348 HETEROMERA. 
Elytra irregularly foveolate-striate and transversely wrinkled to beyond the middle and 
thence to the apex rather finely punctate-striate, the surface with bright metallee 
cupreous, green, and golden tints ; eyes small. 
13. Strongylium ignitum. (Tab. XV. fig. 5,6.) 
Moderately elongate, feebly convex ; the head bronzy with the anterior half greenish-sneous ; the prothorax 
brownish-bronze ; the elytra in great part fiery-cupreous tinged with violaceous, with a narrow angulated 
transverse metallic green band (preceded by a narrower golden band) before the middle, another (followed 
by a narrower golden band) behind the middle, and a third (preceded by a golden band) just before the 
apex. Head closely and coarsely punctured, longitudinally impressed between the eyes, the latter rather 
small and widely separated in both sexes; antenne rather short and stout, a little longer in the male, 
rapidly widening outwardly in both sexes, joints 3 and 4 rather long, about equal in length, 4 wider than 
3, 5-7 subtriangular, 9 and 10 longer than broad in the male, subtransverse in the female, 11 ovate and 
longer than 10, 1-4 more or less greenish-wneous, 5-11 dull cyaneous, the extreme apex ferruginous ; 
prothorax rather convex, broader than long, the sides immarginate, a little rounded, and slightly narrowing 
in front, in one example ( @ ) almost straight behind and the hind angles subrectangular, in the other( 3) 
sinuous with the hind angles acute, the base bisinuate and rather strongly margined, the apex straight, 
the basal fovez deep, the disc deeply transversely impressed before the base and with some irregular trans- 
verse or rounded impressions on each side about the middle, the surface coarsely and sparingly punctured ; 
scutellum triangular, smooth, zneous; elytra moderately long, rather depressed on the disc, the sides 
subparallel to beyond their basal half, but a little compressed before the middle, the base rather deeply 
transversely impressed just within the somewhat swollen humeri, striate-punctate, the punctures from the 
base to beyond the middle chiefly in the form of coarse rounded or oblong excavations and thence to the 
apex (abruptly) fine and oblong in shape, the interstices between the excavations strongly and irregularly 
wrinkled and thence to the apex nearly flat, almost smooth ; beneath bright greenish-eneous, the sides 
of the metasternum reddish, the fourth and fifth ventral segments entirely (in one example the fifth and the 
sides only of the fourth) reddish-testaceous, almost glabrous, very sparingly and minutely punctured, the . 
flanks of the prothorax very coarsely so, the sides of the metasternum with scattered coarse impressions ; 
legs short, rather stout, somewhat coarsely punctured, sneous or greenish-eneous, the basal half of the 
femora and the outer side of the tibie more or less reddish, the tarsi cyaneous, the first joint of the 
posterior tarsi rather shorter than the apical joint; the short anterior tibie a little curved (as in the female) 
and somewhat thickly clothed with hair within, and the fifth ventral segment transversely impressed in 
the middle behind, in the male. 
Length 11 millim.; breadth 3% millim. (¢ 9.) 
Hab. Nicaracua, Chontales (Belt). 
Two examples. This vividly-coloured species has no near known ally; it will be 
easily identified from our figure. 
Elytra rather coarsely striate-punctate throughout ; prothorax strongly transverse and 
angulate at the sides; eyes rather small; upper surface bronze, moderately 
shining. 
14. Strongylium dentatum. 
Elongate, slightly convex, bronze or blackish-bronze, moderately shining. Head short, somewhat coarsely and 
closely punctured, very shallowly or obsoletely impressed between the eyes, the latter moderate in size 
and rather widely separated ; antennw (2) rather stout, moderately long, rapidly widening outwardly 
joint 4 about as long as but wider than 3, subtriangular, joints 5-8 almost equal in length, subtriangular 
8 and 9 about as long as broad, 10 subtransverse, 11 ovate, piceous, the basal three joints lighter . 
