the Coleopterous Family Erotylidce. (147) 523 

 Brachysphoenus tabidus.* 



BrachyspJicenus tabidus, Er. Arch.f. Nat. xiii. 179. 

 Peru. 



Brachysphoenus grammicus.* 



Brachyspho&nus grammicus, Er. Arch.f. Nat. xiii, 179. 

 Peru. 



Brachysphoenus amictus.* 



Brachysphcenus amictus, Er. Arch.f. Nat. xiii. 178. 

 Peru. 



Brachysphoenus luscus.* 



Brachyspho&nus luscus, Er. Arch.f. Nat. xiii. 178. 

 Peni. 



Brachysphoenus procerus.* 



Brachysph<x,nus proce.rus, Er. Arch.f. Nat. xiii. 178. 

 Peru. 



Brachysphoenus regularis.* 



Brachysphoenus regularis, Er. in Schomh. Reise, iii. 578 (1848). 

 British Guyana. 



Brachysphoenus proximus.* 



Brachysphoenus proximus, Guer. Icon, R. A. Ins 311. 

 Columbia. 



Tjrpocephalus. 



Dej. Cat. Ed. 3. 451 {typ. dimidiatus, Oliv.). 



Head in the male deeply excavate, vertex generally armed 

 with a spine. Coxal lines present, abbreviated. Prosternum com- 

 pi'essed, elevated, emarginate behind, produced into a point in 

 front, sutures abruptly curved. 



Typocephalus dimidiatus. 



Erotylus dimidiatus, Oliv. E. M. vi. 435 (1791). 

 Brachysphoenus — , Lac. Erot. 406. 

 Cayenne, N. Granada, Demerara. 



<J vertice lamina procumbente antice unidentata armato. 

 9 vertice piano, vel paulo concavo. 



The elytra are almost smooth; in some examples there is a 

 trace of a black fascia across the yellow band. 



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