SUPPLEMENT. 
Group EPIPHYSIDES. (To precede the group Tentyriides, p. 1.) 
PIMELIOPSIS. 
Mentum exceedingly large, filling the gular cavity, and covering the maxille and ligula; mandibles strongly 
toothed on the upperside above, feebly cleft at the apex; last joint of the maxillary palpi narrow, feebly 
triangular ; labrum not prominent ; head exceedingly large and broad, sunk into the prothorax up to the 
eyes, the latter small, transverse, entire, and rather prominent, the supraocular carina distinct, the epistoma 
declivous and angularly produced in the middle, confounded with the front, and limited posteriorly by a 
broad shallow transverse depression, which becomes deeper laterally, the lateral lobes thickened, broadly 
rounded, not prominent ; antenne extending to a little beyond the base of the prothorax, the third joint 
longer than the fourth, the eleventh small; prothorax much wider than the head, short, with prominent, 
acute, anterior angles, the base very feebly bisinuate and closely fitting to that of the elytra; scutellum 
not visible; elytra connate, broad oval, short, obtuse behind, the width of the prothorax at the base, 
subcarinate and granulate, the sides very broadly inflexed ; the epipleuree narrowing behind, only extending 
as far as the apex of the second ventral segment; coxse widely separated; prosternum horizontally raised 
between the cox, and meeting behind the similarly-raised mesosternum ; metasternum short, the episterna 
very broad; intercoxal process of the abdomen broadly rounded at the apex; ventral segments entirely 
corneous ; legs short and stout, the tibial spurs rather short ; tarsi clothed with short spiny hairs and not 
sulcate beneath : body apterous, sparsely clothed with coarse decumbent hairs, the sides of the elytra with 
long erect hairs. 
The above generic name is proposed for a single species from Western Mexico, for 
the discovery of which we are indebted to Mr. H. H. Smith. Pimeliopsis belongs to 
the tribe “‘Epiphysides” of Lacordaire, and is allied to the North-American genus 
Edrotes, from which it differs in the form of the head and other particulars. The 
single species has very much the facies of a small Pimelia. 
1. Pimeliopsis granulata. (Tab. XXII. fig. 1.) 
Oblong-oval, broad, convex, dull black, above and beneath sparsely clothed with long, coarse, decumbent, 
yellowish hairs, the sides of the elytra with much longer erect hairs. Head densely covered with extremely 
coarse, very shallow punctures, the depressed space behind the epistoma very sparsely, finely punctate ; 
prothorax convex, twice as broad as long, widest at the middle, slightly narrowed in front and behind, the 
anterior angles acutely produced in front, the hind angles obtusely rectangular, the margins crenulate, the 
surface punctured like that of the head, but with the punctures becoming coarsely muricate towards the sides, 
the base very broadly and shallowly depressed on either side of the middle; elytra rather more than three 
times as long as the prothorax, widest at the middle, slightly rounded at the sides, a little narrowed at 
the base, the latter very broadly truncate, each with four faint carine, the entire surface somewhat thickly 
covered with small, smooth, granular elevations, which are more regularly and more closely placed along 
the suture and on the carine, the latter more distinct towards the apex and laterally, and with the hairs 
more erect than upon the interstices ; the entire under surface exceedingly coarsely, closely punctate. 
Length 74-9, breadth 4-5 millim. 
Hab. Mextco, Venta de Zopilote in Guerrero 2800 feet (H. H. Smith). 
Two examples. 
BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Coleopt., Vol. IV. Pt. 1, November 1892. 3 QQ 
