and Central American Malachiidae and Melyridae. 75 



elytra inflated posteriorly in both sexes and coarsely 

 punctate; the legs testaceous, with the femora to near 

 the apex, and the apices of the tibiae and tarsi, infuscate ; 

 the palpi stout ; the surface set with long, fine, erect hairs, 

 intermixed on the prothorax with short cinereous pubes- 

 cence. In general shape A. aeneovirens is not unhke the 

 European A. cyaneus, Ros. Gorham stated that he was 

 unable to distinguish the sexes. 



49. Attains flavomarginatus, n. sp. (Plate II, 

 fig. 14, ?.) 



Short, much widened posteriorly in both sexes, shining ; aeneous, 

 the labrum and mouth-parts, the antennae in great part or entirely, 

 the head in ^ from the anterior margin to between the eyes, and 

 in ? at most with the anterior margin, the prothorax on all sides 

 (leaving a large dark transverse discoidal patch), and the legs, 

 flavous or testaceous ; sparsely clothed with fine pallid pubescence, 

 the hairs on the elytra long, uniform. Head very short, broad, 

 sparsely punctulate, the clypeus as long as the labrum; antennae 

 rather long in both sexes, slender, joints 3-11 longer than broad. 

 Prothorax very broad, short ; closely, minutely punctulate. Elytra 

 short, wider than the prothorax, dilated, convex, and abruptly 

 declivous posteriorly; closely, coarsely punctate. Legs slender. 



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

 nearly reaching the apex of 3. 



Length 2f-2| mm. (<^$.) 



Hab. Mexico, Chilpancingo and Omilteme in Guerrero, 

 4,600-8,000 feet {H. H. Smith). 



Ten specimens, four of which are males. Near A. 

 (Ebaeus) aeneovirens, Gorh., from the slope of the Guate- 

 malan Volcan de Fuego ; differing from it in the relatively 

 broader, less convex, and sharply flavo-marginate pro- 

 thorax, the more extended yellow portion of the head in 

 the male (appearing as three large coalescent patches), the 

 entirely pale legs, and the more uniform vestiture, A. 

 aeneovirens having very long conspicuous bristly hairs 

 intermixed with the short cinereous pubescence on the 

 prothorax. The palpi are stout. 



50. Attalus varicus, n. sp. 



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

 iii, 2, p. 116 (part.). 



