LOBOPODA. AGL 
interstices quite flat throughout, and sparsely and finely punctured ; beneath sparsely and rather coarsely 
punctured, the middle of the metasternum more closely and finely so in the male; legs and antenne 
reddish-ferruginous, the latter comparatively stout. 
g. Anterior tibie subtriangularly widened on the inner side before the middle. The lateral lobes of the last 
ventral segment short and broad, curved, and spoon-shaped; the central sheath acuminate, the apical 
portion horizontal, and setose beneath, the apex slightly thickened. (Tab. XVII. fig. 19.) 
Length 113 millim.; breadth 3? millim. (¢.) 
Hab. Nicaragua, Chontales (Janson). 
A single male example. In the sculpture of the elytra this species resembles 
LL. opaca; it differs, however, from that insect in its more convex and more closely 
punctured thorax, narrower and more parallel shape, and stouter legs. The cedeagus 
is formed almost exactly as in Z. opaca. 
25. Lobopoda sculpturata. (Tab. XVII. fig. 20, ¢.) 
Moderately elongate, subfusiform, slightly shining, thickly pubescent, brownish-piceous, the elytra in greater 
part reddish-brown, the base and suture narrowly, and the lateral margins more broadly (especially 
behind), for three-fourths of their length, remaining of the ground-colour. Head sparsely punctured ; 
eyes large and approximate in the male, smaller and narrowly separated in the female; prothorax 
convex, a8 wide at the base as the elytra, the sides a little sinuate behind, the hind angles subacute, the 
disc obsoletely canaliculate, and slightly impressed in the middle before the base, the basal foves: shallow, 
the surface thickly covered with coarse, raised, irregular points, immediately behind each of which is 
placed a shallow setiferous puncture; elytra gradually narrowing from the base, the sides forming 
almost a continuous outline with the prothorax (not abruptly narrowed as usual at the shoulders), deeply 
striate, the striee with moderately coarse punctures, the interstices feebly convex on the basal half of the 
disc, strongly so at the sides and apex, and with a few widely scattered impressions; beneath sparsely 
and finely punctured, the middle of the metasternum closely so in the male; legs and antenn ferrugi- 
nous, the femora darker. 
g. Anterior tibiz: angularly widened on the inner side before the middle. 
Length 6-61 millim.; breadth 2;-23 milim. (¢ @.) 
Hab. Panama, Bugaba, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 
Three examples. ‘The very peculiar sculpture of the thorax and the reddish-brown 
disc of each elytron are characters by which this small species may be easily identified. 
The unique male is rather immature, and I am not able to examine its cedeagus. 
26. Lobopoda levicollis. (Tab. XVII. tigg. 21, 214, 4, 3.) 
Moderately elongate, fusiform, dark reddish-brown, brownish-piceous, or black, shining, thickly pubescent. 
Head with rather coarse scattered punctures; eyes large and approximate in the male, more distant in 
the female; prothorax convex, the sides almost straight behind, and strongly rounded in front, the hind 
angles rectangular, the dise obsoletely canaliculate, and shallowly transversely impressed before the base, 
the basal fove rather shallow, the surface moderately finely and somewhat closely punctured; elytra 
very little wider than the prothorax at the base (the sides forming almost a continuous line with the 
prothorax), narrowing gradually from a little below the base, with moderately deep and closely punctured 
striw, the interstices feebly convex and rather coarsely punctured, the apices rounded in both sexes; 
beneath sparsely but coarsely punctured; legs and antenne more or less ferruginous, the femora usually 
darker. 
¢. Anterior tibie sinuous within. The lateral lebes of the last ventral segment very long and narrow, much 
recurved beneath and hook-like (the recurved portion extending back about one third of the length of the 
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