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3. Allecula verepacis. (Tab. XVIII. fig. 18, 2.) 
Oblong ovate, rather broad, black, moderately shining, thickly clothed with short pubescence. Head closely 
and moderately finely punctured; mandibles broad, feebly notched ; last joint of the maxillary palpi with 
its inner apical angle acutely produced; antenne (@) brownish-black, joints 4-10 each a little dilated 
at their inner apical angle; prothorax wide, strongly transverse, feebly convex, widest at the base, the 
sides sinuate behind and gradually converging from the very prominent subacute outwardly-directed hind 
angles, the basal foves scarcely indicated, the disc a little flattened before the base, the surface closely, 
_ equally, and somewhat finely but very distinctly punctured; scutellum almost smooth; elytra rather 
short and broad, with closely and rather finely punctured shallow stria which become deeper towards 
the sides and apex, the interstices moderately convex and very sparsely and finely punctured; beneath 
black, more shining, somewhat closely and coarsely punctured, the metasternum deeply canaliculate in 
its posterior half and (except at the sides of the groove) very coarsely and sparsely punctured all over ; 
legs black, the tarsi lighter. 
Length 10? millim.; breadth 43 millim. ( 9.) 
Hab, GuaTema.a, Senahu in Vera Paz 3000 feet (Champion). 
One female example. Somewhat resembling A. belt?, but shorter, with more finely 
punctured and very differently shaped thorax, bifid mandibles, and canaliculate meta- 
sternum. A. verepacis bears a close resemblance to several Australian species; it has 
the inner apical angles of the last joint of the maxillary palpi very acute, and may have 
to be eventually removed from this genus. 
4. Allecula ferox. (Tab. XVIII. figg. 19, 19a, 5,6.) 
Elongate ovate, black or brownish-black, rather dull, thickly clothed with short pubescence. Head very closely 
and rather finely punctured ; mandibles broad, feebly notched; prothorax broader than long, convex, the 
sides rounded in front and almost straight behind, the hind angles rather obtuse, the basal fovez almost 
obsolete, the base slightly emarginate in front of the scutellum and with a very short shallow longitudinal 
impression in front of the emargination, the surface exceedingly closely, equally, and somewhat finely 
punctured; scutellum rather closely and finely punctured ; elytra moderately long, subparallel in their 
basal half, a little wider posteriorly in the female, with rather finely punctured striw, the punctures 
very closely packed, the interstices moderately convex and very closely and finely punctured, the apices 
slightly mucronate in the female; beneath more shining, very closely and finely punctured, the sides of 
the metasternum and the flanks of the prothorax very coarsely so; legs brownish-black ; antennse fusco- 
ferruginous, the joints a little swollen towards their apex. 
¢. Tibie curved and slightly sinuous, the anterior pair angularly widened on the inner side before the middle. 
Ventral segments 2-4 very feebly carinate in the middle in front, the third more distinctly so. Fifth 
ventral segment long, with a large, depressed, almost impunctate space in the centre, the depression 
followed by an abrupt and very deep transverse groove and preceded by an indistinct longitudinal élevation 
in the middle. The lateral lobes of the last ventral segment very greatly developed, stout, and each 
divided into two—the lower one strongly hooked at the apex, twisted, and abruptly curved outwards near 
the base, the upper one spatulate in shape and clothed with long hairs within; the central sheath broad 
and stout, gradually narrowing, the apex thin, rounded, and bent a little upwards, the apical portion 
thickly clothed with short sete above. (Figg. 19 a, 6.) 
9. Fifth ventral segment deeply and semicircularly emarginate in the middle at the apex, and with the apical 
margin strongly and acuminately produced on each side of the emargination. 
Length 12-13 millim.; breadth 43-5 millim. (¢ 2.) 
Hab. Guatemata, San Gerénimo (Champion). 
Six examples. 
