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America, three from South America, one from Japan, and seven from S. Africa. Two 

 are now added from Mexico. As in Callirrhipis, &c, the females are very dissimilar 

 to the males, and have in several cases been described under different names. 



1. Sandalus nietoi. (Tab. XXIV. figg. 28, $ ; 28 a, antenna, $ ; 29, 6 .) 

 Sandalus nietoi, Salle, in litt. 



S . Moderately elongate, very broad and robust, opaque ; head black, ferrugineo-testaceous in front and 

 bebind ; the prothorax femigineo-testaceous, usually with a black mark on either side of the disc at the 

 base, the two marks sometimes connected along the basal margin ; the scutellum black ; the elytra black, 

 with the base, the suture for some distance below the scutellum, and the sides narrowly to about the 

 middle, ferrugineo-testaceous ; the under surface varying in colour from almost entirely ferrugineo- 

 testaceous to black ; the antennse black, the rami sometimes ferruginous ; the apices of tbe femora, the 

 tibise, and tarsi black, the rest of the femora ferrugineo-testaceous ; above and beneath thickly clothed 

 with velvety pubescence, which is fuscous on the dark portions of the elytra and fulvous or golden else- 

 where. Head very densely, minutely punctate, grooved in front, and longitudinally carinate in the centre 

 between the eyes, the sides of the front strongly raised above the points of insertion of the antennae, the 

 eyes moderately prominent; antennas with joints 2-11 very short, 3-11 each with a very long flattened 

 ramus, together forming an elongate, compact, lamellate club. Prothorax convex, transverse, rapidly, 

 arcuately narrowing from a little before the base, the latter trisinuate ; the surface densely, minutely 

 punctate, with scattered intermixed coarse punctures, canaliculate, and very deeply transversely excavate 

 in the middle just behind the anterior margin, and also with a transverse depression on either side of the 

 median lobe at the base. Scutellum densely, minutely punctate. Elytra considerably wider than the 

 prothorax, moderately long, gradually widening to beyond the middle, and conjointly rounded behind; 

 each with four faint raised lines or costae, the first abbreviated behind, the suture also raised, the rest of 

 the surface closely, coarsely, subseriate-punctate, with the interspaces shagreened. Beneath densely, very 

 finely punctate. Legs very stout, the tibia? dilated externally at the apex, the tarsal joints 2-4 very deeply 

 emarginate, the lamelke long. 



5 . Larger and more elongate, less opaque, more sparsely pubescent, the larger punctures on the prothorax 

 and the elytral punctuation coarser ; the pubescence above and beneath paler, in great part yellowish- 

 cinereous ; the black marks on the prothorax more extended and connected behind ; the elytra with the 

 suture and sides ferrugineo-testaceous to the tip, or to near the tip ; the antennae with joints 3-7 very 

 acutely serrate, 8-10 wider and pectinate, 11 flattened and somewhat oval. 



Length 12|-20|, breadth 5g-9| millim. 



Hah. Mexico, Orizaba (Salle), Jalapa and Misantla (Edge). 



Eleven males and three females, all from the State of Vera Cruz. This conspicuous 

 species somewhat resembles the Brazilian JRMpidocera marginata, Kirby. In the 

 female joints 3-7 of the antennse gradually become more acutely serrate, 8-10 being 

 still more produced on the inner side, the last four joints forming a sort of club. A 

 female from Jalapa and a male from Orizaba are figured. 



2. Sandalus conicicollis. (Tab. XXIV. fig. 30, $ .) 



<5 . Moderately elongate, broad, robust, rather dull ; the head and mandibles black, the antennae (the basal 

 joint excepted) and prothorax obscuro rufous, the elytra brown, the scutellum, legs, and under surface 

 black ; thickly pubescent, the pubescence fulvous above and fulvo-cinereous beneath. Head very densely, 

 minutely punctate, the mandibles also thickly punctured, except at the tip, the eyes not very prominent ; 

 antennas with joints 2-11 very short, 3-11 each with a very long flattened ramus, together forming an 

 elongate, compact, lamellate club. Prothorax convex, conical, much broader than long ; densely, minutely 



biol. cente.-amer., Coleopt., Vol. III. Pt. 1, February 1897. 4 F 



