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the sides behind, broadly truncate at the base, and with a distinct occipital impression, very sparsely and 
finely punctured, a longitudinal space down the middle smooth, the eyes large; antenne entirely testaceous ; 
prothorax about as long as broad, moderately convex, a little narrower than the head, the sides obliquely 
converging from before the middle and parallel at the extreme base, the base very shallowly grooved on 
either side within, the disc distinctly canaliculate, the surface very finely and densely punctured ; elytra 
long and subparallel, flattened on the disc, with an exceedingly shallow broad post-basal depression (occu- 
pied by the anterior flavous spot), the humeri rounded, the surface closely and finely punctured (the 
punctures coarser than those on the prothorax) ; legs slender, pale testaceous ; the fifth ventral segment 
simply truncate in the male. 
Length 3} millim. (¢ 9.) 
Hab. Mexico (coll. Oberthiir), Soledad (Sal/é). 
Four examples. This species is allied to A. tetrops, but it has the head and thorax 
more convex, narrower, shining, and flavo-testaceous in colour ; the head is much 
smaller ; the elytral spots are larger, the anterior one extending to the lateral margin. 
More elongate than A. lecontei, the upper surface much more finely punctured. 
The only known locality for A. currasz is Soledad, on the Atlantic slope. 
45. Anthicus tetrops. (Tab. X. fig. 27.) 
Elongate, depressed ; the head and prothorax ferruginous or flavo-ferruginous, opaque; the elytra piceous, each 
with a rather large transverse or slightly oblique testaceous spot on the dise before the middle and a 
smaller one on the disc towards the apex, slightly shining ; the upper surface somewhat thickly clothed 
with fine, silky, appressed pubescence and with a few widely scattered short erect hairs. Head very large 
and broad, strongly transverse, dilated at the sides behind, broadly truncate at the base, and with a very 
distinct occipital impression, somewhat flattened in front, sparsely and very finely (but quite distinctly) 
punctured, a longitudinal space down the middle smooth, the eyes black, large, and rather prominent ; 
antenne rather slender, joints 7-10 subtriangular, testaceous, the outer joints slightly infuscate ; prothorax 
about as broad as long, a little narrower than the head, slightly flattened on the disc, the sides obliquely 
converging from before the middle and a little dilated at the extreme base, the base shallowly grooved on 
either side within, the dise obsoletely canaliculate, the surface very finely and densely punctured ; elytra 
long and subparallel, slightly narrowed anteriorly, a little flattened on the disc, the humeri rounded, the 
surface closely and finely punctured (the punctures coarser than those on the head and prothorax), without 
post-basal depression ; legs slender, testaceous ; the fifth ventral segment simply truncate at the apex in 
the male. 
Length 23-33 millim. (¢ 9.) 
Hab. Guatemaua, Champerico (Champion). 
Ten examples, found on the Pacific coast at Champerico. Allied to A, lecontei, 
but with the head and thorax ferruginous, much less convex, more finely punctured, and 
opaque, the head more strongly transverse, the elytra more finely punctured, &c. The 
elytral spots vary a little in size, but they do not reach the suture. The head is sub- 
triangular and comparatively very large. 
46, Anthicus minusculus. 
Moderately elongate; the head varying in colour from flavo-testaceous to piceous, the prothorax from testa- 
ceous to piceous with the dise obscurely ferruginous ; the elytra testaceous or ferruginous, with the base 
(in one specimen indistinctly), a very broad transverse median fascia (not reaching the suture), and the 
apex black (these markings connected along the lateral margin in one specimen); the upper surface 
