and Central American Malachiidae and Melyridae. 41 



edge of the second, the prothorax, and the outer margins of the 

 ventral segments rufo-testaceous, the anterior femora piceous; 

 clothed with cinereous pubescence intermixed with very long, 

 coarse, erect, black, bristly hairs. Head very densely punctate; 

 antennae with joints 3-9 subequal in length, 2 stout, subtriangular. 

 Prothorax transverse, closely, minutely punctate. Elytra rather 

 convex, somewhat oval, densely, coarsely, scabroso-pimctate. 



cj. Antennae with joint 1 strongly curved, rather long, moderately 

 widened and somewhat flattened outwards, subangulate at about 

 the middle within; 2 broader than long, angularly dilated at the 

 base externally, and with a long slender appendage; 3-10 moder- 

 ately serrate. 



Length 3|, breadth If mm. 



Hab. Mexico, Northern Sonora [Morrison). 



One female, found mixed with the specimens identified 

 by Gorham as C. punctatus, Lee, the others belonging 

 to C. parvus, Schaeff. A pecuhar form, with roughly 

 punctured, somewhat oval, black, coarsely setose elytra, 

 an opaque closely punctate head and prothorax, etc. 

 Mr. Fall has been kind enough to lend me a male of C. 

 nigritus, and there can be no doubt as to the determination 

 of the species, the female of which has not been described. 

 The wings are imperfectly developed or absent, as in the 

 alhed C. cribrosus, Lee. The (^-characters are taken from 

 the Arizona example before me. C. punctatus, Lee, has 

 a smoother prothorax, more parallel, metalhc elytra, a 

 less transverse second antennal joint in the male, etc. 



Attalus. 



Attalus, Erichson, Entomographien, p. 89 (1840) ; Horn, 

 Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. iv, pp. 109, 110 (figs.), 119 

 (1872) ; Gorham, Biol. Centr.-Am., Coleopt. iii, 2, 

 pp. 118, 318 (part.) ; Abeille de Perrin, Ann. Soc. Ent. 

 Fr. 1890, pp. 364, 400. 



Anihocomus, sect. II, III, Erichson, loc. cit. pp. 100, 101. 



Acletus, Leconte, Proc. Acad. Phil. 1852, p. 167. 



Scalopterus, Motschulsky, Bull. Mosc. 1859, p. 406. 



Anthocormis, Gorham, loc. cit. pp. 114, 317 (part.). 



Ebaeus, Gorham, loc. cit. p. 120 (part.). 



A holarctic genus including a large number of Central 

 American forms. All the Central American Attali (A. 

 fuscescens = calcaratus excepted) are left where Gorham 



