P. vaudoiierl, sunk Dircaea fusca Lee. (1878) as a synonym, and gave 

 its American range as " Nova Scotia to California, and as far south as 

 N. Carolina." I have not as yet seen an American example of it. 



'I.^Phloeotrya mexicana. 



Dircaea mexicana Champ., Biol. Ceutr.-Am., Coleopt. iv, 2, p. 83, 

 pi. -i, fig. 12 (excl. var. 2) (1889). 



Hah.: Mexico; GrUATEMALA; Nicaragita; Venezuela; Brazil, 

 Bahia, Rio de Janeiro {Fry) ; Domixica (Mus. Brit.). 



Additional specimens of this species are now available for 

 examination, showing some variation in the elytral sculpture, scattered, 

 intermixed, slightly coarser punctures being plainly visible in the two 

 Brazilian examples before me. The sharp marginal carina of the pi'O- 

 thorax, as already stated, is sometimes (two specimens fi'om Nicaragua) 

 extended forwards to the anterior edge. The abdomen is margined 

 laterally. 



3. — Phloeotrya murina, n. sp. 



? . Extremely elongate, robust, fusiform, opaque, very densely clothed 

 with greyish brown pubescence ; dark brown, the antennae and palpi ferruginous ; 

 above and beneath densely, finely, uniformly piinctate. Eyes very large. 

 Antennae slender, short, extendinga little beyond the base of the prothorax, joints 

 3-10 obconic, and gi-adually decreasing in length, 2 about one-third the length 

 of 3. Maxillary palpi serrate, joints 2 and 3 triangular, 2 as broad as long, 

 wider than 3, the latter transvei-se, 4 long, stout, cultrtform. Prothoriix broader 

 than long, obliqiiely narrowed from about the basal third forwards (as seen from 

 aViove), and also narrowed before the obtuse hind angles, the base bisinuate, the 

 sides sharply margined in their basal half, the oblique propleural i idge also very 

 prominent. Elytra extremely elongate, narrowed almost from the base, acumi- 

 nase at the apex, the disc non-costate. Abdomen margined at the sides. Legs 

 rather stout ; posterior tibiae simple. Length 24, breadth 5i mm. 



Hab. : Brazil, Eio de Janeiro (Fry). 



One specimen. Very like P. mexicana, but with more acuminate, 

 extremely elongate, subcuneiform elytra, the vestiture denser. The 

 rather strongly serrate maxillary palpi are suggestive of Serropaljjus. 



4. — Phloeotrya (foudoti, n. sp. 



Dircaea m-exicana, var. 2, Champ., Biol. Centr.-Am., Coleopt., iv, 

 2, p. 83 (?) (1889). 



$ . Elong-ate, opaque, thickly clothed with fine sericeous pubescence ; 

 reddish brown, the palpi, antennae, and legs ferruginous ; densely, finely 

 punctate, the punctures on the elytra becoming transversely confluent towards 

 the base, the prothorax densely, rather coai-sely granidate. Antennae short. 



