116 Mr. C. J. Galian on new 



Leptotomus Pittieri^ sp. n. 



Subovatus, rufo-bmnnens ; pronoto iiitido, medio longitufliualiter 

 impresso, lateribus pauUo rotundatis. angulis anticis acutis, 

 posticis subobtusis, margine basali leviter bisinuata ; elytris 

 longitudinaliter tenuissimeque striatis, utrisque serie marginali 

 punctorum setigerorum. 



Long. 6, lat. 3 mm. 



Hah. Costa E-ica, Buenos Aires {H. Pittier). 



Short and somewhat ovate in form ; reddish brown in 

 colour. Head and prothorax glossy. Elytra more opaque, 

 but exhibiting a soft silky lustre in certain lights ; impressed 

 with very fine and close- set longitudinal stride, running 

 parallel to one another, and only visible with the aid of a 

 good lens or low power of the microscope ; each elytron has 

 a row of rather widely separated setigerous punctures close 

 to the outer margin. 



Menidius vittatust^ sp. n. 



Capite prothoraceque ferrugineis, elytris flavo-testaceis, vittis nigris 

 ornatis — una suturali, ima submarginali et subsinuata, una ab 

 sutiirali ad marginalem oblique transeuute, una per medium 

 discum a basi ad fasciam obliquam descendente. 



Long. 7, lat. 2^ mm. 



Hnh. Costa Eica, between Mata de lana and Rodeo, on 

 the Pacific side. 



This species has a close resemblance to M. circumseptusj 

 Bates, but the sutural vitta extends right up to the scutellum, 

 and there stops, instead of bifurcating and circling round the 

 base of each elytron ; there is, in addition to the submarginal 

 black line, another which runs along the middle of each 

 elytron from the base as far as the oblique fascia which 

 joins the sutural with tlie submarginal vitta ; the latter is 

 somewhat removed from the margin in its anterior half, but 

 beyond the middle, where the oblique fascia joins it, bends 

 dowuAvards and approaches the margin much more closely ; 

 at the junction of the oblique fascia with the sutural vitta at 

 about the beginning of its posterior third there is a slightly 

 expanded rhomboidal black area. 



The prothorax is transversely strigose above, and is im- 

 pressed with a median longitudinal groove. 



Scarabaeidse. 



Copris costaricensis^ sp. n. 



Oblongus; clypeo antice leviter emarginato : thoracis angulis anticis 



