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shining, finely pubescent. Head moderately large, truncate behind, closely and somewhat coarsely punc- 
tured, with a smooth central line, the occiput not or very feebly impressed, the eyes large; antenne 
testaceous or fusco-testaceous, short, about reaching the base of the prothorax, slender, the penultimate 
joints transverse ; prothorax convex, about as long as broad, narrower than the head, narrowing behind, 
the base obsoletely margined, the surface densely and finely punctured ; elytra convex, comparatively 
short, feebly rounded at the sides, the humeri rounded, the surface densely and finely punctured, the 
punctuation a little coarser than that of the prothorax ; legs testaceous or fusco-testaceous. 
Length 1 millim. (¢ 9.) 
Hab. GuatTEMALA, Panajachel, San Gerénimo (Champion). 
Three examples. This species is closely allied to the N.-American A. nanus and 
A. bellulus, Lec. Compared with an example of the former, from Arizona, communicated 
by Dr. Horn, A. minusculus is smaller, more convex, and a little less elongate; the head 
is smaller and not so broad, and the elytra are black at the base and apex. A. bellulus, 
from San Diego, California, appears to have a more densely and more finely punctured 
head and a finer frontal line. All four species are of very small size. 
47. Anthicus squamosus. 
Anthicus squamosus, La Ferté, Monogr. Anthic. p. 216°. 
Hab. Nortu America, ¢ California (Piccolimini) 1—Mexico (coll. Oberthiir), Ciudad in 
Durango (Hége), Guanajuato (Sallé, Dugés). 
This very distinct Anthicus has been captured in some numbers by M. E. Dugés at 
Guanajuato. Our examples agree precisely with La Ferté’s type. The locality 
“California” is probably erroneous. The insect was unknown to Leconte. An elon- 
gate, parallel, rather convex species, brownish-black in colour, and subopaque; the 
entire upper surface very densely and finely (the elytra a little more coarsely) punctured, 
and thickly clothed with extremely short, appressed, scale-like, greyish pubescence; the 
antenne and legs fusco-ferruginous or ferruginous. A. sguamosus has much the facies 
of a Monotoma. 
48. Anthicus fulvipes. 
Anthicus fulvipes, La Ferté, Monogr. Anthic. p. 177°; Lec. Proc. Acad. Phil. vi. p. 102”. 
Hab. North America, United States, Louisiana?, Florida.—Mexico, Cordova 
(Sallé), Atoyac in Vera Cruz, Teapa (H. H. Smith), San Juan Bautista in Tabasco 
(Hoge); GuaTeMALA, Paso Antonio (Champion): Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Cham- 
pion). 
Our numerous Central-American specimens of this species are smaller and less elon- 
gate than the La Ferté types or than any I have seen from the United States; but in a 
long series of examples there is considerable variation in size. The elytra are also not 
quite so coarsely punctured. Mexican and Guatemalan examples are smaller and 
shorter than the others; Chiriqui specimens are more like those from Florida &c. The 
