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TRAVELS AMONGST THE GREAT ANDES. 



13. Xenismus IFhijnijm-i, n. sp. 



Hab. Ecuador (locality unknown). ^ Two specimens. 



Testaceus, capite nigro glabro, autennis palpisque feriaigineis, his apice, 

 illis articulis singulis apicibus summis nigris ; protliorace subquadrato le^-iter 

 transverse, glabro, nitidissimo, in medio signatura irregulari nigro ; elytris 

 pallide flavis, piistici attenuati, l>asi (margine reflexo pra^termisso) nigris ; 

 pectore fusco, pedilnis ferrugineis, aljdomine testaceo lateriltus infuscatis. 

 Long. 12-13 millim. <? ?. 



XENISMUS WHYMPERI, GORHAM. 



Mas, segmento septimo ventrali (ut in 67; ««/%;;«//«'*) convexo, elongato, 

 genitali obtegente. 



Femina, segmento sexto ventrali exciso, complicato, lobo laterali utrinipie 

 triangulari. 



The genus Xenismus was proposed by INIr. C. O. AVaterhouse in the 

 Transactions of the Entomological Society for 1878, p. 331, for a species 

 somewhat similar in colour to X. Wkymperi, but with much more of the 

 elytra black at the base and roughened {X. nujrojAar/iatns). Another species 

 is known to me (A'. basxUs, Dej.), figured by Lacordaire in the Atlas to his 

 work on the Genera of Coleoptera (Tab. 45, f. 2); botli tliese are from 



' Tlie locality was lost by the setter. — A'. IT. 



