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the anterior straight, the claws somewhat thick, free and strongly 

 divergent. The prothorax is gradually and moderately tubulate 

 at apex, carinate centrally and with peculiar sculpture. The 

 prosternum is unarmed in the male. The only species known to me 

 is the following: 



Ortycus cristosus n. sp.— Body stout, the integuments shining where exposed, 

 black, the entire prothorax above and beneath with long slender fulvous scales, 

 unevenly distributed, these scales forming small clusters along all the strial 

 intervals; beak (o 71 ) thick, distinctly longer than the head and prothorax, the 

 antennae piceous, or ( 9 ) less thick and three-fourths as long as the elytra; pro- 

 thorax a fourth (cf ) to nearly a third ( 9 ) wider than long, the feebly converging 

 sides nearly straight, rapidly rounding and convergent beyond the middle, the 

 tubulation much less than half as wide as the base in both sexes; surface with 

 uneven anastomosing strigilation, very convex when viewed in lateral profile, 

 the median line smooth and cariniform but only centrally; basal lobe gradually 

 formed, somewhat narrowly rounded at apex; scutellum free, convex, glabrous, 

 subquadrate, wider than long, impressed along the middle; elytra but slightly 

 longer than wide, distinctly wider than the prothorax and much less than twice 

 as long, the humeri rather prominently rounded; sides notably oblique and 

 strongly arcuate, the apex very narrowly rounded; grooves coarse and deep, 

 somewhat unevenly punctate and half as wide as the intervals to less; intervals 

 more elevated internally, sloping thence externally, each with a single series of 

 coarse, subtransverse and remotely separated punctures. Length 3.2-3.7 mm.; 

 width 1.8-2.2 mm. Brazil (Santarem). Three specimens. 



If the sexes are correctly identified, as seems probable from 

 certain differences in the beak, the male is much larger than the 

 female. This is one of the most isolated species of the Centrinites 

 series, and differs from the Parana type of Ortycus — Centrinus 

 perdix Pasc. — in its very much shorter second funicular joint and 

 more convex and differently sculptured pronotum; it inhabits a 

 notably different faunal region, but seems to be congeneric with 

 the type of Ortycus. 



Saldius n. gen. 



The body is here of very moderate to small size, as in the preceding 

 genera, and of oval, usually not at all rhombic form, but it is 

 somewhat ventricose. The beak is more or less slender, strongly 

 sculptured and usually rather long, feebly tapering, somewhat 

 flattened at apex, separated from the head by a moderately deep 

 sulcus, the mandibles rather strongly dentate and arcuate, but 

 feebly decussate and prominent when closed. The antennae are 

 behind the middle of the beak as a rule and have the first funicular 

 joint notably elongate. The prosternum is flattened, although 

 feebly and indefinitely concave along the middle and with a moder- 

 ate anterior fossa, apparently never spinose in the male, and the 

 coxae are separated by rather more than half their width; the 

 femora are mutic, not inflated, the tibiae straight and the tarsal 

 claws more or less long, arcuate, free and strongly diverging. The 



