the Coleopterous Family Erotylidoi. (117) 493 



Var. h. Oapite thoraceque rufis, hoc tertia discoidali nigra, 

 prosterno nigro, epipleuris rufis : cardinalis, Chev, 



Var. c. Capite thoraceque rufis, prosterno et epipleuris rufis ; 

 meridionalis, Crotch. 



I consider these three forms referable to one species, though 

 the variation in outline ia considerable. The intermediate coxal 

 line is well marked. 



-ZBgithus clavicornis. 



Chri/somela clavicornis, L. S. JV. ed. x. 370 (1758). 



surinamensisy L. Cent. Ins. 10 (1763). 



uEgithiAS , Lac. Erol. 285. 



clavicornis, Crotch, Cist. Ent. 146. 



Costa Rica, Cayenne, Columbia, Ecuador, Amazons, Brazil, 

 Nicarasrua. 



E. Elytra gemellate striate : coxal lines visible. 



JEgithus hemisphaericus. 



/Ec/ithus hemisphcericus, Lac. Erot. 289. 

 Brazil. 



^githus inflatus, sp. n. 



Hemisphpericus, nitidissimus, livido-fuscus, capite thoraceque 

 subtil iter punctulatis, elytris Ifevibus, sat fortiter sed irregulariter 

 gemellato-punctato-striatis, postice acviminato-productis ; corpore 

 «ubtus pallidiore, antennis nigris, tibiis tarsisque obscurioribus. 

 L. 5— 5i lin. 



Pebas (Bates). 



This is the most convex of all the species of jEgithiis; the 

 frontal margins ax"e thickened and well marked. 



.ffigithus politissimus, sp. n. 



^. injlato proximus, sed capite thoraceque fere Isevibus, elytris 

 paulo minus convexis, interstitiis sparse sed profunde punctatis, 

 postice minus acuminatis. L. 5 lin. 



Ecuador (Buckley). 



iEgithus cordatus, sp. n. 



Valde convexus, fere hemisphaericus, capite thoraceque sub- 

 losvibus, elyti'is confuse gemellato-punctato-striatis, interstitiis 

 fortiter punctatis, postice acuminato-productis; subtus totus rufo- 

 testaceus, scutello nigro, corpore subtus epipleurisque fulvis. L. 

 4 J lin. 



Amazons (Bates). 



