and Central American Telephorinae. 47 



which is truncate at the apex, and three pairs of long, slender, 

 curved hooks (figs. 13, 13a). 



Length (excl. head) 6i-7|, breadth 2i-3i mm. {^ ?.) 



Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Hoge), Juquila (Salle) ; Guate- 

 mala, Sabo in Vera Paz {Champion : $) ; Costa Rica, La 

 Palma {Biolley : ^ $), Rio Sucio, Irazu (Rogers : c^ ?) ; 

 Panama, Volcaii de Chiriqui (Champion : (^ $). 



The above diagnosis is taken from the Costa Rica and 

 Panama specimens, and various females from Juquila and 

 Jalapa, Mexico, and Vera Paz, Guatemala, no doubt belong 

 to the same species. The description of D. chiriquense is 

 inadequate, but it seems to apply to the female of the 

 present insect. The two sexes are so dissimilar that they 

 might be taken for different species, the Lampyriform 

 female having an unusually broad, strongly explanate 

 prothorax, with the margins simply rounded. Three of 

 the six males seen have been dissected. 



36. Discodon sinuaticolle, n. sp. 



Discodon triste, Gorh., Biol. Centr.-Am., Coleopt. iii, 2, 

 pp. 82, 287 (part.). 



Moderately elongate, rather broad, clothed with fine cinereous or 

 brownish pubescence; nigro-fuscous, the anterior portion of the 

 head, the base of the mandibles, and the prothorax (a triangular 

 space on the disc excepted) pale flavous, the legs in part and the 

 humeri testaceous. Eyes somewhat prominent in ^. Antennae 

 rather stout, tapering towards the tip, subserrate, moderately long 

 in cjj short in $, sparsely pilose. Prothorax strongly transverse, 

 as wide as the base of the elytra, a little broader in $; the sides 

 sinuate and feebly notched behind the middle in (^, deeply sinuate 

 in ?. Elytra moderately long, feebly explanate, the disc obsoletely 

 costulate. Inner claw of anterior tarsi broadly lobed, and outer 

 claw of the other tarsi split at the tip, in cJ. 



cJ. Eighth ventral segment long, abruptly narrowed from about 

 the middle, rounded and feebly cleft at the tip; ninth segment 

 gradually narrowed, somewhat lobed on each side at the apex, a 

 pair of long spines visible beyond it (fig. 14). 



Length (excl. head) 6-7|, breadth 2J-3J mm. {^ $.) 



Hab. Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt); Costa Rica (Van 

 Patten) ; Panama, Bugaba (Champioti). 



Eight females and two males, placed by Gorham (but 

 not quoted) under D. photinoides. A little less elongate 



