the Coleopterous Family Erotylidoi. (139) 515 

 Brachysphcenus bisigillatus. 



Brachysplixenus bisiy Hiatus, Lac. Erot. 3G5. 



Columbia. 



This is probably a variety of B. limbatus. 



Brachysphoeiiiis Adamsii. 



Brachysphoenus Adamsii, Lac. Erot. 366. 

 Columbia, Upper Amazons. 

 Probably a variety of B. limbatus. 



Brachysphoenus bilineatus. 



Erotylus bilineatus, Dup. Erot. 42, T. iii. f. 85. 

 Brachysphoenus — , Ldc. Erot. 365. 

 Brazil, 



Less parallel than the others ; thorax distinctly narrowed in 

 front ; striae of the elytra gemellate, interstices punctate. 



Brachysphoenus erotyloides, sp. n. 



Lfete rufo-testaceus, subovatus, capite parvo, antice impresso, 

 an tennis nigris, articulo 1° fulvo, clava vix incrassata; thorace 

 brevi piano, leviter emarginato, lateribus fortiter rotundatis, basi 

 ntrinque fortiter sinuato, profunde foveolato, disco punctato ; 

 elytris convexis dorso punctato-striatis (striis 5—6) lateribus 

 confuse fortiter punctatis, disco macula magna communi nigra 

 (fere marginem attingente) ; corpore subtus rufo-testaceo, pectoris 

 lateribus nigris, segmentis ventralibus lateribus nigro-maculatis. 

 L. 4?-lin. 



Amazons (Bates). 



This species is difficult to place ; its coloration is jirecisely 

 that of the present section however. No coxal lines. 



L. Ovate, convex species ; coxal line present ; presternum 

 compressed ; coloration of Saccomorphus. {llorphoides, pars, 

 Lac.) 



Brachysphoenus Lacordairii. 



Erotylus clavicornisf, Oliv. E. M. vi. 435 \nec Linn.]. 



, Oliv. Ent V. 479, T. ii. f. 28. 



, Dup. Erot. 13, T. i. f. 14. 



Brachysphoenus — , Lac. Erot. 367. 



Brazil. 



Thorax with a line of coarse punctures in the basal sinuationj 

 prosternum decidedly keeled ; intermediate coxal line visible. 



