182 - MALACODERMATA. 
The type of the genus was a unique insect in Reiche’s collection from Colombia ; 
and I am not aware that it has ever been rediscovered. 
1. Apolopha trilineata. 
Ichnea trilineata, Chev. Rev. et Mag. Zool. 1874, p. 733, 
Hab. Mexico, Cordova ! (Sallé). : 
The eyes are more prominent than in Jchnea, the centre of the thorax with a black 
vitta; the head, sides, and underside of the thorax are yellow; the elytra greyish black, 
opaque, with close rows of punctures in striae, the punctures closely packed, large, and 
irregular in form and size, and with the strie becoming confused before the apex. 
There were three specimens in Sallé’s collection. 
2. Apolopha chiriquiana. — 
Griseo-nigra, capite, prothorace infra et lateribus, sutura tenuiter, pedibusque partim pallide flavis; elytris 
distincte striato-punctatis; antennarum articulis tribus ultimis quam reliqui triplo fere longioribus. 
Long. 5-54 millim. 
Hab. Panama, Bugaba, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 
About equal in size to the smallest specimen of A. trilineata; but none of the six 
specimens which have reached us attain the size of the two larger specimens of that 
species. It is also to be distinguished by its pale suture, which does not quite reach 
the base or the apex, and by the more regular series of squarish punctures; these series 
are about ten in number on each elytron. The thorax has a rather large round 
impression on each side of the disk. The head is black behind each eye. The antenne 
are blackish, the basal joint curved, the second bead-shaped ; the third, fourth, and fifth 
form together an obconic mass, and are not easy to see separate. I sometimes think 
I can see a sixth, before the three large terminal joints; if so, it is shorter and 
narrower than the preceding one, and closely connected with the first of the club. The 
front legs are black or fuscous, with pale knees; the four hinder ones are pale, with 
the femora darkened externally and near the apices, and tibie dark, excepting at the 
knee. 
Six specimens have been found, two of which were from Bugaba. 
3. Apolopha linearis. 
Parallela, grisea, punctata, capite prothoraceque ferrugineis, hoc medio nigro vittato, tibiarum basi femoribus- 
que pallidis; antennis quam caput thoraxque fere duplo longioribus. Long. 5 millim. 
Hab. Panama, Bugaba (Champion). 
In this species the eyes are not so prominent, nor is the head so constricted behind, as 
in A. chiriquiana; it is a more linear insect, the head being scarcely wider than the 
thorax. ‘lhe head has the same black portion behind the eyes, but is more fully received 
into the thorax. The latter is not so much clothed with silky hairs; and hence the 
