ii2 Memoirs on the Coleoptera 



the first funicular joint somewhat longer than the next two com- 

 bined, the club narrow, densely pubescent and gradually pointed. 

 The prosternum has a deep canal, which includes a very deep 

 circular pit between the strong ante-coxal spines in the male, the 

 coxae separated by two-thirds of their width. The femora have a 

 cluster of short spiniform serrules beneath beyond the middle, and 

 the tarsi are moderately dilated. The tarsal claws are straight in 

 axial view, but, though extremely approximate, are not actually 

 connate at base. The type is the following: 



Stegotidius fasciatus n. sp. — Body stout and very convex, rhombic-oval, deep 

 black, polished, very smooth and glabrous, each of the very coarse and sparse 

 punctures of the under surface inclosing an extremely minute pale squamule; 

 each elytron has an irregular red fascia at base, the first interval and large humeral 

 spot black; beak rather longer in the male than in the female, somewhat over 

 half as long as the body, not compressed but coarsely sulcate at the sides basally, 

 finely, sparsely punctate above; antennae medial in both sexes; prothorax three- 

 fourths wider than long, inflated and with subparallel sides basally, the sides very 

 rapidly converging and distally sinuate beyond about the middle; surface smooth, 

 sparsely punctate on the tubulate apex, grooved and punctate along the basal 

 margin, the lobe rounded, sinuate at apex; scutellum convex, smooth, wider 

 than long, rounded at base, broadly sinuate at apex; elytra as long as wide, a 

 fifth wider than the prothorax, rather sharply parabolic, with somewhat prominent 

 humeri; striae very deeply impressed, subpunctate, the intervals strongly and 

 subequally convex, smooth; metasternum with a very deep elongate-oval fovea; 

 abdomen (d") with a feeble and more finely though sparsely punctate basal 

 impression; male somewhat larger than the female and with very strong, upwardly 

 and outwardly curvate prosternal processes, extending far beyond the head. 

 Length 5.7-7.7 mm.; width 3.75-5.0 mm. Brazil (Rio de Janeiro). Nine 

 specimens. 



It seems almost certain that this species must already be described, 

 but I am unable to find any reference to it; at first it appeared 

 to be Centrinus meigeni Boh., but the statements in the description 

 that the strial intervals are fiat, and the abdomen obsoletely 

 punctate in that species, are so completely reversed in fasciatus 

 that I hardly think they can prove to be identical; in fasciatus the 

 abdominal punctures are very coarse and deep, though remote. 

 It is interesting to note that the female is smaller than the male, 

 as in certain Madarids. 



Camelodes Pasc. 



The peculiar feature of this genus is a very high tumid obtuse 

 carina, having a polished summit and occupying rather more than 

 basal half of the pronotum, the entire body otherwise, excepting 

 the beak and the legs partially, being finely, densely opaque, smooth 

 and glabrous. The short mandibles and the tarsal claws are as in 

 the preceding. The type is as follows : 



Camelodes leachi Kirby — Broadly rhomboidal, only moderately convex, deep 



