2 Mr. G. C. Champion on the Heteromeroiis Coleoptera 



number forty-nine are described as new, with three new 

 genera. No species of the families Pythid^ and 

 Xylophilida3 has hitherto been recorded from the West 

 Indies. The whole of the genera, which number forty- 

 six, with the exception of Lorelus and the three new 

 ones, are common to Central America, four (Iccius, 

 Mentes, Sosthenes, and Conulia) not being known from 

 South America ; sixteen of them, however, have not 

 been previously recorded from the West Indies : JJloma, 

 Plaiydema, Talanus, Cojndita, XylojMlus, and Anthicus 

 are those best represented ; Lorelus is known only from 

 New Zealand and Japan, and two of the new geneia, 

 Loreloj)sis and Meniviopsis, are closely allied to it. Of 

 the total number of species, exclusive of the five cosmo- 

 politan forms, ten only are common to Central America. 

 Plaiydema scri'pti'penne, Fairm., a well-marked form, has 

 only been previously recorded from Madagascar (? in 

 error for Macassar), and Damma Island in the Eastern 

 Archipelago. Taken as a whole, the Heteromerous 

 Coleoptera of these islands show a considerable affinity 

 with the fauna of the north-eastern parts of South 

 America. The number of endemic genera being very 

 few, and the endemic species closely allied to South 

 American forms. It may be noted that several of Mr. 

 Smith's most interesting captures were attracted to 

 "light" at night. 



TENEBRIONID^. 



Epiteagus. 



Epitragus, Latreille, Hist. Nat. Crust, et Ins., x., p. 322 

 (1804); Champion, Biol. Centr.-Am., Col., iv., 1, 

 p. 23. 



Epllrayus cxaratus, n. sp. 



Oblong oval, convex, obscure reddish-brown or piceous ; thickly 

 clothed Avith short, appressed fulvous or fulvo-cinereous hairs, the 

 head and prothorax more or less variegated with denser patches of 

 longer, yellowish-white hairs ; the under surface clothed with fulvo- 

 cinereous hairs, and (in fresh specimens) with dense patches of 

 yellowish-white hairs at the sides ; the antennae, palpi, and legs 

 reddish-brown. Head broadly aud shallowly arcuate-emarginate 

 in front, the sides of the front rounded and not prominent, 



