scutellum thickly punctured. Elytra moderately long, parallel to the middle, and gradually narrowing 

 beyond ; rather deeply punctate-striate ; the interstices feebly convex, minutely shagreened and some- 

 what roughly punctured. Beneath rather closely punctured ; prosternal sutures deeply excavate in front ; 

 mesosternum declivous, the sides feebly raised ; posterior coxal plates feebly subangularly dilated opposite 

 the point of insertion of the femora. 



Length 7^, breadth 2| millim. ( $ .) 



Hab. Guatemala, Zapote [Champion). 



One specimen. Allied to A. maculicollis, but more convex, the hairs on the upper 

 surface coarser and fulvo-cinereous in colour, the elytra more deeply punctate-striate 

 and with the interstices slightly convex, the posterior coxal plates slightly widened 

 opposite the point of insertion of the femora. 



17. Anoplischius elegans. (Tab. xill. fig. 25, $ .) 



Elongate, narrow, rather convex, shining ; the head and antennae black ; the prothorax rufous, with the 

 anterior margin, and a median vitta of variable width, widened in front and behind, black ; the scutellum 

 and elytra piceous or pitchy-brown, the latter indeterminately black at the apex and with the sides 

 anteriorly or to near the apex, and sometimes the base also, fulvo-testaceous ; above densely clothed with 

 very long, coarse hairs, which on the front of the head, on a broad space on either side of the prothorax, 

 and along the suture and sides of the elytra to near the apex, are yellowish-cinereous and decumbent, 

 those on the rest of the upper surface being fuscous and semierect ; beneath piceous, thickly clothed with 

 very long, decumbent, cinereous or flavo-cinereous hairs ; the legs varying in colour from fuscous with 

 the femora testaceous at the base to almost entirely testaceous, thickly pilose. Head densely, rugosely 

 punctured, broadly concave in front, and feebly sulcate in the middle, the frontal carina very prominent, 

 rounded anteriorly ; antennas about reaching the middle of the elytra in the male, shorter in the female, 

 the joints from the third rather broadly dilated, 3 and 4 equal. Prothorax convex, almost as long as 

 broad, slightly narrowed in front ; the hind angles strongly produced, slightly divergent, blunt at the tip, 

 sharply carinate above ; the surface densely, minutely punctate, deeply canaliculate behind. Scutellum 

 thickly punctured. Elytra moderately elongate, gradually narrowing from the base in both sexes, con- 

 jointly, bluntly rounded at the apex ; coarsely punctate-striate ; the interstices narrow, feebly convex, 

 closely, minutely punctate. Beneath rather sparsely punctured ; prosternal sutures excavate in front, 



