DICRANOPSELAPHUS.— ECTOPEIA. 597 



5. DicranopselaphllS veilOSUS, (Tab. XXVI. figg. 13, s; 13 a, antenna.) 



c? . Broadly oboval, moderately convex, opaque (slightly shining when denuded of pubescence) ; black or 

 piceous, the elytra sometimes brown, the latter with a slender V-shaped mark on the middle of the disc 

 towards the suture, connected laterally with a narrow sharply angulated post-median fascia, and some 

 short irregular lines towards the sides, brownish or ferrugineo-testaceons, and in pale specimens also with 

 some spots at the base and the apical margin broadly ferrugineo-testaceous ; the antennae black or 

 brownish-black, with the apical two or three joints testaceous or flavo-testaceous, the legs piceous, with 

 the tarsi testaceous, the femora sometimes paler than the tibiae ; the body beneath black or piceous, the 

 prothorax and mesosternum sometimes ferrugineo-testaceous ; the upper surface thickly clothed with very 

 short pubescence, the pubescence on the lighter elytral markings yellowish or yellowish-cinereous, that on 

 the other parts blackish or fuscous. Head densely, rugulosely punctate, the eyes large and rather narrowly 

 separated ; antennas long, tapering at the tip, strongly pectinate from the third joint, the pectinations 

 arising from before the apex of each joint. Prothorax very short, two and one-half times as broad as 

 long, truncate at the apex (as viewed from above), rapidly arcuately narrowing from the base forwards, 

 the hind angles sharp ; the surface crowded with short, sinuous, irregular, anastomosing lines of very fine 

 punctures, the small interspaces shining and almost smooth, the disc convex in the centre and obliquely 

 depressed on either side of the middle at the base. Elytra feebly rounded at the sides, slightly compressed 

 below the humeri, obtuse behind ; the surface crowded with short anastomosing lines of fine punctures, 

 the lighter-coloured lines somewhat raised and smoother, the interspaces densely, excessively minutely 

 punctate. 



$ . Antennas much shorter, acutely serrate from the fourth joint, the third joint long and triangular ; the eyes 

 smaller and widely separated ; the tarsal claws undivided at the tip. 



Length 3-3|, breadth 2 T y~3 millim. 



Hah. Guatemala, Zapote (Champion). 



Nine males and one female. Closely allied to D. flavicornis and D. pictus, Guer., 

 differing from the first-mentioned in having the antennae black, except at the tip, and 

 the pallid pubescence on the elytra confined to the lighter-coloured markings, and 

 from D. pictus in the form of the elytral markings. The Zapote specimens vary in 

 colour, but the slightly raised reticulate markings on the elytra are perfectly constant, 

 and indicated by lines of pallid pubescence. 



6. Dicranopselaphus flavicornis. (Tab. XXVI. fig. 14, s .) 



Dicranopselaphus flavicornis, Gue"r. Rev. et Mag. Zool. 1861, p. 534, t. 17. figg. 3, 3 a-/ (^ ? )\ 

 Hah. Mexico, Toxpam, near Cordova (SalU 1 ), Orizaba (Flohr), \ Oaxaca (Hbge). 



Described from five specimens found by Salle at Toxpam, four of which are contained 

 in his collection. The eight examples received from Hoge are labelled Oaxaca, but it 

 is probable that they are really from Cordova or Jalapa. The antennse sometimes 

 have the basal joints slightly infuscate. A male is figured. 



ECTOPRTA. 



Ectopria, Leconte, Proc. Acad. Phil. vi. p. 351 (1853) ; Horn, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. viii. p. 95. 

 Eurea, Leconte, loc. cit. p. 352. 



The single known representative of this genus is somewhat widely distributed in the 

 United States of North America, and it appears to be extremely variable. The Panama 



