STRONGYLIUM. 375 
Elytra with the alternate interstices wider and a little raised ; eyes small or moderate, 
more or less widely separated ; upper surface unicolorous, bronze ; size small or 
moderate. 
62. Strongylium punctipes. (Tab. XVI. fig. 14, 3.) 
Moderately elongate, somewhat depressed, rather dull brownish-eneous, with a slight greenish tint. Head 
coarsely and very closely punctured, shallowly impressed between the eyes, the latter rather large and 
convex and not very widely separated; antenna rather short, widening a little outwardly, joints 3 and 4 
rather long, subequal, the penultimate joints longer than broad, black, tinged with eneous towards the 
base; prothorax small and narrow, strongly transverse, the sides slightly crenulate, immarginate, a little 
rounded and narrowed in front and nearly straight behind, the base and apex nearly straight, both strongly 
margined, the hind angles rectangular or subacute, the anterior angles slightly prominent, the disc longi- 
tudinally impressed in the centre behind and with a shallow irregular depression on each side about the 
middle, the basal foveee deep, the surface rather uneven and very coarsely and closely punctured, the 
punctures here and there confluent; scutellum subtriangular, flat, sparingly punctured; elytra rather 
long, subparallel to beyond the middle, somewhat depressed on the disc, striate-punctate, the punctures 
strongly transverse and approximate and moderately deep and coarse, the interstices almost smooth and 
quite narrow, the alternate ones rather broader and slightly raised (more strongly so towards the apex) ; 
beneath pubescent, comparatively coarsely and closely punctured, bright greenish-zeneous; epipleure 
extending to the apex of the elytra; legs slightly pubescent, rather long and slender, closely and coarsely 
punctured, greenish-eneous, the basal half of the femora and the tibis: more or less reddish, the tarsi 
bluish-black, the first joint of the posterior tarsi rather shorter than the apical joint; the fifth ventral 
segment in the male with a broad transverse semicircular impression in the middle behind, the anterior 
tibiee nearly straight in this sex. 
Length 7-84 millim.; breadth 23-23 millim. (d.) 
Hab. GuateMata, near the city, Aceytuno (Salvin). 
Two examples, apparently both males. S. punctipes is allied to S. permodicum, but 
differs as follows :—the eyes are larger and more approximate; the thorax is smaller, 
strongly transverse, more narrowed and rounded anteriorly, and more closely though 
equally coarsely punctured ; the elytra are more depressed, and have the very slightly 
raised alternate interstices narrower ; the under surface is bright greenish-zneous (not 
dull bronze), pubescent, and more coarsely punctured ; and the legs are very coarsely 
and closely punctured. From 8. /angwidum and its allies it is separated by the wider 
and slightly raised alternate elytral interstices, as well as by other characters. 
I did not myself meet with this species in Guatemala. 
63. Strongylium subcostatum. (Tab. XVI. fig. 15, ¢.) 
Strongylium subcostatum, Ma&kl. Monogr. p. 208; Act. Soc. Fenn. viii. part 1, p. 316°. 
Hab. Mextco (coll. Chevrolat); GUATEMALA, Panzos, Teleman, and San Juan in Vera 
Paz (Champion). 
L have not seen this species from Mexico; but an insect found in plenty by myself 
in various places on the lower part of the Guatemalan Atlantic slope agrees with 
Miklin’s description. S. swbcostatum is one of numerous closely-allied 'Tropical- 
American species, distinguished by their geneous or greenish-sneous surface ; coarsely 
