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very slightly converging in front, and is finely rugose, and the tegmina are almost smooth, being very 
remotely and finely punctured ; legs reddish. | 
Long. 14-15 millim.; lat. ad hum. 44 millim. 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2500 to 4000 feet (Champion). 
A fair series. This is a very distinct species, but some of the specimens appear to 
lose their colour and become almost entirely fuscous and opaque, and in this state 
might easily pass unrecognized. 
7. Amblydisca fluctuosa, sp. n. (Tab. XIII. figg. 6, 6a.) 
Angustior, fusca, cerulescens, maculis rufis variantibus sparsa; vertice brevi, subtriangulari, retundato; capite 
cum pectore fusco-testaceo, ad partem rufo; pronoto subparallelo, subrugoso, maculis duabus rufis 
instructo ; scutello postice rufo; tegminibus fere levibus, rufo-maculatis ; pedibus testaceis; abdomine 
leete rufescenti; variat maculis testaceis. 
Narrower than the preceding species (A. postfumata), fuscous, with a very strong blue reflection in certain 
lights ; vertex, metopidium, and chest testaceous, the clypeus being orange, and the part just above it and 
a central spot on the metopidium red or orange; pronotum rugose behind, subparallel; clypeus with a 
large red spot at the apex; tegmina scarcely punctured, narrowed towards the apex, with red spots of 
varying sizes arranged more or less in rows, some being very minute, while of the larger ones three 
or four more or less distinct transverse rows can be traced across the closed tegmina ; legs testaceous ; 
~ abdomen of a bright red colour. 
Long. 11-12 millim.; lat. ad hum. 3-4 millim. 
Hab. Panama, Caldera, Tolé (Champion). 
This is a very distinct and pretty species; certain forms of Aulacizes resemble it, but 
the short head and the shape of the clypeus will easily distinguish it from these. The 
single specimen from Tolé is shorter and smaller, and has testaceous instead of red 
markings; this, however, is a common character in certain species of the group. A 
specimen from Caldera is figured. 
8. Amblydisca tapes, sp. n. (Tab. XIII. figg. 7, 7 a.) 
Elongata, sat angusta, brunnea vel fusca, testaceo flavoque variegata; vertice subtriangulari; metopidio 
longitudinaliter impresso, impressione testacea marginibus fuscis; antennis prelongis; pronoto transversim 
rugoso, fusco, maculis novem testaceis vel flavis, lateribus antice sensim angustatis; scutello variegato ; 
tegminibus maculis flavo-rufescentibus dense sparsis, duabus vel tribus ad basim, ad medium et ante 
apicem precipue conspicuis; abdomine fusco-testaceo vel fusco; pedibus testaceis, tarsis tibiisque ad 
partem fuscatis. 
Of a fuscous or dark testaceous-brown colour, variegated with testaceous and reddish-yellow ; vertex subtri- 
angular, moderately produced ; metopidium with the depressed part narrower than in the preceding 
species (A. fluctuosa), testaceous, bounded with fuscous, and beyond this again testaceous; pronotum 
distinctly but gently narrowed in front, with nine testaceous or yellow spots; scutellum large; tegmina 
scarcely punctured, usually rather shiny, with a large number of reddish-yellow spots, some considerably 
larger than others—the most conspicuous are two more or less ocellate spots towards the apex, behind 
which come several irregular longitudinal confluent spots, forming in all a broad border to the apex of 
the tegmina ; legs testaceous, with the tarsi and apex of the tibie fuscous. 
Long. 138-14 millim.; lat. max. 34 millim. 
Hab. Mexico (Sallé; Mus. Brit.) ; Guatemata, Sabo in Vera Paz (Champion). | 
We figure a specimen from Sabo. 
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