Mimographopsis viridicans Champion 1911

Oblong, narrow (♂), broader (♀), black; densely clothed (the legs included) with rather large, rounded, imbricate, greenish, greenish-white, or cinereous scales, those around the eyes white, and also set with extremely short, minute, scattered hairs, the whitish scales on the prothorax sometimes condensed into two faint vittæ on the disc, the widely separated seriate punctures on the elytra bare; the antennæ (the club excepted) finely pubescent and also with long bristly hairs, the club blackish-brown. Head and rostrum finely punctate, narrowly sulcate to the U-shaped raised subapical plate, the scales on the latter small; antennal scape not extending beyond the eyes, joint 2 of the funiculus nearly twice as long as 1. Prothorax much broader than long, slightly narrowed and constricted in front, transversely wrinkled towards the base, rugulosely punctate, the disc sometimes depressed or feebly sulcate down the middle. Scutellum minute or scarcely visible. Elytra flattened on the disc anteriorly, with rows of widely scattered, irregularly distributed, rather coarse, bare punctures; the interstices densely punctate, 3 with an oblong tuberculiform prominence at about one-third from the apex, and 5 sometimes slightly raised at its point of termination, in ♀, these prominences not or barely indicated in ♂. Ventral segments 3—5 with a line of erect pale brownish hairs down the middle, 5 broadly foveate at the apex, and 1 hollowed down the centre, in ♂. Legs rather slender; anterior tibiæ very finely and sparsely denticulate, sharply unguiculate in ♂, more feebly so in ♀.
 
Length 8—10 4/5, breadth 2 2/3—4 millim. (♂ ♀.)

The elytra with an elongate streak at the middle of the 5th interstice, and a shorter one on the 3rd nearer the apex, black.

Hab.COSTA RICA, between Mata de Leña and Rodeo, Pacific slope (Pittier: ♀), Tuis (Lankester, in U. S. Nat. Mus.: ♂), Azahar de Cartago (Underwood: ♀, var.); PANAMA, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion: ♂ ♀).

Twelve specimens, three only of which are from Costa Rica, two of these latter with the scales green and metallic, the others with the scales opaque and whiter. The seriate punctures on the elytra vary in size. The penis-sheath of the male is acuminate at the tip.

Var. The elytra with an elongate streak at the middle of the 5th interstice, and a shorter one on the 3rd nearer the apex, black (fig. 2).