152 Memoirs on the Coleoptera 



The type of Garnia, as described above, is remarkable in many 

 directions, especially in the mandibles, antennae, prosternum and 

 tarsi, as well as in the peculiar striation of the elytra. 



Andiblis n. gen. 



A minute species, for which a special generic name is necessary, 

 is of narrowly suboval form and convex surface and has very 

 coarse sculpture, unarmed femora, strongly connate tarsal claws 

 and conspicuous vestiture. The beak is slender, thickened basally 

 and is nearly straight; the mandibles are straight within, not at 

 all decussate and prominent when closed, unequal in size, the 

 right much the shorter. The prosternum is shallowly channeled 

 and densely squamose, the coxae separated by nearly their own width 

 and the part behind the coxae is emarginately lobed over a part of 

 the mesosternum, the lobe rounded, longitudinally impressed and 

 very conspicuously squamose. The antennae are subbasal, the first 

 funicular joint inflated and fully as long as the next two, the second 

 one-half longer than wide, the club large, evenly oval and as long 

 as the five preceding joints. The prothorax is not evidently 

 constricted at apex. The type is the following: 



Andiblis seriata n. sp. — Suboval, convex, densely sculptured, only feebly 

 shining, black, the elytra and legs piceous; squamules slender, whitish, the coarse 

 pronotal punctures entirely including each a small one, those of the elytra a little 

 larger and arranged in very even single interstitial series; on the under surface 

 they are rather close but smaller, becoming larger, very dense and conspicuous 

 on the prosternum; beak but little longer than the prothorax, very slender, 

 smooth, rufous and glabrous in slightly more than apical half, thicker, black, 

 squamose and strongly sculptured thence to the base, which is not at all separated 

 from the upper surface of the head; antennae rather behind basal third, rufous; 

 prothorax a third wider than long, the sides moderately converging and nearly 

 straight, rounding and more converging in about apical third, the truncate apex 

 almost half as wide as the base; punctures even, coarse, deep and very close, 

 with traces of a narrow smoother median line; basal lobe very small, gradual and 

 cuspidiform, the scutellum small, somewhat sunken, rugose and quadrate, free; 

 elytra fully a third longer than wide, distinctly and rather abruptly wider than 

 the prothorax and twice as long, oval, somewhat narrowly rounded at tip; humeri 

 broadly, obtusely subangulate, not at all prominent laterally; striae very coarse 

 and deep; intervals barely twice as wide as the grooves and coarsely punctured 

 in single line; legs rather short; abdomen broadly, feebly impressed and slightly 

 less squamose medially toward base in the type, which, from the rostral character, 

 would seem to be a female; first suture very distinct throughout. Length 2.25 

 mm.; width 1.2 mm. Brazil (Chapada). March. One example. 



Easily recognizable by the coarse sculpture, evenly lineate 

 squamules of the elytra and form of the beak and mandibles. It 

 is easily possible, of course, that the inequality of the mandibles 

 may simply be a deformation in the only known specimen. 



