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little beyond the middle and thence to the apex almost smooth, and have a common 
median fascia and sometimes the extreme base black or piceous; the legs are flavo- 
testaceous, the base of the tibiae sometimes infuscate. 
_ 27. Anthicus equinoctialis. 
Anthicus equinoctialis, De}. Cat. 3rd edit. p. 238°. 
Anthicus (Acanthinus) equinoctialis, La Ferté, Monogr. Anthic. p. 137”. 
Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Hoge), Atoyac in Vera Cruz (H. H. Smith) ; British Honpuras, 
R. Hondo (Blancaneaur); Guatemata, Lanquin (Champion); Panama, Volcan de 
Chiriqui (Champion).—CotomBia 2, Cartagena!; VENEZUELA; Brazit, Bahia ?. 
Central-American specimens agree well with La Ferté’s types and description. In 
this insect the head and thorax are rugulose and opaque, and ferruginous in colour ; 
the elytra are testaceous or reddish-testaceous, shining, rather coarsely striate-punctate 
to a little beyond the middle, the punctures thence to the apex abruptly becoming very 
much finer; the eyes are large and prominent ; the thorax has a short tooth at the sides 
before the middle ; the transverse post-basal depression of the elytra is moderately deep ; 
the antenne are pale ferruginous; the legs are entirely testaceous; the posterior tibie 
in both sexes are slightly curved and somewhat dilated. A. rugosus, La Ferté, from 
Brazil, is a very closely allied form. 
28. Anthicus varicornis. 
Elongate, pitchy-red, shining ; the elytra testaceous or flavo-testaceous, with a common black or piceous median 
fascia (not reaching the lateral margin) and a brownish apical patch, these markings usually connected 
along the suture and showing a tendency to enclose a large ante-apical spot of the ground-colour on each 
elytron, the extreme base and scutellar region sometimes brownish (in one example this brown marking 
extends along the suture to the median fascia); the entire upper surface sparsely clothed with long, erect, 
bristly hairs, Head rounded at the sides and very convex behind, with only a few very widely scattered 
punctures at the sides and in front, the eyes not very prominent; the palpi piceous; antenne black, the 
basal one or two joints testaceous, the apical one flavous; prothorax much longer than broad, transversely 
convex anteriorly, the sides obsoletely denticulate and somewhat angularly dilated before the middle, strongly 
constricted behind, and feebly dilated at the extreme base, the latter margined, the flanks with a deep 
excavation, the surface sparsely and rather finely punctured; elytra coarsely striate-punctate to a little 
beyond the middle and thence to the apex almost smooth, the transverse post-basal depression shallow but 
distinct ; legs flavo-testaceous or testaceous, the base of the tibie usually black or infuscate ; fifth ventral 
segment deeply triangularly depressed in the middle behind and the apex truncate in the male. 
Length 2-23 millim. (¢ 9.) 
Hab. GuateMaa, San Juan and Senahu in Vera Paz (Champion); Nicaracvua (Sallé), 
Chontales (Janson). 
Seven examples. Closely allied to A. striato-punctatus, La Ferté, from which it may 
readily be distinguished by the very much smoother thorax and the much less prominent 
eyes; the elytra are similarly marked and similarly sculptured, and the antenne also 
have the apical joint flavous. In some specimens the head and thorax are reddish- 
testaceous. 
