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1. Endalus wratus. (Tab. VIII. figg. 18, 18 a.) 
Endalus eratus, Lec. Proc. Am. Phil. Soc. xv. p. 1767. 
Hab. Nortu America, Texas 1.—Mextco, near the city (H. H. Smith). 
The two specimens found by Mr. Smith in Mexico, in May 1888, probably at the 
large lakes in the vicinity of the capital, agree well with Leconte’s description of 
E. eratus. They are oblong in shape, and of a dull golden or coppery colour, 
with a greyish or whitish squamosity (which is easily rubbed off) at the sides of 
the prothorax, at the base of the elytra near the shoulders, and over the whole of 
the under surface. The prothorax is transverse, rounded at the sides, and densely 
punctured. ‘The elytra are deeply striate, with the punctures of the strize quadrate, 
the interstices flat and finely rugulose. The joints 2-6 of the funiculus are very 
short and narrow, 
2. Endalus minutus, sp.n. (Tab. VIII. fig. 19.) 
Oblong-ovate, black, clothed with brownish scales, the prothurax with a narrow marginal vitta, and the 
elytra each with a streak on the disc, extending from the base to beyond the middle, a small spot at the 
shoulder, and some other very small spots or streaks at the side and apex, white, the under surface also 
with greyish or whitish scales: the legs and antennee ferruginous. Head and rostrum rngulosely 
punctate ; joints 2-6 of the funiculus very short, narrow, 6 not half the width of the club. Prothorax 
transverse, rounded at the sides, feebly constricted in front, densely, somewhat coarsely punctate. 
Elytra a little wider than, and about two and one-half times the length of, the prothorax, subparallel in 
their basal half, with the humeri rounded ; deeply striate, the strize with quadrate punctures, the interstices 
narrow and rugulose. Beneath closely, coarsely punctate. Legs stout. 
Length 1-13 millim. 
Hab. Mexico, Toxpam (Sa llé). 
Nine specimens, four of which are abraded. Very like the North-American 
E. ovalis, Lec., but smaller and narrower, the maculation somewhat different, the 
prothorax more rounded at the sides, the antenne and legs ferrnginous. It is smaller 
and much narrower than Z’anysphyrus lemne, an insect common to Europe and the 
United States. 
Sect. STOREIDES. 
SCYBIS, gen, nov. 
Rostrum stout, curved, about as long as the prothorax, the scrobes lateral, deep, descending to the lower anterior 
margin of the eyes; antenn inserted at about one-third from the apex of the rostrum, short, the 
funiculus 7-jointed, the club ovate, pubescent, and with distinct sutures ; eyes large, transverse, reniform,’ 
not prominent, coarsely facetted, subcontiguous above and narrowly separated beneath; head sunk into 
the prothorax almost to the eyes; prothorax transverse, without ocular lobes; scutellum very small, 
scarcely visible; elytra oblong, much wider than the prothorax, broadly and conjointly rounded at the 
apex, covering the pygidium, with nine deep strix ; prosternum very short before the anterior coxe, level ; 
anterior coxe contiguous, the intermediate pair narrowly and the hind pair somewhat widely separated ; 
metasternum short; ventral segments 3-5 equal in length, 2 nearly as long as 3 and 4 united, 2 a little 
produced at the outer apical angle, 1 and 2 subconnate at the middle; legs short and stout; femora much 
thickened and unarmed ; tibie straight, gradually widening outwards, broadly truncate and unarmed at 
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