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described a species with brown elytra, thou^li the Fabrician 

 description reads " elytra subscabra, nigra." I cannot find 

 Olivier's type in the collection of Banks, where it is stated to 

 have been. The 8. asteria, Buq., of Dejean's Catalogue is a 

 very distinct variety from Martinique and Guadeloupe, and 

 answers fairly well to Olivier's description and figure of 8. 

 canaliculata. The specimens of 8. suhcanaliculata, White, in 

 the British Museum bear no indication of locality; but two 

 specimens in Mr. Fry's collection are ticketed Trinidad. 



In the footnote below* will be found described an interesting 

 new species of Solenoptera from Colombia. The description 

 is taken from a single male specimen in Mr. Fry's collection. 



Elateropsis, Clievr. 



In describing Cuban species of this genus Chevrolat has 

 again erroneously made use of Linnean and Fabrician names. 

 Under the name E. Uneata he has mixed up two distinct 

 species — one the true Uneata of Linnaeus and Fabricius, the 

 other the following : — 



Elateropsis punctata, sp. n., J . 

 E. lineatce similis, sed differt elytris sat fortiter et dense punctatis. 

 Hal). Cuba. 



* Solenoptera intermedia, sp. n. 



(S . Obscure ferruginea; elytris brunneo-testaceis, maryinibiis lateralibus 

 pallidioribus ; capite deuse pimctato, tenuissiine griseo-pubescente ; 

 prothorace medio dorsi fere plauo, nitido, valde riigoso-punctato, versus 

 latera et subtus (medio excepto) minute confertissimeque puuctato; 

 scutello elvtrisque valde rugoso-puuctatis ; corpora subtus fortiter sat 

 denseque puuctato, episterui,s meso- meta-thoracisque pube albo-sericea 

 dense obtectis ; pedibus subscabroso-punctatis ; auteuuis punctatis, 

 dimidium corporis nee attingentibus. 



Long. 3-j ; lat. ad humeros 11, ad medium prothoracis 12 mm. 



Hah. Colombia. In the collection of Mr. Alexander Frj^ 

 The prothorax in this species is but very slightly depressed and almost 

 flat along the middle of the disk ; its veidth across the middle is slightly 

 greater than that of the elytra ; from the middle it is narrowed, with a 

 rounded curve on each side up to the anterior border ; the margins are 

 very faintly crenulate on the anterior half; the constriction on each side 

 at the base is deep but short, so that the postero-lateral angles are at a 

 small distance from the shoulders of the elytra. Tliough undoubtedly 

 belonging to the genus Solenoptera, the species is shown, by the characters 

 here given, to bj somewhat intermediate between the latter genus and 

 the Central- American genus Holonotu.-<, Thoms. Tu colour and fonn it 

 somewhat resembles S. Thonue, Linn., but may be easily distinguished bv 

 the characters ■'•iven above. 



