the Coleoptei'ous Family Erotylidce. (79) 455 

 Mycotretus minutus. 



Erotylus minutus, Dup. Erot. 25, T. ii, f. 45. 



Mycotretus , Lac. Erot. 154. 



quadrinus, Lac, Erot. 155. 



Brazil. 



Mycotretus Lesueuri. 



Erotylus Lesueuri, Chev. Col. Mex. ii. 175. 



Mycotretus , Lac. Erot. 155. 



Mexico (Clievrolat). 



Convex, frontal suture indicated by an oblique line on eacli 

 side; elytra with interstices rather closely punctate. 



Mycotretus Savignyi. 



Mycotretus Savignyi, Lac. Erot. 156. 



■ • — , Crotch, Cist. Ent. 145. 



Columbia, Nicaragua (Janson). 



Yery near M. I^esueuri, but elytra with interstitial punctua- 

 tion faint and the legs red. 



Mycotretus pygmaeus. 



Mycotretus pygmoius, Lac. Erot. 156. 



, Crotch, Cist. Ent. 145. 



Bahia, Bogota (Janson), Nicaragua (Janson). • 



Mycotretus cordiger, sp. n. 



Ovatus, sat convexus, antennarum clava, capitis puncto ver- 

 tical!, thoracis punctis 2 discoidalibus, scutello, elytrorumque 

 macula magna discoidali communi cordata, nigris; caj^ite thorace- 

 que parce subtiliter punctulatis, hoc tenuissime nigro-marginato, 

 lateribus subrectis, puncto parvo basali cum scutello nigro conflu- 

 eute; elytris punctato-striatis tenue nigro-marginatis, interstitiis 

 crebre subtiliter pimctulatis, corpora subtus punctato, metastenio 

 lateribus fortiter punctato. L. 3 lin, Ega (Bates). 



Mycotretus lissomoides, sp, n. 



Oblongo-ovatus, convexus postice angustatus, nitidissimus, 

 rufo-fulvus, antennis clava, thorace punctis 7, scutello, elytrisque 

 macula magna oblonga communi, nigris j capite thoraceque sat 

 crebre fortiter punctatis, hoc punctis 2 anticis, 5 basalibus 

 (medio triangular!) ; scutello nigro, punctulato ; elytris tenue 

 punctato-striatis, iiiterstitiis lasvibus; corpore subtus lajvi. L. 



Ega (Bates). 



