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12. Temnochila fraudulenta, sp. n. 
Subdepressa, nitida, nigricans, supra lete viridis; capite prothoracequo fortiter crebrius punctatis; elytris 
seriatim fortiter punctatis, interstitiis fortiter sed subtilius punctatis; prosterno fere levigato, pone coxas 
lato, plano, argute marginato. 
Long. 12 millim. 
Mas incog. 
Hab. Mexico, Bobo (Hage). 
Excessively similar to 7. preterita, from which it differs by the definite and distinct 
raised margin behind the broad prosternal process. I know no other species that 
resembles it in this respect, and have no doubt it will prove distinct, although we have 
received only one female example. It differs from the species near which I have placed 
it by the small size of the sensitive arez on the joints of the antennal club, and agrees 
in this respect with 7. chlorodia. The thorax is rather finely margined at the sides, 
not denticulate, the front angles slender and acute. The shoulders of the elytra are 
rather acute. The punctuation of the elytra is coarse, like that of the coarsely punctate 
varieties of 7. chlorodia. 
The species is, to some extent, an exception in this group, owing to the margin of the 
prosternal process: this margin is, however, different to what it is in the 7. guadricollis 
group, where it has the appearance of being a separate piece connecting the apices of 
the epimera; whereas in 7. fraudulenta it is merely a slender raised margin to the 
flat prosternal process. | 
13. Temnochila planicollis, sp. n. 
Minus elongata, subdepressa, nigra, nitida, elytris fusco-violaceis ; capite prothoraceque crebrius fortiusque 
punctatis; elytris seriatim sat fortiter punctatis, punctis serierum interstitiarumque subequalibus, ante 
apicem paullo subtilioribus; prosterno inter coxas leviter impresso, post hoc convexiusculo, margine 
posteriore obsolete marginato; area submentali fortiter punctata. 
Long. 10-133 millim. 
Mas, area submentali medio fasciculo sat magno armata; abdomine segmentis 2°-4™ ad latera punctis adjectis 
perpaucis. 
Hab. Guaremata, San Gerénimo, San Joaquin, Balheu (Champion). 
This appears to be very closely allied to 7. preterita, though very different in colour ; 
in addition to this the prosternum is somewhat differently formed, and the front angles 
of the thorax are more prominent, though, as the sides there are a little incurved, the 
angle itself is not more acute. The thorax is rather broad, and a good deal narrowed 
from behind the middle to the base. From T. fraudulenta this species is distinguished 
by the colour and by the prosternum behind the coxe being less depressed and not so 
distinctly margined. In some specimens of 7. planicollis this margin can only be 
detected at the hind angles of the prosternal process. 
Mr. Champion obtained eleven examples of this species, all from the pine-woods of 
Vera Paz. 
BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Colopt., Vol. II. Pt.1 September 1891. 3 F* 
