NORTH AMKUIPAN COI-EOPTERA. 153 



.^IIC'RIDIUIVI. 



Motsehulsky Bull. Mosc. 41, p. 188, 18fi9. 



IIkad elong;ate, obtuse; eyes placed far back. 



Antex.n.'E ll-jointed, 3 apical uiiich incrassated, forming a moniliform 



club. 



ri<(»N(»Tr.M sub-(juadrate. 



Elytra entire. 



Mesosternum broadly carinate. 



Metasternum long and narrow, not reaching the sides of the body. 



Le(}S rather long, til)i;« slightly dilated. 



Posterior cox.e largely raminated. 



M. liiieatiiin Motschulsky Bull. Mosc. 41, p. 189, 1869.— L. c. .37— .50 mm. 

 — Oval, rather short, very convex and very shining, bright yellow, clothed with 

 short golden pubescence; head elongate; eyes small, prominent; thorax rather 

 longer and rather wider than the head, slightly constricted towards the base, 

 rather thickly marked with foveolate punctures, posterior angles nearly right 

 angles; elytra rather short, obtusely ovate, tftinsparent, showing the wings, scarcely 

 longer, but rather wider than the head and thorax, widest before the middle, 

 rather deeply asperate, apex broad and rounded ; antennae moderate, robust, bright 

 yellow ; legs long and slender, bright yellow, anterior tibiae and basal joints of the 

 tarsi dilated. 



Central America in ant nests (Motschulsky). 



Motschulsky Bull. Mosc. 41, p. 172, 1868. 



l>oDY elongate, linear. 



Head large, sessile. 



Antenn.e short, ll-jointed, 2 b;isal joints very large, 3 apical joints 



very much incrassated, forming an almost solid club. 

 Tkonotum short, widest at the base. 

 FiLVTRA entire, very long, rounded at the apex. 

 Ahdo.mex with the pygidium expo.sed. 

 -Mesosternum small, widely carinated. 

 -Metasterni'm large, produced between the posterior coxae into a sharp 



point. 

 Leos rather short. 

 Posterior cox^e very broadly laminated. 



IIIANS. AMEIl. ENT. SOC. XI. (o9j MAY, 1884. 



