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Chontales (Janson 2 ) ; Panama, Bugaba (Champion).— Colombia \ Bogota 2 ; Guiana, 

 Cayenne 1 2 . 



Entirely of a fine blood-red, with the exception of the terminal six joints of the 

 antennae, which are black. The last four joints of the latter form a gradual and broad 

 club; the fourth, fifth, and sixth joints are short, scarcely longer taken together than 

 the third joint. The head and thorax are distinctly but rather sparsely punctured ; 

 the base of the latter is bisinuate, with a median lobe, on each side of which it is 

 depressed, the depression forming a wide fovea. The elytra are punctate-striate, the 

 striae with many small closely-placed punctures and becoming evanescent before the 

 apex ; they are more convex but not so long as in M. luteipes. From most of its allies 

 the comparative shortness of the antennae will separate this species. The legs are 

 yellow. 



I have not seen many examples of this little species. Crotch 2 refers to it as from 

 Bahia ; but the specimen from this locality in his collection is a wholly different insect 

 from the type, of which he appears to have one of Lacordaire's original examples from 

 Cayenne. I have not seen any of the Nicaraguan examples referred to it. 



45. Mycotretus coccidulinus. (Tab. III. fig. 24.) 



Oblongus, ovatus, saturate sanguineus, crebrius sat fortiter punctatus ; antennis breviusculis, articulo tertio 

 duobus sequentibus aequali, articulis sex ultimis nigris. Long. 5 millim. 



Hab. British Honduras, Belize, E. Hondo (Blancaneaux) ; Guatemala, Capetillo, 

 Cubilguitz, Chiacam (Champion). 



Rather larger than M. pygmceus, of a deeper and not so vivid a blood-red colour. 

 The punctuation of the thorax is thicker, the large punctures being more numerous, 

 although at the same time there is often space between them for other punctures of 

 similar size. The elytra are not so convex, the striae have numerous and distinct 

 punctures, and there is a very fine and irregular interstitial punctuation. The antenna? 

 have their third joint not longer than the fourth and fifth joints taken together. 



The stronger punctuation of the thorax, together with the somewhat shorter elytra 

 and smaller size, will separate this species from M. luteipes. 



Not many examples. A specimen from Rio Hondo is figured. 



46. Mycotretus crudus. 



M. coccidulim summa affinitate, oblongus, saturate sanguineus, subtus fortiter subrugose punctatus ; capite 

 prothoraceque crebre, profunde et distincte punctatis ; elytris leviter punctato-striatis, interstitiis minute 

 vix punctatis ; antennis nigris, articulis duobus basi runs. Long. 5 millim. 



Hab. Mexico, Atlisco in Puebla (H'oge). 



Very like M. coccidulinus, but differing from it in important points of structure and 

 sculpture. The head and thorax are more thickly and more distinctly punctured. The 

 humeral callus of the elytra is obvious (in M. coccidulinus it is indistinct) ; the striae 



