280 E. BRENDEL, M. D. 



Bryaxis Wiclcliaini n. sp. — Unicolorous, fernicjinous, impuiictate. 

 Length 1.4 nini. Head, frontal margin triangularly produced, bearing the cir- 

 cular puhesceut fovea, which is equal with aud less distant from the occipital 

 fovesE as the latter are mutually ; antennae % (PI. IV, fig. 19) longer than the 

 head and prothorax, joints 1 and 2 equal, obconical, large, third aud fourth very 

 small, globular, as large as the seventh or eighth ; the fifth largest, longer than 

 wide, as thick as the last joint, with a perforate large fovea underneath, truncate 

 at the tip, the sixth in form and size equal to the second ; ninth and tenth ob- 

 conical, longer than wide, not quite as strong as the sixth; the last as long as 

 the ninth and tenth togther ovate acuminate; prothorax very convex, the fovese 

 not fully to be seen from above ; elytra with a subhumeral fovea on the declive 

 side, slightly elongated backwards ; abdominal carinje including one-third of the 

 segmental width. 



J . — Antennse not longer than the head and prothorax, the fifth and sixth are 

 not as large, and the third, fourth, seventh and eighth not as small as in the % ; 

 the fovea of the fifth joint, however, is present, though a very small puncture. 



From Caiion City, Col., discovered by H. F. Wickham. 



Batrisus siiiuatifrons n. sp. — Brown, elytra and legs red, tarsi and 

 palpi yellow. Length 1.8 mm. Head orthognathous. vertex as long as wide, 

 quadrate, sides parallel, edge extremely finely carinate, front broadly arcuate: 

 disc scabrous, with two small nude punctures in the eye-line, mutually four 

 times as distant as either from the eye ; no circumambient sulcus ; front (PI. IV, 

 fig. 5) declive anterior to the autennal line, the short declive part bisinuate, 

 leaving in the middle a black, shining, sharp-pointed tubercle, aud at each side 

 a pendant, cylindrical, squarely truncated peg, crowned with short yellow hair; 

 the clypeus rises from the labial base as a straight column crowned by two diver- 

 gent tufts of hair, the lateral wings are edged and gradually more reflexed to- 

 wards the upper lateral angle, which is turned straight forward, appearing from 

 a side-view as a sharp horizontal spine; antenupe, joint 1 cylindrical, curved, 

 three times longer than wide; 2 not much narrower oval, 3-8 equal in width, 

 gradually shorter, 5 little stronger, 8 transverse, 9 transverse, wider, 10 twice as 

 wide as 8, globose, the underside with the basal half sharply excavate. 11 not 

 thicker ovate-acuminate; prothorax trisulcate, trifoveate, basal thorns large, 

 sharp, continued anteriorly and posteriorly by short carinse, in the middle be- 

 tween the base and the medial fovea is a distingued carinse; disc irapunctate : 

 elytra broad shouldered, the lateral callus not armed, on the declive sides a con- 

 spicuously impressed line rising from a subhumeral fovea; last palpal joint 

 meniscus-shaped. 



5 .—Clypeus faintly trilobed, continuous Avith the front, tenth autennal joint 

 small. 



Memphis, Tenn. (Hugo Soltau). 



Batrisiis clypeonotus n. sp. — Dark umber-brown elytra; legs, palpi 

 and club of the antennae red. Length 2.2 mm. % . Head prognathous, vertex 

 quadrate, not arched in front, sides parallel edged, fovea small, nude, widely 

 distant, grooves not deep, not connected in front, disc punctate, roof-shaped and 

 carinate in the middle, margin densely punctate; frontal margin (PI. IV, fig. 4) 

 on the declivity broadly arcuately bilobed ; in the middle of the interantennal 

 excavation are to be seen two black teeth, rather far apart; clypeus slightly 



