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sides of the body beneath, the basal margin of the first ventral segment, and the legs also viridi-squamose, 
the rest of the surface almost bare. Head and rostrum sparsely punctate, the rostrum longer than 
broad, smooth and raised along the median line, the inter-ocular fovea small; eyes large, depressed ; 
antenne rather slender, the scape reaching the front of the prothorax. Prothorax slightly broader than 
long, somewhat rounded at the sides, narrowing from the middle forwards, bisinuate at the base ; 
sparsely granulate, the space occupied by the three narrow vitte depressed. Scutcllum transverse. 
Elytra elongate, widened to the middle and then arcuately narrowing to the broadly produced apical 
portion, with a common transverse excavation at the base, the apices mucronate, the humeri not 
prominent; finely seriato-punctate, the interstices flat, 6 slightly depressed. Fifth ventral segment 
tumid along the middle posteriorly. Legs rather slender; anterior tibie strongly unguiculate; posterior 
tibie irregularly denticulate to the apex within. 
Length 164, breadth 54 millim. 
Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Mus. Brit., ex coll. Fry). 
One specimen. A species sharply viridi-trilineate above, and with the rest of the 
upper surface almost bare and shining, the elytra feebly seriate-punctate and with a 
deep transverse post-scutellar excavation, the tibize not sulcate the posterior pair 
irregularly denticulate. E. viridilineatus approaches the trilineate variety of 
E. sulcicrus, which has a sharply carinate rostrum, distinctly sulcate tibie, &c. 
31. Exophthalmus jekelianus. (Tab. XII. fig. 10, 2.) 
Prepodes jekelianus, White, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (3) i. p. 357 (1858) (@ nee od)’. 
Eustales stellaris, Pascoe, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) v. p. 425 (1880) *. 
Oblong, narrow (¢ ), broader (@ ), shining, black or piceous, the tibise and the base of the femora ferruginous 
in immature specimens; thickly clothed (more sparsely on the disc of the elytra) with small green or 
cinereous scales, which are condensed into two faint submarginal vittse on the prothorax and numerous 
sharply-defined spots on the elytra (mainly on the alternate interstices), the metasternum and first two 
ventral segments almost bare down the middle ; the legs viridi- or cinereo-squamose, the scales on the 
tibie and apices of the femora often violaceous or blue; the surface also set with very short (or longer) 
seattered hairs. Rostrum longer than broad, widened anteriorly, convexly raised and smooth along the 
median line; head feebly foveate between the eyes, the latter large, rather depressed, and separated by 
about their own width; antennal scape reaching the front of the prothorax, the club long. Prothorax 
transverse, bisinuate at the base, broadly flattened or depressed down the middle, irregularly, confluently 
foveato-punctate. Elytra subparallel in their basal halt in ¢, widened posteriorly in 2, convex, with a 
common transverse depression behind the scutellum, mucronate at the tip; with twelve rows of rather 
coarse punctures, the interstices here and there transversely confluent. First ventral segment slightly 
depressed down the middle in ¢. Tibie slender, not grooved externally, the anterior pair strongly 
unguiculate, the posterior pair usually irregularly denticulate within in @. 
Length 8-13, breadth 23-5 millim. (¢ 2.) 
Hab. Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt, Janson); Cosra Rica, Rio Sucio (Rogers), 
Turrialba (Pittier, Biolley), Siquirres, Reventazon, La Palma, La Flor (Biolley), 
Chirripo, Tuis (Pittier), Azahar de Cartago, Monte Retondo (Underwood), San Carlos, 
Zent, Puerto Limon (U.S. Nat. Mus.), Piedras Negras (coll. Solart); Panama?, Bocas 
del Toro (U.S. Nat. Mus.); Paciric Suore or CentTRAL AMERICA. 
Apparently a common insect in Nicaragua and Costa Rica, but I have not seen it 
from Chiriqui. Amongst the long series examined, seven only have the scales 
cinereous, instead of green, the form described by White and Pascoe. In a few 
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