SEKRICOENIA. 667 



Since the publication of Dr. Horn's Enumeration of the Throscidae and Eucnemidae, 

 antea, pp. 193-257 (1890), a few additional Eucnemidge have been detected in the 

 collections under examination, and one species of each family has been described by 

 M. Fleutiaux. These are as follows : — 



Fam. THKOSCID-E *. 

 AULONOTHROSCUS (p. 208). 

 4. Aulonothroscus mexicaims. 



Aulonothroscus mexicanus, Fleut. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. 1895, p. 159 \ 

 Eab. Mexico 1 . 



Found in Paris in imported Mexican tobacco. 



Fam. ETJCTEMID5I * 



CEEOPHYTUM (p. 213). 

 Cerophytum fuscicorne (p. 213). 



To the localities given, add : — Nicaeagua, Chontales (Belt). 



A single mutilated example (without antennae) from Chontales probably belongs here. 

 It is ferruginous in colour, with the elytra, legs, and abdomen testaceous. 



ANISCHIA (to follow the genus Cerophytum, p. 213). 

 Anischia, Fleutiaux, Mem. Soc. Zool. Fr. 1896, p. 300. 



Head deflexed, very deeply sunk into the prothorax, rather convex, narrowed in front for the insertion of the 

 antennae, widening again below this, and with a very small, free labrum, the epistoma arcuate-em arginate 

 in front, the mouth placed beneath, the mouth-parts hidden by the broad, prominent chin-piece of the 

 presternum ; eyes rounded, rather large, and partly hidden beneath the anterior margin of the prothorax ; 

 maxilla? with two lobes ; apical joint of the maxillary palpi long and narrow, somewhat cultriform, nearly 

 as long as the second and third joints united ; mandibles bifid ; antennae cylindrical, stout, very long in 

 the male, shorter in the female, 11-jointed, the first joint long and very stout, the second joint short and 

 articulated to the first on the outer side before the apex, the apical joint very elongate ; prosternum broad, 

 the sutures single and diverging anteriorly, the intercoxal portion margined laterally, rather wide, 

 narrowing behind, and terminating in a long, truncated process, which is received into a deep notch in 

 the mesosternum, the latter slightly declivous, with the borders of the cavity raised ; propleurae without 

 antennal grooves ; middle coxae rather widely separated, without trochantin ; hind coxae deeply inserted, 

 widely separated, narrowing outwards, not laminate ; metasternal episterna very narrow ; legs rather 

 short ; femora compressed and subclavate, slender at the base ; trochanters small ; tibiae flattened and 

 rather stout, slightly longer than the tarsi, without visible spurs; tarsi 5-jointed, simple, sparsely clothed 

 with fine hairs beneath, the joints 1-4 of the middle and hind pairs diminishing in length, the claw-joint 

 long and slender, the claws simple ; prothorax short, with a sharply defined groove on either side at some 

 distance v from the outer margin and parallel with it, extending from the base to beyond the middle, the 

 marginal carina fine and not visible from above ; scutellum oval, truncate in front ; elytra with a sutural 

 stria only, the epipleurae broad in their anterior third, becoming very narrow beyond the metasternum. 



By G. C Champion. 



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