CRYPTORHOPALUM. ; 653 
two that I formerly described from Hawaii will have to be removed from it. I here 
describe thirty-eight species, and have little doubt that there are many others in Central 
America ; indeed we have specimens that probably represent some twenty additional 
forms which are left undescribed for want of adequate material. 
§ 1. Elytra variegate in colour by bands or spots of pubescence.—Species 1-11, 
1. Cryptorhopalum septemsignatum, sp.n. (Tab. XIX. fig. 19.) 
Breviter ovale, subtus valde convexum, nigrum, supra signaturis septem lete flavis, subtus nigrum, abdomine 
lateribusque pectoris flayo-pubescentibus. 
Long. 3 millim, 
Hab. Britis Hoxpuras, Belize (Blancaneaux); Guatumaua, Cahabon (Champion). 
This species is recognizable by its surface being definitely variegate with bright 
yellow marks of pubescence sharply limited from the black pubescence. ‘The sides of 
the thorax are broadly yellow, and there is a patch of yellow hairs on the basal median 
lobe. The elytra each bear two yellow spots rather near the suture, one just about the 
middle and another at the tip; the punctuation is largely developed, and at the base 
consists of a mixture of large and small punctures, becoming dense and fine towards 
the apex. ‘T’he club of the antenna is blackish, its two joints accurately co-adapted, 
the terminal one not quite so large as the preceding, truncate at the tip. Apparently 
allied to C. sexsignatum, Reitt., from Bolivia, but that insect has three yellow spots, 
instead of two, on each elytron, ‘This species and the following will doubtless form a 
genus distinct from our other Cryptorhopala, the prosternal process being much 
broader, and the front of the prothorax so formed that the antennal cavities look 
more outwards and less downwards. 
2. Cryptorhopalum bisignatum, sp. n. 
Breviter ovale, subtus valde convexum, nigrum, supra signaturis quinque flavis, subtus nigrum, abdomine 
lateribusque pectoris flavo-pubescentibus. 
3 a: 
Long. 22 millim. 
Hab. Panama, Bugaba (Champion). y 
Distinguished from C. septemsiqnatum only by the fact that the yellow pubescence is 
less bright, and the apical pair of elytral spots quite wanting. One male specimen. 
3. Cryptorhopalum posticatum, sp. n. ’ 
Breviter ovale, convexum, pallide griseo-pubescens; elytris pone medium macula magna communi nigra ; 
tibiis, tarsis antennisque rufis. 
Long. 22 millim, 
Hab. Panama, Caldera in Chiriqui 1200 feet (Champion). 
In this insect the sculpture is concealed by the dense pubescence; this is of very 
pale, but not white, colour, mixed a little with dark fuscous hairs, and there is a 
