246 HETEROMERA. 
1. Othryoneus erotyloides. (Tab. XI. figg. 3: 8a, labium; 30, maxilla and 
maxillary palpus.) 
Elongate ovate, moderately convex, black, very shining. Head very finely and closely punctured, transversely 
and deeply excavate in front; antenne black, the two basal joints red; prothorax scarcely narrowing 
anteriorly, the sides almost straight, the anterior angles broadly rounded, the hind angles slightly pro- 
duced, prominent, and subacute, a deep rounded fovea on each side in the middle near the lateral margin, 
the base with a shallow oblique fovea on each side, the disc with a deep transverse impression in the 
middle just before the base, the surface very shallowly, finely, and sparingly punctured, red, the base in 
the middle, the middle of the disc partly, and the reflexed margins, black; scutellum smooth, black ; 
elytra long, parallel to beyond the middle, the humeri slightly swollen and impressed within for the 
reception of the hind angles of the prothorax, with rows of fine shallow punctures which are almost 
obsolete towards the apex, the interstices smooth and quite flat, reddish-testaceous, the shoulders and 
part of the base, the lateral margins very narrowly, the suture, a large oblong spot on the disc some 
distance before the middle, between which and the lateral margin (but a little lower down) is another 
much smaller spot, a very broad zigzag band (widening inwardly) behind the middle, and the apex 
rather broadly for some distance along each side of the lateral margin, black; legs black, the base of the 
anterior femora beneath red; beneath shining, black, the flanks of the prothorax broadly red, the ventral 
surface reddish-brown, finely and sparingly punctured, the ventral surface longitudinally and very 
evidently, the space between the eyes very coarsely and transversely, wrinkled. 
Length 132? millim. 
Hab. Nicaracua, Chontales (Janson). 
CAMARIA. 
Camaria, Saint-Fargeau & Serville, Encycl. Méthod. x. p. 454 (1825) ; Lacordaire, Gen. Col. v. 
p. 423. 
Cameria, Castelnau, Hist. Nat. Ins. Col. 11. p. 231. 
This genus contains many closely allied species, the majority of which existing in 
collections are still undescribed. Camaria is confined to tropical regions, but is far 
more numerously represented in the New than in the Old World; the Tropical- 
American species do not greatly differ from those of the Old World; in the New 
World the genus ranges from Brazil to the Colombian State of Panama, whence one 
species is now recorded. 
1. Camaria parallela. (Tab. XI. fig. 4, ¢.) 
Elongate ovate, moderately convex, rather narrow, brownish-bronze, shining. Head finely, shallowly, and 
sparingly punctured, a long oblique groove on each side (forming a continuation of the lateral limit of 
the epistoma) extending posteriorly as far as the eyes and continued transversely across the intraocular 
region, enclosing a large triangular flattened and depressed space; antenne long, slender; prothorax 
transverse, the sides rather strongly margined, broadly and very shallowly emarginate a little before the 
middle, scarcely narrowing anteriorly, straight behind, the anterior angles broadly rounded, the hind 
angles subrectangular, the base bisinuate, the disc with a shallow rounded impression in the middle 
behind, the surface very shallowly, finely, and sparingly punctured; scutellum shallowly punctured ; 
elytra long, parallel to beyond the middle, the humeri swollen and shallowly emarginate, punctate-striate 
the strie deeply impressed and very closely, finely, and shallowly punctured, the interstices feebly a 
almost impunctate ; legs reddish-brown or bronzy, the knees and tarsi bluish-black ; the slightly curved 
anterior and intermediate tibiee dilated (the intermediate pair very broadly and abruptly) at their inner 
apices, and the three basal joints of the anterior tarsi broadly dilated in the male; prosternum narrow, 
