BRACllYSPIKENUS. 139 



Brachysphoenus bisigillatus. 



Brachi/t^pJucRus hls'ujlllatas, Lac. Eroi. 3G5. 



Columbia. 



This is probably a variety of 7>. llmhatus. 



Brachysphoenus Adamsii. 



Brnchysph<e)ivs Adamsii, Lac. Erot. 3GG. 

 Coluiubia, Upper Ainazous. 

 Probably a variety of B. limhatus. 



Brachysphoenus bilineatus. 



Erotylus hilineatus, Dirp. Erot. 42, T. in. f. 85. 

 Brachysplioeiius — , Lac. Erot. 3G5. 

 Brazil. 



Less parallel tlian tlie others ; thorax distinctly narrowed in 

 front ; strite of the elytra geniellate, interstices punctate. 



Brachysphoenus erotyloides, sp. n. 



Ljete rufo-testaceus, subovatus, capite parvo, antice impresso, 

 antennis nigris, articulo 1" fulvo, clava vix incrassata; thorace 

 brevi piano, leviter emarginato, lateribus fortiter rotundatis, basi 

 utrinque fortiter sinuato, profunde foveolato, disco pnnctato ; 

 elytris convexis dorso punctato-striatis (striis 5 — G) lateribus 

 confuse fortiter punctatis, disco macula magna communi nigra 

 (fere marginem attingente) ; corpore subtus rufo-testaceo, pectoris 

 lateribus nigris, segmentis ventralibus lateribus nigro-maculatis. 

 L. 4Jlin. 



Amazons (Bates). 



This species is difficult to place ; its coloration is precisely 

 that of the present section however. No coxal lines. 



L. Ovate, convex species ; coxal line present ; prosternum 

 compressed ; coloration of Sacconwrphus. {Morjj/ioides, pars, 

 Lac.) 



Brachysphoenus Lacordairii. 



Erotylus clavicor'nisf, OUv. E. M. vi. 435 [aec Linn.]. 



. , OUv. Ent V. 479, T. ii. f. 28. 



• , Dap. Erot. 13, T. i. f. 14. 



Brachysphooaus — , Lac. Erot. 3G7. 

 Brazil. 



Thorax with a line of coarse punctures in the basal sinuationj 

 prosternum decidedly keeled ; intermediate coxal lino visible. 



