STRONGYLIUM. 347 
11. Strongylium crassicorne. 
Moderately elongate, rather convex, bright bronze with a slight golden tint. Head (including the vertex) 
very coarsely and rugulosely punctured, somewhat flattened but not distinctly grooved between the eyes, 
the latter small and convex and very widely separated ; antennz (2) short, passing very little beyond 
the base of the prothorax, stout, rapidly widening outwardly, joint 3 comparatively short, 4 the length of 
but much wider than 3, subtriangular, 5-10 each wider than 3, broadly subtriangular, 7-10 about as long 
as broad, 11 broad, rather longer than wide, and bluntly rounded at the apex, 1-3 and the base of 4 and 
5 red, the rest dark dull cyaneous ; prothorax rather broader than long, convex, the sides immarginate, a 
little sinuate but not narrowing behind, and rounded and narrowing in front, the apex straight, the base 
slightly sinuate, the anterior angles rounded, the hind angles subacute, the disc distinctly canaliculate 
(more deeply so at the base and apex), and with a deep transverse impression on each side a little above 
the broad very deep basal fovese, and another very much shallower one on each side a little before the 
middle, the surface rather uneven, very irregularly, somewhat closely, and very coarsely punctured ; 
scutellum triangular, sparingly punctured ; elytra comparatively rather short and convex, subparallel to 
beyond the middle, the surface from the base to the apex with irregular and much interrupted rows of 
very coarse and deep excavations, the excavations coarsest and here and there confluent on the middle of 
the disc, finer and punctiform and arranged in more regular rows at the extreme base, and very shallow 
(but not placed in grooves) at the apex, the interstices sparingly and minutely punctured ; beneath very 
shining, rich golden-green, glabrous, finely and very sparingly punctured, the sides of the metasternum a 
little coarsely, the flanks of the prothorax very coarsely, punctured; legs moderately long, the femora and 
tibie rather coarsely punctured, the tarsi rather short and with the first joint of the posterior pair much 
shorter than the apical one, neous, the femora towards the base and the tibie in great part reddish, the 
tarsi more or less cyaneous. 
Length 12-12: millim.; breadth 4 millim. (9@.) 
Hab. Nicaraeva, Chontales (Belt, Janson). 
Three female examples. This insect resembles S. viridipes and S. costaricense, but 
it-is at once separated by the very short, stout antennz (in the female), the widely 
separated, small, and more convex eyes, and other characters noticed above; the elytra 
are more convex (especially behind) than in S. costaricense, and sculptured very much 
as in that species. 
Elytra longer, coarsely and irregularly foveolate-striate, the fovee more scattered and 
at the apex here and there longitudinally confluent ; eyes rather large ; upper sur- 
face more shining ; prothorax subremotely punctured. 
12. Strongylinm viridipes. (Tab. XV. fig. 4, ¢.) 
Strongylium viridipes, Mikl. Monogr. p. 166; Act. Soc. Fenn. viii. part 1, p. 274°. 
Serangodes viridipes (Chevr.), Dej. Cat. 3rd edit. p. 229 * 
Hab. Mexico! 2, Cordova (Sallé), Tehuacan, Misantla (Hége). 
An example from Misantla is figured. 
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