150 Mr. Crotch's Descriptions of Erotylidm. 



Erichson (Arch. f. Nat. xiii., p. 177) has separated the 

 2nd section — without a carinate prosternum — under the 

 name of Prcpopharus, but I do not see that this is neces- 

 sary. 



Tlie males have not the pilose spot on the first ventral 

 segment, and in other respects it is very near Brachy- 

 sphceniis. 



26. Scaphidomoiphus xanthomelas, sp. nov. 



Ovatus, testaceus, sublcevis, capitis vertice, antennis, 

 geniculis, tibiis, tarsisque nigris ; thorace fascia abbreviata 

 antica, margiue basali (utrinque recurva) fere ad angulos 

 posticos, nigris ; elytris laete flavis, margine externo tenue, 

 fasciis duabus utrinque abbreviatis, paulo obliquis (1 sub- 

 basilari, 1 in medio), maculaque triangulari (puncto fusco 

 includente) nigris. L. c. 4^ lin. 



HOMOEOTELUS {Hope), Eev. Zool. 1841, p. 112 (scripsit 



Omoiotelus). 



(Type Erot. testaceus, F.) 



27. Homocotelus confusus, sp. nov. 



IT. testacco affinis, sed minor, magis depressus, regulariter 

 ovatus, thorace scabro-punctato, scutello rufo, elytris hand 

 tlavo-marginatis, femoribus apice extus, tibiis tarsisque 

 nigris. L. c. 5|-6| lin. 



The above diagnosis is drawn up from a specimen from 

 Guatemala, with which the Chontales examples coincide 

 exactly, as do likewise others extant in my collection from 

 Costa Rica, in the specimens from Venezuela the femora 

 are entirely red. 



28. Homoeotelus Jansoni, sp. nov. 



H. mexicano affinis sed corpore abrupte ovato, antice 

 posticeque magis acuminato, colore laete aurantiaco, (scu- 

 tello nigro), thorace longiore, antennis longioribus, inter- 

 stitiisc^ue elytrorum distinctius punctulatis facile dis- 

 tinguendus. L. c. 4^ lin. 



