238 HETEROMERA. 
Atoyac in Vera Cruz and Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith); British Honpuras, Belize, 
R. Hondo (Blancaneauaz) ; GuaTeMata, Cahabon and San Juan in Vera Paz, Zapote 
(Champion).—Co.tomBia ; Amazons; Braziu?. 
Not uncommon in the warmer parts of Central America, more particularly on the 
Atlantic slope. Allied to A. equinoctialis, La Ferté, from which it differs in having 
the elytra closely and confusedly punctured from the base to the apex (the punctures 
becoming a little coarser towards the base). The head and thorax are duller and more 
finely rugulose; the head is more angularly extended at the sides behind; the thorax 
has the lateral tooth sharper and longer, this tooth usually preceded and followed by a 
shorter one, each tooth bearing a long projecting bristly hair; and the elytra have a 
transverse subangular black median fascia and a transverse anteapical one, these fascie 
connected along the suture. 
Central-American specimens, of which about forty are before me, have the elytra a 
little more coarsely punctured than the La Ferté types, and the thoracic teeth less - 
distinct. La Ferté’s outline figure of the thorax is incorrect and misleading. One 
example, from Mexico, labelled A. nigrosignatus, Deyr., in M. Réné Oberthiir’s collec- 
tion, has the elytra still more coarsely punctured; but with the extensive series before 
me Iam unable to distinguish more than one species. Specimens of what is apparently 
an extreme form, from the Amazons, are separated in the La Ferté collection and 
labelled A. longicornis; these have the thoracic teeth almost obsolete. In one of the 
typical examples of La Ferté the thoracic teeth are much longer than in the others. 
26. Anthicus striato-punctatus- (Tab. X. fig. 18.) 
Anthicus (Acanthinus) striato-punctatus, La Ferté, Monogr. Anthic. p. 139°. 
Anthicus punctatus, Moritz, in litt. 
Hab. Mexico, Teapa in Tabasco (Hoge, H. H. Smith), Yucatan (coll. Oberthiir) ; 
British Honpuras, R. Hondo (Blancaneaux); Guatemata, Cahabon (Champion).— 
VENEZUELA, Cumana!, 
The eight examples before me from Central America only differ from La Ferté’s 
description of this species in having the head and thorax lighter in colour—pitchy-red 
instead of black—and the basal one or two joints of the antennz fusco-testaceous or 
testaceous ; they agree perfectly with the types. Allied to A. spinicollis, but differing 
from it by the very coarse sculpture of the head and thorax and the very prominent 
eyes. The antenne (the basal one or two joints excepted) are black, with the apical 
joints flavous; the head is very coarsely and rugosely punctured, and has a smooth 
longitudinal space along the middle, the basal portion being also smooth and shining ; 
the thorax is shining, angularly dilated at the sides before the middle (and also furnished 
with one or two short teeth in front of this), and very coarsely punctured, the punctures 
confluent on the anterior portion; the elytra are rather coarsely striate-punctate to a 
