68 Mr. G. C. Champion’s Notes on 
and tenth strongly transverse. Very like C. crassicornis, 
Matth., from the same neighbourhood in Guatemala, but 
with much more slender antennae. This insect is so like 
a minute Olibrus that it was placed amongst the Phalacridae 
when our collections were sorted. 
SCAPHIDITDAE. 
ScAPHIDIUM. 
Scaphidium, Olivier, Ent. 11, 20, p. 1 (1791); Matthews, 
Biol. Centr.-Am., Coleopt. 1, 1, p. 159 (1888). 
Matthews enumerated eight species of this genus from 
Central America. The very distinct new form described 
below was subsequently received from the mountains of 
Guerrero, Mexico. 
*Scaphidium flavofasciatum, n. sp. 
Broad, subelliptic, robust, shining, black; the thorax (the upper 
half of the flanks included) testaceous or rufo-testaceous, with a 
narrow sinuous fascia at the base, a triangular patch or fascia at 
the apex, and two spots or streaks on the disc, these markings 
connected in one specimen, black; the elytra with two broad sinuous 
fasciae, not reaching the suture, testaceous or rufo-testaceous; the 
antennae with the basal joints obscurely rufescent and the apical 
joint wholly or in part yellow; the tarsi rufo-testaceous. Head 
finely punctate; antennae slender, joints 7-11 broadly widened. 
Thorax closely, finely punctate, the sinuous transverse basal sulcus 
foveato-punctate. Elytra more sparsely punctured than the thorax, 
the deep transverse basal groove foveato-punctate, the sutural stria 
deeply impressed and shallowly punctate. 
Var. Rufo-testaceous, the thorax with the basal margin and two 
oblong streaks on the disc, the suture of the elytra, and the femora 
and tibiae, piceous, the antennae with joints 7-10 black. 
Length 53-5, breadth 3-31 mm. 
Hab. Mexico, Omilteme, Xucumanatlan and Chilpan- 
cingo, 4,600-8,000 feet (H. H. Smith). 
Four specimens; the pallid varietal form is from Xucu- 
manatlan. Near S. varzabile, Matth., but larger and more 
elongate, the thorax and elytra somewhat closely punctate, 
the black elytral markings showing no tendency to break 
up into spots, the suture infuscate or black. 
