ATTELABUS. 13 
short; surface finely rugose, with an angulated impression extending across the middle; 
on each flank deeply obliquely impressed. Elytra rather long, of a yellow colour (when 
wetted this becomes golden, and is no doubt of that colour during life), margined with 
dark red at the sides and suture, with a raised oval space at the base on each side of 
the scutellum ; behind these elevations is a transverse band of dark red colour, which is 
coarsely punctate, the parts behind being nearly smooth. 
Also described from a single male example. The upper surface of the anterior femur 
is shagreened; on the front edge towards the extremity there is a tooth, and near the 
middle are two tubercles placed one above the other. The ventral segments are deplanate 
on a rather small space, and pubescent, the pubescence at the sides being long and 
erect. 
B. Thorax with constriction behind the front margin. 
29, Attelabus breviceps, sp.n. (Tab. I. fig. 10.) 
Rufus; elytris sulcatis, plagis plurimis testaceis (in vita auratis), lateribus ad medium angulo elevato; capite 
inter oculos sulcato ; pedibus testaceis, femoribus anterioribus ex parte majore rufis, in utroque sexu 
bidentatis. 
Long. 4 millim. 
Hab. Panama, Bugaba 1000 feet (Champion). 
Head and rostrum very short, the eyes short, very convex, separated by only a small 
space, which is deeply sulcate. Thorax pale red, with a transverse depression behind 
the front margin and a deep angulated impression across the middle, the angle of this 
impression prolonged backwards as a short longitudinal impression, impunctate. 
Elytra moderately long, with a small angular elevation on each side about the middle ; 
rather deeply sulcate, the sulci at the base coarsely punctate ; of a dark red colour, with 
a yellow space on each side of the scutellum, an elongate yellow mark behind the 
shoulder, a large geminate one before the extremity, and between these and the base 
four other marks placed transversely. 
The sexual characters in this very distinct species are only slight, but in the male 
the front tibize are a little longer and there is only one mucro at their extremity, in 
the female there is a rather obscure second mucro. 
30. Attelabus binotatus. (Tab. I. fig. 11, 2.) 
Attelabus binotatus, Gyll. in Schénh. Gen. et Spec. Cure. v. p. 316’. 
Hab. Mexico, Vera Cruz (Chevrolat 1), Toxpam, Cordova, Playa Vicente (Sallé), 
Jalapa (Hége); British Honpuras, R. Sarstoon (Blancaneaur); GUATEMALA, Cerro 
Zunil, San Gerdnimo, San Juan, La Tinta, Panzos, Cubilguitz (Champion), Coban 
(Conradt) ; Nicaragua, Chontales (Janson); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2500 to 4000 
feet (Champion). 
Although so widely distributed in our region this is apparently not a common insect ; 
