334 SUPPLEMENT. 
PHRYNIDIUS (p. 92). 
Phrynidius echinus (p. 93). | 
To the localities given, add :—Gvatema.a, Senahu, Sinanja, Cerro Zunil (Champion) ; 
Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 
In the description at p. 93, with reference to the length of the third antennal joint, 
the word “again” was accidentally omitted; the third joint is about half as long again 
as the scape. The male, as in the other species of the genus, is narrower than the 
female. 
Phrynidius inzqualis (p. 93). 
To the Mexican localities given, add:—Las Vigas (Hége). 
4. Phrynidius asper. 
P. echino affinis; differt corpore magis elongato, antennisque robustioribus, articulo 3° scapo paullulum 
breviori, etc. Elongato-ovatus, obscure fuscus, thorace grossissime confuse punctato-tuberculato; elytris 
ovatis, valde convexis, tuberculis magnis obsitis, interstitiis aspere punctato-granulatis; antennis articulis 
°_4™ longitudine fere equalibus, singulatim quam scapus paullo brevioribus. 
Long. 3-54 lin. | 
Hab. GuateMALA, Totonicapam 8500 to 11,000 feet (Champion). Under stones on 
mountain-tops. 
In the relative length of the third and fourth antennal joints and the scape this 
species is intermediate between P. echinus and P. inequalis. In its ovate and strongly 
tuberculated elytra it comes near P. echinus ; but in all the numerous examples the body 
and elytra are conspicuously more elongate than in that species. The rough irregular 
sculpture of the thorax and the interstices of the elytra form also a valid mark of differ- 
ence from P. echinus. 
PARMENA (to follow the genus Phrynidius, p. 93). 
Parmena, Latreille, Régne Anim. ed. 2, v. p. 125; Lacordaire, Gen. Col. ix. p. 275. 
A well-known European genus, hitherto supposed to be restricted to the Mediter- 
ranean region: six species have been described. The following species has a close 
resemblance to P. solieri, Muls., but differs curiously in important points of structure. 
For example, the claws are decidedly more parallel, 7.e. “divergents,” according to 
Lacordaire’s phraseology, whilst in Parmena they would be considered ‘“ divariqués ;” 
they are not, however, so closely approximated as in the “‘ Niphonini” group, and seem 
to vary a little in the tarsi of one and the same individual; thus it seems inexpedient, 
at least until further specimens are obtained, to insist on the value of the character and 
remove the insect to a quite different group, e.g. the “Apomecynini,” where it would 
