40 Mr. G. C. Champion on the Hfterowcroua Coleoptpra 



a little wider than, the pi'othorax, broader in the female, parallel 

 to beyond the middle, and conjointly rounded at the apex ; closely, 

 finely, confusedly punctate, and with a fine sutural stria. Beneath 

 densely, very finely punctate. 



$ . Fifth ventral segment broadly and deeply excavate in the 

 middle, the excavation extending from the base to the apew 



Length 3J-4i, breadth 1-li mm. ((??.) 



Hah. St. Vincent — Windward side, alt. 1,000 feet. 



One pail'. This species is more parallel and has a 

 relatively wider thorax than most of the American forms 

 known to me ; there is no trace of a linear arrangement 

 of the punctures on the elytra; the hind femora have a 

 conspicuous black spot near the apex. The genitalia of 

 the male are exposed ; and from the apex of the abdomen 

 there projects a very large, broad, spoon-shaped, mem- 

 branous piece — apparently a modified terminal dorsal 

 segment, wider than the apex of the abdomen — which 

 is furnished with two long seta3 at the apex. Under 

 rubbish on the banks of a stream in the forest (Smith). 



Anthicus. 

 AuthicH.o, Paykull, Fauna Suecica, i., p. 2oo (1798). 



Antlilcns sulcipcnnis, n. sp. 



Moderately elongate, convex, black or pitchy-black ; the autennte 

 testaceous, with the apical four joints, and sometimes the base of 

 the first also, black ; the elytra with two oblique testaceous fasciae 

 — one before, the other beyond the middle, the anterior one 

 widening outwards, neither reaching the suture ; the legs pitch}-- 

 black, the tar.si and the base of the femora testaceous ; the head 

 and prothorax dull, the elytra shining, the upper surface clothed 

 with a few short fine scattered hairs. Head rather large, convex, 

 suborbicular, finely scabrous ; the eyes large and prominent 

 antennae moderately long, thickening outwardly, the penultimate 

 joint transverse. Prothorax longer than broad, much narrower 

 than the head, strongly constricted and compressed behind the 

 middle, parallel towards the base, the anterior portion globose ; 

 the surface scabi-ous and very iiuely punctured. Elytra rather 

 short, twice as wide as the prothorax, gradually widening to the 

 middle, very deeply transversely grooved below the base, the space 

 in front of this transversely swollen, except at the suture ; the 



