400 SUPPLEMENT. 



PHYTALUS (p. 174). 



In the characters of Section I. b, at p. 177, with regard to the lower spur of the hind 

 tibiae being connate, the words "in the male" were inadvertently omitted. The same 

 omission occurs under Lachnosterna at p. 196. 



Phytalus (?) pubicollis (p. 176). 



To the locality given, add: — Guatemala, Coban in Vera Paz (Conradt). 



The species is rather small (15 millim.) and slender, oblong, tawny-castaneous and 

 shining, though clothed throughout somewhat densely with short suberect ashy pile. 

 The elytra are closely and finely punctured, with undulating wrinkles, and without costse 

 or striae, the head and thorax being more distantly, and the pygidium more coarsely and 

 sparsely punctulated, the latter with coarser ruga?. In the male the tarsal claws have 

 the teeth rather close together, though the lower tooth is much broader and more curvate- 

 deilexed, a character which induced me to query the position of the species in the 

 genus Phytalus. The female taken by Conradt differs from the male in the dentition 

 of the claws, the lower tooth being nearly as narrow and sharp as the apical one, and 

 more bent and apparently situated lower down the claw. This form of dentition is 

 entirely foreign to the Phytalus group, and the species should be removed to Lachno- 

 sterna. The pygidium in the female is scarcely convex and slightly prolonged, flattened 

 and smooth at the apex. 



Phytalus cometes (p. 177). 



To the localities given, add : — Guatemala, Coban in Vera Paz (Conradt). 



Phytalus bolacoides (p. 182). 



To the Mexican locality given, add: — Omilteme in Guerrero 8000 feet (//. H. Smith). 



Mr. H. H. Smith obtained on his recent journey several examples of both sexes of 

 this curious little species. In none of them is the triangular circumscutellar spot so 

 dark and conspicuous as in the unique type specimen ( ? ), being at most indicated by a 

 slightly browner tint in that part of the otherwise tawny-yellow elytra, neither are the 

 elytra in the female so widely dilated behind. In some, apparently immature, examples 

 the head and thorax are testaceous-red, in others they are brownish-black as described. 



tf . Anguste oblongus, postice paullo dilatatus. Pygidium punctatum, glabrum, basi convexum, apice planatum. 

 Venter sparse punctulatus, nitidus, segmento 5° medio apice retuso, 6° transversim valde concavo antice 

 medio tuberculo compresso setifero. Antennarum clava tripbylla, gracilis, articulis 2°-7 m conjunctis 

 aequalis. 



25 (a). Phytalus omiltemius. (Tab. XXIV. fig. 14, e .) 



P. fissilabri proxime aflinis et simillimus ; differt corpore supra densius et subtilius punctato, oculis ( <$ $ ) 

 minoribus et minus convexis, et clypeo minus concavo antice minus profunde sinuato lateribusque oblique 



