TEMNOCHILA. 397 
North Yucatan (Gaumer); GuaTEMALA, Pantaleon (Champion) ; Nicaracua, Chontales 
(Belt, Janson); Panama, Bugaba, Tolé (Champion). 
We have received a good series of this species, it having been met with in numbers 
by Mr. Champion at Pantaleon, while in Mexico Hoge procured about twenty examples. 
There is no difficulty in distinguishing it from 7. chevrolati, except in the case of the 
smaller and more shining varieties, as a glance at the form of the thorax behind, at the 
less acute front angles of the elytra, and the comparatively sparse punctuation of the head 
will enable the species to be recognized with certainty. ‘To the characters mentioned 
in the diagnosis may be added that in the female the few punctures on the submental 
area are much finer than they are in 7. chevrolati, while, on the other hand, the 
punctures on the mentum are remarkably coarse. The minute supplementary male 
punctuation, though only scanty, is scattered among the larger punctures over a much 
greater area of the segments. 
I think there is little doubt that this is the 7. guadricollis of Reitter, which was 
described from a single example of the male sex. Though he says of the species that 
the prosternum is ‘“‘vix aut leviter impresso,” and though it is quite distinctly and 
constantly impressed in our insect; yet as he used an alternative while speaking of 
only a single example it is pretty clear that he did not very well see the prosternum, 
but noticed that it was to some extent impressed. 
The specimens labelled 7. guadricollis in Sallé’s collection all belong to 7. chevrolati 
or to T. chalcea. 
T. cribricollis, Reitter (¢. c. p. 16), appears to be very similar to 7. quadricollis, and 
I should not be surprised if they prove to belong to the same species. 
6. Temnochila chalcea. 
Temnochila chalcea, Kirsch, Berl. ent. Zeitschr. 1873, p. 149°. 
Trogosita chalcea, Reitter, Verh. Ver. Briinn, xiii., Abhandl. p. 13’. 
Anescens, sat nitida, antennis rufo-piceis, articulo basali anterius eenescente ; prothorace subquadrato, longi- 
tudine et latitudine fere eequalibus; elytris humeris acutis, evidenter seriatim punctatis, interstitiis obsolete 
parce punctatis ; prosterno inter coxas leviter impresso. 
Long. 103-16 millim. 
Mas, area submentali setosa, medio fasciculo sat crasso armata ; abdomine segmentis 1°-4™ utrinque prope latus 
punctis paucis minutis inter puncta majora adjectis. 
Fem., abdomine segmento ultimo ventrali in medio ad apicem subtriangulariter profunde et argute depresso. 
Hab. Mexico, Bobo, Las Vigas (Hége), Cordova (Hoge, Sallé), Tuxtla, Santecomapan, 
Parada (Sallé); Britiss Honpuras, Cayo, Belize (Blancaneaux); Guatemata, El 
Tumbador, El Reposo, Las Mercedes, San Ysidro, Volcan ‘de Atitlan, Pantaleon, 
Mirandilla, Zapote, Tamahu, Sabo, Panzos (Champion), Yzabal (Sallé); Nicaragua, 
Chontales (Belt, Janson); Costa Rica? (Van Patten); Panama, Bugaba, Volcan de 
Chiriqui (Champion), on the Isthmus (Salvin).—Sourn Ammrica*, Bogota (coll. Sharp), 
Peru}, 
