and Central American Malachiidae and Melyridae. 71 



Hab. Mexico {Mus. Berol), " Temisco " [ ? in Puebla] 

 {Mus. Oxon.). 



In the Hope Museum at Oxford there is an Attains 

 apparently belonging to this species. It is a minute greenish 

 insect, clothed with fine whitish pubescence, the elytra 

 densely, minutely punctate, the prothorax as broad at the 

 base as the elytra, the legs and antennae (the extreme 

 base of the latter excepted) infuscate, and agrees thus far 

 with Erichson's description. 



42. Attains plnmbens, n. sp. 



$. Elongate, depressed, much widened posteriorly, opaque; 

 nigro -plumbeous, the sides of the head before the eyes, the anterior 

 coxae, the posterior trochanters, and the abdomen with the sides, 

 the basal segments down the middle, and the membranous portions, 

 flavo-testaceous ; the entire upper surface excessively finely scabroso- 

 punctate, very finely cinereo-pubescent, the post-ocular portions of 

 the head and the terminal abdominal segments also set with bristly 

 hairs, the elytra with intermixed scattered longer hairs. Head 

 rather small, narrower than the prothorax, the eyes large ; antennae 

 feebly serrate, moderately long, joints 3-11 much longer than 

 broad. Prothorax large, very little broader than long, strongly 

 rounded at the sides. Elytra broader than the prothorax, rapidly 

 widened to the broadly rounded apices, not nearly covering the 

 abdomen. Legs elongate, slender. 



Length (excl. abdom.) 3 J mm. 



Hah. Mexico, Sayula in Jalisco [Hoge). 



One female. Amongst the Mexican forms this species 

 is not unhke A. opacipennis, from which it may be recog- 

 nised by its very opaque, uniformly plumbeous, sericeo- 

 pubescent upper surface, and the posteriorly dilated elytra. 

 The surface-sculpture is extremely fine. The last four 

 abdominal segments are exposed, owing to the gravid 

 condition of the insect, showing that very httle rehance 

 can be placed on this character. The following is a nearly 

 alUed form. 



43. Attains olivaceus, n. sp. 



$. Elongate, subparallel, opaque; greenish-olivaceous, the sides 

 of the head before the eyes, and the basal joints of the antennae 

 externally, testaceous, the tibiae and tarsi in part fusco-testaceous; 

 the entire upper surface excessively finely scabroso-punctate, and 

 clothed with fine, sericeous, ashy pubescence, the post-ocular portions 



