various Central American Coleoptera. 109 
Hapalips filum. 
Hapalips filum, Reitt., Verh. Ver. Briinn, Abhandl. xv, 
p. 125 (1877); Gorh., Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1898, 
p. 335; Biol. Centr.-Am., Coleopt. vii, p. 251. 
? Hapalips tenuis, Reitt., loc. cit. 
Recorded by Gorham from Mexico on the authority 
of a single specimen from Frontera in Tabasco. Ad- 
ditional localities for it are :— 
Mexico, Teapa (H. H. Smith); Guatremata, Purula, 
Tamahu, Chacoj, and Senahu in Vera Paz, Paraiso, Las 
Mercedes (Champion), Trece Aguas (Barber and Schwarz, in 
U.S. Nat. Mus.) ; Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion) ; 
Brazit, Parana (coll. Fry, in Mus. Brit.); Cupa, Cayamas 
(Schwarz, in U.S. Nat. Mus.). 
Also found in the Antillean island of Grenada. H. tenuis, 
Reitt., to judge from the description, and from the long 
series of specimens before me, is no doubt the female of 
H. filum, the sexes of some of the allied species also having 
the thorax shorter in the female than in the male. The 
types of both came from Colombia, and were contained in 
the Schaum collection. The eyes in this insect are small 
and prominent; the thorax is subquadrate, longer than 
broad in the male (H. filum), much shorter in the female 
(H. tenuis), and always has a narrow smooth space down 
the middle; the elytra are very long, strongly punctate- 
striate, subparallel in some examples, and narrowed 
posteriorly in others, even amongst a series from the same 
locality. The length varies from 3-5 millim. The 
specimens from Cuba are labelled as having been found in 
corn (maize) stalks. 
*Hapalups obliteratus, n. sp. (Plate ITI, fig. 13.) 
Elongate, depressed, narrowing posteriorly, moderately shining, 
obscure ferruginous, the eyes black; closely, finely pilose; the 
entire upper surface, a narrow line along the disc of the thorax 
excepted, densely, finely, confusedly punctate, the under surface 
more sparsely, minutely punctate. Head short, triangular, much 
narrower than the thorax, obsoletely bifoveate, the usual oblique 
line on each side of the epistoma wanting, the eyes small, but 
prominent; antennae stout, reaching the base of the thorax, joints 
4-6 moniliform, 7 and 8 strongly transverse, wider than 6, 9-11 
much wider than 8. Thorax transversely subquadrate, truncate 
at the base and apex, finely margined at the sides and base, the 
