154 Mr. G. C. Champion’s Notes on 
with a prominent humeral callus and also tumid in a line with this 
beyond the middle (thus appearing subquadrate above), the outer 
submarginal stria reaching the suture, the inner one a little less 
produced, the subhumeral stria not extending to the middle. 
Beneath densely, somewhat coarsely punctate, the metasternum 
obsoletely canaliculate, the intercoxal process of the latter broad, 
truncate in front; ventral segments free. 
Length 2, breadth 14 mm. 
Hab. Mexico, near the city, San Miguel del Soldado 
in Vera Cruz (Flohr), Xucumanatlan in Guerrero (H. H. 
Smith); GuATEMALA, Calderas (Champion). 
Two very different species were confused by Gorham 
under the name Dorcatoma contracta—a larger one, from 
Calderas, with the eyes very deeply excised, which 1s abso- 
lutely congeneric with Caenocara, Th., and is here described 
under the name C. quercus; the other smaller form, from 
Capetillo and Aceituno, with the eyes feebly excised, which 
must be taken as the type. C.quercus is closely related to 
C. bovistae (Hofim.), differing from it in the more sparsely 
punctured thorax and elytra, the longer and sparser pubes- 
cence, and the very shining black body. The Mexican 
examples received from Flohr were beaten from oaks. 
He has also sent us a 2 example of a Caenocara, from 
Mexico city, which is certainly referable to C. bovistae. 
*Caenocara flohri, n. sp. 
6. Suborbicular, shining, castaneous above, piceous beneath, the 
antennae and legs ferruginous; thickly clothed with yellowish 
pubescence. Head, thorax, and elytra densely, finely punctate, 
the punctures minute on the disc of the thorax; eyes moderately 
large, the groove extending nearly half way across them; antennae 
9-jointed, long, the dentiform first joint of the club greatly produced 
inwards, the two succeeding joints broad, elongate; elytra with a 
prominent humeral callus and also tumid in a line with this beyond 
the middle, the outer submarginal striae reaching the suture, the 
inner one a little less produced, the subhumeral stria short. Be- 
neath densely punctate. 
Length 2, breadth 12-1} mm. 
Hab. Mexico, Real del Monte (Flohr). 
Two males. Larger than C. bovistae; the antennae 
and legs longer; the eyes larger, the groove not extending 
more than half way across them. The denser puncturing 
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