48 Mr. G. C. Champion on the Heteromerous Goleojitcra 



La Ferte, and from Puerto Rico by Quedenfeldt. It is 

 omitted from MM. Fleutiaux and Salle's list of tlie Coleo- 

 ptera of Guadeloupe. This insect has recently been 

 taken by Capt. Casey '{loc. cit.) as the type of a new 

 genus, Hemantus. One of the characters given for it 

 m his Table of genera (Joe. cit., p. 641) is taken from the 

 form of the mesosternum, which he describes as " variable 

 in extent, becoming subgeneric in weight " : I con- 

 fess I am quite unable to grasp the meaning of such a 

 definition. 



Ant hi CMS grenadensis, n. sp. 



Elongate, depressed, shining, sparsely pubescent ; testaceous, 

 the elytra piceous or pitchy-black, each with a broad transverse 

 fascia a little below the base and a large ante-apical spot, neither 

 reaching the suture, testaceous ; the antennas sometimes with the 

 outer joints slightly infuscate, the eleventh pale. Head lai'ge, 

 subtriangular, with a few scattered punctures at the sides, the 

 occiput grooved in the middle ; the eyes moderately large and 

 coarsely granulated ; antennas moderately elongate, rather slender. 

 Prothorax as long as broad, a little narrower than the head, the 

 sides obliquely converging from about one-third from the apex, 

 rounded in front, and slightly dilated at the base ; the surface 

 sparsely punctured, canaliculate down the middle, the channel- 

 deeply excavate towards tlie base, the base grooved on either side. 

 Elytra moderately elongate, about twice as wide as the prothorax, 

 feebly rounded at the sides, depressed, finely and somewhat thickly 

 punctate. Length 2|-3, breadth ^1 mm. 



Hah. Grenada — Granville, Windward side. 



Four specimens. Allied to A. currax, Champ., from 

 Eastern Mexico ; but much more shining, the thorax 

 deeply grooved down the middle behind and sparsely 

 jumctured, the eyes smaller, etc. Under rubbish on the 

 bandy sea-shore (Smith). 



MORDELLID.5^]. 



MORDELLA. 



Mordella, Linneeus, Syst. Nat., 10th edit., i., p. 420 



(1758). 



Mordella sexguttata, n. sp. 



Comparatively short ; testaceous, the eyes black, the prothorax 

 with an oval piceous mark on the middle of the disc extending to 



