PARANDRA.-~——PSALIDOGNATHUS. 3 
Hab. Guaremata, Zapote, Capetillo (Champion); British Honpuras, R. Sarstoon 
(Blancaneau); Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt, Janson). | 
Having recently examined the type of White’s P. punctata in the British Museum, I 
find it different from the Chontales species. It is a female, with, for this genus, 
remarkably long antenne. The present species is allied to P. levis (Latr.) of Cuba and 
St. Domingo, agreeing with that pretty well in general form, but differing at once in 
the position of the first, or lowest, tooth of the mandibles in well-developed males, this 
tooth in P. levis being situated far below the other two (which are close together 
and terminal), and in P. angulicollis close to the terminal teeth. 
The thorax in the male and the majority of the females in P. angulicollis is remarkably 
broad and short, uniformly and strongly punctured, and with prominent, acute angles; a 
little before the posterior margin it is somewhat strongly narrowed, in a curved line. 
The anterior angles in the male project further than they do in P. levis. 
P. angulicollis belongs to a group of closely-allied species which appears to be nume- 
rous in Tropical America, and which is distinguished by the quadrate and strong median 
lobe of the epistome and the single paronychium to the tarsal claw-joint. 
ERICHSONIA. 
Erichsonia, Westw. Trans. Ent. Soc. v. p. 210 (1849). 
One of the principal characters on which Lacordaire relied for separating this curious 
little Prionid from Perandra, viz. the absence of paronychia, proves to be untenable, since 
true Parandre exist in which there are no paronychia. 
1. Erichsonia dentifrons. 
Erichsonia dentifrons, Westw. loc. cit. p. 211, t. 22. £21; Lacordaire, Gen. Col. Atlas, t. 81. f. 5. 
Hab. Mexico!; British Honpuras, R. Sarstoon (Slancaneau). 
PSALIDOGNATHUS. 
Psalidognathus, G. R. Gray, Griff. An. K. ii. p. 115 (1882). 
This fine genus is peculiar to the Andean region of Tropical America, the forest 
region east of La Paz being apparently its southern limit. A species of East Peru. 
(P. limenius) descends a little way into the plains of the Upper Amazons; but the 
genus does not occur in Guiana or Brazil. We have now to record for the first time 
the occurrence of a species in Central America *. 
1. Psalidognathus modestus, 
Psalidognathus modestus, Fries, Kong]. Vetensk. Acad. Handl. 1833, p. 327, t. 9. f. 1-3? 
* The locality “Panama” for P. boucardi and P. batesi, supplied to M. Thomson (Typi Cerambycid. 
pp. 7 & 10), is probably incorrect. I have seen numbers of the first-named from the neighbourhood of Medellin, 
in. the Cauca valley. 
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