TEMNOCHILA. All 
comparatively little from that of the upper surface, and there is a very scanty 
irregularly distributed punctuation to be seen on the ventral segments. 
A single female from Bugaba may perhaps be an extreme variety of 7. costari- 
censis ; but it has the thorax almost destitute of punctuation, while on the ventral 
segments there is a very distinct punctuation extending all across each plate except the 
basal one. | 
Group G.—Prothorax with the lateral margins fine, the front angles not at all 
produced. (Species 32-43.) 
32. Temnochila iris. 
Trogosita iris, Reitter, Verh. Ver. Briinn, xiii, Abhandl. p. 42°. 
Elongata, angustula, lete viridis, nitida, elytris singulo vitta longitudinali, elongata, purpurea, antennis nigris, 
pedibus rufis; capite crebrius fortiter punctato, anterius obsolete sulcato; abdomine parce sat fortiter 
punctato. 
Long. 9-12 millim. 
Mas, area submentali medio fasciculo brevi, sat late instructa. 
Hab. Mexico 1, Cordova (Sallé); Guatemata, Volcan de Atitlan (Champion); Costa 
Rica, Caché (Rogers). 
The hinder portion of the last ventral segment is red in all the four examples we 
have received of this species. It is the only one found in our region in which there is 
an elongate simple purple vitta on each wing-case. 
38. Temnochila sallzi. 
Temnochila sallei, Léveillé, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1888, p. 416°. 
Parallela, minus elongata, lete viridis, prothorace longitudinaliter vage purpureo-signato, elytris plaga magna 
basali, fascia angulata post medium suturaque posterius purpurascentibus, pedibus rufis, tarsis piceis ; 
capite crebrius punctato, anterius sulcato, disco purpurascente, antennis brevibus, nigris, articulo basali 
rufo, ad apicem viridescente ; abdomine parce punctato. 
Long. 73-10 millim. 
Mas, area submentali medio fasciculo late instructa; abdominis segmentis ad latera paullo crebrius punctatis. 
Hab. Mexico, Yucatan!; Guatremata, Volcan de Atitlan 2500 to 3500 feet, Pantaleon 
(Champion). 
Var. Colore obscure viridi, capite latius purpurascente. 
Hab. Muxtco, Temax in North Yucatan (Gawmer). 
M. Léveillé has identified one of our specimens of this species. We have recerved only 
four examples of it, all of which have the basal joint of the antenne red, tipped with 
green in front, though it is described as metallic green by the French savant. The 
variety from Yucatan, though much more obscure in colour, probably belongs to the 
same species, though we have received only one specimen of it. 
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