582 CRYPTOPHAGID. 
slightly longer than the other and has a serial arrangement; the extent to which this 
longer setosity predominates is also of importance. When the punctuation is perfectly 
serial, the setee may be cither well developed or nearly absent. The slight differences 
that exist in the coloration of the joints of the club of the antenne appear to be 
fairly constant, and are therefore of considerable assistance. 
In the following descriptions the species with the least serial arrangement of 
punctuation and pubescence are placed first. 
1. Loberus chiriquensis, sp. n. 
Rufus, antennarum articulis 9° et 10° nigris; elytris vage subinfuscatis, humeris apiceque pallidioribus, 
subtiliter aqualiterque pubescentibus et punctatis. 
Long. 23 millim. 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 4000 to 6000 feet (Champion). 
Terminal joint of antenna much paler than the preceding two joints. Thorax red, 
small, finely punctate, sides evenly rounded, front a little narrower than the base. 
Elytra elongate, yellow-red, but vaguely and largely infuscate, so as to leave the 
shoulders and a broad space at the tip feebly distinguished in colour from the rest 
of the surface; with very fine punctuation and pubescence, the latter subseriately 
arranged, so that about nine rows of fine sete exist between the suture and the shoulder 
of each wing-case. Punctuation of metasternum coarse and definite. Seventeen 
specimens, 
This species varies much in the amount of infuscation of the upper surface. 
2. Loberus guatemalenus, sp. n. 
Rufus, subtilius punctatus et pubescens; in elytris sculptura et pubescentia serierum et interstitiarum vix 
distinctis. Variat corpore elytrisque plus minus infuscatis. 
Long. 23 millim. 
Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Hoge); GuaTemata, Senahu in Vera Paz, Guatemala city, 
Aceituno, Capetillo, Duefias, Zapote, Cerro Zunil (Champion). 
Closely allied to Z. chiriquensis, but rather smaller, with a unicolorous club to the 
antenne and the thorax a little more contracted behind. In the specimens most 
deeply suffused with dusky colour there is a distinct rufescent humeral angle, but this 
is rarely very definite. Near the suture the sculpture and pubescence of the interstices 
are distinctly more distant than those of the series, whereas in L. chiriquensis scarcely 
any difference can be detected between the two. ‘The sculpture of the metasternum is 
not quite so coarse as it is in L. chiriquensis. About thirty specimens. 
3. Loberus sellatus, sp. n. 
Rufus, prothorace disco antennarumque articulis 9° et 10° nigricantibus ; elytris nigris, humeris apiceque late 
flavis, crebrius subtiliter haud seriatim pubescentibus. 
Long. 24 millim. 
