SPILEKOPHTHALMA. 331 



and it also bears some large black hairs. The scape of the antennae is thickly covere4 

 with silvery or pale fulvous hair ; the flagellum has a pale fulvous or silvery pile ; the 

 third joint is twice the length of the fourth. The head behind does not project much 

 beyond the level of the eyes and is rounded. 



v 35. SphaBrophthalma ipsea. (Tab. xiv. fig. 16, $ .) 



Long. 16 millim. $ . 



Hob. Panama, Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet (Champion). 



Head alutaceous, above the antennae strongly punctured, clothed all over with short, 

 thick, black hairs, and bearing also some long hairs ; the antennal tubercle large, 

 shining, glabrous ; the oral region covered with long pale fuscous hair ; the part 

 behind the eyes does not equal the eyes in length, and is rounded ; on the vertex and 

 touching the eyes are two patches of golden pubescence. The scape of the antennae is 

 clothed with long silvery hair; the second joint is covered with shorter hair; the other 

 joints are clothed with silvery pubescence ; the third joint is about twice the length of 

 the fourth. The pronotum is shining, impunctate, and almost glabrous. The meso- 

 notum velvety, the base bearing some long black hairs ; at the apex is a broad band of 

 silvery pubescence, with a square dilatation behind ; at the base it is oblique, the 

 oblique part having a small tubercle at the base and apex ; the apical half is almost 

 straight and ends in a long smooth tooth, and from this tooth it becomes narrowed to 

 the tubercle at the base of the median segment, this tubercle being large ; the sides of 

 the median segment are bluntly and roundly denticulate. The mesopleurae have the 

 basal half impressed with widely-separated punctures, the apical half smooth and 

 impunctate, but with the apex crenulated. The apex of the metapleurae is coarsely 

 punctured, and on the lower part is a patch of pale golden pubescence. The apex of 

 the median segment has a sharply oblique slope, and down the sides is a moderately 

 broad pale golden band. On the apex of the basal abdominal segment is a broad 

 pale golden line ; on the second segment are two pale golden oval marks, the lower 

 part of the sides being covered with silvery pubescence, above which is a line of punc- 

 tures ; the third and following segments are lined laterally with pale golden pubescence ; 

 the' pygidium is indistinctly punctured, the sides covered with long pale golden hair. 

 The basal ventral segment shagreened, keeled down the centre and at the sides ; the 

 second segment with large, distinctly separated, round punctures, and fringed at the 

 apex with silvery pubescence ; the other ventral segments with the punctures smaller, 

 and also fringed with silvery pubescence. The legs are covered with silvery hair ; on 

 the tarsi the pubescence is dense and golden ; the tibial spines long, black, and sharp ; 

 the tibiae punctured ; the calcaria white. 



This species is nearly related to S. ocanthocerata, but that insect is longer, and has 

 the head much more developed behind the eyes and without golden marks ; S. xantho- 



2uu 2 



