the Coleopterous Family Erotylidce. (59) 4-S5 

 Calliscli3rrus amcenus. 



Lyhas amoenus, Guer. H. Z. 1841, 155. 

 Ischyrus aTiioenus, Lac, Erot. 107. 

 Mexico. 



Allied, in coloration, to Mycotretus j)siU(icus and certain. Bra- 

 cliyspliodni. 



Callischyrus hieroglyphicus. 



Erotylus Meroghjphicus, Dup. Erot. 17, T. i. f, 24. 



Ischyrus , Lac. Erot. 106. 



Brazil. 



This species resembles an Ipldclus in coloration. 



Amblyopus. 



Lac. Erot. 197 {typ. vittatus, Oliv.). 



Amblyopus natalensis, sp. n. 



A. senegalensi proximns, paulo major, magis elongatus, an- 

 tennis longioribus, clava nigi-a, tibiis ajiice rotundato-dilatatis. 

 L. 4 liii. ^ 



Natal. 



A single speciaien from Lake N'gami is smaller, and tbe tibias 

 are not so decidedly ronuded as in the type from Natal, neither, 

 however, are they at all like the Senegal species. 



Amblyopus senegalensis. 



Amblyopus senegalensis, Lac. Erot. 201. 

 testaceus, Lac. Erot. 201. 



Senegal (Lacordaire), Old Calabar (Murray). 



Tibiaj abruptly triangularly dilated, the external edge setose. 



A. testaceus is simply a pale variety. In Mr Sheppard's col- 

 lection a specimen is labelled (in error ?) as coming fi'om St 

 Domingo. 



Amblyopus rubens. 



Erotylus o'ubens, Rope, Zool. Misc. 31. 

 Amblyopus melanostomus, Lac. Erot. 200. 

 Darjeeling, Java (Lacordaire), Nepaul, Bengal. 

 The eyes in this species are certainly finely granulated. 



