80 BEETLES OF THE GENUS ECHOCEIiUS— CHITTENDEN, vol. xviii. 



Types. — Three examjiles in tbe National Museum collection, from 

 Columbus, Texas, and specimens in the collections of Messrs. E. A. 

 Schwarz, Henry Ulke, and F. H. Chittenden. 



ECHOCERUS RECURVATUS, new species. 



Form depressed. Eyes large, rounded, rather coarsely granulate, 

 feebly emarginate. Anterior angles of i^rothorax broadly rounded; 

 base feebly bisiuuate; basal fovea strongly marked. Pro-episterna 

 densely rug<»sely punctate. Marginal elytral stria deeply impressed. 

 Ventral segments finely and densely punctured at the middle. 



Male: Mandibular horns long, slender, simple, ascending and con- 

 vergent from the base, recurved and contiguous at the apices. Front 

 strongly concave, posteriorly with an arcuate ridge, forming at each 

 side just above the inner margin of the eye an obtuse tubercle, and 

 medially a small, elevated, more or less dentate or sinuate lamina. 

 Canthus small, broadly rounded anteriorly, not contiguous to the 

 horns. 



Female : Clypeus subtruncate, separated from the front by a deeply 

 impressed line. Prosternum sparsely i:)unctate and shining. 



She. — Length, 2.9 to 3 mm.; width 0.9 to l.U mm. 



R<ihitai. — I'lorida: Key West (Morrison, Schwarz),Metacombe Key 

 (Ash mead). 



Types. — Three examples in the National Museum, from Metacombe 

 Key, Florida, and specimens in the collections of Messrs. Schwarz, 

 Chitten<len, and W. H. AsUmead. 



