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Abdomen moderately exserted, rufescent. 

 /.•</< moderate, yellow. 

 / '/; /. r parts castaneous, more or less dusky. 



Differs from '/'. Icevicollis iu its much more depressed form, less shining surface, 

 deep and close sculpture, long antenna', and thick pubescence. 



Habitat, America. Found iu profusion by Mr. Smith in the West Indian Islands. 



Trichopteryx Godmanni. 



T. Godmanni, Matthews, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xi. p. 128,1884. 



T. godmani, Matth., Biol. Cent.-Amer. Col. ii. pt. i. p. 134, pi. hi. fig. 20, 1888. 



L. c. J;"-l lin. = 1*87-2 mm. — Latissima, convexissima, aterrima, nitidissima, 

 pilis brevibus argenteis vestita ; capite sat parvo, antice acuminato, fere glabro ; 

 oculis parvis; pronoto permagno, valde convexo, ad basim 

 latissimo, tuberculis minutis, ordinibus irregiilaribus dispositis, 

 interstitiisque confertim reticulatis, ornato, lateribus modice 

 rotundatis et leviter marginatis, marginibus atque angulis 

 posterioribus dilutioribus, marginebasali sinuatu, angulis acutis, 

 sat productis; elytrit sat brevibus, postice attenuatis, capite 

 atque pronoto pa rum angustioribus, fere pariter longis, ad 

 humeros latissimis, densius pubescentibus, ordinibus transversis, 

 fere rectis, leviter asperatis, Lateribus fere rectia, apicibus In t is, 

 leviter rotundatis, dilutioribus, extremis albidis; abdomine sat 

 longe exserto, apice bidentato; pedibus robustis, late flavis, 

 tibiis anterioribus et articulo basali tarsorum leviter dilatatis ; 

 antennis modicis, pallide piceis. 



Body very broad and very shining, deep black, very convex, sparingly clothed with 

 silvery hairs. 



Head rather small, acuminate in front, almost smooth ; eyes small ; antennae 

 modi rate, pale piceous. 



Thorax very large and very convex, widest at the base, ornamented with minute 

 tubercles in close irregular rows, interstices closely and finely reticulated, sides 

 moderately rounded and slightly margined, margin and posterior angles pale, 

 basal margin sinuated with the angles acute and moderately produced. 



Scutettum rather large, triangular, closely and finely asperate. 



Elytra rather short, attenuated posteriorly, as long, but rather narrower than, the 

 head and thorax, widest at the shoulders, more densely pubescent, finely 

 asperated in almost straight transverse rows, sides nearly straight, extremities 

 broad and slightly rounded with the edge white. 



Abdomen considerably exposed, obtuse, and bidentate at the apex. 



Legs robust, bright yellow, with the anterior tibia- and basal joint of the tarsi 

 slightly dilated. 



Under parts black. 



Differs from others in its great size, and very broad, convex form. 



Iltiliiliit, Central America. Found near Balhue in Vera Paz by Mr. Champion. 



I have given a portrait of '/'. (lodiiKiniii, since the figure of this species in tbe 

 'Biologia Centrali-Americana ' does not in any way express either the form or 

 character of the insect. 



