8 TRAVELS AMONGST THE GREAT ANDES. 



4. A. Bradytouh's, n. sp. 



Hub. Penipe to Riobamlia (9000 fet't); Machachi (9-10,000 feet); Illiuiza 

 (14,000 feet). Niimevcms examples. 



ANISOTARSUS BRADYTOIDES, BATES. 

 ILLINIZA, MACHACHI, ETC. 



A. Peruvicmo proxiiiie attini.s ; differt colore supra semper obscure fusco- 

 cupreo (raro viridi-tincto) elytris ^ $ subtiliter alutaceis, sericeo-nitentibus, 

 tarsis sicut tibiis feinoribusqiie piceis nee rufo-fulvis : corpore breviori et 

 latiori : elytrorum interstitiis planissimis. 



Long. 8-10 millim. (^ 9. 



Subfam. Pelmatellin.35. 

 5. Pehnatellus variipcs., n. sp. 



Hah. Machachi (9-10,000 feet); between Latacunga and Machachi (9200 

 feet); Quito (9350 feet); Pichincha (12,000 feet); Hacienda of Guacliala 

 (9217 feet); Pacific slopes (7-8000 feet). Numerous examples. 



P. nitescenti (Bates) simillimus, sed differt thoracis angulis jiosticis onniino 

 rotundatis, femoribusque (interdum tildisque apice) nigro-fusci.^. 



Long. 5|-6| millim. ^ ? . 



Difficult to be distinguished from the common and widely-distributed 

 Central American P. nitescens (Bates, in Salvin and Godnian, Biologia Centrali- 

 American. Col., vol. i, p. 68, pi. iii, fig. 17), but the blackish femora and the 

 more rounded hind angles of the thorax are conspicuous and pretty constant 

 differential characters ; the species varies in the colour of the legs, the apex 

 of the tiliiaj and the tarsi being also sometimes more or less blackisli, the 

 l)asal part of the tibire (Hily remaiuing pale reddish. /'. (>J>fii.'<v.'i (Bates, ejusd. 



