28 Mr. G. C. Champion on the Hetewmerous Coleoptera 



Cyrtosoma. 

 CyrlosomUi Perty, Del. Anim. artic. Bras., p. 59 (1830). 



Cyrtosoma henninieri. 



Cnodalon Vherminierii, Chevr. in Guerin's Icon. Regno 

 Anim., Ins., p. 123, t. 31, ^gg. 10, 10a, h 

 {C. atrum). 



Cyrtosoma I'herminieri, Fleut. et Salle, Ann. Soc. Ent. 

 Fr., 1889, p. 428. 



Hah. St. Vincent — Leeward side ; Grenada — Balthazar 

 and La Force Estate, on the Windward side. 



Several examples from each locality. Original recorded 

 by Chevrolat from Pointe-a-Pitre, Grande-Terre I., and 

 subsequently by Fleutiaux and Salle from Guadeloupe I. 

 In dry second-growth woods, beaten from vines and 

 bushes, also under bark of a rotten log (Smith). 



Blapida. 

 Blapida, Perty, Del. Anim. ai'tic. Bras., p. 58 (1830). 



Blapida castaneipennis, n. sp. 

 Obscure reddish-brown, the head, palpi, antenna, and legs, and 

 the lateral, basal, and apical margins of the prothorax, black ; the 

 head and prothorax dull or feebly shining, the elytra shining ; 

 beneath darker than above, the prosternum black, the ventral 

 surface piceous. Head sparsely, very irregularly, minutely 

 punctate. Prothorax transverse, gradually narrowing from about 

 the basal third to the apex, parallel behind, the anterior angles 

 rounded ; very sparsely, minutely punctate. Elytra elongate, 

 broad, gibbous towards the base, and with the disc flattened and 

 gradually declivous thence to the apex, the apex of each elytron 

 very sharply mucronate ; very deeply striate throughout, the striae 

 finely punctured, the 3rd and 6th near the apex, and the 4th and 

 5th, and also the 7th and 8th, at some distance before this, coales- 

 cent ; the interstices smooth and convex. Beneath almost smooth. 

 Intermediate tibias widened on the inner side at the apex. Length 

 22-23, breadth 7^-8 mm. ( $ ). 



Hah. Grenada — Balthazar, on the Windward side. 



Two examples. A female of the same species is con- 

 tained in the British Museum ; this was found in the 



