TEMNOCHILA. 413 
_ purpureo-nitidis ; pedibus rufis, tibiis obscurioribus, tarsis nigricantibus; abdomine apicem versus rufo ; 
antennis brevibus, nigris ; capite ecanaliculato. 
Long. 10 millim. 
Hab. Guatemata, Teleman in Vera Paz (Champion). 
Similar in size and form to T. chiriquensis, but of different colour, and without a 
channel on the head. The antenne are black, short. The head is very shining and in 
larger part of a purple colour, its punctuation only moderately fine and close. . The 
thorax is brilliant, greenish, tinged with purple in a vague manner, especially in front ; 
its punctuation is similar to that of the head; the front angles are rectangular, and 
the margin exists only a little way inwards from the side-margin ; the lateral impression 
is feeble. The elytra are very shining, finely and sparingly punctate, with a few irregular 
strigosities or scratches between the punctures ; the colour is green and purple like that 
of the head and thorax, the former colour predominating in front, the latter behind. 
The femora are red, the tibiee blackish-red, the tarsi nearly black. The posterior ventral 
segments are red. The prosternum is rather coarsely punctate. The male has a large 
setigerous area and much punctuation on the submentum, and a rather fine, moderately 
close, and evenly-distributed punctuation on the ventral segments. 
One specimen. 
87. Temnochila stipes, sp. n. 
Minus depressa et elongata, parallela, supra nigro-nea, subtus nigra, nitida ; capite haud canaliculato, crebrius 
punctato. 
Long. 10 millim. 
Hab. Mexico, Acapulco in Guerrero (Hége). 
Antenne short, black. Head broad and short, coarsely and rather closely punctured. 
Thorax with the front angles rounded and the margin continued inwards nearly half- 
way to the middle, the lateral margin almost completely destitute of impression and 
denticulation, the surface rather coarsely punctured, the hind angles almost rectangular. 
Elytra rather coarsely punctate and with well-marked strigosities. Legs black. Male 
with a minute pencil of hairs on the submentum and a scanty punctuation on the 
ventral segments; female almost destitute of punctures on the last-named part. 
Two specimens. | 
This species is only likely to be confused with 7. corynthia, from which it differs by 
the unchannelled head, the greater length of the front margin of the thorax, the less 
punctate ventral plates, and the quite black legs. 
38. Temnochila corynthia. 
Trogosita corynthia, Reitter, Verh. Ver. Brinn, xiii., Abhandl. p. 33°. 
Sat elongata, angustula, minus depressa, parallela, nitida, znea, femoribus seneo-rufis ; capite anterius-breviter 
canaliculato. 
Long. 8-13 millim. 
