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XXVIII. Notes on various Central American Coleoptera : 
supplement. By GrorGE CHARLES CHAMPION, 
F.Z.S. 
{Read December 3rd, 1913.] 
SincE the publication of my Notes on Central American 
beetles (antea, pp. 58-169), three interesting new species 
of the Ptinid genus Trichodesma, all from one locality, 
Acapulco, on the western coast of Mexico, have been 
detected in the British Museum, and one new Dascillid, 
a Scirtes, from Guatemala, has been received from 
Mr. O. HK. Janson. The present contribution includes a 
description of these insects, and is a supplement to my 
previous paper on the same subject. 
Fam. PTINIDAE. 
Trichodesma sublineata, n. sp. 
Elongate, convex; piceous, the antennae and tarsi obscure ferru- 
ginous; variegated with a dense clothing of whitish and brown 
pubescence intermixed with long, erect, pallid hairs, the brown 
pubescence on the elytra condensed into interrupted lines which 
terminate abruptly in front of the anteriorly sinuate, sharply 
defined whitish apical patch, those near the suture becoming trans- 
versely coalescent posteriorly, the dorsal hump of the prothorax 
with two fulvous spots in front and two others behind, the spots 
separated by a whitish median line, the elytra with various matted 
tufts of erect blackish-brown hairs—one on the dise of each below 
the base (between which is a common, V-shaped, blackish-brown 
mark) and six in a common transverse row at about one-third from 
the apex, the humeri also with a small tuft of dark brown hairs. 
Head densely punctulate and subgranulate; antennae moderately 
long, joints 4-8 small, subequal, the dilated joints 9-11 elongate, 
9 as long as 5-8 united. Prothorax transverse, the sides arcuate 
before the middle and sinuously, obliquely converging behind, 
the hind angles obliterated; finely granulate, the dorsal hump 
large, angular and compressed. Elytra a little wider than the 
TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1913.—pPaRT Iv. (MAR. 1914) xx 
