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17. Attains teapanus, n. sp. 



Moderately elongate, narrow, shining; black, the labrum and 

 clypeus, the anterior margin of the head and a minute spot between 

 the eyes, the bases of the mandibles and palpi, the prothorax 

 (an incomplete median vitta and an indeterminate patch on each 

 side of it anteriorly excepted), and the ventral surface in part, 

 rufo-testaceous, the elytra violaceous, with the outer margin from 

 about the middle and the apex fiavo-testaceous ; sparsely pubescent 

 without intermixed longer hairs. Head short, minutely punctate, 

 the eyes large ; antennae moderately long, rather stout, serrate. 

 Prothorax ample, strongly transverse, convex, minutely punctulate. 

 Elytra subparallel, comparatively short, not covering the long 

 abdomen, very little wider than the prothorax ; rugulose, and closely 

 finely punctate. 



(J. Anterior tarsi with the prolonged upper portion of joint 2 

 nearly reaching the apex of 3 ; elytra compressed and acuminate 

 at the apex. 



Length (excl. abdom.) 2 mm. ((J.) 



Hab. Mexico, Teapa in Tabasco {H. H. Smith). 



One male. This species agrees with A. tabogensis, 

 Gorh., in having the abdomen extending far beyond the 

 elytra, but differs totally in colour, and in the longer and 

 stouter antennae, etc. The apices of the elytra of the male 

 are formed very much as in the same sex of the two species 

 here referred to Anthocomus, but it is possible that this 

 is in part due to shrinkage after death. The last dorsal 

 segment of the abdomen is unimpressed. 



18. Attains rufipennis. 



Anthocomus basalis, Gorh., Biol. Centr.-Am., Coleopt. iii, 



2, p. 116 (part.) {nee Erichson ; nee Leconte). 

 Anthocomns rnfipennis, Gorh., loc. cit. t. 6, fig. 25. 



cJ. Anterior tarsi with joints 1 and 2 testaceous, the prolonged 

 upper portion of 2 stout and reaching the apex of 3. 

 $. Posterior tibiae simple. 



Hob. Mexico, Vera Cruz and Tabasco; Guatemala, 

 generally distributed, and apparently common in Baja Vera 

 Paz (San Geronimo). 



The insect figured by Gorham under the name A. rufi- 

 pennis, and identified by him as A. basalis, Er., in the 

 text, is not the A. basalis of Erichson, which has the elytra 



