and Central American Telephorinae. 145 



tion of a patch on the vertex and a broad space down the 

 middle of the prothorax, which are infiiscate, and a yellow 

 spot at the apex of each elytron. Head very large and 

 exserted, rapidly narrowed behind the prominent eyes, 

 shining, and densely punctate ; prothorax about as long 

 as broad, abruptly constricted and narrowed anteriorly, 

 shining, very sparsely punctate ; elytra long, closely, 

 coarsely striato-punctate ; posterior tibiae feebly bowed 

 in male. Length 6 mm. 



14. Malthinus jalapanus. 



Malthinus jalapanus, Pic, L'Echange, 1910, p. 6. 



" Tr^s voisine de schneideri, d'une coloration analogue (et dont 

 je ne connais qu'un c^) que je d6signe sous le nom de jalapanus, est 

 de taille plus petite avec les ^lytres moins fortement ponctu6s, la 

 macule fonc^e de la tete est moins nette, les tibias post6rieures sont 

 droits et I'abdomen est distinctement entaille a son extremite. 

 Long. 4 mm." 



Hab. Mexico, ? Jalapa {coll. Pic). 



Apparently not represented in the Mexican collections 

 before me. 



Malthodes. 



Malthodes, Kiesenwetter, Linn. Ent. vii, p. 265 (1852) ; 

 Gorham, Biol. Centr.-Am., Coleopt. iii, 2, pp. 105, 310. 



The three Central- American species described by Gorham 

 are each represented by a single example in the " Biologia " 

 collection, and I have not ventured to soften them so 

 that the mouth-parts could be examined. It is probable 

 that one or more of them belongs to Malthinus. M. 

 gorhami, Pic, however, has the mandibles unarmed. There 

 is in the same collection an unnamed species from Chihuahua 

 closely related to M. sanguineicollis, Gorh., from Chiriqui. 



1. Malthodes pallipes. 



Malthodes pallipes, Gorh., Biol. Centr.-Am., Coleopt. iii, 2, 

 p. 105 {nee p. 310). 



Hab. Guatemala, Zapote and El Tumbador, Pacific 

 slope. 



Three dissimilar forms were placed under this name by 

 Gorham, one of which has since been described by Pic, 



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