4 Mr. G. C. Champion on the Heteromerous Coleoplera 



narrower, and with more slender legs ; the elytra 

 regularly convex and more finely seriate-punctate, the 

 interstices more even. From E. emarginatus and JE. 

 sallvdiy Champ., it may be known by the sulcate elytra. 



SCHCENICUS. 



Schcenicus, Leconte, New Sp. Col., p. 109 (1866) ; 

 Champion, Biol. Centr.-Am., Col., iv., 1, p. 18. 



Schcenicus hrunneus, n. sp. 



Elongate oval, obscure reddish-brown, with a faint asneous 

 lustre, shining, the legs and antennte rufo-ferruginons. Head 

 thickly, rather coarsely punctate, the epistoma rounded anteriorly 

 and prominent, the sides of the front obliquely converging before 

 the eyes, the latter very coarsely granulated, the supra-orbital 

 carina sharply defined. Prolhorax convex, strongly transverse, 

 narrowed in front, the sides rounded, the hind angles subrect- 

 angular, the anterior angles sharp but not prominent, the surface 

 thickly, rather coarsely, uniformly punctate. Elytra moderately 

 long, wider than the prothorax, subparallel from a little below tha 

 base to about the middle and thence rapidly narrowed to the apex, 

 the apices somewhat acuminate ; coarsely seriate-punctate, the 

 interstices flat on the disc, feebly convex towards the sides and 

 apex, and sparsely, very distinctly punctured. Beneath, very 

 sparsely punctured ; prosternum abruptly declivous behind ; 

 mesosternum gradually declivous in front. Length 9j, breadth 

 3^ mm. 



Hah. St. Vincent. 



One specimen. Closely allied to S.patiametisis, Champ., 

 but differing from it in its more elongate shape, the less 



scattered, irregular, depressed spaces. Beneath, the sterna excepted, 

 thickly punctured; prosternum carinate down the middle, the 

 process broad, rounded at the tip, and received by the very broad, 

 strongly raised, horizontal, V-shaped mesosternum ; metasternum 

 broadly concave in the middle. Length 10-10^, breadth 4-4j mm. 



Ilab. Jamaica (coll. F. Bates ; Cockerell). 



The description is taken from three specimens sent me by Mr. 

 Cockerell. Differs from E. aurule/itus, Kirsch, in its more gibbous 

 elytra, smaller size, and more sparsely punctured elytral interstices, 

 the latter very uneven towards the sides and apex. The sculpture 

 of the upper surface is almost hidden by a greenish mealy powder. 



