the Coleopterous Family Erotylidce. (137) 513 



H. Elytra entirely smooth, opaque ; no coxal lines ; tai-ai 

 short; antennae with a 4-jointed club, the joints elongate-quadrate. 

 {^Eyithomorphus, Lac.) 



Brachysphcenus biplagiatus.* 



Erotylus hiplagiatus, Guer. R. Z. 1841, 119. 



Braclujspln£nus — ., Lac. Erot. 374. 



Brazil. 



Guerin's type was not in his collection in 1872. 



Brachysplioenus dorsomaculatus.* 



(x,rms dorsomaculatus, Lac. Erot. 375. 



Brazil. 



I. Body oval, acuminate before and behind ; tarsi short ; 

 strife of the elytra gemellate ; thorax slightly emarginate in front ; 

 no coxal lines ; antennae with a large 4-jointed club, 9th joint 

 elongate-quadrate. (Oogaster, Lac.) 



Brachysphcenus gnadeloupensis. 



Galleruca guadeloupensis, Fab. Ent. Syst. ii. 1 6. 



Brachysphvenus , Lac. Erot. 377. 



suturalis, Lac. Erot. 378. 



Guadeloupe. 



B. suturalis is founded on a very immature example. 



K. Form subparallel, colour brick-red and black ; thorax flat, 

 subquadrate, base often with a punctate fovea ; elytra opaque, 

 with 5 — 6 dorsal striae, striae sometimes gemellate; coxal lines 

 generally absent. [Saccomorphus, Dej.) 



Brachysphcenus nebulosus. 



Erotylus nebulosus, Guer. R. Z. 1841, 155. 

 Brachysphoenus — , Lac. Erot. 357. 

 Sta. Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia. 



Thorax very flat, with a small punctate basal fovea; inter- 

 mediate coxal line very short. 



Brachysphcenus bimaculatus. 



Erotylus bimaculatus, Germ. Ins. Sp. Nov. 612 (1824). 



, Du2\ Erot. 12, T. i. f. 13. 



Brachysphcenus , Lac, Erot. 358. 



Brazil, Rio Janeiro, Minas Gei'aes. 



Thorax opaque, two or three coai-se punctures at the base only; 

 elytra very faintly striate, the striae gemellate ; no coxal line. 



