the Coleopterous Family Erotylidoi. (161) 537 

 Erotylus Ghilianii.* 



Erotylus Ghilianii, Guer. Verh, z.-h. Ver. Wien, v, 611. 

 Napo. 



Cypherotylus. 



Crotch, Tram. Amer. Ent. Soc. 1873, 358.— Cis^ Ent. 148. 

 {typ. gibbosus, Linn.). 



Cypherotylus sphacelatus. 



Erotylus splutcelatus, Fab. Syst. El. ii. 4 (1801). 



, Lac. Erot. 450. 



Brazil. 



Easily recognizable by the large opaque black fascia. 



Cypherotylus Jacquieri. 



Erotylus Jacquieri, Lac. Erot. 451. 

 Cayenne. 



The anterior angles of the thorax are acute, produced, and 

 divaricate, the base is margined ; the tarsi are broadly dilated. 

 (5 segmento 5to ventrali emarginato. 



Cypherotylus maximus, sp. n. 



9 elongatus, ater, nitidus, thorace angulis anticis rotundatis, 

 lateribus rectis, basi marginatis ; elytris acute gibbosis, ochraceis, 

 punctis maximis ssepe confluentibus nigris, apice nigro. L. 13 — 

 141in. 



Upper Amazons. 



Cypherotylus impunctatus, sp. n. 



Niger, nitidus, elongatus, thorace basi marginato; elytris 

 ochraceis, basi nigro-marginato, punctis perpaucis nigrisim pressis, 

 fascia media, apiceque lato nigris. L. 11 — IS^lin. 



Amazons (Bates). 



(J thorace angulis anticis productis, acutis, segmento 5° ven- 

 trali acute triangulariter exciso. 



9 thorace angulis acutis truncatis. 



The male of this species appears to want the piliferous ptmcture. 



Cypherotylus camelus. 



Erotylus camelus, Guer. R. Z. 1841, 16. 



, Lac. Erot. 452. 



Bolivia, Amazons (Bates). 



