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HABROPHORA (p. 169). 
2. Habrophora viridicollis. 
Dark fuscous; the antenne fulvous, the seventh and the apical two joints black; head and thorax obscure 
metallic green, finely pubescent ; elytra very closely punctate-striate, each with four whitish spots ante- 
riorly and an irregular dentate transverse band below the middle. 
Length 23-3 lines. 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 
In general shape and appearance this species resembles H. maculipennis, from which 
it may be at once distinguished by the metallic green head and thorax and the slightly — 
different pattern of the elytra. The metallic colour is not very bright, owing to the 
fine pubescence and the close punctuation; the spots and the elytral band are formed 
by fine pubescence, the spots being placed before the middle obliquely, the lateral one 
more elongate than the others and connected with the band at the sides, this band 
being of variable width and extending across the suture. 
SPHROPIS. (To follow the genus Habrophora, p. 169.) 
Spharopis, Lefévre, Rev. et Mag. Zool. 1876, p. 302 ; Catal. Eumolp. in Mém. Soc. Roy. Liége, xi. 
p. 92 (1885). 7 
The members of this genus resemble in shape a small Noda or Colaspis, from which 
they may be known by the thickly pubescent upper surface; from Colaspis they also 
differ by the thorax being without lateral teeth or distinct angles, and by the terminal 
joints of the antenne being thickened. One species has been obtained in plenty in 
various parts of the State of Panama; the five other members of the genus are inhabi- 
tants of Tropical South America. 
1. Spheropis champion1. 
Spheropis championi, Lefévre, Bull. Soc, Ent. Fr. 1877, p. clvi*. 
Hab. Panama, Bugaba, David, San Miguel in the Pearl Islands (Champion *). 
METACHROMA (p. 169). 
Metachroma variabilis (p. 170). 
To the localities given, add :—Muxico, Tapachula in Chiapas (Hége). 
I refer some specimens from Southern Mexico to this species, as these have the 
thorax and the apex of the elytra impunctate; in a few others, however, from the 
same locality there is an extremely fine punctuation visible on the thorax, and it is 
therefore possible that M. regularis, Jac., may only be a variety of MW. variabilis. 
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