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flattened. £. jansoni is a large-sized species, and would perhaps be equally well placed 
in Talurus. 
12. Rhabdopterus curtus. 
Rhabdophorus curtus, Lefévre, Mitth. Miinch. ent. Ver. 1878, p. 128°. 
Rhabdopterus curtus, Lefévre, Cat. Eumolp. in Mém. Soc. Roy. Liége, xi. p. 46. 
Hab. Guatemaua, Cerro Zunil (Champion); Panama, near the city (Champion).— 
CoLomBia 1. 
Single specimens only were obtained by Mr. Champion in Guatemala and the State 
of Panama ; one of these M. Lefévre has kindly compared with the type. &. curtus is 
of comparatively short, parallel shape; the thorax is finely and rather sparingly 
punctured, rounded or scarcely perceptibly angulate at the sides; the elytra are 
punctate-striate near the suture, strongly punctured at the sides, where the interstices 
are subrugose, those near the apex being costate. The length of the insect is about 
one line and a half. 
13. Rhabdopterus fulvus. 
Fulvous, joints 7-9 of the antennz fuscous; thorax remotely punctured, the sides sinuate or angulate ; elytra 
strongly and rather distantly punctured in rows, the interstices flat. 
Length 13-14 line. ; 
Of oblong, parallel shape; the clypeus with some remotely placed strong punctures, the rest of the head entirely 
impunctate ; the antennz nearly extending to the end of the elytra in the male, fulvous, the seventh to 
the ninth joints fuscous, the third and fourth joints slender, equal, the following joints still more elongate ; 
thorax transverse, more than twice as broad as long, the anterior margin nearly straight, the sides 
angularly widened or sinuate at the middle, the surface irregularly, remotely, and rather strongly 
punctured ; elytra not wider at the base than the thorax, parallel, with an obsolete depression below the 
base, strongly punctured within this depression and at the sides, more finely so towards the apex, where 
the punctures are arranged in rows, the suture accompanied by a deeply impressed stria; prosternum 
rather elongate, slightly narrowed between the coxe. 
Hab. Panama, Bugaba, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 
This comparatively small species agrees in shape, the structure of its thorax, antenne, 
&c., with Rhabdopterus; it may be easily distinguished from the allied forms by its 
uniform fulvous colour. . 
HERMESIA. (To follow the genus Rhabdopterus, p. 193.) 
Hermesia, Lefévre, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1877, p. clxxviil. 
A few species from Tropical America, one of which extends northwards into our 
region, are placed by Lefévre in this genus; they resemble Colaspis in general appear- 
ance, but differ from it in having a rather more transversely-shaped thorax, the sides of 
which are dilated and have a more or less sinuate margin. 
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