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the testaceous ground-colour, the ante-apical fascia shaped as in A. quinquemaculatus but usually more 
extended ; legs testaceous, the apices of the femora often infuscate; fifth ventral segment unimpressed, 
truncate at the apex, and the apex furnished with a short tooth on either side of the middle, in the 
male. 
Length 23 millim. (3 9.) 
Hab. British Honpuras, Belize (Blancaneaux); Nicaragua, Chontales (Janson).— 
Souta America, Santiago (coll. La Ferté). 
Six examples received from Central America agree very nearly with La Ferté’s 
description and types of A. concinnus, except as regards the colour of the apex of the 
elytra. In La Ferté’s collection, however, there is a specimen (not mentioned in his work) 
placed under this name (labelled as from Santiago *) similar to the Central-American 
examples. I accordingly treat these as a variety of the same species. In the type of 
A. concinnus the entire apex of the elytra is piceous; in the variety the piceous colour 
is less extended and in the form of an oblique ante-apical fascia. 
9. Anthicus pulchellus. (Tab. X. fig. 8.) 
Moderately elongate, ferruginous, opaque; the elytra rather shining, piceous, with a common angulated 
transverse fascia below the base (extending upwards along the suture and connected with a small 
basal spot), a narrow curved oblique stripe beyond the middle (not reaching the suture), and a small 
apical patch (from which a short somewhat oblique branch usually extends upwards on either side of the 
suture), testaceous ; the upper surface clothed with very short, fine, silky, appressed pubescence and with 
rather numerous erect bristly hairs, those on the elytra serially arranged. Head strongly transverse, 
somewhat dilated at the sides behind, moderately convex, finely rugulose and opaque throughout, the eyes 
large and prominent ; antennz testaceous, the apical three joints infuscate and a little wider than the 
others ; prothorax longer than broad, narrower than the head, rounded at the sides before and strongly 
constricted behind the middle, the anterior portion transversely convex, the posterior portion subcylindrical, 
widened a little at the base externally, the flanks with a deep groove, the base obsoletely margined, the 
surface finely rugulose ; elytra rather short, the sides somewhat rounded about the middle, subparallel 
and narrower anteriorly, rather deeply transversely depressed below the base and moderately convex 
beyond this, the basilar portion gibbous on either side of the suture, the humeri obtuse but rather promi- 
nent, the surface densely and minutely punctured, and with regular series (four on each elytron) of distinct 
scattered setiferous punctures extending from the base to the apex; legs entirely pale testaceous, the 
femora slightly clavate; fifth ventral segment truncate and slightly depressed in the middle behind in 
the male. 
Length 2-27 millim. (¢ 9.) 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 3000 feet (Champion). 
Numerous examples. Less elongate and much smaller than A. guinguemaculatus and 
A. concinnus ; the anterior portion of the thorax less convex; the elytra more shining 
and with fine but very distinct series of setiferous punctures (in addition to, and very 
distinct from, the dense minute punctuation). The peculiar pattern of the elytra will 
be best understood from our figure: the testaceous mark on each elytron beyond the 
middle is narrower and much more oblique than in A. coucinnus, and the apical patch 
is smaller and has a branch extending upwards on either side of the suture. 
* There are many places of this name in Central and South America; the insect is probably not Chilian. 
