1918.3 189 



angular. Posterior legs moderately elongate, the upper tibial spur shorter 

 than the first tarsal joiut. 



Length 2|, breadth 2 mm. 



Hal. Bbazil [type], Eio de Janeiro (^Fry). 



One specimen, sex not ascertained, agreeing with the description, so 

 far as it goes, except that the front of the head is infuscate.* It is 

 smaller and a little shorter than S. trinitatis; the antennae are very- 

 much shorter, and not so slender ; and the under surface, the bases of 

 the femora, and scutellum are nigro-piceous or piceous. 



10. — Scirtes trinitatis, n. sp. 



(5 . Oval, convex, shining, thickly, rather coarsely pubescent ; testaceous, 

 the eyes, head (except in front), and elytra piceous or black, the antennal 

 joints 7-11 slightly infuscate; closely, minutely, the elytra much more 

 coarsely, punctate. Head broad, the eyes large : antennae very long, slender, 

 joints minute, a little shorter than 2. Prothorax convex, rapidly, obliquely 

 narrowed from the base, bisinuate in front, the anterior angles prominent. 

 Elytra rounded at the sides and also at the apex, slightly depressed along the 

 suture anteriorly, and with an indication of a sutural groove, the lateral 

 margins somewhat dilated and conspicuous from above. Posterior legs very 

 long, the tibiae widened and sharply carinate, the long upper spur shorter than 

 the first tarsal joint. 



Length 3^\, breadth 2| mm. 



Hah. Teinidad (G. U. Bryant: 1903). 



One male, with the genital armature partly exposed. This species 

 must be nearly related to the imperfectly described aS*. hrasilensis and 

 S. testaceicollis Pic (1913), from Brazil. The testaceous scutellum, 

 under surface, and legs, and partly testaceous head, should separate it 

 from the first-named insect, and the unusually elongate antennae from 

 S. testaceicollis. 



11. — Scirtes tlioracicus. 



Scirtes tlioracicus Champ. Biol. Centr.-Am., Coleopt. iii. 1, p. GIO, 

 pi. 27, fig. 3. 



Hah. Mexico; Guatemala; Panama; Trinidad (JP.^/rc7^: 1904). 

 In the British Museum there is a specimen of this Central American 

 Scirtes from Trinidad, from the Sharp collection. 



* 8. boliviensis Pic, Melanges exot.-entom. lii (1915), i8 said to be an allied form with the disc 

 of the elytra depjesaed, a character almoBt certainly peculiar to the ? . 



