Hyliota of the Coleopterous family Cucujidze. 597 



Brontes minimus, F., appears to have remained unrecog- 

 nized, but there is every reason to believe that at least it 

 does not belong to our genus. 



Dendrophagus capito, Pasc, has been redescribed by 

 Reitter as Parabrontes picturatus from a specimen sent by 

 Mr. R. Helms which appears to have been a female. 

 There is in the British Museum a similar female, received 

 from the same collector, with which I have been able to 

 compare Pascoe's type, which is a male. There is a con- 

 siderable difference between the sexes in the length of the 

 antennas, their shortness in the female having no doubt 

 led Reitter to mistake the affinities of the species. There 

 is no close relationship between Hyliota and Cryptamorpha 

 {Parabrontes, Redt.), and a glance at the tarsi of H. capito 

 will show at once that it has nothing to do with the latter. 



It is interesting to be able to record the existence of a 

 species of this genus in Mexico. Although representatives 

 have long been known in both North and South America, 

 none has hitherto been found in the intervening region, but 

 a single specimen in M. Oberthtir's collection from that 

 country is in certain respects intermediate between the 

 dissimilar forms north and south of it. 



The very remarkable species, Hyliota fern, Grouv., dis- 

 covered in Eastern Burma, has been obtained by M. 

 Oberthiir from Bootan, so that its range is fairly extensive. 

 Although more nearly related to H. spinicollis than to any 

 other species, this insect has an appearance altogether 

 peculiar to itself, the elytra forming a triangle, the width 

 of which^at the base is partly due to a broad upturned 

 lateral flange. The upper surface in both insects is covered 

 with a grey sooty substance, and the form of the head, 

 with its small but prominent eyes, is the same, but the 

 antennas of H fete are not expanded and are proportion- 

 ately longer than those of H. spinicollis. 



The following are the undescribed Hyliotw included in 

 the foregoing list. 



H. bicolor, sp. n. 



Modice depressa, hirta, luride rufa, elytris nigris, marginibus 

 pallidioribus ; capite prothoraceque opacis, crebre et profunde 

 punctatis, oculis magnis, tuberculo posteriore nullo ; prothorace 

 longitudine ad latitudinem a)quali, tricostato, costa media lsevi, 

 marginibus antica et postica tenuiter nigris, lateribus valde arcuatis, 

 spinosis, spina antica forte ; scutello rufo, crebre punctato ; elytris 



