314 SEEEICORNIA. 



obsoletely canaliculate to near the apex. Scutellum thickly punctured. Elytra rather more than four 

 times the length of the prothorax, in both sexes parallel to the middle, and narrowing thence to the apex, 

 the apices conjointly rounded ; finely punctate-striate, the interstices flat, minutely shagreened, thickly, 

 very shallowly punctured. Beneath thickly punctured, the propleurse almost smooth : prosternum 

 shallowly grooved between the coxse ; prosternal sutures widely separated throughout, feebly grooved in 

 front ; mesosternum declivous, the sides a little raised. 

 Length 10|-11, breadth 2f~3 millim. ( rf $ .) 



Hab. Mexico, Omilteme in Guerrero 8000 feet (H. H. S?nith). 



Two specimens. Allied to the Cuban A. pyronotus, Cand., but longer and more 

 parallel, the head more deeply excavate in front, the prosternal sutures widely separated 

 throughout, &c. It differs from A. sangainicollis in having the thorax more transverse, 

 the elytra more elongate and more parallel, and the posterior coxal plates obliquely 

 narrowing outwards. 



20. Anoplischius sanguinicollis. (Tab. XIII. fig. 22, s .) 



Moderately elongate, narrow, shining, black, the prothorax rufous or rufo-testaceous, above and beneath 

 thickly clothed with long hairs, which partake of the ground-colour ; the legs piceous, with the knees 

 testaceous. Head densely, rugosely punctured, broadly concave in front, the frontal carina very pro- 

 minent; antennae extending nearly to the basal third of the elytra in the male, slightly shorter in the 

 female, the joints from the third rather broadly dilated, gradually decreasing in width, 3 and 4 equal. 

 Prothorax a little broader than long, trapezoidal ; the hind angles divergent, greatly produced, finely 

 carinate above ; the surface finely, rather closely punctate, canaliculate behind. Scutellum sparsely 

 punctured. Elytra moderately long, narrowing from a little below the base in the male, more parallel in 

 the female, the apices conjointly rounded ; finely, rather deeply punctate- striate ; the interstices almost 

 flat, thickly punctured. Beneath thickly punctured ; prosternal sutures deeply excavate in front, narrowly 

 separated behind ; mesosternum declivous, the sides feebly raised ; posterior coxal plates feebly subangu- 

 larly widened near the point of insertion of the femora. 



Length 6|-7|, breadth lf-2 millim. ( d 1 $ •) 



Hab. Guatemala, Senahu in Vera Paz (Champion). 



Numerous examples. Closely allied to the Cuban A. pyronotus, Cand., but smaller, 

 narrower, and less robust, the thorax more sparsely and less coarsely punctured, the 

 antennas much shorter in the male, &c. 



21. Anoplischius laticollis. 



Dicrepidius laticollis, Eschsch. in Thon's Archiv, ii. 1, p. 31 \ 

 Dipropus laticollis, Germ. Zeitschr. fur Ent. i. p. 216 2 . 



Anoplischius laticollis, Cand. Monogr. Elat. ii. p. 74, t. 1. fig. 10 3 ; Steinh. Col. Hefte, xiv. 

 p. 115 4 . 



Hab. Panama, Bugaba, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). — Colombia 4 ; Ecuador; 

 Guiana; Bkazil 1-3 . 



This curious species is not uncommon in Chiriqui. It has the sides of the meso- 

 sternum thickened and raised, in this respect approaching Atractosomus, in which it 

 would be equally well placed. The elytra are elongate, narrower than the thorax, and 



