No.lliiJ. COLEOl'TEliA OF THE GALAPAGOS ISLANDS—LINPLL. 259 



Family CERAMBYCIDAE. 



MALLODON MOLARIUM Bates. 

 Mallodiin molavium ]5ates, Biol. Centr.-Amer. Col., 1879, V, p. 9. 



The Albatross expeditiou iu 1888 collected on Cluirles, Chatham, and 

 Duncan islands seventeen examples of this large rrionid, which is dis- 

 tributed from Lower California through Mexico and Central America 

 to Panama. The species is ami^ly winged. 



ACHRYSON GALAPAGOENSIS, new species. 



Cylindrical, luteous, opaque, sparsely clothed with short jjale pubes- 

 cence. Head densely punctate, two Sjiots on the front and one on the 

 vertix, black. Antennae slender, in the male nearly twice the length 

 of the body, in the female slightly passing the apex of elytra. Thorax 

 globose, much more strongly so in the female, narrowly constricted at 

 each end, with elongate black spots, six at apex and six at base; the 

 dorsal spots sometimes connected to longitudinal stripes; in other 

 specimens the spots are wanting, except the dorsal pair at base and 

 the lateral pair at apex; apical margin truncate, basal margin slightly 

 bisinuate; disk with a small smooth space at middle, the punctuation 

 diflerent in the sexes; the female is densely, rugosely punctate, the 

 male has the black spats very tinely and densely punctulate with 

 sparse granules, the rufous parts slightly rugosely punctate. Scutel- 

 lem semioval with dense yellowish hairs. Elytia conjointly rounded at 

 apex, the male with distinct but not very long sutural spines, the 

 female with only acute angles; disk densely rugosely punctate with 

 black spots as follows: A basal spot each side in the depression inside 

 the humerus, a circumscutellar spot and on each elytron six elongate 

 spots, arranged in two transverse curved bands, one before and the 

 other one behind the middle; the lateral spots of these bands are some- 

 times wanting but the central spots on each elytron are generally 

 connected and prolonged toward apex. Metasternum, abdomen, and 

 legs sparsely and finely nuiricately punctate. Wings ample. Length, 

 16 to 20 mm. 



Type.—^o. 1315, U.S.:N^.M. 



Two males and two females, collected on Chatham island by Dr. G. 

 Baur. 



EBURIA LANIGERA, new species. 



Female. — Elongate, somewhat depressed, brownish testaceous, densely 

 clothed with long appressed grayish hairs. Antennae slightly longer 

 than the body, with only slight traces of Hying hairs; scape one- fourth 

 shorter than third joint, feebly clavate, slightly compressed but not 

 flattened, finely punctate; third to eleventh joints filiform, slightly 

 decreasing in length. Thorax scarcely longer than broad, strongly 



