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Head moderate, castaneous ; eyes moderate ; antenui^ moderate, rufo-eastaneous. 



Thorax moderate, almost circularly rounded in front, finely but distinctly alutaceous, 

 very shining, anterior margin margined, but not reflexed, basal margin pro- 

 duced towards the scutellum, with the angles acute and moderately jn-oduced. 



Sciitelluin moderate, rounded, and impunetate. 



Elytra rather long, scarcely broader, but more than twice longer than the thorax, 

 •widest at the middle, elegantly and regularly marked with umbilicated punc- 

 tures, with the interstices alutaceous, sides slightly margined, apex rather 

 attenuated. 



Ln/s robust, rufo-piceous, with the basal joint of the tarsi dilated. 



Under parts castaneous ; with a deeply impressed longitudinal line on the first 

 ventral segment not extending to either margin. 



Habitat, Central America. Found near San Juan, Vera Paz, by Mr. Champion. 



LEPADODES. Pl. V., B. 



Lepadodcs, Matthews, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 1887, p. 11'2. 



Corpus ovale. 



Caput parvum, sub pronoto totum occultum ; oculis sat parvis ; antennis juxta 



oculos insertis. 

 Antenme (PI. Y., B, fig. 7) novem articulatie ; 1 permagno, recurvato, pyriformi ; 



2 primo vix breviori, apicem versus incrassato ; 3 brevi et gracili ; 4-6 tertio 



brevioribus, sibiipsis paribus ; 7-9 magnis, valde incrassatis, clavam foliatam 



formantibus, apicali oblique truncato. 

 Palpi maxillares (PI. V., B, fig. 5, w) mngni, robusti, 4-articulati ; 1 exiguo ; 2 per- 

 magno, valde incrassato, ad apicem oblique truncato ; -i perbrevi, transverse ; 



4 conico, longo et crasso. 

 Palpi lahiales (PI. V., B, fig. 6, m) sat breves, omnino ovati, triarticulati ; 1 exiguo ; 



2 magno, ovato, ad apicem truncato : 3 perbrevi, obtuse conico. 

 Lahrum (PI. V., B, fig. 3) sat parvum, subquadratum, angulis anterioribus 



rotundatis. 

 Mandihulce (PI. V., B, fig. 4) modicae, costa dorsali ad apicem bifida firmatse, et 



dentibus multis, longis et acutissimis apicem versus armatas. 

 MaxiUfB (PI. v., B, fig. 5) unilobatie, lobo valido, sat longo, ad apicem bifido, et 



dentibus multis, acutissimis, apicem versus armatae. Stipes parvus. 

 Mentiun (PL V., B, fig. 6, j) sat parvum, subquadratum, antice sat dilatatum. 

 Labium iPl. V., B, fig. 6, k) suboblongum, ultra mentum breviter exsertum. 

 Lingua (PI. V., B, fig. 6, 1) sat magna, dilatata, palpis pariter longa. 

 Pronotuin magnum, margiue anteriori Integra, posteriori fere recta, angulis baud 



product is. 

 Scutellum modicum, triangulare. 

 Elytra integra. 

 Prothorax (PI. V., B, fig. 2, a) prosterno magno, longe cavinato, carina antice et 



postice jDrodueta, antice acuminata, postiee dilatata ; episternis inconspicuis ; 



epimeris magnis, receptaeula coxarum postice cingentibus, receptaculis coxarum 



modicis, ovatis, postice per epimera inclusis. 

 Pectus mesosteriio (PI. V., B, fig. 2, d) brevi ; episternis magnis, suboblongis ; 



epimeris humeralibus, sat angustis, curvatis, ad coxas non extensis ; receptaculis 



coxarum modicis, rotundatis, late distantibus. 

 metasterno (PI. V., B, fig. 2, g) sat magno, transverse, lateribus corporis sat 



reraoto, margine posteriori inter coxas fere recta ; episternis magnis, latis, 



metasterno parum longioribus ; epimeris sub elytris occultis. 

 Venter segmentis sex compositus ; 1 permagno, longo ; reHquis sibiipsis paribus, 



apicali integro. 



