arid Central American Malachiidae and Melyridae. 83 



N.-American P. pusillus was suspected. A very graceful 

 insect extremely like P. ohlitus (Lee), a female of which 

 from Michigan (m Mus. Oxon.) is before me, differing from 

 the corresponding sex of that species in having the elytra 

 longer, more finely shagreened, opaque, and less inflated 

 posteriorly. P. ohlitus is said by Horn to have the last 

 segment of the abdomen yellow and deeply grooved in the 

 male, whereas it is black and apparently ungrooved in 

 the same sex of P. fusillus. 



Sphinginus. 



Sphinginus, Rey, Vesicuhferes, p. 180 (1867); Abeille de 

 Perrin, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1890, pp, 364, 396. 



A very peculiar, Anthiciform Malachiid found by Mr. 

 H. H. Smith in Guerrero, Mexico, is, in the absence of the 

 male, provisionally referred to Sphinginus, with which it 

 agrees in the structure of the head, palpi, antennae, and 

 prothorax. Temnopsophus, Horn, type T. bitnaculatus, 

 from Louisiana, described from a single male example, is 

 a somewhat nearly allied genus.* Sphinginus includes at 

 present various Mediterranean forms, but its distribution 

 may be similar to that of Attalus, Anthocomus and Micro- 

 mimetes. Troglops, again, is another genus with a similarly 

 shaped prothorax. 



1. Sphinginus (?) eburatus, n, sp. (Plate II, fig. 19, $.) 



$. Elongate, narrow, opaque, scabrous; black, the prothorax 

 (a small patch on each side excepted) rufous, the elytra with a 

 narrow, transverse, smooth, ivory-white, raised median fascia 

 extending from near the suture to close to the outer margin, the 

 membranous portions of the abdomen whitish ; indistinctly pubes- 

 cent, the elytra also set with scattered, suberect, stiff black setae. 

 Head large, about as long as broad (as seen from above), considerably 

 developed and obliquely narrowed behind the eyes, densely scabroso- 

 punctate; eyes large and prominent; antennae moderately long, 

 feebly serrate, joints 3-10 decreasing slightly in length, all longer 

 than broad ; palpi slender, last joint of the maxillary pair acuminate - 

 ovate. Prothorax longer than broad, oval, rather narrow, con- 

 stricted before the base, a little smoother than the head; with a 



* Cephaloncus higuttatus, Abeille de Perrin, from Syria, to judge 

 from his figure ($), is very like Temnopsophus. Westwood's type 

 of Cephaloncus was from the Canaries. There is a specimen of 

 T. himaculatus, Horn, in the Hope Museum at Oxford. 



