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equidistant ; niesosternum declivous, the sides not raised ; posterior coxal plates feebly subangularly 

 widened near the point of insertion of the femora. 

 Length 6|-9f , breadth l§-2£ millim. ( J $ .) 



Hab. Panama, Bugaba, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 



Numerous examples. This species, a specimen of which has been examined by 

 Dr. Candeze, and returned as unknown to him, is allied to A. macidicollis, &c. The 

 yellowish-cinereous hairs form a broad stripe on either side of the thorax, and a narrow 

 stripe along the suture and lateral margins of the elytra to near the apex. 



18. Anoplischius lineatus. (Tab. xili. fig. 24, <r, var.) 



Elongate, narrow, rather convex, shining ; the head and antennae black ; the prothorax rufous, with the 

 anterior margin and a broad median vitta, obliquely narrowed behind and in one specimen not extending 

 to the base, black ; the scutellum and elytra piceous, the latter brownish towards the base, indeterminately 

 black at the apex, and with the sides anteriorly fulvo-testaceous ; above rather sparsely clothed with very 

 long, coarse, semierect hairs, which on the head, the sides and base of the prothorax, and along the suture 

 and sides of the elytra to near the apex, are cinereous or yellowish-cinereous, those on the rest of the 

 upper surface being obscure fuscous ; beneath piceous, sparsely clothed with long, decumbent, cinereous 

 hairs ; the legs pitchy-brown, the knees, the apices of the tarsi, and sometimes the base of the femora, 

 testaceous, thickly pilose. Head coarsely, closely punctate, broadly concave in front, and feebly sulcate 

 in the middle, the frontal carina very prominent ; antennas as in A. elegans. Prothorax convex, almost 

 as long as broad, slightly narrowed in front ; the hind angles strongly produced, subparallel, blunt at the 

 tip, sharply carinate above ; the surface moderately coarsely, somewhat closely punctate, very deeply 

 canaliculate behind. Scutellum sparsely punctured. Elytra moderately long, gradually narrowing from 

 the base, conjointly, bluntly rounded at the apex ; coarsely punctate-striate ; the interstices narrow, feebly 

 convex, rather sparsely punctate. Posterior coxal plates feebly subangularly widened near the point of 

 insertion of the femora. 



Var. The prothorax rufous, with a very large triangular black patch extending from the apex to beyond the^ 

 middle, the black also extending a little downwards along the lateral margin. 



Length 7-9f , breadth 1|-2| millim. (<?$.) 



Hab. Nicaragua, Chontales (E. M. Janson) ; Panama, Bugaba (Champion). 



Three specimens — two of the typical form from Bugaba and one of the variety from 

 Chontales. Closely allied to A. elegans, but differing from it in the more coarsely 

 and much less densely punctured thorax, and the more sparsely pilose upper surface, 

 especially of the thorax, the pale hairs at the sides not forming a broad matted band 

 as in that species. 



19. Anoplischius flavicollis. (Tab. XIV. fig. 4, 6 .) 



Elongate, rather narrow, somewhat depressed, the head, prothorax, and under surface shining, the elytra 

 subopaque; the head, scutellum, and under surface black, the prothorax orange-yellow, the elytra bluish- 

 black ; above and beneath thickly clothed with long hairs-, which partake of the ground-colour ; the legs 

 and antennae black, densely pilose. Head densely, moderately finely punctate, broadly concave in front, 

 the frontal carina very prominent, rounded anteriorly ; antennas in the male extending to the middle of 

 the elytra, shorter in the female, the joints from the third broadly dilated and serrate, gradually decreasing 

 in width, 3 and 4 equal. Prothorax strongly transverse, trapezoidal, the sides converging in almost a 

 straight line from the base ; the hind angles divergent, strongly produced, not or very feebly carinate 

 above ; the surface thickly, rather finely punctate,, the punctures becoming still finer towards the base, 



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