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Numerous examples, most of which were in such a dirty condition that they had to 
be cleaned before the sculpture could be seen. Very like A. granulatus, and perhaps 
nothing more than an extreme form of it, but differing from that species in the finely 
granulated, coarsely punctured prothorax, the more uniform size of the elevations on 
the third elytral interstice towards the apex, and the shorter setosity. ‘There is a good 
deal of variation in the development of the tubercles on the elytra, these being mostly 
conical in shape and coalescing on the disc into short ridges. 
21. Anchonus sallei, sp.n. (Tab. V. fig. 24, ¢.) 
Anchonus sallei, Faust, in litt. 
Oblong-ovate, black, the antennz and tarsi more or less rufescent ; the sete extremely short. Rostrum stout, 
cylindrical, curved, closely and rugosely punctured to the tip, the interspaces irregularly, longitudinally 
wrinkled, the widened apical portion short and dull in the ¢ and a little longer, shining, and parallel- 
sided in the 2. Prothorax distinctly flattened on the disc, slightly broader than long, rounded at the 
sides, constricted and narrowed in front and narrowed behind; the surface coarsely, closely, irregularly 
punctate, with the interspaces here and there raised and shining, shallowly sulcate down the middle, more 
or less distinctly binodose at the apex, on the middle of the disc, and at the sides. Elytra oblong-ovate, 
more or less flattened on the disc and abruptly declivous at the apex, at the base wider than the prothorax; 
coarsely seriate-punctate, the interstices 2-7 uneven, and here and there minutely granulate, each with 
a series of oblong or rounded, moderately prominent, setigerous tubercles, these forming a carina at the 
base of 3 and 5, 2 with the larger tubercle at the commencement and middle of the apical declivity sub- 
equal in size. Beneath very coarsely punctate. 
Length 53-6, breadth 2}-23 millim. (¢ @.) 
Hab. Muxico (Mus. Brit.), Toxpam (Sallé), Jalapa (Hoge). 
Seven examples. We have received one of Sallé’s specimens of this insect from the 
Dresden Museum, labelled with the MS. name of A. salle, Faust. Compared with its 
Mexican allies, the present species may be known by the extremely short setosity of 
the upper surface, the coarsely, irregularly, somewhat confluently punctured prothorax, 
and the more or less flattened disc of the elytra, the latter with moderately prominent 
tubercles, the larger ones at the commencement and middle of the apical declivity being 
subequal in size. The single (2) specimen from Jalapa has the elytra more flattened 
on the disc, and the tubercles on this portion of the surface less raised, forming inter- 
rupted caring. 
99. Anchonus elongatus. (Tab. V. figg. 25, 25a, 2.) 
Anchonus elongatus, Fahy. in Schénh. Gen. Cure. vii. 2, p. 397°. 
Anchonus pedestris, Faust, Deutsche ent. Zeit. 1892, p. 49°. 
Hab. Mexico ? (coll. Chevrolat*), Toxpam (Sallé). 
I am unable to separate A. pedestris from A. elongatus, the type or co-types of which 
are before me, as well as a specimen from the Sallé collection. The setosity of the 
upper surface is extremely short, showing no tendency to form fascicles on the pro- 
thorax. In the type of A. elongatus the tubercles on the elytra form a conspicuous 
