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2. Proctophana fulvicollis. (Tab. XXXVII. fig. 8.) 
Broadly subquadrate, purplish-black ; thorax fulvous, pubescent at the sides ; elytra punctate-striate, a large 
transverse band at the base, and an elongate spot at the apex, fulvous. 
Length 23 lines. 
2. Head dark purplish, the vertex swollen, impunctate, the lower portion closely and strongly punctured near 
the eyes, the latter slightly notched ; antenne not quite extending to the base of the thorax, black, the 
second and third joints obscure fulvous, the latter smaller than the preceding joint, the others strongly 
transversely serrate ; thorax more than twice as broad as long at the base, the sides perfectly straight 
though rapidly converging, the disc fulvous, the anterior and posterior margins black, the surface strongly 
but irregularly punctured, obsoletely depressed at the sides, the latter pubescent, the posterior margin 
strongly oblique at the sides, its median lobe straight at the middle; scutellum black, triangular, impunc- 
tate ; elytra broad, not very evenly, but rather strongly, punctate-striate (each elytron with ten rows of 
punctures), the interstices slightly transversely wrinkled (when viewed in a certain way), the fulvous 
portion surrounded by the black margins and interrupted at the middle by a broad mesially widened dark 
purplish band; femora fulvous at the base, the tibie more or less fulvous, closely pubescent ; last abdo- 
minal segment with a deep fovea. 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 
A single female specimen. LP. fulvicollis forms the third known species of the genus 
Proctophana ; it has the humeral callus very prominent and the elytral lobe strongly 
developed : this latter is closely and irregularly punctured. 
DACHRYS (p. 33). 
Dachrys bipartita (p. 33). 
To the locality given, add:—Panama, Bugaba, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 
The Panama examples do not seem to differ from the typical form from Nicaragua 
except in size, our specimens varying from one to two linesin length. JD. bipartita 
seems to be closely allied to D. pusilla, Lac., but differs from it in the anterior fulvous 
portion of the elytra being quadrate in shape and not prolonged suturally. 
BABIA (p. 33). 
Babia pudica (p. 33). 
According to Lacordaire’s description the red basal spot of the elytra commences 
below the shoulders; I have seen no species of Babia from Central America thus 
coloured. 
Babia magnicollis (p. 34). 
Though the two specimens before me from Juquila do not quite agree with Lacor- 
daire’s description, I must refer them to B. magnicollis, the thorax being comparatively 
long (in one specimen, however, it is decidedly broader than long, in the other nearly 
as long as broad, the latter agreeing with the description). In these examples the 
head is extremely finely granulate; the thorax (which, according to Lacordaire, 
shows no trace of punctuation even under the strongest lens) is extremely minutely 
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