DRANCES.—SYMPHORA. 87 
coarsely, the rest of the surface more sparsely, punctured; legs piceous-black, closely and roughly 
punctured. 
Length 44 millim.; breadth 14 millim. 
Hab. Muxico, Guanajuato (Sailé). 
One example, possibly a male. 
SYMPHORA. 
Symphora, Leconte, New species Col. p. 150 (1866). 
Two species of this genus have been described, both from the United States; seven 
are now added from Central America, of five of these single examples only have been 
captured. The last joint of the maxillary palpi varies a little in shape in our species, 
it being rather short and with the outer and apical sides more rounded in S. ruficeps 
and more elongate and with the outer side straighter in 8. maculata. The penultimate 
joint of the tarsi is feebly but distinctly lobed beneath in §. maculata, but in our other 
species it is not or only very indistinctly lobed. The eyes also vary in size, 2. e. they 
are moderately large and very prominent in S. maculata, and very small in S. ruficeps ; 
in the North-American S. flavicollis they are larger than in either of the Central- 
American species. With our very limited amount of material it is not advisable to 
treat these differences as generic. These insects are of small size and have somewhat 
the facies of Anaspis. 
They are found about fallen trees. 
1. Prothorax with an oblique groove on each side behind. 
1. Symphora tropicalis. (Tab. IV. fig. 17.) 
Moderately elongate, not very convex, varying in colour from piceous-black to brown, the head (the eyes 
excepted), the prothorax above and beneath, and the oral organs reddish- or flavo-testaceous, sparsely 
pubescent, shining. Head closely and finely punctured, the eyes rather small, very widely separated ; 
antenne moderately long, the four basal joints, and usually the apical one also, testaceous, the rest 
piceous ; prothorax strongly transverse, the sides slightly rounded anteriorly, narrowed in front, and 
almost straight behind, the disc with an oblique deep groove on each side behind the middle, the surface 
densely and somewhat coarsely punctured ; elytra rather long, subparallel to about the middle and thence 
rapidly narrowed to the apex, very closely and moderately coarsely punctured; beneath very densely and 
finely punctured, the metasternum almost smooth in the middle; legs testaceous, the tarsi sometimes a 
little darker. 
Length 23-3 millim. (¢ 2.) 
Hab. GuatEMALA, Zapote, Capetillo, San Gerénimo (Champion). 
Var, The elytra with the apical half (the suture excepted) and a transverse space below the base (indeter- 
minately defined) fusco-testaceous. 
Hab. GuatemaLa, San Gerénimo (Champion). 
Five examples, including one of the variety. These differ a little inter se, but are, 
no doubt, all referable to one species. /. tropicalis closely resembles S. flavicollis, Lec., 
