profunde asperatis, lateribus vix rotundatis, seta civcta prope lmmeros atque altera 

 apices versus utrinque instructis, apicibus latis, valde rotundatis, extremis albidis; 

 abdomine sal 1« >n^o, fuscescenti, apice bidentato ; pedibus robustis, lrete flavis; 

 antennis longis, gracilibus, llavescentibus. 



Body oblong-oval, convex, rather shining, Mack, thickly clothed with luteous hair. 



Head moderate, produced in front, ornamented with minute remote tubercles; eyes 

 moderate, not prominent ; antenme long and Blender, flavescent. 



Thorax rather large, widest near the middle, longer and broader than the lead, 

 ornamented with large tubercles in wavy rows, interstices faintly reticulated, 

 sides margined, moderately rounded, and furnished with an erect seta before 

 the middle, basal margin slightly reflexed and siuuated, with the angles much 

 produced and pale. 



Sent, Hum large, triangular, deeply and closely asperate. 



Elytra rather short, quadrate, fuscescent, not longer or broader than the head and 

 thorax, closely and deeply asperate in transverse rows, sides scarcely rounded, 

 with an erect seta on each side near the shoulders, and another towards the 

 apex, extremities broad, much rounded, with tbe edge white. 



Abdomen rather long, fuscescent, apex bidentate. 

 robust, bright yellow. 



Under parts black, with the mouth and coxa' bright yellow. 



Differs from T. grandicoUis in its much smaller size, oblong form, pale antennae, 

 and deeper sculpture. 



Habitat, Central America. Found plentifully in Guatemala by Mr. Champion. 



Trichopteryx Laetitia. 



T. Lcetitia, Matthews, Ent. Mo. Mag. ix. p. 180, 1873. 



L. c. T ';-— 7 T (T lin. - 75-0 - 87 mm. — Oblongo-ovalis, niodice convexa, nigra, 

 baud nitida. pilis pallidis dense vestita; capite modico, antice producto, tuberculin 

 minutis, interstitiisque nitidis, ornato ; oculis magnis, prominentibus ; pronoto sat 

 brevi, leviter convexo, capite longiori et latiori, ad basim latissimo, tuberculis 

 minutis, ordinibus transversis, sinuatis, confertim dispositis, interstitiisque sat 

 profunde reticulars ornato, lateribus marginatis et modice rotundatis, marginibus 

 dilutioribus, margine basali sat profunde sinuata, angulis acutis, longe productis ; 

 eli/ins oblongis, postice plus minusve attenuatis, capite atque pronoto vix longi- 

 oribus aut latioribus, ordinibus transversis modice et confertim asperatis, lateribus 

 marginatis, fere rectis, apicibus valde rotundatis, dilutioribus, summis albidis; 

 abdomine longius exserto, segmentorum marginibus dilutioribus, apice tridentato ; 

 pedibus modicis, obscure flavis, articulo basali tarsorum anticorum dilatato; 

 antennis brevibus, piceo-nigris. 



Body oblong-oval, moderately convex, black, not shining, thickly clothed with pale 



hair. 

 Head moderate, produced in front, ornamented with minute tubercles, interstices 



shining; eyes large and prominent; antenna) short and slender, pitchy black; 



maxillary palpi black. 

 Thorcn rather short, moderately convex, longer and broader than the head, widest 



at the base, ornamented with minute tubercles in transverse wavy rows, with 



the interstices rather deeply reticulated, sides margined and moderately 



rounded, with the margin pale, basal margin rather deeply siuuated, with the 



angles acute and much produced. 

 Scutellum large, acuminate, closely asperated. 

 Elytra oblong, more or less attenuated posteriorly, Bcarci ly longer or broader than 



the bead and thorax, moderately and closely asperated in transverse rows, 



