252 SUPPLEMENT. 



biimpresea; prothorace oblongo-quadrato, angulis anticis integris, rectis, lateribus et basi tenuiter 

 marginatis, hoc obsolete bifoveolato; antennis brevibus, artieulis quarto ad octavum nodiformibus. 

 Long. 6 millim. 



Hab. Mexico, Motzorongo in Vera Cruz (Flohr). 



Equal in size to H. reitteri, but at once separable from it by the more shining, less 

 pubescent surface, the longer thorax, which is a little longer than wide, with the anterior 

 angles in a line with the front margin, and the distinctly punctate-striate elytra ; the 

 punctures on the latter are not in irregular rows, although they are very close and in 

 places, especially externally, become confluent. The rows of elongate punctures on the 

 elytral interstices are also more regular and more distinct than they are in H. reitteri. 

 The colour is uniformly pitchy. 



One specimen only has been received of this insect, and it is possible that the 

 pubescence has been partly rubbed off; hut even if this is the case the surface is less 

 alutaceous, and the puncturing is stronger and more regular, than that of H. reitteri. 



5. Hapalips parallelus. 



Oblongo-elongatus, parallelus, breviter pubescens, fuscus, infra cum pedibus ferruginous ; capite crebre minute 

 punctato, fronte obsoletius biimpressa ; antennis breviusculis, ferrugineis, artieulis quarto ad octavum 

 transversis, clava abrupta ; prothorace transverso quadrato, parcius haud profunde punctato, basi utrinque 

 subimpresso, lateribus tenuiter marginatis ; elytris thorace parum latioribus, lateribus parallelis, obsolete 

 striato-punctatis, interstitiis minute seriatim punctatis. Long. 4 millim. 



Hab. Mexico, Vera Cruz (Salle), Frontera in Tabasco (Hoge). 

 Var. Obscure ferruginous. 



Hab. Mexico, Colima city (Hoge), Vera Cruz (Salle). 



Apparently very near H. fuscus, Eeitter, from Brazil. The punctures of the inter 

 stitial series of the elytra seem to be finer than they are in that insect, to judge from 

 the description, indeed they are so fine as not to be easily seen. The punctures of the 

 striae are very numerous, oblong, and almost confluent ; those of the thorax are stellate 

 and flat-bottomed. The abdominal lines are fine, carinate, extending over two-thirds 

 of the basal segment. 



Seven examples, 



EUXESTUS (to precede the genus Megalodacne, p. 33). 



Euxestus, Wollaston, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (3) ii. p. 411 (1858) ; Lacordaire, Gen. Col. xii. 

 p. 26; Gorham, P. Z. S. 1898, p. 336. 



Euxestus is a genus formed by Wollaston for a very small insect somewhat resembling 

 a small pitchy-coloured Daene, from Madeira. It is apparently rather closely allied to 

 Eastern insects of the genus Tritomidea, Motschulsky ; but the New World species 

 differs from them in the structure of the antennae and in other points which I have 

 already noticed elsewhere. 



