A List of Erotylida- collected hij Edwaed M. Janson, in the 

 vicinity of Santo Domingo, Chontales, Nicaragua, with 

 Descriptions of neio Genera and Species : by G. E. 

 Ckotcii, M.A. 



MEGALOUACNE.. 



(Type, Ips. fasciata, E.) 



I have renamed the genus Daene of Lacordaire, retaining 

 that name in the sense it ^yas originally given. The pre- 

 sent genus is very homogeneous. 



Sexual cliaracters are here visil)le, the anterior or pos- 

 terior tibiie being curved, and sometimes crenulated ; in 

 M. licros the last ventral segment is sharply carinate ; in 

 all the presternum is deeply punctured. 



1. Mcgalodacne quadriguttata, Oliv. Enc. Meth. vi., 434 

 {Erotglas) (1791) - Dacnc quadriguttatus, Lac. Mon. 

 Erot., p. 70 (1842) - Daene multijida, Lac. Mon. Erot., 

 p. 70, ? , var. (1842) - Daene hrasiliensis, Lac. Mon. 

 Erot., p. 70, var. (1842). 



Elongata, nigra, nitida, thorace antice trisinuato (prteser- 

 tim in mas.), sparse obsoleteque punctate, lateribus late 

 incrassatis, punctis majoribus utrinque subseriatim dispo- 

 sitis ; elytris remote ac grosse striato-punctatis, interstitiis 

 sublnevibus ; corpore subtus subla:'vi, segmentorum lateri- 

 bus fortiter punctatis. L. c. lOi-12 lin. 



cJ. tibiis posticis incurvis, intus remote crenulatis, pros- 

 terno fortiter punctato. 

 ¥ . thorace breviore. 



"Bred from fungus;" the stride are less strongly punctured 

 than in the specimens from Cayenne and the Amazons. 



PSELAPHACUS. Perch. Gen. Ins. Livr. 4, No. 6 (1835). 

 (Type P. nigropunctatus, Perch.) 

 This is one of the few sharply defined genera in the 



