204 MALACODERMATA. 
reflexo, haud striato; prothoracis angulis anticis et metasterno externe confertim punctatis, hoc medio 
glabro. Long. 1-3 millim. 
Hab. GuateMata, Capetillo, Duefias, San Gerdnimo (Champion). 
This species is wholly shining black, almost impunctate, and without the double 
stria near the margin in the apical half of the elytra; but there isa kind of smooth 
sulcus in the same part. The head is smooth, much retracted into the thorax; the 
eyes are oval, not convex, and but of medium coarseness, neither very fine nor coarse 
in the facets. The antenne arise from very close to their inner margins in front; their 
basal joint is broad, the three apical joints equal to all the preceding ones taken 
together; of these the last two are subquadrate; the ninth equal to them, its base and 
apical edge oblique, but it is not angular internally. 
The variation in size affords some doubt as to all the specimens I have included under 
this name being properly referred to one species. The characters of the genus and of 
the species are drawn from examples from Duefias and Capetillo; these are 2 millim. in 
length, and quite black. One from San Gerdnimo is 3 millim., and has the head rufous 
as in L. punctatus. 
3. Lioolius striatus. 
Oblongo-ovatus lateribus parallelis, niger, nitidus ; elytris tenuiter striatis, striis minutissime punctatis, ad latera 
striis gemellatis, interstitiis crebrius punctatis, margine apicali vix reflexo aut sulcato. Long. 2 millim. 
Hab. Nicaracua, Chontales (Janson). 
I have felt some hesitation in separating these from L. glaber; yet it is scarcely 
possible to place them together, for the differences, though minute, are constant. The 
elytra are distinctly striate and quite thickly punctate at the sides, although this 
sculpture is so fine as hardly to be seen without a very strong lens or the microscope. 
At the same time the appendages are all darker pitchy red, and the sulcate groove of 
the apical margin is ail but gone. | 
4, Lioolius pubescens. 
Oblongo-ovatus lateribus subparallelis, breviter pubescens, brunneus, elytris minutissime punctatis, striis 
perobsoletis. Long. 2 millim. 
Hab. GuatemMana, San Juan in Vera Paz (Champion); Panama, David 
(Champion). 
Immediately distinguished from the three species preceding by the surface being 
covered with a fine, close, depressed pubescence, and by its brown colour, which gives 
it very much the appearance of a Cathorama, more particularly that of the species 
described here as C. seminulum. It is, however (in addition to the structure of the 
antenne), more ovate; the base of the thorax is more distinctly produced in its middle ; 
