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off at the sides in front, &c. The elytra are sculptured as in 7. thoracica; the inter- 
stices are, however, more distinctly punctured. 
12. Tarpela sculptilis. 
Allied to 7. fovetpennis and differing as follows :—The antenne more slender; the prothorax rather flatter, the 
sides more strongly sinuate towards the base, a little wider behind, less strongly margined, not quite so 
coarsely punctured, the punctures here and there longitudinally confluent (especially on the basal half of the 
disc), and without trace of a smooth central line; the elytra comparatively shorter, with regular rows of 
coarse moderately deep longitudinal impressions, the impressions somewhat closely placed (still more closely 
so on the disc at the base and there more or less confluent) and not coarser outwardly, the interstices 
almost flat and scarcely visibly punctured, the third, fifth, and seventh slightly costate (but not sinuously 
80) before the apex ; mesosternum horizontal, V-shaped, deeply excavate within, ils raised sides vertical 
in front; prosternum horizontal, strongly acuminately produced ; beneath brownish-bronze, very coarsely 
punctured, the flanks of the prothorax very coarsely strigose. 
Length 97 millim.; breadth 42 millim. 
Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (fHége). 
One example. 
13. Tarpela eximia. (Tab. XIII. fig. 1, 3.) 
Nautes eximius, F. Bates, Ent. Monthly Mag. vi. p. 271"; Allard, Rév. Hélopides, L’Abeille, xiv. 
p. 67; Mittheil. der schweiz. ent. Ges. v. pp. 59 & 249°. 
Hab. Nicaracua? (coll. F. Bates?), Chontales (Janson 1, Belt). 
14. Tarpela verzpacis. (Tab. XIII. fig. 2, ¢.) 
Oblong ovate, convex, subparallel, brownish-sneous, slightly tinged with green or golden, shining. Head 
coarsely and somewhat closely punctured, the punctures here and there longitudinally confluent at the 
sides, rather deeply transversely impressed in front ; antenne comparatively long, reaching nearly to the 
middle of the elytra in the male, widening a little outwardly, piceous, paler towards the base; pro- 
thorax transverse, broad, the sides a little sinuate but not narrowing behind the middle and very slightly 
narrowing in the apical third (as wide before the middle as at the base in the male), strongly margined, 
the margins narrowly grooved within but not crenulate, the anterior angles strongly triangularly produced 
in front and narrowly rounded or subacute, the apex with the central part almost straight and 
somewhat raised, the base bisinuate but not strongly so, the basal foves deep, the disc transversely 
impressed behind, the hind angles subrectangular, the surface punctured like the head but more coarsely 
and more irregularly so, the dise smoother and much more sparingly punctured ; elytra subparallel, convex, 
wider than the prothorax at the base, the humeri rather prominent, the scutellar region more or less 
depressed, the scutellar stria very deeply impressed, with rows of short more or less longitudinal closely 
placed impressions from the base to the apex, the impressions comparatively fine on the disc and here placed 
upon shallow strie and becoming very much coarser outwardly, the interstices almost impunctate, broad 
and almost flat on the disc, narrower and slightly convex outwardly, and the third raised and subcostate 
just before the apex, with two ill-defined sinuous cupreous stripes on either side outwardly extending from 
the shoulder to the apex; legs coarsely and closely punctured ; beneath golden- or greenish-bronze, rather 
coarsely but sparingly punctured, the ventral surface also longitudinally wrinkled, the sides of the meta- 
sternum and the flanks of the prothorax very coarsely punctured, the ventral segments 1 and 2 in the 
middle in the male a little flattened and pubescent and more finely punctured; mesosternum horizontal, 
V-shaped, deeply excavate, its raised sides vertical in front; prosternum horizontal, strongly acuminately 
produced. 
Length 53-73 millim.; breadth 23-33 millim. (d Q-) 
Hab. GuatTemata, San Gerénimo ( Champion). 
