the Coleopterous Family Erotylidce. (137) 513 



H. Elytra entii'ely smooth, opaque ; no coxal lines ; tarai 

 sliort ; antennpe with a 4:-joiiited chib, the joints elongate-quadrate. 

 {^Eyithoniorjyhus, Lac.) 



BrachysphcBnus biplaglatus.* 



Erotylus hlplagiatus, Guer. R. Z. 18-11, 119. 



Brachysph<jenus — , Lac. Erot. 374. 



Brazil. 



Guerin's type was not in his collection in 1872. 



Bracliysplioenus dorsomaculatus.* 



Brachysphcenus dorsomaculatus, Lac. Erot. 375. 

 Brazil. 



I. Body oval, acuminate before and behind ; tarsi short ; 

 strise of the elytra gemellate ; thorax slightly emarginate in front ; 

 no coxal lines ; antennte with a large 4-joiuted club, 9th joint 

 elongate-quadrate. (Oogaster, Lac.) 



Bracliysplicsniis guadeloupensis. 



Galleruca guadeloup>ensis, Fah. Ent. Syst. ii. 1 6. 



Brachysphcenus , Lac. Erot. .377. 



suturalis, Lac. Erot. 378. 



Guadeloupe. 



B. suturalis is founded on a very immature example. 



K. Form subparallel, colour brick-red and black ; thorax flat, 

 subquadrate, base often with a punctate fovea ; elytra opaque, 

 with 5 — 6 dorsal striae, strise sometimes gemellate; coxal linea 

 generally absent. [Saccomorphus, Bej.) 



Brachysphcenus nebulosus. 



Erotyhis nebulosus, Guer. R. Z. 1841, 155. 

 Brachysphmnus — , Lac. Erot. 357. 

 Sta. Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia. 



Thorax very flat, with a small punctate basal fovea; inter- 

 mediate coxal line very short. 



Brachysphcenus bimaculatus. 



Erotylus bimaculatus. Germ. Ins. Sp. Nov. 612 (1824). 



, Dup. Erot. 12, T. i. f. 13. 



Brachysphcenus , Lac. Erot. 358. 



Brazil, Rio Janeiro, Miuas Geraes. 



Thorax opaque, two or three coarse punctures at the base only; 

 elytra very faintly striate, the striae gemellate ; no coxal line. 



