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A large, robust, rhomboidal form, black, with a bright sanguineous basal fascia to 

 the elytra, the elytra themselves finely punctate-striate and with the fourth interstice 

 widened and more or less gibbous at the base. The metasternum is broadly hollowed 

 down the middle from a little below the subcorneal intercoxal process in both sexes, 

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2. Phyllerythrurus quadrinotatus, sp. n. (Tab. IV. figg. 21, 21 «, d .) 



Elongate-subrhomboidal, robust, opaque above, black ; the prothorax sometimes with a curved, transverse, 

 subapical fascia, or an oblique transverse stripe on each side, and the elytra each with two transverse 

 fasciae of variable breadth — one basal, becoming bifurcate outwards, and the other post-median, neither 

 reaching the suture — sanguineous or ferruginous. Eostrum strongly arcuate, as long as the head and 



finely punctate-striate, the interstices feebly convex or flat, the fourth and fifth swollen at the base. 

 Pygidium and under surface sparsely punctate, the former somewhat tumid at the apex ; ventral 

 excavation long, broad, and deep in both sexes. 

 Length 21-22, breadth 9 T V-9f millim. ( 6 2 .) 



Hab. Costa Rica, Cariblanco, Tuis 2400 feet {Lankesber, in coll. Godman and im 

 U.S. Nat. Mus.) ; Panama, Chiriqui (coll. Fry). 



Four examples, varying in the colour of the prothorax and in the width of the 

 elytral fasciae, the basal fascia, however, is bifurcate laterally in all of them. A very 

 large form related to P. sanguinolentus, but more elongate, the elytra bifasciate, with 

 the fourth and fifth interstices moderately swollen at the base. The non-protuberant 



metasternum, the shorter, stouter, more curved, rugose rostrum, &c, separate P 

 notatus from Eucactophagus duplocinctus (infra). 





3. Phyllerythrurus recti striatum sp. n. (Tab. IV. figg. 22, 22 a, a .) 



Somewhat fusiform, opaque above, black, pruinose ; the elytra each with a humeral spot, and an oblique fascia 

 on the disc extending from below the shoulder to about the middle of the second stria, sanguineous (the 

 fascia ochreous in one specimen), these markings often coalescent beneath. Eostrum strongly arcuate, 

 very stout, as long as the prothorax, sulcate and coarsely, closely punctate to about the middle, sparsely- 

 punctured thence to the tip, the sulcus deep along the abruptly-widened basal portion, the apical portion 

 smoother in the £ . Prothorax about as long as broad, obliquely narrowed anteriorly and slightly sinuate 

 at the sides behind the middle, bisinuate at the base, transversely hollowed on the disc posteriorly, sparsely, 

 finely punctate. Scutellum triangular, flat. Elytra much wider than the i^rothorax, oblong-subcordate, 



Length 11-1 6|, breadth 4|-7 millim. (<?$.) 



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 converging anteriorly, the base bisinuate, the disc broadly depressed posteriorly, rather sparsely, finely 

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 uniseriate-punctate. Pygidium sparsely punctured, subcarinate and setulose at the tip. Beneath very 

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