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more deeply sunk into the thorax, the latter differently shaped; the elytra are only a 
little wider than the widest part of the thorax; the eyes rather larger; and the 
antenne shorter. A single example only having been captured, we have not ventured 
to dissect the parts of the mouth. 
1. Sosthenes dyschirioides. (Tab. V. fig. 10.) 
Of a brilliant eneous tint, very shining. Head and prothorax coarsely and somewhat thickly punctured, the 
latter widest at the middle; elytra with rows of shallow distant punctures on the basal half of the disc, 
for the rest smooth ; beneath piceo-gneous, shining, the metasternum and metasternal side-pieces almost 
smooth, the ventral surface very finely, the rest coarsely, punctured; legs, oral organs, and antennz 
ferruginous. 
Length 3 millim. 
Hab. Guatemata, San Geronimo (Champion). 
** Head rostrate in front. 
2, rh we ke pr * 444 
- SALPINGUS. 
- Salpingus, Gyllenhal, Ins. Suec. ii. p. 640 (1810) ; Lacordaire, Gen. Col. v. p. 528. 
Spheriestes, Stephens, Il. Brit. Ent., Mandib. iv. p. 218 (1831). 
Species of this genus have been described from Europe, North Africa, Madeira, 
Madagascar, Japan, New Zealand, North America, and Chili, the large majority being 
from the temperate zone. We have now to add one from the Los Altos region of 
Guatemala. 
1. Salpingus quichensis. (Tab. V. fig. 11.) 
Dark brownish-bronze, shining. Head rather narrow, short, broadly and shallowly transversely impressed in 
front, the epistoma broadly truncate, the surface coarsely and closely punctured ; antenne piceous, the 
three basal joints ferruginous, joints 9-11 larger and wider than those preceding and forming a three- 
jointed club; prothorax convex, narrow, the sides a little rounded anteriorly and constricted behind, the 
disc with a very shallow oblique impression on each side about the middle, the surface closely and still 
more coarsely punctured than the head; elytra very much wider than the prothorax, widest beyond the 
middle, coarsely and irregularly striate-punctate, the punctures finer at the apex, the interstices flat, the 
first with numerous, and the third, fifth, and seventh with a few finer impressions, the scutellar region 
more irregularly punctured ; beneath and the oral organs and legs piceous, the extreme base of the tibie 
and the tarsi lighter. 
Length 3 millim. 
Hab. GuatemaLa, Quiche Mountains 8000 feet (Champzon). 
A single example, found in the pine-forest region. S. guwichensis is, apparently, not 
closely allied to any other species of the genus yet described. It has the head and 
thorax comparatively narrow and closely and coarsely punctured, the punctures separate 
one from another; the head is short and only slightly rostrate in front; and the antenne 
have the apical three joints widened into a club. 
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