22 ekotylim:. 



Very close to D. thoracicus ; in the male the thorax is widest in front a very little 

 below the angles (in D. thoracicus the widest part is below the middle) ; the legs are 

 not nearly so long, and the hairs on the tarsi in the male are black ; the antennae are 

 shorter, especially the third to the fifth joints; the elytra are less distinctly punctured, 

 and have their apices acuminate and rounded. The legs and underside vary in the 

 degree of depth of pitchy-red colour. 



I have described this species from specimens from British Honduras, where it appears 

 to be very abundant. The specimens from Mexico pertain, I believe, to the same 

 species, and are very difficult to separate from B. teredilis, with which it was found by 

 Herr Hoge. 



16. Dasydactylus picipes. 



Niger, subsenescens, nitidus, subtus cum pedibus piceus ; capite prothoraceque parcius sat fortiter punctatis ; 



elytris distincte punctato-striatis, interstitiis punctulatis; prosterno leviter exciso, apice bimucronafco. 



Long. 8-10 millim. $ $ . 

 Mas prothoraee eonvexiore, lateribus medio rotundatis ; pedibus anticis longioribus, femoribus intus subasper- 



atis, tarsis nigro-hirtulis, 



Hdb. Guatemala, Cerro Zunil, Duefias (Champion). 



Smaller than D. nitidus, and, in addition to the prosternum being channelled and 

 excised at the apex, differing from it as follows: — The thorax is shorter, and in the 

 male widened in the middle rather than near the base (which is accordingly more 

 constricted), and covered with more distinct but more scattered punctures ; the inter- 

 stices of the elytra are less thickly and less serially punctured, the striae themselves 

 being more strongly punctate. Many specimens were captured at Cerro Zunil by 

 Mr. Champion, and what appears to be the same species occurred in some numbers at 

 Duefias. 



17. Dasydactylus teredilis. 



Nigro-piceus, nitidus, corpore subtus pedibusque dilutius piceis plus minusve infuscatis ; antennis tarsisque 

 nigris ; capite prothoraceque parcius minute punctatis ; elytris punctato-striatis, interstitiis sublsevibus, 

 apicibus acuminatis et minute denticulatis ; prosterno exciso. Long. 6-7 millim. S • 



Mas prothoraee valde convexo ; femoribus anticis asperatis, tarsis nigro-hirtulis. 



Hab. Mexico, Jalapa, Cordova, Teapa in Tabasco (Hoge), Toxpam (Salle) ; Guate- 

 mala, Capetillo, Chiacam (Champion). 



One of the smaller species evidently composing a series very nearly allied and hard 

 to separate. The males of D. teredilis have the thorax very wide and convex, the 

 middle of the thorax being the widest part of the insect ; the antennae of moderate 

 length, i. e. about as long as the head and thorax together, the third to the seventh 

 joints subequal and longer than wide. The front legs are long, but the middle pair 

 is shorter than in some species of the genus ; and their femora appear to be smooth 

 in the males. 



