118 LAMELLICORNIA. 



1. Anaides laticollis. 



Anaides laticollis, Harold, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1863, p. 175 \ 



Hob. Mexico, Cordova \ Toxpam {Salle), Jalapa (Edge) ; Guatemala, Capetillo, San 

 Geronimo, Coban, San Joaquin in Vera Paz (Champion). 



This species is found at the sap of various trees, according to Mr. Champion. 



2. Anaides simplicicollis. (Tab. VII. fig. 20.) 



A. fossulato et A. laticolli similis, sed differt thorace haud carinato. Niger, nitidus, supra fere nudus, capitis et 

 thoracis elytrorumque (basi) marginibtis solum ciliatis ; capite fere ovato, discrete punctato, obtuse cari- 

 nato ; thorace sat dense punctato, basi utrinque valde sinuata, dorso paullo convexo et postice vage late 

 sulcato ; elytris elongatis, dorso planatis, lateribus verticalibus et supra deelivitatem carinatis (carina longe 

 ante apicem in eallum desinente) acute striatis, striis catenato-punctulatis, interstitiis planis sparsim 

 punctulatis et subtiliter unistriatis ; tibiis 4 posticis gradatim sat fortiter dilatatis triquetro-compressis 

 ciliatis extus haud serratis ; tibiis anticis extus dentibus acutis 3 et supra serrulatis. 



Long. 10 millim. 



Eab. Costa Eica, Volcan de Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet, Rio Sucio (Rogers). 



Taken abundantly by Mr. Rogers. The mentum diifers from that of A. fossulatus, 

 as figured by Westwood, in being rather deeply sinuated at the apex. 



CLCEOTUS. 



Cloeotus, Germar, Zeitschr. fur Entom. iv. p. 129 (1843) (partim); Harold, Col. Hefte," xii. p. 42; 



Preudhomme de Borre, Catal. des Trogides, p. 12 (1886). 

 Acanthocerus, Germar, loc. cit. p. 131 (nee Macleay). 



M. Preudhomme de Borre enumerates, in his ' Catalogue des Trogides,' twenty- 

 six species as belonging to this genus. With one exception (a species from Penang) 

 they are all from America, where they are spread over the temperate and tropical 

 zones from the United States to Chili. 



Von Harold in his Col. Hefte, xii. p. 28, enters fully into the reasons which induced 

 him to change the name given to this genus by Germar in his monograph of the group. 

 The characters given by Macleay of his genus Acanthocerus, although containing some 

 errors, leave no reasonable doubt that he had in view the same generic form as that 

 on which Germar constituted his Sphceromorphus. The inconvenience attending this 

 displacement of names is perhaps lessened by Von Harold having retained the name 

 Cloeotus for both Germar's genera Cloeotus and Acanthocerus (nee Macleay), which 

 appear to offer no essential difference. 



The sphserical Trogidse are generally found by beating bushes containing dead twigs, 

 from which they readily drop in the coiled-up state, sometimes in considerable 

 numbers, into the inverted umbrella. It was in this way that Mr. Champion obtained 

 his extensive series of the group. They feed on dead fungoid matter and galls. I 



