116 Mr. G. C. Champion’s Notes on 
Type, P. villosus. 
The Panama insect from which the above characters 
are taken seems to me to be nearly related to Hsarcus, 
Reiche, type E. leprieurwi, from Algeria, three other species 
of which occur in the Mediterranean region. The long, 
stout, perfoliate, loogely-articulated antennae, with 
abruptly truncated terminal joint, the freely 4-jointed 
simple tarsi, and somewhat narrowly separated coxae, 
are its chief characters. The general facies is that of 
a Coccinellid or Endomychid (Stenotarsus, etc.). Pseud- 
esarcus must, for the present, be included in Coly- 
diidae or Mycetophagidae, agreeing perhaps best with the 
latter. Two specimens only have been found, possibly 
both females. 
*Pseudesarcus villosus, n. sp. (Plate IV, fig. 2.) 
Shining, ferruginous, the elytra and the disc of the thorax with 
a cupreous or purplish lustre, the under surface darker, the outer 
seven joints of the antennae black ; thickly clothed with long, erect | 
fulvous hairs, the under surface, legs, and antennae also set with 
long hairs. Head closely, finely punctate, the eyes rather small ; 
antennae reaching beyond the base of the thorax, stout, joints 1 
and 3 obconic, 2 short, 3 about as long as 1 and 2 united, 4-11 broad, 
subtriangular, 5-11 more or less transverse. Thorax transverse, 
rounded and sharply margined at the sides, the latter sinuate 
towards the base, the hind angles sharply rectangular, the anterior 
angles angularly extending forwards; the convex disc very minutely 
punctate, the expanded lateral portions granulate. Elytra much 
wider than the thorax, transversely convex, subparallel at the base ; 
with rows of closely placed, transverse, rather coarse punctures, 
the interstices broad, convex, minutely punctate. Beneath sparsely 
punctate. 
Length 53, breadth 3mm. (? 2.) 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui, Bugaba (Champion). 
One specimen from each locality. 
LYGTIDAE. 
BERGINUS. 
Berginus, Erichson, Naturg. Ins. Deutschl. ii, p. 405 (1848) ; 
Wollaston, Ins. Mad. p. 194 (1854); Leconte, Class. 
Coleopt. N. Am. 2nd edit. p. 139 (1883). 
