566 SERRICORNIA. 



14. Scaptolenus pueblse. (Tab. xxv. figg. 12, 12 a, s .) 



<J. Scaptolenus puebla, Chevr. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1874, pp. 509, 521 \ 



Hab. Mexico, Puebla {Salle 1 ). 



The type of this species is in the Salle collection, and there is a specimen in 

 M. Oberthur's collection possibly belonging to it. 



This species somewhat resembles S. fulvus ; but it is narrower, with less gibbous 

 and more elongate elytra, very feebly serrate antennae, and the long pilosity on the 

 thorax and breast not so dense. The mandibles are short and stout ; the eyes are 

 moderately large and prominent ; the apical two joints of the maxillary palpi are about 

 equal in length. 



15. Scaptolenus candezei. (Tab. xxv. figg. 13, 13 «, <? .) 



<J . Scaptolenus candezi, Chevr. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1874, pp. 509, 521 \ 

 Hab. Guatemala (Salle, Boucard 1 ). 



There are two examples of S. candezei in the Salle collection. This species has 

 very long, erect, fulvous and fuscous hairs on the head and thorax, and the breast is 

 clothed with long fulvous hairs. The thorax is about three-fifths broader than long, 

 very much narrower than the elytra, rounded and slightly dilated at the sides anteriorly, 

 with greatly produced slender hind angles ; the surface is rather sparsely punctured. 

 The elytra are gibbous at the base and rapidly narrowed behind (appearing somewhat 

 oval in shape, when closed along the suture) ; they are feebly sulcate and thickly 

 punctured. The mandibles are moderately long. The maxillary palpi are rather 

 slender, with the apical joint as long as the preceding. The antennae are slender, 

 with the joints from the fourth almost parallel, the eleventh being obliquely truncate 

 at the tip. 



16. Scaptolenus nigriceps. (Tab. xxv. figg. 14, 14 a, e .) 



S . Elongate, rather narrow, subparallel, shining ; piceous, the head, the disc and hind angles of the prothorax, 

 and the tips or the whole of the mandibles, black, the antennae ferruginous or brown, with the basal three 

 joints black, the body beneath and the femora luteous, the tibiae pitchy-red, the tarsi piceous ; the head, 

 prothorax, and scutellar region rather sparsely clothed with moderately long blackish hairs, the rest 

 of the elytra very sparsely pubescent, the long marginal hairs blackish, the breast densely, and the 

 rest of the body beneath and the femora sparsely, clothed with long fulvous hairs. Head sparsely, 

 irregularly, rather coarsely punctate, the eyes moderately large and prominent ; mandibles short, abruptly 

 incurved at the middle, the basal portion stout ; maxillary palpi rather slender, the apical two joints equal 

 in length ; antennae rather short, joint 3 twice as long as 2, and 4 twice as long as 3, the joints from the 

 fourth very feebly serrate, 11 obliquely truncate at the tip. Prothorax about three-fifths broader than 

 long, dilated and rounded at the sides anteriorly, constricted behind, with extremely elongate, slender, 

 divergent hind angles ; the basal median lobe obtuse ; the surface rather finely and sparsely punctate. 

 Scutellum closely punctured. Elytra a little more than three times the length of the head and prothorax, 

 and considerably wider than the latter, slightly narrowed behind, gibbous in front, and flattened on the 



