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beaten from vines in the government pasture, along with Copto- 

 cycla aurichalcea and C. extensa. C. bonvouloirii was confined 

 to the more tropical jungles and may be readily told from our 

 other species by the small size and curious coloration. Cabinet 

 specimens are yellowish, the antennal tip piceous, while on the 

 upper surface of the body a broad black line describes a nearly 

 circular figure extending forward onto the base of the thorax and 

 backward somewhat less than two-thirds of the length of the 

 elytra. Inside of this figure three black spots are usually seen; 

 one common, anteriorly, and behind these a pair, one on each 

 side of and close to the suture. In life the surface is golden; 

 this is true also of another Coptocycla, of large size, found in the 

 same situations and referred by Dr. Horn to C. leprosa Boh. In 

 this the color of cabinet specimens is yellowish except the an- 

 tennal tips and the sides of the thoracic segments, which are 

 dusky. The elytra are strongly elevated at base, forming a 

 sutural and a humeral gibbosity, while from about the middle of 

 the side margin a raised line runs diagonally up to meet the su- 

 tural elevation. The insect reaches a length of nine millimeters 

 and is by no means rare. 



The Tenebrionidae were not numerous in species, though cer- 

 tain forms were very abundant for example, Eleodes seriata and 

 a. Paratenetus, both of which were beaten from herbage. I never 

 noticed this habit of climbing plants strongly developed in other 

 Eleodes, though it is no uncommon thing to see E. hispilabris 

 and E. extricata in bushes on the plains of New Mexico and 

 Arinona. Of E. tricostata I met with a single dead specimen at 

 Point Isabel and no other species of the genus occurred to me 

 near Brownsville. Two Ancsdus cribratus Dej. and longicornis 

 Champ., both new to our fauna, were found amongst rubbish in 

 the government reservation. Arrhenoplita ferruginea was de- 

 tected boring in polyporoid fungi with Rhipidandrus. Talanus 

 langurinus was quite abundant in thickets and numbers might 

 be obtained by beating. Helops farctus was shaken from mes- 

 quite trees. Pyanisia tristis Casteln. (new to our fauna) was 

 found under logs near a resaca in the woods. It may be distin- 

 guished from P. opaca by the rather deeply bisinuate base of the 

 prothorax. 



The remaining Heteromera are mostly inconspicuous or well- 

 known species, though a few are of interest. Listronycluis pili- 



