PELONIUM. 191 
11. Pelonium inscriptum. 
Ferrugineum, capite prothoraceque irregulariter nigro maculosis; elytris albescentibus, puncto subscutellari, 
fascia tenuissimi sinuata ante medium, et macula nitidissima subapicali per lineam uncinatam cum sutura 
conjuncta nigris, elytris parcius seriatim punctatis. Long. 5 millim. 
Hab. Payama, Bugaba (Champion). 
This charming little species is allied to the two last, but is amply distinct not merely 
in colour, but in having less-cylindric elytra, flattened on their upper surface as far as the 
second row of punctures, which causes the third interstice to appear costate; they are 
also very white, with a neatly marked black design, the subapical spot being rather 
metallic and very shining. The head and thorax (with the extreme base of the elytra) 
are ferruginous, thickly punctured, and with small tubercles on each side of the disk. 
The antenne are yellow at the base, the club being fuscous. They are ten-jointed. 
The front pair of legs are black, with the bases and tips of the tibie and tarsi yellow ; 
the two hinder pairs of legs are nearly wholly whitish yellow. 
Three specimens were captured by Champion. 
12. Pelonium octonotatum. (Tab. IX. fig. 13.) 
Pelonio seanotato affine, sed minus, ferrugineum ; prothorace crebre fortiter punctato; elytris obovatis maculis 
duabus basalibus et duabus alteris in singulis, medianis, oblique dispositis, nigris, pone medium seriatim 
punctatis, punctis majoribus et minoribus sepe confluentibus. Long. 6-63 millim. 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 
The colour of this species is entirely rich rusty red, with the exception of the eight 
black dots, four on each elytron. ‘The antennee are of the same length as in P. sexno- 
tatum ; they are eleven-jointed, third, fourth, fifth joints subequal, fusiform, hardly 
widened at all on their inner sides ; sixth and seventh joints shorter; eighth shorter 
still, but quite distinct. The thorax is twice as long as wide, if the tubercles on the 
sides are not taken into account ; the surface is very distinctly punctured, including the 
tubercles. The humeral spot on the elytra does not quite reach the base; the other 
is on the base; both are elongate, but not so linear as in P. sexnotatum, &c.; of the 
two middle spots those nearest the suture are placed rather further back than the 
lateral ones; the apical third is nearly smooth. _ 
13. Pelonium lineolatum. (‘Lab. IX. fig. 14.) 
Elongatum, subparallelum, nigro-fuscum ; capite (fronte excepta) prothoraceque ferrugineis, hoc macula oblonga 
utrinque nigra; elytris punctato-striatis, fuscis, sutura margineque testaceis ; pedibus pallidis, anticorum 
femoribus apice, tiblis tarsisque, posticorum tibiis apice et tarsis nigris. Long. 7 millim. 
Hab. Guatemata, Capetillo, Cerro Zunil, Las Mercedes, Volcan de Atitlan 
(Champion). 
Head thickly and deeply punctate, tips of the mandibles and front above the mouth 
blackish ; antenne black, ten-jointed, the fourth and sixth joints rather more angularly 
widened internally and larger than the other intermediate joints, the club equal in 
