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Psyche 
[December 
This very pretty little species belongs to the group cyano- 
cephalus Har. but it is quite peculiar by its colour pattern 
and its broad form. 
Bdelyrus bowditchi n. sp. (fig. 3, 4) 
Type : From British Honduras : M-tee district, F. C. Bow- 
ditch Collection. Museum of Comparative Zoology no. 
23,694. 
Paratype: One specimen from the same locality in my 
collection. 
Length: 5 mm., breadth: 3.2 mm. 
Body rather convex, with curved sides ; very dark brown, 
not shining, all the upper surface finely but distinctly sha- 
greened. 
Head very broad and short ; part of the eyes visible from 
above very large, nearly round ; clypeus impressed in front, 
with four teeth, the median teeth very close together, long, 
broad, upturned and rounded at tip ; lateral teeth very short 
and blunt ; the clypeogenal suture marked by a deep, rounded 
notch at the sides of the head ; upper surface rather closely 
covered with middle-sized punctures. 
Thorax very transverse, the anterior angles greatly pro- 
truding, rather blunt ; the sides regularly curved, the great- 
est breadth being in the middle. Posterior angles straight; 
base gently curved and very feebly margined in the middle. 
Thorax with a rather deep longitudinal sulcus on each side 
of the disc. Puncturation of the thorax sparse and rather 
feeble, bearing (as do the elytra) short yellow setae, erect 
and feebly clavate at tip. 
Elytra short and broad, with rounded sides; the lateral 
margin is made by the eighth elytral interstria, which is 
strongly carinate up to the apex of the elytra. Humeral 
angle acute and protruding forwards; interstriae slightly 
convex, with two irregular rows of setigerous punctures. 
Striae feeble, cateniform, straight. Epipleural carinae dis- 
tinct. 
Pygidium horizontal, short and small, with a strong an- 
nular groove. Mesosternum rather long. Prosternum 
strongly excavated under the front angles. Anterior tibiae 
truncate at apex, short and broad ; posterior tibiae greatly en- 
larged at the tip. Tarsal joints triangular. 
