668 APPENDIX. 



This genus includes two species from Bolivia, and a third is now added from Central 

 America. The above detailed description of the points of structure (which was prepared 

 from A. crassicornis before the original description had been seen) will supplement 

 that of M. Fleutiaux. Anischia seems to be an osculant form between the Eucnemidse 

 and Elateridse. In the very small labrum (which cannot be properly seen till the 

 mouth-parts are dissected) and the form of the head and antenna? it agrees with the 

 Eucnemidse, and in the other characters perhaps better with the Elateridse. The species 

 are of small size and somewhat resemble the smaller Horistonoti. Dr. Horn, when 

 dealing with the Central- American Eucnemidse, rejected A. crassicornis as an Elaterid ; 

 Dr. Candeze is of opinion that it is a Eucnemid. 



1. Anischia crassicornis. 



Moderately elongate, narrow, convex, shining, thickly clothed with rather long, yellowish-cinereous pube- 

 scence ; piceous or obscure ferruginous, the legs testaceous or fusco-testaceous. Head thickly, finely 

 punctate ; antennae about two-thirds the length of the body in the male, much shorter in the female, joint 

 1 as long as 2 and 3 united, 2 short, 3 nearly twice as long as 2, 4 much shorter than 3, 4-10 subequal 

 in length, 11 nearly as long as 8-10 united and slightly acuminate at the tip, all the joints clothed with 

 long hairs. Prothorax strongly transverse, convex, narrowed in front and behind, bisinuate at the base, 

 rounded at the sides, the hind angles acutely produced backwards ; the surface finely, rather sparsely 

 punctate. Scutellum flat, minutely punctate. Elytra about two and one-half times the length of the 

 prothorax, gradually narrowing from about the middle, and also a little narrowed in front, conjointly 

 rounded at the apex ; thickly, very finely, confusedly punctate, without trace of striae, a very fine sutural 

 one excepted. Anterior femora feebly subangularly widened on the inner side towards the base, and the 

 anterior tibiae broadly dilated on the inner side from about the middle to the apex, in the male. 



Length 22-3^, breadth 1-1^ millim. ( tf $ .) 



Hab. Mexico, Motzorongo in Vera Cruz (Flohr) ; Guatemala, Pantaleon (Champion) ; 

 Panama, Bugaba (Champion). 



Seven examples. Allied to A. boliviana, Fleut., but differing from it in the trans- 

 verse thorax and other particulars. 



FORNAX (p. 225). 

 Fornax castaneipennis (p. 228). 



Another specimen of this species has been found, from the same locality as the type, 

 from which it differs in its much larger size (length 11 \ millim.), shorter and stouter 

 antenna?, much darker elytra, and unimpressed fifth ventral segment. This second 

 specimen, therefore, is, no doubt, a female and the type a male, not a female as 

 supposed by Dr. Horn. 



5(a). Fornax granulatns. 



Elongate, somewhat attenuate behind, convex, dull, the elytra moderately shining, thickly clothed with 

 yellowish pubescence ; piceous, the antennae ferruginous, with the basal joint darker, the legs fusco- 

 ferruginous. Head densely, rugosely punctured, with a distinct interocular ridge, the epistoma 

 wider at the base than the space between it and the eye ; antennae extending to a little beyond 



