46 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vou. 62. 
BRACHYS FLOCCOSUS Mannerheim. 
Brachys floccosa MANNERHEIM, Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Moscow, vol. 10, No. 8, 1837, 
pp. 118-119. 
This species has been described from Oaxaca, Mexico. It has been 
reported also from Guatemala by Waterhouse,’ and is represented in 
the National Museum Collection by .11 specimens collected at Rincon 
Antonio, Oaxaca, Mexico, by Frederick Knab. 
It is easily distinguished from all the other known species found 
in the region covered by the present paper by the distinct tufts of 
hair on the posterior part of the elytra. The males have the last 
abdominal segment broadly rounded, and armed with a series of 
obsolete teeth, and the head rather densely clothed with either golden 
or pale yellow pubescence, with two glabrous spaces on the vertex. 
Females have the last abdominal segment subtruncate and armed 
with a series of short distinct teeth, which are rather broadly rounded 
at tips, equal in length, and of equal distance apart; head not as 
densely pubescent as in the male, the pubescence composed of cine- 
reous and fulvous hairs intermixed, with four glabrous spaces, two of 
which are on the front and two on the vertex. 
BRACHYS BELLUS, new species. 
Male.— Broadly cuneiform, distinctly longer than wide, broadly 
rounded in front, slightly narrower behind than in front, shining, and 
with distinct pubescent fasciae on the elytra; head and pronotum 
aeneous, with a slight cupreous tinge; scutellum piceous; elytra cya- 
neous, the humeral areas and the space behind the first transverse 
pubescent fascia strongly violaceous, and the apex aeneo-viridis; 
beneath piceous. 
Head feebly convex and transversely flattened behind the epistoma, 
with a rather deep groove extending from the occiput to a broad, 
deep depression on the front, the groove becoming obsolete on the 
flattened area behind the epistoma; surface densely punctured behind 
the epistoma, the punctures becoming more widely separated on the 
vertex and occiput, and nearly obsolete in the median depression, 
clothed with rather long fulvous pubescence, the pubescence dense 
and erect behind the epistoma, becoming sparser and recumbent 
posteriorly, and nearly glabrous in the median depression; intervals 
finely, densely, and obsoletely granulated; epistoma rather wide be- 
tween the antennal cavities, surface flat and not transversely carinate 
in front. Pronotum moderately convex, two times as wide as long 
at middle, slightly narrower in front than behind, widest at apical 
third; sides broadly rounded to middle, then parallel to the posterior 
angles, which are rectangular; anterior margin arcuately emarginate 
for the insertion of the head; base transversely truncate to middle 
7 Biol. Centr.-Amer. Coleopt., vol. 3, pt. 1, 1889, p. 131. 
