Readily distinguished by the common white triangular 

 band of the elytra marked by two black spots. I had 

 three specimen/ from Mexican seeds of the size of those of 

 Palmttto but concave within, 



4. B. mimus, Brown, varied with black lines & 

 cinereous spots. 

 Inhab. Indiana. 



Body light brown, variegated : aniennae^&le rufous ^ 

 thorax much narrowed before, with two interrupted, 

 elevated, black lines & one or two on each side ; base 

 rather prominent at the scutel : scutel whitish apparently 

 bifid : elytra with black spots & abbreviated lines, which 

 have a whitish spot at their anterior tip ; a light brown 

 line curves inwards from the humerus Se, passes along the 

 third interstitial line towards the tip : beneath dusky or 

 blackish : f^et pale rufous ; posterior thighs blackish be- 

 neath with several minute spines & four or five larger ones 

 near the tip : posterior tibiae blackish, subfasciate beyond 

 the middle : podex yellow. 



Length less than three twentieths of an inch. 



5o B. oculatus, Brown ; posterior thighs 3 or 4 tooth- 

 ed. 



Inhab. Mexico. 

 body elongated, pale brown, covered on every part with 

 short, prostrate, dense hair: head on the front dusky, with 

 a slight cupreous tinge ; much dilated orbits cinereous; 

 tip of the labrum piceous: antennae fuscous; four basal 

 join s honey-yellow ; Moma; with a hardly obvious, dorsal, 

 pale line : elytra with acute striae, which have distant 

 punctures rather short: anal segnunt hvi hWle oblique, 

 more than half the length of the elytra: feet honey yel- 

 low : posterior thighs near the tip with about four teeth, of 

 which the first is most prominent. 



Length one fifth of an inch. 



The anal segment is more nearly horizontal than any 

 species 1 have seen. 



6. B. obsoletns, Blackish, varied with cinereous hair. 

 Inhab. Indiana. 



l?oc?i/ blackish cinereous, with a slight tinge of browDJ 

 antennae notdeepy serrate; /^cwaa; much narrowed before 



