88 Mr. G. C. Champion’s Notes on 
surface densely, minutely, confluently punctate, the disc with a com- 
pressed, cariniform hump in the middle in front in g. Scutellum 
small. LElytra subparallel, about as wide as the thorax, finely 
punctate-striate, the interstices rugulosely punctured. Beneath 
densely, finely punctate. 
Length 33-4 mm. (¢ 9.) 
Hab. Mexico (Truqu, in Mus. Brit., ex coll. Fry). 
One pair. 
PLATOBERUS. 
Platoberus, Sharp, Biol. Centr.-Am., Coleopt. 11, 1, p. 586 
(1900). 
Four species from Panama were referred to this genus by 
Dr. Sharp. A fifth, from Mexico, has since been detected in 
our collection. The tarsi appear to have the usual minute 
penultimate joint fused with the apical one, so that they are 
really 4-jointed. 
*Platoberus ngrolimbatus, n. sp. 
Ovate, rather broad, shining, ferruginous, the elytra with more 
than the outer half black, the two basal joints of the antennal club 
infuscate; clothed with long, fine, curled, decumbent, yellowish 
hairs. Head finely punctate, the eyes convex, very large and 
prominent; antennae long, the club large, joints 9 and 10 sub- 
quadrate. Thorax strongly transverse, subquadrate, sharply 
margined, the sides straight, the anterior angles tumid and very 
prominent, the basal foveae connected by a deep transverse sulcus; 
finely punctate. Elytra convex, oval, much wider than the thorax, 
the lateral excavation moderately large; finely seriato-punctate, 
the interstices with a few widely scattered smaller punctures, each 
puncture bearing a long curled hair. Legs short, stout. Beneath 
finely punctate, the metasternum smoother down the broad median 
space and hollowed in front of the posterior coxae. 
Length 2%, breadth 14 mm. 
Hab. Mexico, Motzorongo in Vera Cruz (Flohr). 
One specimen. Near P. diwisus, Sharp. 
TOMARUS. 
Tomarus, Leconte, Class. Coleopt. N. Am. ed. 1, p. 99 
(1861); Sharp, Biol. Centr.-Am., Coleopt. 11, 1, p. 587 
(1900), 
