598 SEEEICOENIA. 



insects referred to it agree accurately with Dr. Horn's definition of Ectopria. The 

 tarsal claws are cleft at the tip in the males and simple in the females ; the tarsi them- 

 selves are slender, the fourth joint not being dilated and distinctly produced beneath 

 the fifth joint, as in Dicranopselaphus ; and the apical joint of the maxillary palpi is 

 not appendiculate. 



1. Ectopria reticulata. (Tab. XXVI. figg. 15, 6 ; 15 a, antenna, 6 ; 16, 

 antenna, $ .) 



c? . Broadly oboval, moderately convex, opaque ; brown, the prothorax reddish-brown, with some spots at the 

 base and sides piceous ; the elytra with one or two streaks at the base, a V-shaped mark on the inner 

 part of the disc before the middle, extending along the suture to the base, two oblique, angulate, partly 

 coalescent, post-median fasciae (enclosing two spots of the ground-colour on each elytron), the anterior 

 one extending down the suture to the apex, and both joined laterally and with the V-shaped mark to 

 two oblique streaks, and the apical margin more or less, ferrugineo-testaceous ; the antennae with joints 

 1-5 brownish or pitchy-brown, the other joints testaceous or flavo-testaceous ; the legs brownish or 

 obscure testaceous, the tarsi flavous ; the body beneath obscure ferruginous or brown ; the upper surface 

 densely clothed with very short pubescence, the pubescence on the light-coloured portions of the prothorax 

 and on the network of pale lines on the elytra yellowish-cinereous, that on the other parts partaking of 

 the ground-colour. Head densely punctured, the eyes very large and rather narrowly separated ; antennae 

 moderately long, tapering at the tip, pectinate from the third joint, joint 3 much longer than 4. 

 Prothorax very short, two and one-half times as broad as long, rapidly and arcuately narrowing from the 

 base forwards, slightly emarginate in front (as viewed from above) and bisinuate at the base, the hind 

 angles rather obtuse ; the surface crowded with short, irregular, anastomosing lines of fine punctures 

 (appearing densely punctate), with smoother spaces here and there, and deeply obliquely depressed on 

 either side of the middle at the base. Elytra subparallel towards the base, rounded behind, widest a little 

 beyond the middle, compressed at the sides below the humeri ; the dark parts of the surface crowded with 

 short, irregular, anastomosing lines of fine punctures, the interspaces between which are shagreened, the 

 pale markings sparsely punctured (appearing slightly raised). 



2 . Antennae shorter, serrate from the third joint, the third joint much longer than the fourth ; the eyes 

 smaller and more widely separated ; the tarsal claws undivided at the tip. 



Length 3|-3f , breadth 2|-2^ millim. 



Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 



Two males and one female, the latter having the pale reticulation on the elytra 

 formed of very narrow lines. The elytral sculpture is much finer than in E. vermi- 

 culata. The slender tarsi, the simple apical joint of the maxillary palpi, the shorter 

 and more feebly pectinate antenna?, the dull and more densely punctured surface, the 

 different elytral markings, &c, separate E. reticulata from Dicranopselaphus flavicornis. 



2. Ectopria vermiculata. (Tab. XXVI. figg. 17, $ ; 17 a, antenna.) 



$ . Broadly oboval, moderately convex, rather shining ; ferruginous, the elytra with three oblong marks 

 immediately below the base — one at the shoulder, one close to the suture, and one on the disc, — and a 

 common angulate transverse fascia a little beyond the middle, the latter extending forwards along the 

 suture almost to the innermost basal mark, brownish-black, and the apical margin broadly yellowish ; 

 the eyes and antennae black, the latter with the two basal joints reddish-testaceous and the apical joint 

 brown ; the legs and palpi testaceous ; the upper surface thickly clothed with very short fine sericeous 

 pubescence, the pubescence golden on the light- coloured portions and fuscous elsewhere. Head densely, very 

 minutely punctate, the eyes rather small and widely separated ; antennae moderately long, stout, tapering 



