MICROSARGANE.—EPICRANION. 197 
Of a brown or greyish-brown colour, finely pubescent; sides of the head and pronotum broadly testaceous,. 
this colour being continued to about the middle of the tegmina, and so forming a broad band on each side 
of the upper surface; tegmina with a bright red (occasionally brown-red) patch a little before the apex, 
with testaceous markings divided by a brown stripe at its side, and behind it black or dark brown 
markings, and then a light brown or testaceous band, the extreme tips being margined with dark brown ; 
the apex has three or four deep impressions on each side ; underside and legs testaceous, claws pitchy. 
Long. 8-9 millim.; lat. 3 millim. 
Hab. Nicaraava, Chontales (Janson); Panama, Bugaba (Champion). 
This insect is closely allied to Ptyelus mutans, Walk., described as from the west 
coast of America; but that species has no light bands at the sides of the pronotum 
and is otherwise different. 
A specimen from Chontales is figured. 
EPICRANION, gen. nov. 
Oblongo-ovatum, levissime pubescens, subtiliter sculpturatum ; capite magno, vertice longe ante oculos extenso, 
antice obtuse angulariter rotundato; oculis haud magnis nec prominulis, ocellis indistinctis inter se et ab 
oculis fere eque distantibus ; metopidio longo, plano, levi, rostro modico ; pronoto longitudine fere duplo 
latiori, ante scutellum semicirculariter emarginato ; scutello longe postice acuminato; tegminibus 
parallelis, apice rotundato; alis vend tertié furcaté aream apicalem sat magnam formante; pedibus 
brevibus, anticis intermediisque gracilibus, posticis bispinosis, spinisque robustis ad apicem armatis. 
Oblong-ovate, subparallel, with fine pubescence and very close sculpturation; head large, much produced 
before the eyes, and with the vertex rounded in a very blunt obtuse angle; eyes comparatively small and 
not prominent ; ocelli indistinct, about as far from each other as from the eyes; metopidium long and 
flat, so that the head viewed from the side is very narrow ; pronotum rather broader than the tegmina 
behind the shoulders, strongly emarginate in a semicircle before the scutellum, which is rather large and 
is produced behind into a long acuminate point; tegmina very finely sculptured, slightly rugose at the 
apex ; legs short, the intermediate and front pairs slender, the posterior pair robust ; posterior tibize short, 
armed with two spines, one towards the base shorter, and the other towards the apex elongate and strong, 
the apex with strong spines. 
This is a very distinct genus, not far removed from Perinoia, with which, however, it 
cannot be confounded. It appears also to be allied to Clawa, Stal. 
1. Epicranion championi, sp.n. (Tab. XII. fig. 12.) 
Brunneum, unicolor, supra haud nitidum, vertice elongato haud carinato; metopidio nitido, late excavato ; 
pronoto subtilissime rugoso haud carinato ad medium antice perobscure impresso; tegminibus sub- 
tilissime punctatis; pectore piceo, abdomine pedibusque testaceis. 
Of a unicolorous brown colour, dull above, more shining below; metopidium broadly and very shallowly 
excavate in the middle, with the projection of the vertex forming hollows on each side of the central 
portion ; pronotum about twice as broad as long, very finely rugose; tegmina at the shoulders about as 
proad as the pronotum, slightly narrower behind, but subparallel and very little narrowed before the 
apex, extremely finely and closely punctured ; base of the rostrum pitchy, very shining; chest pitchy ; 
abdomen and legs testaceous. 
Long. 7 millim.; lat. max. 3 millim. 
Hab. Paxama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000-3000 feet (Champion). 
