from Central and South America. 95 



dorsal interstices raised and each with a series of 3mall, 

 smooth, shining tubercles extending down their entire 

 length. 



Length 9h, breadth 4-^ millira. 



Hab. W. Coast of America, ? Panama [Kellett and Wood). 



This insect was received by the British Museum in 1850, 

 but not incorporated in their general collection. It was 

 doubtless obtained at Panama, the type of Metamasiua 

 dimidiatipennis (Jekel), a species known to occur there, 

 bearing a similar locality-label. H. carinicoUts may be 

 readily identified by its extremely short, sharply carinate, 

 granulate prothorax, and the coarsely seriato-granulate, 

 irregularly albo-fasciate elytra. It approaches the Mexican 

 H. crux-alba. 



Anchonina. 

 Anchonus spharicus, sp. n. 



Oblong, convex, opaque, black, the antennae piceous or 

 obscure ferruginous, the surface more or less coated with a 

 dark brown exudation, amidst which patches of very minute 

 adpressed scales are visible; the legs sparsely setulose. 

 Rostrum curved, stout, about as long as the head and pro- 

 thorax, not constricted at the base, coarsely and closely 

 seriato-punctate to the tip. Eyes small, depressed, trans- 

 verse. Antennse inserted near the apex of the rostrum, the 

 eighth joint of the funiculus large, a little broader than long, 

 nearly as wide as the base of the club. Prothorax slightly 

 broader than long, rounded at the sides, narrowed and feebly 

 constricted in front ; rather sparsely punctate, the punctures 

 small and each placed in a shallow, rather large fovea, the 

 interspaces with a few minute, shining, widely scattered, 

 transverse or rounded granules. Elytra oval, convex, at the 

 middle much wider than the prothorax; with rows of scattered 

 punctures, which are each placed in a large shallow fovea, 

 the interstices with numerous, more or less distinct, rounded, 

 feeble, tuberculiform prominences and a few minute shining 

 granules similar to those on the prothorax, 3, 5, and 7 

 angularly raised or tuberculiform at the base. Ventral 

 segments 1 and 2 on the same level, the suture between 

 them sinuous and shallow. 



Length 9-10, breadth 4^ millim. 



Hab. Nicaragua, Choutales {coll. Fry) ; Colombia [Mus 

 Brit.) . 



Two examples, the one from Colombia (taken as the type) 



