126 ENDOMTCBmS. 



Section A, Body ovate, moderately convex. 



1. Anidrytus liquefactus. (Tab. VII. fig. 16, e .) 



Anidrytus liquefactus, Gorham, Endom. Recit. p. 47 x ; Proc. Zool. Soc. 1886, p. 160 2 . 



" Oblongus, elytris obovatis, ruf o-piceis, nitidus, parcius punctatua ; antenms fflrtiealis qusfcaor batalibas rufis. 

 Long. lin. 3|. tf " 



Hob. Guatemala, San Joaquin in Vera Paz (Champion) ; Panama, Bugaba {Chaimpion), 

 — Colombia 1 ; Peru 2 (coll. Gorham). 



There are some slight differences between the single specimens captured by 

 Mr. Champion, and between them and the type ; but I do not consider these differences 

 of sufficient importance to warrant me in describing them as new species. The 

 example from Bugaba is a male, 8-| millim. in length. It has the three basal joints of 

 the antennae of a clear red, the fourth joint pitchy in part, and the following joints 

 black, the apical joint being very narrowly tipped with reddish-brown; the whole body 

 and the legs and the elytra of a clear, almost lucid, chestnut-red inclining to pitchy; 

 the punctuation distinct and rather thick, that on the disc of the thorax less close than 

 at the sides ; and the pubescence of the elytra golden-brown. In the specimen from 

 San Joaquin, also a male, the fourth joint of the antenna? is less pitchy and even the 

 fifth joint is partly rufous at its apex ; and the elytra have a darker discoidal cloud, 

 arid even the disc of the thorax is faintly infuscate. The front tibiae of the male in 

 both specimens are curiously distorted, being angularly deflexed below their middles, 

 and flattened and again reflexed upward close to the apex, so that they form a kind of 

 spoon; there is, however, no internal tooth. 



2. Anidrytus nitidularius ? 



Anidrytus nitidularius, Gerst. Monogr. Endom. p. 262 1 . 

 Hob. Mexico 1 t Temax in North Yucatan (Gaumer). 



Of this species, described by Gerstacker from a single specimen in Dohrn's collection, 

 I have not seen an authentic example. The single specimen obtained by Gaumex 

 agrees well enough with the description, but it is a female ; and the character given by 

 Gerstacker, viz. the semicircular emargination of the last ventral segment, may be 

 that of the male sex. It k not present in our insect The identification is therefore 

 quite uncertain. 



3. Anidrytus nigropiceus. 



Late eblongo-ovatus, nigro-piceus, subnitidus, antennarum basi et apice, corpore subtus pedibusque dilutius 



piceis. Long. 7 millim. S • 

 Mas tibiis anticis intus fortiter late dentatis, ad dentem fossulatis, tibiis intermediis sinuatis. 



Sab. Panama, Bugaba (Champion). 



