COPTURUS. 17 
Found in profusion at Bugaba on the bark of an enormous fallen tree in a forest 
clearing which had been burnt to plant rice. More robust than C. tricolor, the 
markings different, the elytra subcordate, the second joint of the funiculus very 
elongate. C. montezuma differs from the S.-American C. rubricollis, Gyll., in having 
the elytra longer and laterally trifasciate, the prothorax with three narrow ochreous 
vitte on the posterior lobe, the eyes less approximate; the elytral interstices convex. 
16. Copturus neohispanicus. (Tab. V. fig. 16.) 
Copturus neohispanicus, Heller, Abhandl. Mus. Dresd. no. 11, p. 33°. 
Hab. Mexico (Koltze+, in Mus. Dresden). 
The type of this species has been communicated by Dr. Heller. It may be at once 
separated from the other similarly-coloured Central-American forms (7. e. those with 
the vestiture of the anterior portion of the prothorax fiery-red) by the very finely and 
narrowly costate elytral interstices, and the excavate anterior portion of the meta- 
sternum. The ventral segments 1 and 2 have an almost bare transverse space on each 
side in front. The Colombian C. severini, Heller (the type of which I have seen), is 
very like C. neohispanicus, and has a similarly excavate metasternum ; but it is more 
elongate, the alternate elytral interstices are more sharply costate, and the legs area 
little longer. 
17. Copturus cincticollis, sp. n. (‘Lab. V. fig. 17.) 
Subelliptic, black, the antennze and the apical margin of the elytra obscure ferruginous, the vestiture close and 
fine: the head with a rufous line around the eyes above; the prothorax with three short whitish vitix 
extending from the base to the broad carmine-red band in front, the outer one continued downwards on 
to the humeri and mesosternal side-pieces and connected anteriorly with the oblique white stripe running 
down the flanks, the intervening spaces on the posterior lobe almost bare; the elytra with a small sub- 
quadrate scutellar patch, a transverse mark below it, and the suture thence to the apex, whitish, these 
markings partly included within a common Y-shaped black patch extending from the shoulders to the 
apex, the rest of the vestiture fulvous streaked with black; the under surface white, with transverse 
black spaces along the sides and a small spot at the apex of the last ventral segment. Eyes subcontiguous. 
Rostrum rugulosely punctate and carinate at the base. Funiculus with joint 2 as long as 3-5 united. 
Prothorax strongly transverse, narrowing from the base; densely punctate. LElytra narrowing from a 
little below the base, blunt at the apex; finely punctate-striate, the interstices feebly convex, flat near 
the suture. Meso- and metasternum slightly depressed between the middle cox. Legs rather short ; 
femora unidentate, the posterior pair with a minute additional tooth, the intermediate and posterior pairs 
carinate externally. 
Length 3-4, breadth 13-2 millim. 
Hab. Panama, Bugaba (Champion). 
Many specimens. Smaller than C. neohispanicus, the elytra differently marked, their 
interstices not costate, the prothorax (as seen from above) with a subquadrate whitish 
patch at each hind angle partly enclosing a black spot, the metasternum without 
definite impression between the middle coxe, the eyes more approximate. 
