and Central American Telephorinae. 63 



(^. Eyes rather small ; antennae long, flattened, broadly serrate, 

 and lineate from the third joint, becoming rapidly narrower from 

 the seventh onwards, 10 and 11 narrow and often flavous; pro- 

 thorax about as long as broad, rather narrow, subcampanulate, 

 obliquely compressed on each side of the disc anteriorly, the margins 

 narrowly reflexed, and narrowly obliquely notched immediately 

 in front of the laterally-projecting hind angles ; elytra long, usually 

 more or less dilated posteriorly ; inner claw of anterior tarsi with an 

 abrupt narrow dentiform lobe at the base, and outer claw of the 

 other tarsi feebly cleft at tip. 



$. Eyes smaller; antennae with the intermediate joints still 

 broader; prothorax a little broader at the base, the notch in front 

 of the hind angles shallower and longer. 



Hab. Mexico, Tuxtla [$], Teapa [c^?]; Guatemala, 

 Panima in Alta Vera Paz {(^ $) ; Panama, Bugaba, Volcan 

 de Chiriqui, Caldera [^ $, types]. 



This species has the antennae and prothorax (except 

 that the notch in front of the hind angles is shallower in $) 

 very similarly formed in the two sexes, and the inner 

 anterior tarsal claw of the male armed with an abruptly 

 projecting dentiform lobe. The elytra are often wholly 

 ochreous, except along the basal portion of the suture, 

 but in some specimens the apical half and the suture thence 

 to the base are black ; the prothorax always has a black 

 median vitta, extending forwards on to the head ; and the 

 femora are sometimes testaceous to near the apex. Gorham 

 figured a pallid female from Panima as a variety of S. 

 varians. His selected types of D. (Silis) serrigerum were 

 from Chiriqui. 



Section III. 



59. Discodon lampyroides. 



Telephorus {Discodon'^.) lampyroides, Gorh., Biol. Centr.- 

 Am., Coleopt. iii, 2, p. 89, pi. 6, fig. 15 (?). 



Discodon lampyroides, Gorh., loc. cit. p. 288 (c^$). 



Telephorus jncticolUs, Gorh., loc. cit. pp. 79, 83, 84, 287 

 (sine descr.). 



Elongate, broad, shining, finely pubescent; varying in colour 

 from black, with the prothorax (an oblong patch on the disc ex- 

 cepted) and the abdomen in great part (the last ventral segment 

 excepted) testaceous to almost entirely testaceous (a spot at the 



