472 Mr. G. C Chaiupion on new Species 



Length 5 mm. (cJ?) 



Ilab. Colombia, Santa Y6 de Bogota {Mus. Brit.). 



One specimen, acquired by tlie Museum in 1S71. This 

 insect is labelled " liet^rom^re," sliowing that its systematic 

 position was then recognized. The comparatively smooth 

 prothorax, long antennas, and rufo-bimaculate elytra are 

 characteristic. A Pala?arctic Salpi7i(jus {Sphariestes) is 

 sin)ilarlj coloured. 



2. Platamops lehphanoides, sp. n. 



Elongate, narrow, attenuate posteriorly, shining ; ferru- 

 ginous, the eyes black, tlie legs and elytra testaceous, the 

 latter with a large, common, subtriungular, scutellar patch 

 connected along the suture with a broader saddle-shaped 

 mark, a common oval patch towards the apex, and an in- 

 determinate space along the sides (extending from just below^ 

 the humeri to about one-third from the apex, and usually 

 obliquely coalescent posteriorly with the saddle-shaped mark) 

 piceous or nigro-piceous, the under surface and antennas 

 piceous or obscure ferruginous, the latter with the basal 

 joints and extreme tip testaceous ; sparsely clothed with 

 decumbent yellow hairs intermixed with very long, erect, 

 darker setaj. Head rugosely punctate, smooth down the 

 nnddle, the eyes very prominent ; antennas moderately long, 

 joints 5-10 very gradually decreasing in length, 7-10 tri- 

 angular, 11 ovate. Prothorax oblong-cordate, constricted 

 and transversely depressed before the base, longitudinally 

 rugose, except along the smooth median line, the five seti- 

 gerous marginal tubercles well developed. Elytra long, 

 rapidly narrowed from the middle, narrow at the tip ; 

 obliquely depressed on the disc below the base, rather 

 coarsely striato-punclate, the punctures becoming very 

 minute on the apical declivity, the interstices flat and almost 

 smooth. 



Length 4f-5 mm. ( c? ? •) 



Hah. Brazil, Rio de Janeiro {Fry). 



Four specimens. More elongate than the allied forms, 

 and with the elytral markings very similar to those of 

 various species of the Cucujid genera TtUphanus and 

 Cryptamorph't, 



3, Platamops ohliquus, sp. n. 



Moderately elongate, shining ; nigro-piceous or piceous, 

 the head and prothorax sometimes wholly or in part ferrugi- 

 nous, the basal joints and tip of the antennae, the knees 

 and tarsi, and various markings on the elytra testaceous 



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