Coleopterological Notices, VII. 643 



ginal groove fine and wholly impunctate, extending inward at apex about % 

 the distance to the middle ; post-median impression feeble and impunctate ; 

 disk convex and wholly impunctate, the median groove strong. Scutellum 

 polished and wholly impunctate. Elytra distinctly less than 3^2 longer than 

 wide, about f'^ longer than the prothorax, slightly dilated behind the middle, 

 the base transverse, feebly protuberant at the middle, the humeral angles 

 strongly defined, not at all rounded and but little more than right ; disk 

 coarsely and deeply striate throughout, the sulci strongly and equally punc- 

 tate throughout the width ; intervals convex. 3Ie1asternum short, without an 

 elevated median plane, having a patch of coarse punctures at lateral fourth 

 near the hind margin and a small oblique posterior impression at each side of 

 the median line ; epipleurte extremely fine and wholly glabrous. Legs rather 

 short, the middle tibife with one very strong, the posterior also with a single 

 feebler, external spine. Length 24.0 mm. ; width 9.0 mm. ; length of the pro-- 

 thorax 6.5, of the elytra 12.3 mm. Honduras. 



The genus Procnlejoicles is allied closely to Proculejus, differing 

 in its glabrous elytra and metasternum; it shovild probabl}^ include 

 also Proculejus championi of Bates, which differs from the present 

 species in its larger size and in having the frontal carinae tuber- 

 culose far behind the apical margin. 



Rimor miinitus. — Parallel, rather strongly convex, deep black and 

 highly polished throughout, the basal wall of the elytra slightly pubescent at 

 the humeri ; metasternum and hypomera finely punctate and pubescent, the 

 former in a large lateral area from the middle coxae to the sides of the apex, 

 the latter glabrous anteriorly; tibise all rather conspicuously pubescent ex- 

 ternally. Head impunctate, % as wide as the prothorax, the posterior ambi- 

 ent excavation deep and impunctate, with a feeble elevation at each side near 

 the base of the horn, the latter large, elongate, convex, simple and finely punc- 

 tulate, with a minute longitudinal elevation at each side of the base, the apex 

 pointed and prolonged horizontally far over the front, the tip feebly reflexed, 

 and, from a vertical viewpoint, almost exactly over the apical margin of the 

 clypeus, the diverging elevations from the anterior part of its base very feeble 

 and rounded, flexing laterally to the supra-orbital ridge and forming the an- 

 terior limit of the posterior ambient impression; clypeal margin transverse, 

 broadly sinuate in the middle and separated from the front — which is nearly 

 flat and gradually declivous from the base of the horn— by a transverse mar- 

 ginal sulcus, ending immediately behind the ridge of the mandibles in a pro- 

 nounced angular protuberance, the sides of the clypeus proper marked also by 

 a slightly prominent angle at the sides of the labrum; supra-orbital ridge large 

 and prominent, evenly convex and gradually disappearing behind, becoming 

 narrow and acutely cariniform anteriorly; canthus of the eyes rather wide; 

 labrum moderately sinuate at tip, the surface excavated and gradually beveled 

 in a broadly triangular region bordering the sinus; mandibles well developed, 

 the upper ridge angulate beyond the middle, the apex truncate and equally 

 tridentate, the inferior tooth well developed; mentum with the median part 



