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moderately coarsely punctured; beneath piceous-brown or piceo-castaneous, densely and not very finely 
punctured; legs testaceous. 
Length 23-3 millim. ( 9.) 
Hab. Guatemata, Duetias (Champion). 
Three examples, apparently including both sexes. This insect is more convex and more 
obtuse behind than S. tropicalis &c.; the apical joint of the maxillary palpi is piceous in 
colour, and has the outer and apical sides, and also the inner angle, more rounded. 
5. Symphora maculata. (Tab. IV. fig. 19, ¢ .) 
Elongate, not very convex, moderately shining, sparsely pubescent; flavo-testaceous, the prothorax with an 
ill-defined stripe on each side of the disc, the elytra with a triangular scutellar patch (not including the 
scutellum), connected along the suture with a common transverse band near the apex, and a rather large 
lateral spot placed a little before the middle, and the eyes, black or piceous. Head closely and somewhat 
coarsely punctured, the oral organs testaceous ; the eyes convex, prominent, and moderately large ; antenne 
very long, extending to beyond the middle of the elytra, joints 1-3 flavo-testaceous, 4-11 piceous, the apical 
joint a little lighter; prothorax moderately transverse, rather convex, the sides straight behind and 
narrowing and rounded in front, the hind angles subrectangular, the dise with a deep oblique impression 
on each side towards the base, the surface densely and rather coarsely punctured; elytra narrowing from 
about the middle, closely and moderately coarsely punctured; beneath (the head excepted) piceous, very 
closely and rather coarsely, the ventral surface more finely, punctured; legs entirely testaceous, the 
penultimate joint of all the tarsi feebly lobed beneath. 
Length 2? millim. (<¢.) 
Hab. Guaremana, Cerro Zunil 4500 feet (Champion). 
One male example only of this very distinct species was captured. The antenne are 
much longer in S. maculata than in the other members of the genus. 
2. Prothorax without oblique groove on each side behind. 
6. Symphora convexa. ('[ab. IV. fig. 20.) 
Moderately elongate, very convex, strongly narrowed posteriorly, above and beneath piceous-black, the head 
anteriorly and the oral organs fusco-testaceous, sparsely pubescent, not very shining. Head finely and 
closely punctured, the space between the eyes more sparsely so, shining, the eyes rather small; antenne 
moderately long, black, the basal four joints fusco-testaceous; prothorax strongly transverse, convex, 
narrowing from the base, the surface very densely and rugosely punctured and without impressions ; 
elytra narrowing from a little below the base, very closely and rather coarsely punctured ; beneath closely 
and coarsely punctured, the ventral surface much more finely so; legs brownish-black. 
Length 3 millim. 
Hab. Guatemata, Cerro Zunil 4500 feet (Champion). 
A single example. Viewed laterally and longitudinally this insect is of a more 
arcuate shape than any other species of the genus. The thorax is narrowed from the 
base, very densely and rugosely punctured, and quite unimpressed. The elytra are 
more narrowed posteriorly. than in the allied forms. S. convera closely resembles some 
of the black species of Anaspis; but, apart from other differences, may be at once known 
from such by the more slender tarsi, the first joint of the hind pair being exceedingly 
elongate and longer than the three other joints united *. 
* In our figures of this species and of S. apicalis and S. maculata the hind tarsi are incorrectly drawn: the 
first joint should be more elongate and the other joints shorter (as in fig. 17). 
BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Coleopt., Vol. IV. Pt. 2, July 1889. NN 
