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Var. /3. The median vitta on the prothorax entire ; the elytra with a broad sutural stripe, gradually widening 

 forwards and not reaching the base, and a post-median fascia, more or less constricted at the middle of 

 the disc, black. (Fig. 1.) 



Hah. Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt, E. M. Janson) ; Panama, Bugaba, Caldera, and 

 David in Chiriqui (Champion), Matachin (Schunke, in coll. Oberthilr). — Guiana l . 



Found in numbers by myself in Chiriqui. The three forms were found at the same 

 localities, and I have no doubt they belong to one variable species. The antennae 

 about reach the hind angles of the thorax in the male, and are a little shorter in the 

 female. The supra-marginal carina of the thorax is connected with the marginal one 

 behind. The scutellum is infuscate or black. The variety /3 closely resembles 

 2E. garzoni, Steinh., from Colombia ; but in that insect the elytra have a common 

 transverse patch immediately below the base, a narrow sutural stripe, and a post-median 

 fascia, black, the head and thorax, moreover, being more finely punctured. According 

 to the specimens in the Janson collection named by Candeze, two species are confused 

 under the name 2E. facetus — one with the antennae short in the male, the hind angles 

 of the thorax not divergent, and the supra-marginal carina of the latter entire, as in our 

 insect, and the other with the antennae elongate in the male, the hind angles of the 

 thorax divergent, and the supra-marginal carina of the latter abbreviated behind, — both 

 being from Guiana, and from the Dejean collection ; the description and figure seem 

 to apply best to our species. We figure a specimen of the var. j3 from David. 



4. Mollis hexastigma. (Tab. XV. fig. 27.) 



Elongate, feebly convex, shining, finely pubescent ; flavous or pale testaceous, the labrum, mandibles, frontal 

 carina, and base of the head, black ; the prothorax with a rather narrow median vitta (widened in front), 

 the apical, basal, and lateral margins, and the hind angles, black ; the scutellum black ; the elytra with 

 the suture, a narrow transverse fascia before, and another beyond the middle, the apex, and the basal 

 and lateral margins very narrowly, black, these markings surrounding three very large, sharply defined 

 spots of the ground-colour on each elytron ; the antennas fuscous or pitchy-brown ; the legs flavous, the 

 tarsi usually more or less infuscate ; beneath flavous, the head, the prosternal sutures and process, the 

 mesosternum, the sides of the metasternum, the epipleurse, the basal margin of each ventral segment, and 

 a spot on the middle of the fifth segment, black. Head convex, thickly, moderately finely punctate, the 

 frontal carina rounded ; antennas with joint 3 slightly longer than 2, the two together about as long as 4. 

 Prothorax as long as broad, narrowed in front, the sides rounded anteriorly and feebly sinuate behind ; 

 the hind angles strongly and acutely produced, slightly divergent, sharply carinate at the sides above, and 

 with a short oblique ridge extending inwards from the apex of the angle, the supra-marginal carina 

 extending forwards as far as the middle of the prothorax and joining the marginal one at the tip ; the 

 surface thickly, moderately finely punctate. Elytra twice the length of the prothorax, gradually narrowing 

 from about the basal third, conjointly rounded at the apex ; rather coarsely punctate- striate, the punc- 

 tures very distinct; the interstices moderately convex and very sparsely punctured. Beneath rather 

 sparsely punctured, the punctures on the propleurse and on the sides of the metasternum exceedingly 

 coarse, those on the other parts fine. 



Length 6-7, breadth l|-2 millim. (<S 2 •) 



Hah. Guatemala, Panzos and Teleman in Vera Paz (Champion). 



Found in plenty on the banks of the River Polochic, the specimens showing no sign 

 biol. centr.-amek., Coleopt., Vol. III. Pt. 1, July 1895. 3 A 



