CUPHOTES. 333 
Certain species very closely resemble in colour and appearance some of the Erotylide 
inhabiting the same districts, and in company with which they are often to be found. 
The name Spheniscus having been long preoccupied for a well-known genus of Aves 
(Brisson, 1760) I am compelled to substitute another. 
1. The underside of the femora, the middle of the metasternum behind, and the last 
ventral segment, thickly clothed with short silky hair, in the male. 
1. Cuphotes corallifer. 
Spheniscus corallifer, J. Thoms. Arcana Nat. p. 108, t. 10. f. 8%. 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion).—Cotomsta 1. 
A single immature individual captured by myself in Chiriqui seems referable to this 
species. ‘This example has the elytral fosse arranged in longitudinal rows, a character 
not mentioned by Thomson nor indicated in his figure. Specimens of a closely allied 
form from Ega, perhaps not really distinct, are labelled in Mr. F. Bates’s collection 
with a MS. name: these differ from our insect in their unicolorous black legs. 
2. Cuphotes jansoni. (Tab. XIV. fig. 6, 2.) 
Spheniscus jansoni, I’. Bates in litt. 
Broad, very convex, black, shining. Head closely and irregularly, the vertex very sparingly and finely, punc- 
tured, longitudinally impressed in the middle between the eyes; prothorax strongly transverse, the apex 
deeply arcuate-emarginate, the base bisinuate, the anterior angles strongly produced and narrowly 
rounded, the sides narrowing almost from the base and nearly straight, the disc with a very deep 
irregular impression on each side a little behind the middle and a shallow transverse one in the centre 
before the base, the surface finely and sparingly punctured; elytra very convex (searcely gibbous), the 
dise gradually rounded off behind, the surface with scattered irregular rounded fossw, yellowish-testaceous, 
with the base and suture very narrowly, a common median transverse band (more or less angulated on 
its upper and lower edges) extending to the lateral margins, the apex rather broadly, and the fossa, 
black, the interstices smooth ; beneath and the legs black, shining, finely and rather sparingly punctured. 
Length 184-21 millim.; breadth 93-117 millim. (¢ 2.) 
Hab. Nicaraceua, Chontales (Belt, Janson). 
Numerous examples, varying only in the width of the median band of the elytra. 
This insect is allied to C. sphacelata (Fabr.) (= adelpha, Thoms.) ; but is separated by 
the elytra being more regularly convex and not gibbous (the posterior half of the disc 
rounded off and not abruptly declivous), with smaller, more rounded, and more scattered 
fosse, &c. A more nearly allied undescribed species from Chanchamayo, Peru, is 
contained in Mr. F. Bates’s collection. 
3. Cuphotes nigro-maculata. 
Spheniscus nigro-maculatus, J. Thoms. Arcana Nat. p. 110, t. 11. f. 4°; Dej. Cat. 3rd edit. p. 229°. 
Hab. Mexico? (Sallé+), Tutepec1, Misantla, Jalapa (Hége); Nicaraeua, Chontales 
