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narrow towards the apex ; the colour is deep black, with the shoulders and apex widely 

 red, the narrow reflexed margin at the sides being of the same colour. 



Many specimens of this handsome Stenotarsus were obtained by Mr. Champion. 



16. Stenotarsus cuprivestis. 



Ovatus, valde convexus, castaneo-rufus ; antennis articulis quinque ultimis nigris ; elytris pube cupreo-micante 

 vestitis, disco parum indeterminate adumbrato, fere laevigatis; prothoracis lateribus antice angustatis, 

 margine laterali deplanato. Long. 4 millim. 



Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 3000 feet {Champion). 



Var. Elytris concoloribus. 



Hab. Panama, Bugaba 1000 feet (Champion). 



Antennae with the six basal joints red, the tip of the sixth being more or less 

 infuscate ; the second joint as long as wide, the third to the eighth only a little longer. 

 Thorax scarcely twice as wide as long at the base, and with its sides contracting to the 

 front angles and very little bowed, the margin flattened but very little raised, and not 

 narrowed behind. The elytra are somewhat evenly ovate, and clothed with a rather 

 long coppery pubescence, which has a purplish tinge in certain lights ; the punctuation 

 is almost obsolete, the disc being nearly smooth, but towards the sides it is a little more 

 distinct. The ovate, convex form, the colour of the pubescence, nearly uniform chestnut 

 colour of the whole insect, the elytra being very faintly clouded upon the middle portion, 

 and the very slightly arcuate sides of the thorax separate this species from any in its 

 section known to me. 



Many specimens. 



17. Stenotarsus lenmiscatus. 



Breviter ovatus, subrotundatus, depressiuseulus, saturate rufo-brunneus ; antennis articulis sex ultimis nigris ; 

 prothoracis margine lato, leviter reflexo, postice parum angustato. Long. 3|-4 millim. 



Hab. Guatemala, Zapote (Champion). 



Among the species of the first section of this difficult genus this one may be 

 recognized by its very small size and dark colour ; and, if I am right in referring all 

 the examples to one species, the male has the antennae nearly as long as the whole 

 body, thin, and with the joints succeeding the second gradually increasing in length, 

 the seventh and eighth joints being twice as long as wide, the club long and very little 

 widened. The specimens which I think to be the females are larger, and have shorter 

 antennae. The elytra are as wide as long in the smaller (male ?) specimen, rather more 

 expanded than in the more convex females. The pubescence in these latter is thick but 

 silky, and golden in colour. 



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