30 Mr. G. C. Champion o?i the Heteromeroiis Coleopiera 



Mentes. 



Mentes, Champion, Biol. Centr.-Am., Col., iv., p. 559 

 (1893). 



Mentes seneopiceus, n. sp. (Plate I., fig. 8, 6 .) 



Elongate oval, very narrow, feebly convex, subopaque ; pitchy- 

 black, with a greenish-aeneous lustre, the antennae brown, the legs 

 ferruginous, with the apical halves of the femora inf uscate. Head 

 very sparsely, finely punctate ; the eyes very large, narrowly 

 separated in front ; antennae about half the length of the body, 

 rather slender, joints 1-3 very short, 3 slightly longer than 2, 

 4-1 1 moderately elongate, obconic, subequal in length, 4 stouter than, 

 and more than twice as long as, 2. Prothorax strongly transverse, 

 much wider than the head, slightly narrowed in front, rounded at 

 the sides, transversely grooved before the base, the groove ending 

 on either side in a deep fovea, which does not reach the basal 

 margin, the disc also feebly transversely depressed in the middle ; 

 the surface sparsely, finely punctate, with a narrow smooth space 

 down the middle. Elytra elongate, depressed, a little wider than 

 the prothorax, narrowing from the middle ; finely and rather irre- 

 gularly punctate-striate, the punctures closely packed : the inter- 

 stices almost flat, each with an irregular row of punctures, which 

 are closely placed and very little finer than those of the striae. 

 Legs elongate, slender ; the hind pair with the tarsi nearly as long 

 as the tibia;, and the basal joint of the tarsi as long as the follow- 

 ing joints united ; the anterior tarsi slender and quite simple. 

 Length 5^, breadth If mm. {S •) 



Hah. Grenadines — Mustique I. 



One male example. Allied to M. fusiformis, Champ., 

 from Guatemala. 



Talanus. 



Talanus, Jacquelin Duval, in Sagra's Hist. Cuba, vii., 



Ins., p. 66 (1856); Maklin, Ofv. Finsk. Vet.-Soc. 



Forh., XX., p. 95 (1878); Champion, Biol. Centr.- 



Am., Col., iv., 1, p. 321. 

 Dignamptus, Leconte, Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc, xvii., 



p. 421 (1877). 



