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the elytra is smaller, and the thorax is a little less narrowed behind, but I do not 
consider them sufficiently different to require a name. The species is an extremely 
peculiar one; all the coxe are very widely separated; the epipleure appear at first 
sight to be small, but they are really broad, though much less inflexed than usual. 
4. Lemophleus curtus. 
Lemophleus curtus, Grouv. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1876, p. xxxiii’. 
Hab. Panama, Bugaba (Champion).—Braziu }. 
Mr. Champion procured a good series of this very distinct Lemophleus. I have seen 
no other examples. M.Grouvelle expresses no hesitation as to considering it the same 
species as his Brazilian type, which he informs me is from Rio Janeiro. 
5. Lemophleus breviceps, sp. n. (Tab. XVI. fig. 14.) 
Deplanatus, rufus, nitidus, elytris stramineis, leviter striatis; capite prothoraceque brevibus, levigatis ; 
antennis haud crassiusculis, leviter clavatis. 
Long. 2 millim. 
Hab. Panama, Bugaba (Champion). 
Antenne yellow, not stout, the apical three joints distinctly a little broader, but 
scarcely longer than those preceding them. Head broad and short, the eyes placed 
but a little distance in front of the thorax. Thorax very short and broad, only slightly 
narrowed behind. Strie of the elytra feeble, the intra-lateral carina very fine but 
distinct. Four specimens, three males and one female. 
Distinct from most of the allied forms by the very short head: in this it almost 
agrees with L. championi, but the eyes are much smaller and placed nearer to the 
thorax, and there is no trace of any peculiar mandibular structure, the mandibles being 
nearly entirely covered by the labrum. This species and L. championi differ from 
L. castaneipennis, Grouv., by their broader, flatter form, and the clear red colour, which 
extends to the antenne. I cannot ascertain the structure of the feet in L. breviceps, 
but I am pretty sure that both sexes are before me. 
6. Lemophleus championi, sp. n. 
Deplanatus, rufus, nitidus, elytris stramineis, leviter striatis ; antennis haud crassiusculis, leviter clavatis. 
Long. 27 millim. 
Mas, mandibulis subtus ad basin processu descendente armatis. 
Hab. Guatemaua, San Juan in Vera Paz (Champion). 
Although we have only one specimen of this species, and it is very closely allied 
to L. hoplites, I have no doubt it is distinct. The difference in colour is perhaps 
not of much importance, but there is a definite distinction in the antenne, which are 
altogether smaller in LZ. championi; the eighth joint is a good deal smaller than the 
sixth, and is also much shorter and slightly narrower than the tenth. ‘The head and 
