from the Galapagos Islands. 23 
will not agree in all respects ; like Amblygnathus, it has no tooth 
to the mentum, and the antennee short, but the eyes must be more 
prominent. The tarsi are short. 
Family Bempriprip2. 
Notaphus galapagoensis. Not. eneus, nitidus, antennis nigrescen- 
tibus, ad basin, pedibusque testaceis; thorace transverso, postice 
utrinque fovea oblonga impressa, lineaque longitudinali elevata 
notato ; elytris punctato-striatis, fasciis duabus arcuatis, rufescen- 
tibus, ornatis.—Long. corp. 14 lin. 
Body rather short and broad. Thorax broad and transverse, mo- 
derately convex, the sides boldly rounded and but slightly sinuated 
near the posterior angles, which are nearly right angles; dorsal 
channel distinct, and continued from the base to the apex of the 
thorax ; a narrow oblong fovea is situated on each side behind, 
rather nearer the lateral margin, or angle, than the mesial line, and 
extending from the angle is a ridge which is about one-third of the 
length of the thorax and paralle! with the mesial line, and hence, 
although the ridge springs from the angle, it is somewhat remote 
from the lateral margin at its apex,—the margin being bowed out- 
wards ; the disc of the thorax is smooth, but the lateral and poste- 
rior margins are coriaceous. ‘The elytra are rather broad, of a 
brownish zeneous hue, distinctly punctate-striated ; rather im front 
of the middle is an irregular, transverse, yellowish band, which is 
subinterrupted in parts, and does not extend to the suture ; it de- 
scends obliquely downwards as it runs in from the outer margin, 
where it is met by a humeral pale mark : there is a fait trace of 
two pale spots above this band: about the hinder third of each 
elytron is a curved mark which commences on the second inter- 
stice from the suture, runs outwards to the margin, and forming 
a segment of a circle, extends to the apex of the elytra. A largeish 
depression is observed on the third imterstice from the suture on 
the anterior third of each elytron. The whole of the basal joint, 
and the base of the second, third and fourth joints of the antenn 
are yellow ; the rest of the joints are blackish. 
This species is from James’ Island. 
Section HY DRADEPHAGA. 
Family Dyriscip 2. 
Copelatus (?) galapagoensis. Cop. ovatus, parum convexus, piceus ; 
capite, marginibus lateralibus thoracis et elytrorum, antennis pe- 
dibusque rufo-testaceis ; thorace disco nigro, punctis minutissimis 
subremotis impressis ; elytris distincte sed anguste striatis.— Long. 
corp. 2% lin. 
This is a small insect, and might be mistaken for a species of 
