79 Mario E. Franciscolo (*) ABOUT A NEW FUNGUS-EATING MORDELLID-BEETLE FROM ECUADOR (COL. MORDELLIDAE) (i) Father Giovanni Onore, a missionaire now in Quito, who formerly had collected in West Africa, is successfully continuing his collecting activity in Ecuador where he relocated. I am indebted to Mr. Sergio Riese for having submitted for study two specimens of Mordellidae, collected in rather unusual circumstances, sorted by him from the material periodically sent by Father Onore. B o a t i a n. gen. Type species: Boatta albertae n. sp. (subfamily Mordellinae, tribe Mordellini). Diagnosis. Form anaspoid (plate I), reminding that of Co-thurus Champion 1891: 259, Larinomorda Ermisch 1968: 263, Phungia Pic 1922: 17 and, to a minor extent, of Dollmania Francisc. 1961: 15. Head normally convex, with no setigerous frontal pit; occipital margin regularly convex without medial protuberance or pit. Eyes neither emarginate nor hypocranially expanded, sparsely and shortly pubescent, very finely faceted (each cornea 0.014 mm in diameter: type G, Fran-ciscolo 1962: 108). Antennae {S) not flabellate, articles 5-9 longer than 4 with last article emarginate at its inner distal part (fig. 12). Maxil-lary palpi {S) of type B, fig. 8 (Franciscolo 1957: 216). Labial palpi {S) as in fig. 11. Galeae much shorter than one half of head, much longer and broader than laciniae, strongly spatulate (fig. 6). Paraglossae strong-ly expanded and spatulate (fig. 7). Hind margin of pronotum with me-(*) Author's address: Corso Firenze 44, 16136 Genova, Italia. (}) 52nd contribution to the knowledge of Mordellidae.
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