and Central American Telephorinae. 143 



Unique. This species may be known by its red head, 

 with the anterior portion flavescent, black prothorax and 

 elytra, and infuscate tibiae and tarsi ; head very large, 

 closely punctate, much narrowed behind the prominent 

 eyes, the antennae slender, moderately long; prothorax 

 strongly constricted before the middle and narrow thence 

 to the apex, sparsely punctate, canaliculate on the disc; 

 elytra long, incompletely covering the wings, coarsely 

 striato-punctate. The type is apparently a male. The 

 Chiriqui specimens subsequently referred to the same 

 species must be separated. The localities for these two 

 insects are wholly dissimilar in character and widely 

 distant. 



10. Malthinus flavipes. 



Malthinus flavipes, Gorh., Biol. Centr.-Am., Coleopt. iii, 

 2, pp. "105, 310. 



Hab. Guatemala, San Geronimo in Baja Vera Paz. 



Gorham in his " Supplement " (loc. cit. p. 310) expressed 

 some doubt as to his M. flavipes being distinct from M. 

 cruenticeps, the latter having the basal half of the head 

 black, the prothorax densely punctate and with the 

 tubulate narrow anterior portion still more pronounced, 

 and the legs wholly testaceous. They must be retained as 

 distinct. The type seems to be a male. 



11. Malthinus montivagus, n. sp. 



Malthinus cruenticeps, var., Gorh., Biol. Centr.-Am., 

 Coleopt. iii, 2, p. 310. 



Shining, piceous or nigro-piceous, the head (except a dark spot 

 or transverse space towards the base in some examples) rufescent 

 or testaceous, yellowish-white in front, the basal joint of the an- 

 tennae, the margins of the prothorax, the abdomen and under 

 surface in part, and the legs testaceous, the elytra in one example 

 with the smooth apical space yellow and an indeterminate streak 

 down the disc testaceous. Head large, obliquely narrowed behind 

 the prominent eyes, sparsely, minutely punctate ; antennae slender, 

 moderately long, shorter than the body in both sexes. Prothorax 

 small, moderately constricted before the middle and gradually nar- 

 rowed thence to the apex, sparsely, minutely punctate, canaliculate 



