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7. Poria sanguinolenta. 



Sanguinea ; capite, prothoracis disco elytrisque nigris, his subsenescentibus. Long. 6 millim. 



Hab. Panama, Bugaba {Champion). 



Head black, with a faint greenish tinge ; antennae rather short for this genus, clear 

 coral- or blood-red ; front of the head, palpi, and the bay of the eye (the cut out portion) 

 red. Thorax with the base not very deeply sinuate, scarcely punctured, the sides blood- 

 red for nearly one third of the width. Elytra rather obsoletely punctate ; in the 

 specimen before me, which appears to be worn, very little pubescence is to be seen and 

 only at the sides and apex, where it is very short and of a grey colour. The legs and 

 body are clear blood-red. 



This is not very like any species of Poria that I have seen. There is unfortunately 

 only a single specimen. 



8. Poria detrita. (Tab. XI. fig. 21.) 



Nigra, subcserulescens ; capitis fronte, antennis, palpis, pedibus anticis et posticis (basi excepta), intermediis 

 femoribus prsetermissis, abdomineque fulvis ; supra griseo-pubescens, prothoracis disco elytrisque singulis 

 macula magna quasi denudata nigro pubescente. Long. 5 millim. 



Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 



Above blue-black; thorax very finely punctate and shining, the head a little more 

 distinctly so ; the labrum, and in the male the front of the head also, yellow, the base 

 bluish-black ; antennas not reaching the hind angles of the thorax, the three terminal 

 joints forming about a third of the length, serrate within. Thorax short, as wide at 

 the base as the elytra, but narrower in front, the base margined by a very fine line, the 

 width more than twice the length ; elytra nearly hemispherical, but gibbous, the black 

 shining patches very distinct and clothed with black pubescence, the rest of the elytra 

 and thorax densely pubescent and hoary. Abdomen and legs yellow, the coxae and 

 bases of the femora of the front and hind legs, and the middle pair as far as the knees, 

 black. In the male the sixth segment of the abdomen is visible and is notched. 



Poria detrita bears a very deceptive resemblance to a large Azya, as well as to 

 Ladoria. The puncturing of the elytra — which is (as in other Porim) " unequal,'' i. e. con- 

 sisting of larger and smaller confluent punctures, — the longer antennas, with a lax and 

 serrate club, and the simple tibiae (not grooved externally except for a short distance at 

 their bases) must be examined in order to separate it from insects of the allied genera. 



Three examples. 



EUPALEA. 



Eupalea, Mulsant, Spec. Col. Trim, secur. p. 889 (1850) ; Crotch, Rev. Coccin. p. 290 ; Chapuis, 

 Gen. Col. xii. p. 204. 



Authors seem to have overlooked the very close affinity which there is between 

 biol. centr.-amee., Coleopt., Vol. VII., October 1895. 2 E* 



