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versely and strongly rugose; tegmina very finely sculptured, very finely pubescent, the apex rugosely 
reticulate, but not strongly; legs fusco-testaceous, in part pitchy. 
Long. 9 millim.; lat. max. 5 millim. 
Hab. Panama, Bugaba, Volcan de Chiriqui 2500 to 8000 feet (Champion). 
This species is allied to Sphenorhina simplex, Walk. (Insecta Saundersiana, Homopt. 
p. 90), from Colombia, but, according to the old division, it belongs to a different genus. 
The specimens from Bugaba are somewhat more oblong than those from the Volcan 
de Chiriqui, and among them are two with traces of distinct rows of spots on the 
tegmina; it is possible that they may belong to another species, but I cannot satis- 
factorily separate them. An example from the Volcan de Chiriqui is figured. 
14. Tomaspis ignobilis, sp. n. 
T. viltori affinis, sed multo minor, sculptura crassiori; parva, nigra, sat nitida, metopidio haud producto ; 
pronoto fortiter rugoso, linea centrali distincte elevaté; tegminibus dense sat fortiter subrugoso-punctatis, 
apicibus haud reticulatis, vita albida sat lata ad marginem pone medium, maculaque parva obscure albida 
in eddem linea prope suturam posité utrinque instructis ; corpore subtus fusco, pedibus piceo-testaceis. 
A small and inconspicuous, but distinct species; black, rather shining; head moderately large, with the 
metopidium not produced; pronotum nearly twice as broad as long, coarsely and rugosely sculptured, 
with a strongly raised central line, on each side of which is a depression; scutellum much less coarsely 
punctured than the pronotum; tegmina strongly punctured, with hardly a trace of rugose reticulation at 
the apex, with a rather broad whitish horizontal band behind the middle reaching from the margin to 
near the middle, and a small obscure whitish spot (sometimes hardly traceable) between this and the 
suture; underside fuscous; legs pitchy-testaceous. 
Long. 64 millim.; lat. max. 3 millim. 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 
15. Tomaspis sepulchralis. 
Tomaspis sepulchralis, Stal, Stett. ent. Zeit. xxv. p. 65 (1864) °. 
Hab. Mexico! (Mus. Vind. Ces. ; Mus. Oxon.). 
Stal’s description! is as follows :—* Pubescens, nigricans, nitida; margine angusto 
basali thoracis basique ipsa tegminum sanguineis.” In one of the specimens referred 
to from the Vienna Museum the lateral margins of the pronotum are red, as well as 
the basal margin, while in the Oxford Museum specimen the shoulders only are slightly 
red, and the pronotum is entirely black. 
The species is not represented in our collection. I have seen three specimens of it, 
all males, including the one in the Oxford Museum. 
16. Tomaspis obscura, sp. n. 
Precedenti similis, sed nigra, maculis quibusdam parvis rufis ad medium et pone medium tegminum lineatim 
dispositis; capite magno, metopidio producto, oculis haud prominentibus; pronoto dense rugoso, tegmi- 
nibus subtiliter sculpturatis, apicibus haud reticulatis ; corpore subtus pedibusque piceis. 
An oval, robust species, black, with some very small red spots arranged in two transverse rows on the tegmina, 
