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and metasterrmm is variable, it being very sparse and fine in the type and some of the 



other examples, and closer and much 

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a. Body rufous, with black markings above and beneath, those on the prothorax consisting of a spot on the 

 flanks before the middle, a lanciform median vitta, and an oblique streak on each side of it near the base; 

 the scuteilum black ; the elytra with a patch below the shoulder, a larger one at the sides towards the 

 apex, an oblique triangular spot on the disc near the middle of the suture, and a streak along the suture 

 at the tip, black ; femora, tibiae, and rostrum rufous, the femora black at the apex. — Colombia, Antioquia 

 (type, 6 ). 



/5. Body rufous, and with black markings as in the type, except that the median streak on the prothorax is 

 abbreviated behind and the two oblique marks on the disc are replaced by two large basal spots, and 

 the spots on the outer part of the elytra are smaller ; femora, tibiae, and rostrum rufous. (Fig. 15.) 

 Costa. Eica, Miravalles ( $ ). 



y. Body beneath entirely, or in great part, and the legs, rostrum, and scuteilum black ; prothorax and elytra 

 rufous, the former with two large spots at the base and one on the disc black, the elytra marked much 

 as in the type (the submedian spot transverse in the Chiriqui specimens, and oblique and preceded by a 

 short black streak in the one from Guapiles). (Fig. 13.)— Costa Eica, Panama ( <$ ). 



c$. Body beneath, legs, rostrum, and scuteilum black ; the black markings on the prothorax and elytra largely 

 extended — the two spots at the base of the prothorax coalescent and extending completely across, and 

 also confluent with the median streak, the elytra with the humeral and submedian spots coalescent, 

 and the sutural and subapical markings united into a large apical patch. (Fig. 14.)— Panama ( <$ ). 













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(slightly injured in the type) is stout, moderately long, curved, 

 faintly punctured, and the broader basal portion is sharply grooved to the deep fro 





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in both sexes. 



coxae have each a small tuft of long erect 



The length varies from 15-23 m 



m., the single femal 



being very much smaller than the males. Chevrolat 2 incorrectly gives " Mexico 



the locality 



We figure three specimens (two males from Chiriqui and a female 



from Costa Rica), all somewhat differently marked from the typ 



10. Cactophagus pulcherrimus. (Tab. IV. figg. 16, 16 a, 17, e , vara.) 



Sphenophorus pulcherrimus, Chevr. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1882, p. 579 \ 

 Phyllerythrurus 'pulcherrimus, Chevr. op. cit. 1885. pp. 92, 93 2 . 



Hab. Mexico 1 2 (Salle, Mus. Brit.). 



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same width as the interrupted band on the elytra below the 



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