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5. Crotchia hondurana. 



Picea, nitida : capite parce sat fortiter, prothorace crebre minute, punctatis, hoc quadrato et parum transverso ; 



elytris leviter punctato-striatis ; antennarum clava nigra. Long. 4|-5 millim. c? $ . 

 Mas tibiis anticis apicibus leviter curvatis ; abdominis segmentis intermediis pTincto duplici setigero juxta 



marginem apicalem sito munitis. 



Hab. Mexico, near the city (Flohr), Cerro de Plumas (Edge) ; British Honduras, 

 R. Hondo, R. Sarstoon {Blancaneaux) ; Guatemala, Cahabon, Panzos, Chacoj, and San 

 Juan in Vera Paz (Champion); Nicaragua, Chontales (Janson); Panama, Bugaba, 

 Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 



A little species, to be known by its pitchy-rufous colour ; distinctly punctured head ; 

 rather short, convex, and finely and closely punctured thorax ; and elytra with fine 

 punctured striae, the interstices not visibly punctured. The tarsi do not exhibit the 

 usual difference in dilatation in the male, and are not distinctly hairy ; the front tibia? 

 are suddenly inflexed close to their apex. Some specimens, viz. those from Cahabon, 

 have the elytra almost as smooth as those of C. polita. 



6. Crotchia picea. 



C. hondurance summa affinitate, tibiis autem anticis maris apicibus baud incurvatis ; protboracis angulis 

 anticis callosis, prominentioribus, mox distinguenda. Picea, nitida; protborace transverso-subquadrato, 

 parcius minute, capite fortius, punctato ; elytris punctato-striatis. Long. 5 millim. S $ • 



Mas abdominis segmentis intermediis puncto duplici setigero, versus marginem apicalem sito, munitis. 



Hah. % Nicaragua, Chontales (Janson) ; Panama, Bugaba (Champion). 



Very close to C. hondurana ; in three or four males, however, which I have examined 

 the tibiae are not inflexed just before the apex as they are in that species, and together 

 with this the front angles of the thorax are more prominent, turning outwards in the 

 Cryptophagus manner (in C. hondurana they are deflexed, and hardly visible when 

 viewed from above). The specimen from Chontales is a female which appears to 

 belong to this species, but cannot by itself be certainly indentified. 



7. Crotchia polita. 



Picea vel nigro-picea, nitida ; capite distincte, prothorace obsolete, crebre, minute, punctatis, hoc quadrato vix 

 transverso ; elytris obsolete punctato-striatis (feminse fere glabris) ; antennis rufis, clava nigra. Long. 

 5^-6 millim. S $• 



Mas abdominis segmentis intermediis puncto duplici setigero munitis ; striis elytrorum fortius punctatis. 



Hah. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui below 4000 feet (Champion). 



Very close to C. hondurana; rather larger, the females rather wider, and with the 

 elytra smooth (the exceedingly fine striae only to be perceived with a strong lens); and 

 the club of the antennae, i. e. the last three joints, alone black. The males of this 

 species may be distinguished from those of C. hondurana by their front tibiae being 

 quite straight, and the elytra also wider and more acuminate towards the apex and 

 smoother. 



