the Fauna of Bromcliacein?. 435 



less flattened, and the striolte are much coarser and stronger. 

 In A. bromeliarum both striolce and striae are very fine 

 indeed, forming a remarkable and beautiful sculpture ; a 

 rather similar type of el;^ tral sculpture is to be seen in 

 Copelatus incognilus Sharp (Biol. Ceutr.-Am., Col. i. 2, p. 38), 

 though tiiat insect is absolutely difl^'ereiit in other respects. 



Ayhjmbus closely resembles Copelatus, but is distinguished 

 therefrom by the absence of eoxal lines. Seven species were 

 enumerated in Dr. Sharp^s monograph 'On Dytiscidic' 

 (p. 596), five from South America and two from Abyssinia. 

 He stated [up. cit. p. 893) that tl.ey are " excessively rare.-"^ 

 Van den Branden, in his Catalogue of Dytiscidse published 

 in 1885, three years after Dr. Sharp-'s monograi)h, only gives 

 the same seveu species (Ann. Soc. ent. Belgique, xxix. 

 p. 87), and, although I have searched, I have found no 

 record of any species being added to the original seveu up 

 till now. It is just possible that an Aglymbus might be 

 described as a Copelatus ; but though 1 have looked up the 

 descriptions of many species of Copelatus published since 

 Dr. Sharp's monograph, I have found none in the least 

 resembling Aglymbus bromeliarum. Possibly further investi- 

 gation of the fauna of Bromeliaceae will add to our knowledge 

 of the rare genus Aglymbus. — H. Scott. 



3. Cyclonotum urichi, sp. n. 



Oblongo-ovale, convexum, nitidum, corpore supra subtusquo nigro, 

 antennis palpisque flavescentibus, pedibus piceo-ferrugiiieis ; 

 capite consiiicue lato, subtiliter crebre punctulato, ad margincm 

 anteriorem persubtilissime reticulato ; prothorace subtiliter crebre 

 punctulato ; elytris dciiso parum fortius punctulatis, punctorum 

 seriebus nullis, stria suturali postice tenuissima, dimidio anteriore 

 omnino obsoleta ; tarsis intermediis et posticis brevibus, hirsutis, 

 articulo basali incrassato. 



Long. Corp. ca. 4| mm. 



Oblong-oval but not elongate, rather less convex than 

 some members of the genus. Head very broad and short, 

 scarcely narrowing in front of the eyes except for the 

 rounding off of the angles, with the front margin straight ; 

 closely and finely punctured ; towards the anterior margin 

 very finely reticulate, this portion appearing dull, while the 

 rest of the head and all the remainder of the upper surface 

 are strongly shining. Thorax closely and finely punctured. 

 Scutellum very finely punctured. Elytra very closely punc- 

 tured (if anything a little more closely than the thorax), the 



