228 _ HETEROMERA. 
7. Anthicus quinquemaculatus. (Tab. X. fig. 6.) 
Anthicus quinquemaculatus, La Ferté, Monogr. Anthic. p. 115°. 
Anthicus variegatus, La Ferté, in litt. 
Hab. Muzxico, Cordova (Sallé), Yucatan (coll. Oberthiir) ; GuaTEMaLA, Yzabal (Sad/é), 
Chacoj (Champion); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion).—Brazi (Mus. Brit. ; 
coll. Oberthiir), Bahia }. 
Our specimens agree exactly with La Ferté’s description and type, except as regards 
the form and sculpture of the head. From a careful examination of the type, I have 
not the slightest doubt that the head (which is detached and gummed down separately) 
does not belong to the specimen described, and that it appertains to a totally different 
species. A renewed description is given from the Central-American examples :— 
Elongate, ferruginous, opaque; the elytra testaceous or flavo-testaceous, with an oblique humeral patch, a 
common transverse median fascia (widened at the suture and laterally), and a narrow anteapical fascia 
(formed by an oblique stripe on each elytron, these being confluent at the suture and extending up it to 
the median fascia), piceous or piceous-brown ; the upper surface clothed with very short, fine, silky pubes- 
cence, and with a few widely scattered short erect hairs. Head transverse, broad, somewhat dilated at 
the sides behind, moderately convex, finely rugulose and opaque throughout, the eyes large, coarsely 
granulated, and prominent ; antenn# about reaching the base of the prothorax, rather slender, testaceous, 
the apical three joints slightly infuscate ; prothorax narrower than the head, longer than broad, rounded 
at the sides before, and strongly constricted behind the middle, the anterior portion transversely convex, 
the posterior portion subcylindrical, the flanks with a deep oblique excavation (scarcely visible from above), 
the base very finely margined, the neck very sharply defined, the surface finely rugulose, the disc in some 
specimens obsoletely canaliculate behind; elytra moderately long, the sides a little rounded about the 
middle, parallel and narrower anteriorly, broadly transversely depressed below the base and feebly convex 
beyond this, the basilar portion very little swollen, the humeri rather prominent, the surface very densely 
and minutely punctured; beneath ferruginous ; legs entirely testaceous ; fifth ventral segment truncate 
and with an exceedingly deep triangular excavation in the middle behind (extending forwards nearly to the 
apex of the preceding segment) in the male. 
Length 2$ millim. (¢ 2.) 
Kight examples. If piceous be taken as the ground-colour, the elytra may be said to 
have a broad oblique fascia before and another behind the middle (the latter not 
reaching the suture, and the former extending up it to the base), and a common apical 
patch, flavo-testaceous. The excavation in the middle of the fifth ventral segment in 
the male is very sharply defined. The following two species are closely allied. 
8. Anthicus concinnus. (Tab. X. fig. 7, var.) 
Anthicus concinnus, La Ferté, Monogr. Anthic. p. 115°. 
Hab. Guiana, Cayenne!; Brazit, Bahia !. 
Var. 
Closely allied to A. quinquemaculatus ; the head, eyes, antenne, and prothorax as in that species, the head and 
prothorax sometimes in great part piceous; the elytra similarly sculptured, the piceous colour more 
extended—the median fascia more sharply angulated and only separated from the more extended oblique 
humeral stripe (this being sharply excised on its lower edge below the shoulders) by a W-shaped mark of 
