the Coleopterous family PassalidcV. 459 



F'umehcs nasiUus, sp. n. 



Elongatns, valde depressns, capite toto impunctato, clypeo pro- 

 ducto, tridentato, dente mediano sat lato, apice subtiliter emarginato, 

 lateralibus acutis validis, cornu frontale miiiuto, aciito, multo pro- 

 jecto, hand producto, carinis frontalibus fere toto rectis, transversis, 

 ante dentes laterales tuberculis terminantibus, area clypeali omiiiuo 

 Iteve, cornu postice subtiliter producto, tuberculis lateralibus rotun- 

 datis, sat validis ; prothorace fere quadrato, angulis anticis leviter 

 productis, acutis, lateribus fortiter disperse punctatis, angulis posticis 

 subtus longe et dense hirsutis ; scutello postice impunctato ; elytris 

 baud grosse, dorso subtiliter, punctato-striatis, liumeris fere recte 

 angulatis, nudis ; meso- et metasterno omnino glabris, impunctatis, 

 illo utrinque profunde fossulato ; tibiis 4 posterioribus parce setosis, 

 vix spinosis. 



Long. 23 mm. 



Hab. Ecuador, Cachabe. 



One specimen was found at Cachabe by Mr. W. H. 

 Rosenberg, and I have also received the species from 

 M. Oberthltr, whose specimens were collected by Semi- 

 radski. It is a peculiar form for which a new genus would 

 no doubt have been made by Kuwert, but in the present 

 state of the classification I prefer to avoid the further 

 multiplication of genera as much as possible. I cannot 

 however compare this species with any other known 

 to me. 



The median part of the head is rather produced for- 

 wards, so that the anterior declivity of the frontal horn, 

 which is smaller and vertical in front, is nearly on a level 

 with the outer angles of the head, as well as the frontal 

 carinas, which form almost a straight line. In front of the 

 latter the clypeus forms a smooth transverse parallelogram 

 terminating in three strong teeth of equal length, the 

 outer ones triansfular and acute and the middle one 

 parallel-sided and slightly impressed at its extremity. 

 The prothorax is rather long, with sharply pointed front 

 angles, the elytra are strongly depressed, with finely 

 punctured strise, and the body is very smooth beneath. 



I have already mentioned that Passalus occi])italis, 

 Eschs., has remained unknown to successive monographers 

 of the group, and can be referred to no existing genus. 

 I propose for this the name of Einplioroneus, as it will 

 enter the Phoroneiniie of Kuwert. 



