366 SERRICOENIA. 



14. -Solus panamensis. (Tab. XVI. fig. 8.) 



Moderately elongate, rather convex, shining, finely pubescent ; ferrugineo-testaceous, the prothorax with a 

 moderately broad vitta on either side of the disc, extending from the base to the apex, black, and the 

 hind angles flavous ; the scutellum ferruginous ; the elytra with a common elongate-triangular patch 

 extending from the base to the middle, and an elongate A-shaped mark on the disc towards the apex, 

 confluent with the corresponding mark on the opposite elytron at the suture, and extending along it to 

 near the apex, black, the apex itself flavo-testaceous ; the antennas fusco-testaceous, with the two basal 

 joints paler, the legs flavous, the under surface ferruginous. Head convex, coarsely, thickly punctate, the 

 frontal carina moderately prominent ; antennas extending to the hind angles of the prothorax, joint 3 

 nearly twice as long as 2, the two together longer than 4. Prothorax a little longer than broad, narrowed 

 in front, the sides rounded anteriorly and feebly sinuate behind ; the hind angles greatly produced, not 

 divergent, acute, sharply carinate above, the carina joining the marginal one at the tip ; the surface 

 coarsely, closely punctate. Scutellum convex in front. Elytra twice the length of the prothorax, rapidly 

 narrowing from about the middle, conjointly rounded at the apex ; very deeply and coarsely punctate- 

 striate, the interstices convex and roughly punctured. 



Length 7, breadth 2 millim. 



Hab. Panama, David in Chiriqui (Champion). 



One specimen. Allied to j%!. pulchellus and JE. melliculus, Cand., but differing 

 from them in coloration, and in the coarse and deep punctuation of the head and 

 thorax, the latter with the hind angles more sharply carinate above. 



15. iEoluS melliculus. (Tab. XVI. fig. 9, genitalia, 8 .) 



Molus melliculus, Cand. Monogr. Elat. ii. p. 295, t. 5. fig. 9 (1859) 1 ; Crotch, in Godm. Nat. 



Hist. Azores, p. 75 2 . 

 Molus moreleti, Tarn. Col. Acor. p. 94 (1860) 3 . 



Hab. Mexico, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith), San Juan Bautista in Tabasco (Edge), 

 Yucatan (Pilate) ; British Honduras, Belize (Blanc aneaux) ; Guatemala, Cubilguitz 

 and Panzos in Vera Paz (Champion) ; Honduras (Salle) ; Costa Riga, Buenos Aires 

 (Pittier, in Mus. Brit.) ; Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). — South America, 

 Carthagena to Buenos Aires 1 ; Antilles, Grenada ; Azores 2 3 . 



Var. a. The prothorax with two broad black or fuscous vittse on the disc, narrowing or abbreviated behind, 

 sometimes occupying the greater part of the surface, sometimes narrower and not extending beyond the 

 middle. 



Had. Mexico, Cordova and Jalapa (Edge), Atoyac in Vera Cruz (H. H. Smith) ; 

 Costa Rica, Buenos Aires (Pittier, in Mus. Brit.). — Azores. 



Var. /3. The prothoracic markings entirely obliterated. 

 Molus rubricatus, Cand. Monogr. Elat. ii. p. 294 4 . 



Hab. Mexico (coll. Janson, ex Schaum 4 ), San Nicolas in Vera Cruz, Tuxtla (Salle 4 ), 

 Teapa (Pilate), San Juan Bautista in Tabasco (H. H. Smith, Hoge), Yucatan (Pilate) ; 

 Guatemala, Panzos, Teleman, and Chacoj in Vera Paz (Champion). — Antilles, 

 Grenada. 



An extremely variable species. The typical form has been sent in plenty from San 



