ACROPIS.—ETHELEMA. | ATT 
Head densely clothed with pallid ochraceous, or nearly white, depressed squamosity 
composed of irregularly arranged coarse scale-like hairs. Thorax greatly rounded at the 
sides ; the surface apparently uneven, but covered with squamosity irregularly distributed 
so as to conceal the sculpture, but there is a well-marked longitudinal depression in 
the middle in front. Elytra elongate, oblong, covered with much setose squamosity, 
so as to conceal the sculpture, which, however, consists of quite regular series of 
moderately large punctures; very near the scutellum there is a large tubercle ; just 
about the middle there is on the second interstice a much smaller tubercle, and behind 
this, just before the apical declivity, another large tubercle ; there is some short, suberect, 
black setosity on the summit of each of the tubercles. Legs reddish ; tibiz without 
erect sete. 
ETHELEMA. 
Hithelema, Pascoe, Journ. Ent. i. p. 107 (1860). 
This genus was established for a single Amazonian species, to which no other has 
until now been added. 
1. Ethelema sobrina, sp. n. 
Nigra, setositate fusca et albida vestita, minus argute variegata. 
Long. 33-4 millim. 
Hab. Mexico, Jalapa, Teapa (Hoge); GuaTemMaLa, San Gerdénimo, Chacoj, Torola 
(Champion) ; Panama, Bugaba, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet, David, Tolé, San 
Miguel in the Pearl Islands (Champion). 
Head clothed with mixed white and fuscous setosity, which conceals the very dense 
sculpture. ‘Thorax strongly transverse, feebly denticulate at the sides, clothed with 
parti-coloured setosity. Elytra clothed in a similar manner, with some more con- 
spicuous white marks on the disc; the setosity quite conceals the sculpture. Legs 
short; tibiz clothed externally with adpressed white setosity. 
This insect much resembles the figure of £. luctuosa, Pascoe; but that species is 
said to have hairs on the thorax and tibie. 
2. Ethelema decorata, sp. n. (Tab. XV. fig. 10.) 
Nigra, albido-rorida, prothorace utrinque nigro-vittato, elytris ad basin nigro-variegatis, tibiis tarsisque 
testaceis, illis externe albido-vestitis. 
Long. 3-34 millim. 
Hab. Panama, Bugaba, Volcan de Chiriqui, Tolé (Champion). 
Black, but covered on the upper surface with short white sete, giving a grey appear- 
ance ; the black marks are due not to absence of the scales in certain places, but rather 
to their being black in colour. Head very broad, regularly studded with minute 
glistening-white sete. Thorax strongly transverse, a little narrowed behind, lateral 
