32 eeotylim:. 



8. Crotchia pusilla. 



Nigro-picea, nitida ; capite parce punctata ; prothorace parum transverso, laevi ; elytris obsolete seriatim 



punctatis. Long. 2f-3 millim. S $ • 

 Mas abdominis segmentis intermediis puncto duplici setigero, aegre distincto, munitis. 



Eab. Guatemala, San Juan in Vera Paz (Champion). 



This little species, one of the smallest of the whole group yet known, is very like a 

 small C. hondurana, but the punctuation is different. On the head a very few scattered 

 punctures are to be found, but these are, for the size of the insect, comparatively coarse ; 

 while the thorax, even under the microscope, is hardly visibly punctured. The antennae 

 are red, but darker towards the apex, the last four or five joints being black. 



It was only with considerable trouble, and in a good light, that I was able to discern 

 the seta on the abdomen of the male specimen. 



9. Crotchia parvula. 



Cylindrica, subparallela, ferruginea ; capite prothoraceque crebre minute punctatis ; elytris punctato-striatis ; 



antennarum clava nigra. Long. 2|-3 millim. <$ 5 . 

 Mas abdominis segmentis intermediis puncto setigero, juxta apicem utrinqne munitis. 



Eab. Beitish Honduras, E. Hondo (Blancaneaux); Guatemala, El Reposo, Zapote 

 (Champion). 



With the exception of Microlanguria jansoni, Crotch, which this insect very closely 

 resembles, this is the smallest species of Languriides yet described ; and from any 

 but that species its very small size and yellow colour very readily distinguish it. The 

 presence of seta? on the three abdominal segments in one of the examples, viz. that 

 from British Honduras, proves the affinity that exists with the larger members of this 

 genus. Whether the insect from Japan, and which also apparently exists in Ceylon, 

 possesses also this curious sexual character I do not know ; the structure of the antennae 

 is, however, different. In our species the antennae have two large subequal basal joints, 

 followed by a much thinner but equally long third joint ; the fourth to the seventh 

 joints being a little longer than broad, and the eighth is transverse. In the Japanese 

 insect all the joints of the funiculus, including the eighth, are longer than broad, and the 

 terminal three or club-joints are subquadrate ; while in our species the first two joints of 

 the club are transverse ; other minute differences exist, which render it unnecessary here 

 to notice the Eastern species further than to call attention to the remarkable parallelism 

 that exists between forms probably generically different. 



Four specimens, two from Zapote and one from each of the other localities, are all 

 that have yet been found. 



Obs. — M. Edw. Fleutiaux has [Annales de la Soc. Ent. de France, 1887, p. 68] described 

 a species from Hue, Annam, under the name of "Croachia minuta " (sic). M. Fleutiaux 

 does not compare his insect with Microlanguria jansoni, nor has he observed the sexual 

 characters ; I cannot therefore regard it as belonging to the genus Crotchia. 



