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Abdomen with the pvgidium exposLcl, lufeseent. 

 Legs rather lonf;, robust, yellow. 

 Under parts rufo-testaceous. 



Habitiit, Ceutral America ; foiiml mar Caiu^tillu, Guatemala, hv Mr. Champion. 



CONODES. Pl. I. C. 

 Cunodes, Matthews, Biol. Ceut.-Amer. Col. ii. pt. i. p. 107, 1887. 



Corpus elongatum, conicura, modice convexum, pubescens. 



Caput modice exsertum, sessile, deflexum, sat magnum, ore producto, parte gulari 

 convexa ; oculis magnis, non prominentibus ; antennis sat longe ante oculos 

 insertis. 



Anteuiue (PI. I., C, fig. 7) decem-articulata', 1 at 2 robustis, 2 primo breviori, 

 rotundato ; 3-5 perparvis, rotundatis, seipsis paribus ; G quiuto inajori, trans- 

 verso ; 7 sexto breviori, transverso ; 8-10 vakle incrassatis, elavam sat 

 compactam, gradatim iucrassatam, formantibus, apicali majori, rotundato. 



Partes oris non dissectfe. 



Pronotiim modicum, transvcrsum, antice excisum, lateribus circulariter rotundatis, 

 margiiie basali Icviter arcuata. 



Scutellum magnum, latum, leviter rotundatum. 



Elytra elongata, postice attenuata, apicibus rotundatis, fere truncatis, lateribus 

 subtus late intlexis. 



Ala non examinata-. 



Abdomen segmentis duobu.s ultimis partim expositis, alioqui non examinatum. 



Prothorax (PI. I., C, fig. 2, a) prostcrno sat magno, inter coxas elevato, et postice 

 producto atque dilatato ; ejnsternis parvis, angustis ; ejnmrris magnis, recepta- 

 cula coxarum late cingentibus ; coxarum receptaculis ovatis, obliquis. 



Pectus mcsostcrtio (PI. I., C, fig. 2, d) sat magno ; ejihternis elongatis, angustis, 

 humeralibus ; epiinerin brevibus, ad lueeptacula coxarum non extensis ; recep- 

 taculis coxarum ovalibus, modice diwtantibus. 

 metasterno (PI. 1., C, tig. 2, g) sat magno, ad latera corporis non extenso ; margine 

 posteriori inter coxas recta; epi s tc nii s mngnia, latis, metasterno pariter longis; 

 einmeriH angustis, totis sub elj'tris occultis. 



VcJitvr segmentis quinque compositus, 1 pcrmagno, metasterno longiori, lateraliter 

 ad femora accipienda late depresso ; 2-4 multo brevioribus, seipsis pariter 

 longis ; 5 praicedenti multo longiori, integro, obtuso. 



Pedes aiitiri trocliauteribus parvis, trigonalibus ; femoribus robustis; tibiis simpli- 

 cibus, ante apices vakle dilatatis ; tarsis brevibus, robustis, 4 artieulatis, 1 sat 

 longo ; 2 et 3 primo brevioribus ; 4 sat brevi, gracili ; unguibus praslongis, 

 gracilibus, convergentibus. 

 intennedice anticis similes, sed tarsis longioribus. 

 postici trochanteribus intus vakle productis, alioqui intermediis similes. 



Coxa antcriorcs ovatiE, vix jjrominentes, sat distantes. 

 intermrdice rotundatie, modice distantes. 

 2}ostcriurfs pyriformes, obliqua-, longe remotse, ad latera corporis non extensse. 



Body elongate, conic, moderately convex, pubescent. 



Ilcud moderately cxserted, .sessile, deflexed, rather large ; mouth produced, gular 

 portion convex ; eyes large, not prominent ; antennjB inserted considerably in 

 front of the eyes. 



Antenntf (PI. I., C, tig. 7) ten-jointed, 1 and 2 robust, 2 shorter than 1, and rounded; 

 3-5 very small, rounded, equal to each other in size ; 6 larger than the fifth, 

 transverse ; 7 shorter than the sixth, transverse ; 8-10 much incrassated, 

 forming a rather compact, gradually incrassated club, of which the apical joint 

 is the largest, and rounded. 



