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them by the long and filiform antenna. The shape of the thorax and the punctate-_ 
striate elytra will also separate it from Disonycha, and the open coxal cavities from 
Systena. ‘The thoracic groove is in some specimens quite obsolete. 
1. Orodes nigropictus. (Tab. XLII. fig. 3.) 
Testaceous, the antenns (the basal joints excepted) and the vertex black ; thorax impunctate ; elytra with the 
basal portion raised, strongly and closely punctured in rows, testaceous, a common transverse patch at the 
base extending downwards along the suture, and a longitudinal band at the sides, widened behind and not 
_ reaching the apex, black. 
Var. a. Elytra black, the lateral and apical margins testaceous. 
Var. b. Elytra black, the apical margin testaceous. 
Var. c. Elytra entirely testaceous. 
Length 2 lines. 
Head rather broad, not constricted behind the eyes, the latter moderately prominent; the frontal tubercles 
small, indistinct ; the clypeus broad, flattened and strongly deflexed: the vertex remotely but distinctly 
punctured, its base sometimes black; antenns extending to two-thirds the length of the elytra, black, the 
lower three joints, and sometimes the apical two also, testaceous, all the joints with the exception of the 
second elongate and slender, the terminal ones a little shorter; thorax scarcely twice as broad as long, the 
sides nearly straight, the angles not prominent, the surface impunctate, testaceous, with a slight transverse 
depression parallel to the basal margin, the latter rather sinuate at the middle; scutellum testaceous, its 
apex rounded ; elytra with the basal portion distinctly swollen, strongly punctured in closely approached 
but not very regular rows, which become almost obliterated near the apex, testaceous, with a more or less 
extended common transverse black patch at the base, extending downwards along the suture, and a longi- 
tudinal black band at the sides, commencing at the shoulders and gradually widened, but not reaching the 
apex; underside and legs testaceous. 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 
The last abdominal segment in the male has a broadly rounded median lobe, this 
being absent in the female. Many specimens. A typical example is figured. 
NEPHRICA. (To precede the genus Ceporis, p. 318.) 
Nephrica, Harold, Berl. ent. Zeitschr. 1877, p. 182. 
A few species from Tropical America constitute this genus. It may be principally 
known by the deeply emarginate reniform eyes, the medially dilated or thickened 
antennee, and the shape of the thorax. A single species is now known from the State 
of Panama. 
1. Nephrica inornata. (Tab. XLII. fig. 4.) 
Ovate, moderately convex, pale fulvous; the antenne (the first joint excepted), the anterior and intermediate 
tibie, and the tarsi black ; thorax nearly impunctate ; elytra rather strongly and closely punctured. 
Length 33 lines. 
Head impunctate, 
margin, the clypeus thickened an 
the surface somewhat uneven, the eyes very deeply and broadly emarginate at their inner 
d rather broad; the penultimate joint of the maxillary palpi incrassate ; 
antenne short and robust, the first joint flavous, the others black, the fourth joint the longest, this and 
the following two joints thickened, the five terminal ones much shorter and thinner; thorax nearly three 
times as broad as long, the sides rounded at the middle, narrowed in front, the anterior angles obliquely 
produced, the base with a short oblique depression on either side near the posterior angles, the surface with 
a few minute punctures; scutellum broad, impunctate ; elytra rather convex, strongly and closely punc- 
