50 Mr. G. C. Champion on the Heteromerous Coleoptera 



Found in plenty in St. Vincent. The insect is widely 

 distributed in Central America. It is easily distinguish- 

 able by the peculiar sculpture of the hind tibiae and tarsi 

 {loc. cit., fig. 20c) and the extremely short pygidium. 



Conalia fulvoplagiata, n. sp. 



Short ; black, the elytra with an oblique fulvous humeral 

 patch, the basal joints of the antennae f usco-testaceous, the hind 

 tibial spurs flavous ; the pubescence brownish. Antennae short, 

 joints 3 and 4 slender, short, equal, 5-11 considerably widened, 

 7-10 transverse. Elytra gradually narrowing from a little below 

 the base. Pygidium very short, not much longer than the hypo- 

 pygium, and not extending beyond the apex of the elytra. 

 Length, lf-2| mm. 



Hab. Grenada — Lake Antoine and Mount Gay Estates^ 

 and St. George's, all on the Leeward side, and Grand 

 Ance, at the south end. 



Eight specimens. The insect is perhaps nothing more 

 than a colour-variety of C. ehenina, but as it seems to be 

 confined to the island of Grenada, it is advisable to 

 name it. 



MORDELLISTENA. 



Mordellistena, Costa, Faun. Eeg. Napol., Mordellid., 

 pp. 16, 31 (1854). 



Mordellistena pallida, n. sp. 

 Moderately elongate, narrow, rather dull ; testaceous, the eyes 

 black, the elytra usually indeterminately brownish at the sides 

 below the base, this colour sometimes extending inwards ; the 

 extreme apex of the hind tibite, and also that of the first three hind 

 tarsal joints, and the oblique ridges, black ; the pubescence fulvous. 

 Antennae slender, moderately long, joints 3 and 4 short, equal. 

 Elytra moderately elongate. Pygidium very elongate, slender. 

 Hind tibiiE with three oblique ridges — two very short, near the 

 apex, the other extending obliquely across their outer face from 

 the middle to near the base ; first joint of the hind tarsi with three, 

 the second joint with two, short oblique ridges. Length to end of 

 the elytra, 2-2^ mm. ( ,J $ ). 



Hah. St. Vincent — Leeward side, and Kingstown. 



