356 . HETEROMERA. 
Elytra foveolate-striate to beyond the middle and thence to the apex sulcate ; prothoraz 
subquadrate ; eyes large; upper surface dull greenish-cupreous ; under surface 
greenish-violaceous, the fifth ventral segment red. 
95. Strongylium ventrale. (Tab. XVI. fig. 1, 2 -) 
Elongate ovate, slightly convex, rather dull, greenish-eneous, with a cupreous tint, the prothorax obscure 
reddish-brown, the head also in part reddish. Head very closely and coarsely punctured ; eyes large 
and narrowly separated; antennz ( @ ) short, rather strongly widened outwardly, joint 4 about the length 
of but distinctly wider than 3, subtriangular, joints 5-7 each widened almost from the base, subequal, 
8-10 decreasing a little in length, 10 about as broad as long, 11 ovate, and considerably longer than 10, 
1-4 cyaneous, the rest dull bluish-black; prothorax subquadrate, broader than long, a little flattened 
on the disc, the sides indistinctly margined (the margin not visible from above), nearly - straight, 
scarcely narrowing in front, and armed in the middle with a distinct tooth, the base a little sinuate, the 
apex straight, the anterior angles rounded, the hind angles slightly divergent and subacute, the disc 
shallowly canaliculate (more distinctly so towards the apex), and very deeply impressed in the middle 
before the base, the basal fovee: very deep, the surface uneven and very coarsely and rather closely punc- 
tured; scutellum subtriangular, sparingly punctured; elytra long, slightly convex, widest in the middle, 
narrowing a little towards the base, striate-punctate, the punctures from the base to a little beyond the 
middle (equally from the suture to the lateral margin) in the form of coarse rounded or oblong excavations 
which are here and there longitudinally confluent, and thence to the apex (abruptly) very fine and shallow, 
the interstices smooth, from the base to beyond the middle a little raised, and here and there transversely 
confluent, and thence to the apex rather convex; beneath and the epipleure bright cyancous, the fifth 
ventral segment, and the sides of the preceding segment broadly, reddish-testaceous, glabrous, sparingly but 
somewhat coarsely punctured, the sides of the metasternum and the flanks of the prothorax very coarsely 
so; legs rather short, coarsely punctured, more or less cyaneous in tint; the first joint cf the posterior 
tarsi long, as long as the apical joint. 
_ Length 112 millim.; breadth 4 millim. ( 2.) 
Hab. Panama (coll. F. Bates). 
One example. S. ventrale cannot be satisfactorily compared with any other species | 
noticed here. It agrees with S. auratum in the reddish-testaceous apex of the venter, 
though wholly differing in the sculpture of the elytra, the shape of the thorax, sub- 
approximate eyes, &c., and also by its very much smaller size. 
Elytra long, with rows of scattered irregular fovee ; eyes very large; prothorax closely 
and rather coarsely punctured, canaliculate ; upper surface dull bronze-black, the 
elytra more shining, testaceous, the fovew black ; size large. — 
26. Strongylium cribripes. (Tab. XIV. fig. 24, 2.) 
Strongylium cribripes, Makl. Monogr. p. 167; Act. Soc. Fenn. viil. part 1, p. 2757. 
Hab. Mexico‘, Santecomapan, Cordova (Sal/é); Nicaracua, Chontales (Belt, Janson); 
Panama, Chiriqui (Z7dtsch). 
In the male of this species, as noticed by Maklin, the metasternum is densely clothed 
with short adpressed hair in the middle behind, and the fifth ventral segment broadly 
and deeply impressed. 
An example from Chontales is figured. 
