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a little wider than long; tips of the palpi and of the mandibles pitchy, at least above ; 
antenne scarcely serrate, the five basal joints at least red. Elytra closely but distinctly 
punctured, depressed and flat in their basal half, evenly rounded and convex at the 
apex, in some specimens (female?) leaving two segments exposed, the suture closed ; 
near the margin and springing from the shoulders is a well-defined carina extending 
two thirds of their length, and parallel to the true margin. Scutellum and body 
beneath red. The elytra often blood-red, sometimes yellow, with the base black, with 
a blue reflection ; often, however, this patch does not quite touch the suture. Legs red ; 
femora externally, and the tibie and the tarsi, black. 
Taken by Mr. Champion on flowers in the open savanna country. 
EBZUS (p. 120). 
1 (4). Ebgus punctatus. 
Niger, nitidus; antennis pedibusque flavis, his femoribus, illis apicibus fuscis, palpis maxillaribus testaceis, 
basi apiceque nigris ; elytris subcyanescentibus, crebre fortius punctatis, postice ampliatis. Long. 13 millim. 
Mas? Elytris abdomen tegentibus. 
Femina? Elytris abdominis segmenta tria haud tegentibus. 
Hab. Panama, Bugaba, David (Champion). 
Not very different in general appearance from LE. seminulum; rather larger, the elytra 
more of a blue-black in colour and very distinctly punctured. Antenne almost entirely 
pale, and scarcely serrate; head and thorax very smooth and shining. Llytra thickly, 
sometimes confluently, punctured, and with scattered white depressed hairs. Hind 
tibie slightly curved. 
A very few specimens of this species were met with. 
LEMPHUS (to follow the genus Ebwus, p. 121). 
Lemphus, Erichson, Entomographien, p. 131 (1840). 
Lemphus was made by Erichson for a species of Malachiide, with the elytra much 
shorter than the abdomen, and with the tarsi four-jointed, or rather apparently so, for 
the fourth joint exists, but is very small and not easily seen. Lemphus mancus is from 
La Guayra in Venezuela; Erichson described a second species from Peru (L. fulcratus) 
in Wiegmann’s ‘ Archiv’ (1847), but from that time no other species have been made 
known. 
1. Lemphus serricornis. (Tab. XIII. fig. 5.) 
Fusco-testaceus ; capite nigro, antice testaceo ; prothorace rufo, vitta lata mediana maculaque utrinque nigris 
(maris disci dimidio frontali toto nigro); elytris fuscis vitta indistincta, margine reflexo suturaque 
dilutioribus ; antennis nigris, basi flavis ; pedibus testaceis, plus minusve infuscatis. Long. 33 millim. ¢ 9. 
BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Coleopt., Vol. III. Pt. 2, Apri 1886. ; 2T 
