52 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vou. 62. 
Length, 2.9 mm.; width, 1.4 mm. 
Type locality.— Paraiso, Canal Zone, Panama. 
Type.—Cat. No. 25114, U.S.N.M. 
Described from a single male collected by E. A. Schwarz March 
16, 1911. 
BRACHYS ANTHRENOIDES Waterhouse. 
Brachys anthrenoides WATERHOUSE, Biol. Centr.-Amer. Coleopt., vol. 3, pt. 1, 
1889, p. 132. 
The species was described from Bugaba, Volcan de Chiriqui, 3,000 
to 4,000 feet, and Taboga Island, all from Panama, without desig- 
nating any definite type locality. It is represented in the National 
Museum Collection by four specimens, which are probably paratypes, 
received from F. D. Godman and labeled ‘“‘Taboga Isl., Panama. 
Champion.”’ Besides these four specimens, the National Collection 
also contains the following: Six specimens collected at Paraiso, 
Canal Zone, Panama, between January 19 and April 6, 1911, by 
K. A. Schwarz; another specimen collected in Old Panama, January 
31, 1911, by the same collector; two collected at Paraiso, Canal Zone, 
Panama, April 10 and March 28, 1911, by A. H. Jennings; and two 
other specimens collected on Taboga Island, Panama, February 23, 
1911, by August Busck. 
BRACHYS CONFUSUS, new species. 
Male.—Broadly cuneiform, distinctly longer than wide, broadly 
rounded in front, narrower behind than in front, subopaque and 
rather densely pubescent; head aeneo-viridis in front; pronotum, 
scutellum, and elytra piceous, with a slight bluish and violaceous 
tinge on the top, becoming strongly cupreous at the sides; beneath 
piceous, with a strong aeneous reflection. 
Head nearly flat, broadly, longitudinally grooved from epistoma 
to occiput, the groove rather deep behind the epistoma, but becoming 
obsolete on the occiput; surface finely, densely granulated and finely 
punctate, clothed with long, recumbent, cinereous pubescence, which 
is much denser behind the epistoma; epistoma narrow between the 
antennal cavities, surface longitudinally concave, with a strong trans- 
verse carina near the anterior margin. Pronotum moderately con- 
vex, two and one-half times as wide as long at middle, distinctly 
narrower in front than behind, widest at base; sides arcuately atten- 
uate from base to anterior angles; anterior margin nearly truncate; 
base transversely truncate to middle of elytron, then turning obliquely 
backward to the scutellum, in front of which it is arcuately emargi- 
nate; posterior angles nearly rectangular; surface broadly depressed 
at the sides, the depression extending obliquely from the anterior 
angles to the base at middle of elytron, then transversely along the 
base, causing the anterior median part of the disk to be regularly 
