24,ft [November, 



rovmded. Beneath ratlier sparsely punctate ; ventral segment 5 divided into 

 two lobes, which are narrowed outwards, in ^ . Legs elongate ; penultimate 

 tarsal joint rather broadly lobed ; anterior tibiae thickened, slightly sinuate 

 within. Penis-sheath gradually narrowed to the tip, very finely denticulate 

 laterally. Length 5-5i, breadth 1 |-lf mm. ((??.) 



Hah.: Mexico (Truqui, ex coll. Fry). 



One pair, the precise locality not recorded. Distiniruisliable from 

 S. speciosa and 8. munita by the elytra being parallel-sided to near the 

 apex in both sexes, the eyes less approximate in the male, those of the 

 female as widely separated as in the same sex of 8. mvnita. The 

 extruding penis-sheath is very like that of these two insects, but as 

 the aedeagus is withdrawn into the tube, no attempt has been made to 

 examine it. 



22. — 8cra2Jtia brasiliana, n. sp. 



Elongate, sub-fusiform, shining, flavo-pubescent, testaceous, the eyes black ; 

 closely, rather coarsely punctate. Head transverse, convex ; eyes large, 

 narrowly separated in S > '^ little more distant in $ ; antennae long, filiform, 

 slightly shorter in ? , joints 2 and 3 very short, equal, the others elongate. 

 Prothorax very broad, short, arcuately narrowing from the base, the base 

 sinuate, the two foveae shallow, the disc more or less hollowed down the middle 

 posteriorly. Elytra moderately long, gradxially narrowing from a little below 

 the base, rovinded at the apex, the disc slightly depressed anteriorly. Ventral 

 segment 5 siib-truncate at the apex in ^ ; aedeagus stouter than in S. fusco- 

 notata, armed on each side at the tip with a slender, ciirved, backwardly- 

 directed hook. Legs very long; penultimate tarsal joint small and feebly 

 lobed. Length 3J-4, breadth l|-li mm. ( <? ? .) 



Hah.: Brazil, Rio de Janeiro (Fry). 



Eight specimens, two at least of which are males, one of them 

 having the aedeagus extruded. Very like 8 . fusconotata , but with the 

 prothorax broader, the elytra less acuminate in the male and wholly 

 testaceous, the fifth ventral segment almost unemarginate in that sex. 

 The broad, short pi'othorax brings 8. hrasiliana. near the Mexican 

 8. hrevicollis Champ., which has the sides of the elytra infuscate, etc. 



23. — 8craptia brevinscula, n. sp. 



Moderately elongate, somewhat fusiform, depressed, shining, flavo- 

 pubescent, testaceous (the eyes excepted) ; the head and prothorax densely, 

 roughly punctate, the punctures on the elytra coarser and less approximate, 

 the interspaces between them transversely wrinkled. Head convex, broad ; 

 eyes extrem(;l}' large, narrowly separated, occupying the whole of the sides of 

 the head and nearly reacliing its base ; antennae long, filiform, joints 2 and 3 



