EROTYLID.E 159 



spots in transverse hexagon, there is a small transverse spot at the middle 

 of the apex and one more distinct at the middle of the base; scutellum 

 black, broadly angulate behind; elytra barely visibly wider than the 

 prothorax and two and one-half times as long, at base exactly equal to the 

 thoracic base, the sides evenly arcuate, the outline behind bluntly ogival; 

 punctures small but strong, rather close-set in unimpressed and even 

 entire series, the intervals with excessively minute loose punctulation; 

 legs rather stout, the basal joint of the hind tarsi but slightly elongated. 

 Length 4.9 mm.; width 2.75 mm. Guatemala (Quitche). 



This species is allied rather closely to 6-punctatus Gorh., but differs 

 in the medial, and not post-medial, elytral fascia and in the two 

 rounded and widely separated subbasal spots on each elytron, 

 there being a single very large spot in that species, in which also 

 there appears to be no trace of the small marginal maculae at the 

 middle of the apical and basal thoracic margins. 



Mycophtorus Lac. 



The men turn in the small species assigned below to this genus, does 

 not differ radically from that of Mycotrettis; that is, there is a deep 

 excavation at each side of the exposed surface, the two separated by 

 a narrow carina; the posterior part of the surface is nearly flat but 

 slopes rapidly toward base. The last joint of the maxillary palpi 

 is very broadly dilated. The antennae are short and stout, the 

 third joint nearly as long as the next two, though only one-half 

 longer than wide, joints 4-8 shorter than wide, the eighth rather 

 transverse, the club very abrupt, broad, oblong and 3-jointed, the 

 joints very transverse and perfoliate, symmetric. The eyes are 

 finely faceted. The prosternum is slightly compressed, the tibiae 

 smooth and not broader apically, and the last joint of the hind tarsi 

 is much shorter than the remainder. 



*Mycophtorus vernix n. sp. Oblong-oval, rather strongly convex, 

 bright yellowish-scarlet red throughout the body and legs, the pale an- 

 tennae with the end of the funicle and basal part of the club in part 

 nubilously picescent; upper surface with a highly polished varnish-like 

 lustre, the entire under surface very minutely strigilate and duller; head 

 less than half as wide as the prothorax, impunctate, broadly and feebly 

 biimpressed between the antennae, the frontal margin rather deeply, 

 parabolically sinuate; eyes rather prominent and deep black as usual; 

 prothorax twice as wide as the median length, the sides slightly con- 

 verging, evenly and very distinctly arcuate from base to the broadly 

 and strongly advanced and rather sharp apical angles, impunctate; base 

 and apex unmargined, the side margins very fine; base with a rather 



