and of uncharacterized species of Ilalticince. ,3 1 9 



Thorax twice as broad as long ; sides nearly straight, 

 only very slightly rounded and slightly converging from 

 base to apex, anterior angle obliquely truncate, produced 

 laterally into a short acute tooth ; upper surface smooth 

 and shining, remotely impressed with very minute pinic- 

 tures. Elytra much broader than the thorax, convex, 

 rather strongly punctate-striate ; interspaces smooth, im- 

 pimctate. 



Genus EuPLECTROSCELTS, Crotch. 

 Homoj)hyla, Harold. 



Euplectroscelis Dcyrollei. 



Late ovata, convexa, pallide picea, nitida, capite piceo, 

 vertice utrinque pone oculum nigro, antennis fulvis ; 

 thorace nigro-piceo, anguste margiuato, tenuissime punc- 

 tato, utrinque intra marginem longitudinaliter impresso ; 

 elytris tenuiter punctatis, pimctis lineaque suturali uigro- 

 piceis. 



Long. 1^ lin. Hah. — Brazil. 



Head triangular ; vertex and front slightly swollen, 

 shining, impunctate ; encarpte obsolete ; carina well de- 

 fined, rhomboidal ; antennae about half the length of the 

 body, third joint nearly one-half longer than the second, 

 the fourth one-half longer than the third. Thorax three 

 times as broad as long ; sides slightly rounded, obliquely 

 converging from base to apex, anterior angles very ob- 

 liquely truncate, obtuse ; basal margin slightly oblique 

 and bisinuate on either side, the medial lobe slightly 

 produced, obtusely truncate ; disk very finely punctured, 

 on either side within the lateral margin is an ill-defined 

 longitudinal depression. Scutellum not broader than 

 long, semirotundate-ovate. Elytra broader than the 

 thorax, attenuated near the apex, minutely punctured, 

 the punctures, together with a narrow sutural line, nigro- 

 piceous. 



Euplectroscelis tibialis. 



Ovato-rotundata, valdc convexa, nigra, nitida, pedibus 

 nigro-j)iceis, antennis sordidc-fulvis, apice nigris ; thorace 

 subcrebre, tenuiter punctato, elytris subremote punctatis. 



Mas. — Tibiis posticis valde incrassatis. 



Long. H lin. Hah. — Brazil, Bahia. 



Head rotundate, vertex smooth, impunctate ; encarpje 



