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strongly bisinuous at the base, the median lobe squarely truncated behind 
angles much produced ; broadly channelled at the sides, which are margine 
edges a little thickened, and crenulated anteriorly, one crenulation — just befc 
angle — being particularly well-marked, forming a positive triangular excision 
tellum golden-green : elytra convex; the humeral angle very prominent; eacl 
nine (besides the usual short scutellar one) rows of close set, large, oblong pun 
or foveae, which are connected together, in line, by narrow hues or striae ; post« 
and at the sides these punctures become more crowded and confused, running 
or less into each other and forming veritable sulci, with narrow, convex i 
between them ; the intervals down the middle nearly flat and — apparently — sn 
it is somewhat diflBcult to catch the exact colors of the elyti-a owing to a 
iridescence, but in a certain light the space, or interval, down each side the i 
and the intervals 3, 4, 7 and 8 appear vivid green, whilst 2, 5, 6 and 9 appear coj 
brown, under-side and legs shining, reddish-brown tinged with golden-green ; 
joints of the abdomen coarsely longitudinally wrinkled and punctured ; femoi 
tibi» closely punctured, the latter golden-brown ; antennae and tarsi reddiah-t 
Hab. Nicaragua. Chontales. 
The present species exhibits a considerable departure from 
type, but its differences are not such, I conceive, as to warrao 
erection into a distinct genus. The main points of departure fror 
type are : the head shorter, the epistoma strongly and distincth 
parated from the front ; the last joint of the labial palpi* shorter, i 
more produced and rounded on the inner side, thicker (a trans 
section showing almost a perfect oval) ; the strongly produced ant 
angle of the prothorax, the lateral edge in part crenulated, the m( 
basal lobe squarely truncated behind; and the totally different sty 
Bculpturation on the elytra. Also one of the novelties discoverei 
Mr. E. Janson, Jun. 
Taepela, n. g. 
Characters of Nautes (especially of the preceding species) : d: 
in having the mesosternum declivous and broadly excavated in front 
horizontal, and sharply triangularly notched in front as in Nautes) 
prosternum bent doivn behind iheanierior coxcejihen expanded and tern 
ting in a broad point; the form narrower, more elongate, more paralle 
more depressed ; the prothorax squarer, the anterior angles very stro 
produced — extending nearly to the upper edge of the eyes; anc 
lateral margins strongly crenulated. 
T. Brownii, n. sp. (PL II, fig. 4.) 
Length 3 lines. — Oblong ; scarcely convex ; brown with a slight golden I 
* Probably only a character of the <J .— F, B. 
