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1. Phloeotherates quadricollis. 



Ferus quadricollis, Chaudoir, Monogr. des Thyreopt. &c. p. 121 \ 











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Parvus. Caput ovatum pone oculos nee depressum nee sulcatum. Oculi modice prominentes. Labrum 

 quacLratum. Palpi apice subacuminati, maxillarium articulo penultimo brevissimo. Ligula quadrata, 



paraglossse latsG, membranacese, ligulam haud superantes. Mentum medio dentatum. 



quadrat 







medio basi late sublobatus. Elytra oblonga subdepressa, apice ut in gen. Phloeotherate sinuato-truncata. 



guiculi 



acute serrati. 



Allied to Phloeotherates, but differing much in facies 



the eyes being scarcely 



prominent, and in the head being destitute of the transverse depression which charac 



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The hinder tibiae have a fine groove on their 



edge ; and the claws are finely serrated 



1. Ochropisus caudalis. (Tab. VII. fig. 10.) 



Rufescenti-fuscus, antennis basi, palpis pedibus maginibusque thoracis et elytrorum pallidioribus, elytris fascia 

 lata apicali (antice medio utrinque indentata) flavo-testacea ; capite laevi ; thorace quadrato, medio paul- 

 lulum rotundato, margine antico arcuato, postico medio late sublobato, angulis posticis rectis, margine 

 laterali paullo explanato et ruguloso; elytris humeris latis, punctulato-striatis, interstitiis planissimis 

 basin versus punctulatis, tertio tripunctato. 



Long. 2£ lin. 



Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 







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Minor, castaneo-fuscus, palpis, antennis, pedibus elytrisque fascia lata apicali (antice medio emarginata versus 

 latera valde dilatata) maculaque magna utrinque humerali fulvo-testaceis ; thorace fere ut in 0. caudali ; 

 elytris profundius striatis, striis punctulatis, interstitiis subconvexis versus basin punctulatis, tertio 



tripunctato. 



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Hab. Panama, Bugaba (Champion). 





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Phlceoxena, Chaudoir, Mem. s. 1. Thyreopt. &c. p. 35. 



A genus peculiar, with the exception of a species found in Mauritius, to America, 

 ranging from New Granada to the Southern States of North America, but the head- 

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