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Described from one specimen. Compared with other fossil Floris- 

 sant Coccinellidae, this is the largest, but is closely approached in 

 size by Coccinella sodoma. The pro thorax is of different outline in 

 the two and I think they are distinct. The reference to Anatis is, of 

 course, provisional and is based more upon size than anything else. 



BRACHYSPATHUS, new genus. 



This name is proposed for a fossil Buprestid which does not seem 

 to fall into any of the modern genera known to me. The body is 

 elongate, more or less elaterif orm, not at all cuneate, antennae short, 

 only slightly serrate. The most essential character is the form of the 

 prosternal tip, wliich is expanded into a long, stalked lobe, shaped 

 something like a spatula, and emarginate at apex. 



The type is Brachyspathus curiosus, described below. 



BRACHYSPATHUS CURIOSUS, new species. 



Plate 38, figs. 2, 3. 



Preserved in ventral view. Form elongate, subparallel. Head 

 rather small, frontal region strongly punctured, the punctures as 

 close together as possible without becoming confluent. The sculpture 

 evidently shows through, since farther back, where the integument 

 is thicker, none is distinguishable. Antennae not weU preserved, but 

 what remains of one of them indicates that the basal joint is large, the 

 second and third much smaller, subequal, together about one-third 

 longer than the fourth, which is nearly of the same size as the 

 fifth, sixth, seventh, or eighth, none of them strongly serrate. Pro- 

 thorax with rather feebly arcuate sides, base not much narrowed, 

 surface strongly, moderately coarsely and very closely but not con- 

 fluently punctured, less deeply on the flanks, each puncture rounded 

 and with a little mark as of a scale or hair at the bottom. Pro. 

 sternal sutures nearly straight, not deeply excavated, lobe of anterior 

 margin short, subtruncate, posterior tip of prosternum spatulate, 

 notched apically and margined all around, strongly punctured like 

 the body of the sternum. Meso and metasternal areas punctured 

 similarly to the prosternum but somewhat more finely, becoming 

 much more so in front of the hind coxal plates, which are also strongly 

 punctate, broad over the insertion of the thighs, narrowing quite 

 suddenly externally, and obscurely toothed on the hind margin. 

 Abdomen much more finely punctured than the prothorax, sparsely 

 at middle, moderately closely externaUy, scantily hairy. Legs rather 

 short. Coxae all punctate, femora less strongly, tibiae still more 

 finely. The elytra are evidently quite deeply striate, the grooves 

 showing through. Length, total, 13.50 mm. 



