various Central American Coleoptera. 87 
arrangement of the punctures on the basal portion of the 
elytra, as is often the case in Salpingus and its allies. 
CRYPTOPHAGIDAE. 
TRUQUIELLA, n. gen. 
Body elongate, pilose throughout; last joint of the maxillary 
palpi narrow, ovate; antennae with joints 9-11 widened and forming 
an abrupt club; head short, broad, subtriangular in 9, the sides of 
the front subangularly raised in §; thorax gibbous in front in ¢ ; 
anterior coxal cavities open behind, the prosternal side-pieces not 
reaching the rather broad bisulcate process; prosternal sutures 
obliterated ; intermediate and posterior coxae about equally separ- 
ated; tarsi pilose to the tip, 4-jointed, 1-3 widened, short, 3 sub- 
lobate, excavate above for the reception of the long claw-joint ; 
tibiae very obliquely truncated at the apex. 
Type, 7. gibbifera. 
This genus must for the present be placed in the sub- 
family Telmatophilinae of the Cryptophagidae, its 4- 
jointed tarsi notwithstanding.’ The structure of the head 
in the male is suggestive of Tenebrionidae, and a similar 
dorsal hump on the thorax in the same sex is to be found in 
certain species of Hapalips. There is no trace of a node or 
minute additional tarsal joint at the base of the terminal 
one when the claw-joint is broken off for examination. 
The entire body is densely punctate and hairy, and the hairs 
even extend to the fourth tarsal joint. 7. gibbifera has 
the general facies of a large Telmatophilus. 
*Truquiella gibbifera, n. sp. (Plate III, figs. 9, 9a, 3.) 
Elongate, moderately convex, closely pilose, feebly shining, 
piceous, the front of the head, the base of the antennae, and the 
legs in part, ferruginous. Head densely, finely punctate, without 
definite line behind the epistoma, the sides of the front in ¢ raised 
into a stout subangular ridge; eyes rounded, prominent, coarsely 
granulated; antennae moderately long, joint 3 longer than 2, 4-8 
shorter and submoniliform, 9-11 much widened, about equal in 
width, 9 and 10 transverse. Thorax transversely convex, much 
broader than long, a little wider at the apex than at the base, 
slightly rounded and narrowly margined at the sides, the base also 
feebly margined, the hind angles not very prominent; the entire 
1 Platoberus, Sharp, apparently has tetramerous tarsi, 
