412 TROGOSITIDA. 
34. Temnochila grouvellei. 
Temnochila grouvellei, Léveillé, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1888, p. 415’. 
Minus elongata, parallela, nitida, late viridis, capite disco, prothorace late ad marginem anteriorem, elytra 
plaga magna basali, fascia post medium suturaque versus apicem purpurascentibus ; pedibus rufis, femoribus 
ad apicem tibiisque viridi-micantibus, tarsis piceis ; capite crebre punctato, anterius sat profunde sulcato ; 
antennis brevibus, nigris, articulo basali anterius viridescente. 
Long. 8-11 millim. 
Mas, area submentali medio punctulata, setigera ; abdomine segmentis ad latera crebrius punctatis. 
Hab. Panama, Bugaba (Champion), Chiriqui }. 
In this species the purple coloration of the thorax is placed quite at the front 
margin. We have received twelve examples, and they exhibit but little variation. 
This has also been determined for us by its describer M. Léveillé: our specimens agree 
with his description, except that the legs are more extensively red, and that the trans- 
verse impression which he mentions as existing near the front of the thorax cannot 
always be detected. 
35. Temnochila chiriquensis, sp.n. (Tab. XIII. fig. 11.) 
Minus depressa et elongata, parallela, nitida, lete viridis, capite disco, prothorace signaturis angulatis in medio, 
elytris plaga magna basali, fascia post medium suturaque ad apicem purpurascentibus, pedibus nigro- 
viridibus ; capite sat crebre punctato, anterius canaliculato; antennis nigris, articulo basali metallescente. 
Long. 73-11 millim. 
Mas, area submentali medio parum setigera; abdomine segmentis crebre punctatis. 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 
Very closely allied to T. grouvellei, but as we have received a series of thirteen 
examples without an intermediate form, I treat it as distinct. The coloration of the 
thorax is different: there is on each side an angular mark extending from the front 
angle backwards and inwards, and connecting with the angle of a rhomboidal mark 
placed on the disc. The purple colour at the apex of the elytra is dilated, and extends 
a little outwards along the apical margin, whereas in T. growvellei it becomes 
pointed behind and scarcely reaches the apex itself. The legs, too, are darker in 
colour. The insect is of rather more convex form than TZ’. growvellei. There is no 
transverse depression on the thorax; but in some examples there is a very feeble 
foveiform depression of the surface on each side. The lateral margin of the thorax is 
very fine in front, and scarcely visible from above; the lateral denticulation behind the 
middle is but*slight. 
In addition to the Chiriqui examples, we have received from Caché, Costa Rica 
(Rogers), a single specimen of a variety of very small size, in which the lateral apical 
extension of the purple sutural stripe is scarcely perceptible. 
36. Temnochila telemanensis, sp. n. 
Minus depressa et elongata, parallela, nitida, viridi-enea, capite, prothorace anterius elytrisque versus apicem 
