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more robust tliaii 8. nilgiriana ( ? ), the head broader and not so 

 coarsely punctate, the prothorax more ample and more densely punc- 

 tate, the elytra more narrowed posteriorly, the legs stouter. The sub- 

 triangular head, the less approximate eyes, and the wider, densely 

 scal)roso-punctate prothorax, will serve to distinguish the present 

 species from the same sex of S. melina from Assam. 



20. — Scraptia munita, n. sp. 



(Plate VII, tig. 4, anterior leg, (^ .) 



Canifa gjwciosa Champ., var., Biol. Centr.-Am., Coleopt. iv, 2, 

 p. 91 (1889). 



S ■ Anterior tibiae strongly, triangularly dilated on its inner edge before 

 the middle ; penis sheath denticvilate at the sides, the apical portion 

 of the aedeagns triangularly dilated. 



Hob. : Mexico, Guerrero. 



One male and numerous females, received from various localities 

 in Guerrero. These specimens were described as a variety of 

 8. (Canifa) speciosa in the " Biologia," but they must be separated 

 under a distinctive name. In the Guerrero insect the eyes are less 

 approximate in both sexes, though they are almost equally large in the 

 two forms in the male ; the male, too, has the elytra more rapidly 

 narrowed from the base, and the anterior tibiae triangularly dilated, 

 of which there is no trace in 8. speciosa. The sagittiform apical portion 

 of the aedeagus also seems to be produced into a longer point in 

 8. speciosa than in 8. mnnita. A long series of the former was obtained 

 in both Guatemala and Mexico. The elytra are sometimes infuscate 

 at the sides in the two insects. 



21 . — 8craptia parallela, n. sp. 



Elongate, parallel-sided, somewhat robust, flattened above, moderately 

 shining, closely pl^bescent ; fuscous or brown, the head, prothorax, and legs 

 obscurely rufescent in the darker ( c? ) example ; densely, finely punctate, the 

 narrow interspaces on the prothorax transversely rugulose. Head transverse, 

 rather small in ^ , the eyes large and somewhat narrowly separated in this sex, 

 more distant and a little smaller in $ ; antennae long, comparatively stout, 

 joints 2 and 3 extremely short in $ , 3 longer in $ , the following joints elongate. 

 Prothorax broader than long, much wider than the head, the sides arcuately 

 converging from the middle forward and parallel behind, the hind-angles sub- 

 rectangular, the two basal foveae deep, the disc sulcate down the middle. 

 Elytra wider than the prothorax, elongate, parallel to near the apex, the latter 



