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Rather narrowly elliptical, glossy black, banded with ful- 

 vous scales ; rostrum shorter than the head, stout, punctured ; 

 antenna ferruginous, funicle short and stout, club small ; pro- 

 thorax not longer than broad, obsoletely punctured, band 

 before the middle of transversely-set scales bounded on each 

 side by a stripe, curved downwards, of similar scales ; scutel- 

 lum moderately large ; elytra broader at the base, normally 

 convex, seriate-punctate, punctures small and remote, on each 

 elytron four bands (not meeting at the suture), the basal not 

 extending beyond the shoulders ; body beneath and legs 

 punctured, each puncture bearing a small white scale. 



Anahis has hitherto been confined to North America. 

 Dr. Leconte records seven species ; but he adopts Say's name 

 of Tyloderma (it has no such character) in strict conformity 

 (much to the detriment of science) with those who insist upon 

 an ahsoJute rule of priority. Bchonherr's name Analcis was 

 published in 1837, and has been in use ever since ; Say's 

 name appeared in 1831, in what work is not mentioned. 



Analcis striatus. 



A. anguste ellipticus, sereus, squamuHs elongatis albis parcissime 

 adspersus ; prothorace latitudine longiore ; elytris fortiter striatis. 

 Long. 2^ lin. 



Hob. Minas Geraes. 



Narrow elliptic, brassy brown, nearly scaleless ; rostrum 

 not longer than the head, finely punctured ; antenme ferrugi- 

 nous, second and third joints of the funicle nearly equal in 

 length, the first longer than either ; club broadly ovate ; pro- 

 thorax longer than broad, obsoletely punctured ; scutellum 

 triangular ; elytra rather elongate, strongly striate-punctate, 

 the punctures large and quadrangular ; metasternum and first 

 abdominal segment coarsely punctured ; legs pitchy. 



The absence of squamose bands and the striated elytra will 

 at once distinguish this species. 



Pyropus pusillus. 



P. breviter ovatus, glaber, cyaneus, nitidus, autennis piceis ; scu- 

 tello subtriangulari, nigro. Long. 1 lin. 



Hah. Jamaica. 



Shortly ovate, smooth, blue or inclining to violet, shining ; 

 antennge pitchy. Allied to P. sapphirinusj but differs in its 

 much smaller size, wholly blue colour (except the antennge), 

 prothorax comparatively more strongly punctured, and shorter 

 scutellum. 



Gyllenhal, in his description of the species, the only one 



