the Coleopterous Family Erotylidce. (139) 515 

 Brachysphoenus bisigillatus. 



Brachysphoenus bisigillatus, Lac. Erot. 365. 



Columbia. 



This is probably a variety of B. limhatus. 



Brachysphoenus Adamsii. 



Brachysphoenus Adamsii, Lac. Erot. 366. 

 Columbia, Upper Amazons. 

 Probably a variety of B. limhatus. 



Brachysphoenus bilineatus. 



Erotylus bilineatus, Duj). Erot. 42, T. iii. f. 85. 

 Brachysphoenus — , Lac. Erot. 365. 

 Brazil. 



Less parallel than the others ; thorax distinctly narrowed in 

 front ; striae of the elytra gemellate, interstices punctate. 



Brachysphoenus erotyloides, sp. n. 



Ljete rufo-testaceus, subovatus, capite parvo, antice impresso, 

 antennis nigris, articulo 1° fulvo, clava vix incrassata; thorace 

 brevi piano, leviter emarginato, lateribus fortiter rotundatis, basi 

 utrinque fortiter sinuato, profunde foveolato, disco punctato ; 

 elytris convexis doz-so punctato-striatis (striis 5 — 6) lateribus 

 confuse fortiter punctatis, disco macula magna communi nigra 

 (fere marginem attingente) ; corpore subtus rufo-testaceo, pectoris 

 lateribus nigris, segmentis ventralibus lateribus nigro-maculatis. 

 L. 4.Uiia. 



Amazons (Bates). 



This species is difficult to place ; its coloration is precisely 

 that of the present section however. No coxal lines. 



L. Ovate, convex species ; coxal line present ; prosternum 

 compressed ; coloration of Saccomorphus. [iforphoides, pars, 

 Lac.) 



Brachysphoenus Lacordairii. 



Erotylus clavicornisf, Oliv. E. M. vi. 435 \iiec Linn.]. 



, Oliv. Ent V. 479, T. n. f 28. 



. , Diqy. Erot. 13, T. i. f. 14. 



Brachysphoenus — , Lac. Erot. 367. 



Brazil. 



Thorax with a line of coarse punctures in the basal siuuatiou; 

 prosternum decidedly keeled j intermediate coxal line visible. 



