192 [August, 



[joiuts 8-11 wanting]. Protliorax much narrower tlian the head, consider- 

 ably longer than broad, rounded at the sides, the latter converging and 

 constricted towards the base, the basal margin raised ; densely, conspicuously 

 punctate, canaliculate down the middle. Elj'tra about one-half wider than 

 the prothorax, moderately long, subparalleJ in their basal half, rounded at the 

 tip ; closely, rather finely seriato-puuctate, the interstices narrowly costate, 

 the punctures arranged in irregular double series on the disc from the base to 

 beyond the middle; the depressed, opaque stigma greyish, long, narrow, placeil 

 along the margin at about one-third from the apex. Legs long, slender, 

 simple, the anterior femora stout, the others feebly clavate. 



Length 6J, breadth 1§ mm. 



Hah. : Ves"ezuela {ex coU. Fn/). 



One specimen, apparentlj c5' . Narrower and more elongate than 

 tlie Central American M. cos f a f /is, the e^^es much larger and more 

 appi'oxlmate, the antennae slender, the prothorax less uneven and 

 'closelj punctate, the punctures on the dorsum of the elyti-a irregularly 

 .geminate between the costae, the narrow lateral stigma similarly placed. 



SiPOLisiA Fairm. 

 1 . — S/'jJoh'sia serricorn is. 

 6 ■ Sipolisia serriconiis Fairm., Compt. rend. See. Ent. Belg. 

 xxxiii, p. xlix (1889). 



Antennae long, stout, sharply serrate in r? , shorter and more feebly serr^^® 

 in 2) joint 11 in J equalling 8-10, in $ 9 and 10, united, asperate on its inner 

 aspect ; elytra with the depressed, opaque, velvety, lateral stigma large and 

 elongate in (^, small in $: posterior femora somewhat curved, thickened to- 

 wards the apex, and hollowed thence to near the base; aedeagus with the 

 median lobe attenuate and curved upward at the tip. 



Ilab. : Bkazil, Minas Geraes (tjj^e of Faii-maire), Rio de Janeiro 

 (Fr>/). 



There is a pair of this remarkable insect, the type of the genus, in 

 the Fry collection. It hears a considerable resemblance to a Brenthid, 

 and this is accentuated b}^ the flavous line extending down the second 

 elj^tral interstice to beyond the middle. The head is narrow and exsei'ted 

 (as in Sfa/ira lonc/iceps *) ; the antennae in both sexes Lave joints 3-10 

 broad and triangular (much as in Uroplaiopsis) ; the femora are clavate ; 

 the prothorax is elongate and almost smooth ; the elytra are long and 

 narrow, striato-punctate to near the tip, the first row of pvmctures placed 

 in a rather deep stria, the interstices 1 and 2 broader than the others, 

 1 with setigerous punctures scattered throughout its length, the opaque 

 lateral patch present in S and 5 . Two other species of the genus were 

 described b}^ Pic in 1912, S. suturalis and S. goiinellei, both from 

 Brazil. 



* C/. Ti-aus. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1917. 



