48 Mr. Gilbert J. Arrow's CunlrUnilion lo the 



rectis, foveis basalibus piofundis, fere ad medium attingentibus, 

 antennarum articulo ultimo feie discuidali, duabus praecedentibus 

 intus valde productis : 



^, tibia antica giaciliori, subtus post medium deutata. 



Long. 5"5 mm. 



Hah. S. Brazil : Espirito Santo {Schmidl). 



This is easily recognisable by its thick and rather long 

 clothing of pale sulphurous-yellow hair. Two specimens 

 (nuile and female) from the Fry Collection, although 

 evidently of the same species, ililfer considerably in form. 

 The male is very short and bioad, with the sides of the 

 prothorax gently curved in front and divergent behind 

 and the hind angles acutely produced. The female is 

 narrower, the sides of the thorax are strongly rounded in 

 front and parallel behind, and the hind angles are right 

 angles. The club of the antenna is longer and the 9th 

 and loth joints less transverse and less angulated anteriorly. 

 The front tibia of the male is slender and curved in its 

 anterior half and toothed beneath a little beyond the middle. 



Genus Epoptekus. 

 The South American Epopterus ucellalus Ohv., must be 

 removed from the list of Central American species. The 

 common insect so named by Gorham, which, in spite of 

 its different aspect, appeared to him impossible to separate 

 satisfactorily, is not Hkely to cause similar difficulty to 

 others. It is a larger, broader and less closely punctured 

 and hairy insect, with a pattern composed of only two, 

 instead of three, colours as in E. uccUatus. I consider it to 

 belong to E. parlitus Gerst., but with the black marldngs 

 rather more reduced than in the typical form. 



Genus Stenotarsus. 

 Cziki has introduced a new name, Slenotarsoides, for the 

 Asiatic species of Stenolarsus. This he describes as a 

 genus, although without indicating a single distinctive 

 character. While separating, according to his notions of 

 propriety, the Asiatic species, he associates still the 

 American and African, whether from geographical or 

 zoological reasons is immaterial, since his so-called genus, 

 in the absence of any diagnostic character, cannot reason- 

 ably be held to have any substantial existence. It is true 

 that the International Rules of N( •menclature recognise 



