and Central Afnerican Malachiidae and Melyridae. 81 



posterior tibiae (fig. 17) strongly bowed, produced at the apex into 

 a long slender spine which about reaches the apex of the first tarsal 

 joint. 



Length li-l| mm. 



Hob. Guatemala, near the city, Pantaleon, Paso 

 Antonio, San Geronimo (Champion). 



Ten specimens, all of the female sex. Less shining than 

 P. minimus, the elytra somewhat closely punctulate, the 

 pubescence more conspicuous, the posterior tibiae ($) 

 produced into a long spiniform process, as in the same sex 

 of Attains fuscescens {^^ calcaratus), Gorh. (an insect here 

 referred to Anthocomus) and A. varicus. Erichson's type 

 ($) of A. seminulum, from Caracas, has more distinctly 

 punctate elytra, the tibiae (the extreme apex of the 

 posterior pair excepted) and tarsi testaceous, and the 

 posterior tibiae of the female unarmed. 



3. Pseudattalus punctatus. 



Ebaeus punctatus, Gorh., Biol. Centr.-Am., Coleopt. iii, 

 2, p. 321. 



$. Posterior tibiae strongly arcuate, with one or two long, fine, 

 spiniform, pallid setae amongst the shorter ones at the apex. 



Hab. Panama, Chiriqui. 



The three specimens seen of this species are probably 

 all of the female sex, the male ( ?) noticed by Gorham having 

 simple 5- jointed anterior tarsi; in this example antennae 

 are a little longer and more slender, and the posterior legs 

 are darker. The coarser puncturing of the elytra and the 

 simple posterior tibiae ($) separate P. punctatus from the 

 same sex of P. armatus; and the cyaneous, more closely 

 punctured elytra, and the more bowed, darker posterior 

 tibiae, distinguish it from P. seminulum. 



PSEUDEBAEUS. 



Pseudebaeus, Horn, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. iv, pp. 109, 118 

 (1872). 



This North-American genus is characterised by the 

 simple 5- jointed anterior tarsi in the two sexes, and the 

 abruptly palhd, prolonged, hooked apices of the elytra in 

 the male. The four known forms seem to be widely 

 distributed in the Middle and Southern States, one of 

 them, P. oblitus (Lee), extending northward to Canada, 



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