from the Weat Indies. 323 



sculpture longitudinally strigose. Abdomen with very I'm- 

 punctures, pubescence more or less erect, sparing ; ground- 

 sculpture distinct, reticulate. 



tit. Vincent (//. //. Smith). Type in the British Museum. 



Thobacophori. 



3. Thoracophorus guadalupensis, sp. n. 

 (Fauvel, in litt.) 



Very small, narrow, dull, reddish brown, with head darker. 

 Antennae and legs reddish testaceous. 



Length 18 mm. 



In genera] appearance and form of thorax very near 

 T. pallidas, Slip., but differs in the darker colour, more 

 robust build, and shorter elytra. 



Head pitchy black, suborbicular, with four longitudinal 

 carinas; eyes small, visible from above; temples very small, 

 angular. Antennae reddish testaceous ; first and second 

 joints dilated, of about equal length ; third much narrower 

 than the second, but of equal length; fourth to sixth of 

 equal length and breadth, as long as broad ; seventh larger 

 than the sixth, as long as broad ; eighth to tenth transverse; 

 eleventh shortly oval. Thorax transverse, quite a third 

 broader than long, broader between the anterior than the 

 posterior angles ; sides gradually converging posteriorly, 

 finely crenulate, emarginate before the rectangular posterior 

 angles; anterior angles almost rectangular; disc with four 

 distinct longitudinal carina^ the two central bounding on 

 each side a median elevated part (which shows traces of two 

 short parallel carinuhe), the two lateral close to and nearly 

 parallel with the sides. Elytra nearly a third longer than 

 the thorax, a little transverse, each with five longitudinal 

 carinae, the intervals concave. Sculpture of all "the fore 

 parts coriaceous. Abdomen gradually pointed, finely coria- 

 ceous, very finely and sparingly punctured and pubescent. 



Grenada (H. H. Smith) j Haiti. Type in the British 

 Museum. 



O X YT E LI. 



4. Troyophloeus (Carpalimus) smithi, sp. n. 

 (Fauvel, in litt.) 

 Black, shining ; thorax cordate, with semilunar impression 

 before the base and a small impression on either side of the 



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