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seems to be allied to S. flavo-fasciatus, Suffr., in coloration; the finely punctured thorax 
and elytra and the uniformly pubescent under surface will, however, sufficiently distin- 
guish it from that species. 
23. Scolochrus imitans. (Tab. XX XVIII. fig. 15.) 
2. Flavous, the head, the disc of the thorax, and the breast fulvous ; elytra strongly punctate-striate, flavous, 
the middle occupied by a broad transverse dark brown band which extends to the shoulders. 
Length 2 lines. 
Hab. Panama, David in Chiriqui (Champion). 
Closely resembling the typical form of S. brunneo-fasciatus in colour, but differing 
considerably from it in sculpture. The head is closely punctured throughout, especially 
on the vertex, its colour dark brown, the disc being stained with flavous; the labrum 
is testaceous; the antenne are black, with the five basal joints flavous. The thorax is 
remotely but more distinctly punctured than in S. brunneo-fasciatus, and has the lateral 
margin broadly flavous. The elytra are coloured exactly as in S. brunneo-fasciatus, but 
the punctures are deep and strongly impressed, the yellow apical portion, however, 
being impunctate; the first row of punctures (following the short sutural one) extends 
to half the length of the elytra and joins the suture, its anterior portion closely 
approaching the second row; the following two rows are also arranged in pairs ante- 
riorly, while the rows at the sides are only intact towards. the base and interrupted 
lower down, the ninth row being again entire. The underside and legs are flavous, 
clothed with short silvery pubescence ; the breast is darker. | 
From the corresponding sex of S. brunneo-fasciatus the present insect differs, there- 
fore, in the closely punctured head, the broad flavous sides of the thorax, and the strong 
elytral punctuation, and also in its much smaller size and less robust form. 
24. Scolochrus minutus. (Tab. XXXVIII. fig. 16.) 
Black, a small spot below the eyes, the lateral margin of the thorax, the sides of the abdomen and of the 
pygidium, and the tibie, partly, yellowish-white; thorax finely and closely punctured; elytra finely 
punctate-striate, the anterior half fulvous, the posterior half black. 
Var, Thorax entirely black, the elytra fulvous. 
Length 1-14 line. 
In this species, one of the smallest of the genus, the upper and lateral portions of the head are almost entirely 
occupied by the large eyes (these being contiguous in the male), the lower portion being remotely punc- 
tured and having a transverse yellowish spot; labrum yellowish-white; antennz two-thirds the length of 
the body, black, the lower three joints yellowish beneath; thorax two and a half times as broad as long, the 
sides rounded at the middle, with an oblique depression at the base, and strongly punctured, the rest of the 
surface very finely and closely punctate. the interspaces extremely minutely aciculate and wrinkled, the 
lateral margin narrowly flavous, the disc black; seutellum yellowish; elytra regularly punctate-striate, 
the space near the scutellum almost impunctate, the anterior half fulvous, the posterior half black; 
pygidium whitish, with a central black band; legs black, the base of the posterior femora and their tibie 
to a greater or less degree, as well as the tarsi and the sides of the abdomen, yellowish-white. 
Hab. Panama, Bugaba, David in Chiriqui (Champion). 
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