BIOLOGIA 


COC 


CENTRALI-AMERICANA. 


INSECTA. 


COLEOPTERA. Vou. VI. Parr 2. 


PHYTOPHAGA (part). 


HISPIDA 
BY 


J. S. BALY, 


With an Appenpix sy G. C. Cuampion, F.Z.S. 


CASSIDID: 


BY . 


G. C. CHAMPION, F.Z.S: 


1885-1894. 


Boel 


IntTRODUCTION .. . 
List or PLates . 

Errata ET CORRIGENDA . 
HispIpe ..... 
CassIDIDE. . . . . 
Hispipa#, APPENDIX. . 
InpExX ......, 


PLaTEs. 


CONTENTS. 


Lo 


INTRODUCTION. 


Tus volume is devoted to two families of the Phytophagous Coleoptera, the Hispide 
and Cassidide. The Hispide, with the exception of a short appendix, have been 
wholly dealt with by the late J. 8. Baly, the Cassidide by myself. Baly has already 
contributed some general remarks upon the Hispide, so that, as regards this family, it is 
necessary to add only some particulars as to the number of genera and species represented 
within our limits. Altogether, for the two families, 453 species are enumerated, the 
numbers being almost evenly apportioned—Hispide 226, Cassidide 227. In the 
Hispide 169 new species and two new genera, and in the Cassidide 55 new species 
and two new genera, have been described. The total number of species of Hispide 
for the whole world is given as 496 in the Munich Catalogue (1874), and for the 
Cassidide 1795. This disproportion in the numbers of the two families, as compared 
with those for Central America, is, however, partly due to the fact that the Cassidide 
have been exhaustively monographed by Boheman (1850-62), while no monograph 
of the Hispide has yet appeared. Nevertheless, Central America contains but a 
limited number of Cassidide, as compared with Tropical South America: for example, 
Mesomphalia with 227 species (1874) has nineteen only within our limits; and many 
other South-American genera are represented by a very small number of species, as 
Desmonota, Tauroma, Dolichotoma, Calaspidea, and Omoplata, or are altogether absent, 
as Calliaspis, Spilophora, Canistra, and Pecilaspis. Mexico and Guatemala, however, 
possess a number of peculiar species of Cassidide, especially in the genera Chelymorpha, 
Physonota, Coptocycla, and Ctenochira, very few of which reach our northern frontier. 
Panama or Costa Rica appears to be the northern limit of such genera as Delocrania, 
Desmonota, Calaspidea, and Omaspides. America north of Mexico (Henshaw’s 
Catalogue, 1885) has thirty-five species of Hispide and twenty species of Cassidide 
(three of which are doubtful)—North America, for some, at present, inexplicable 
- reason, possessing exceedingly few Cassidide. Cassida, the only European genus of the 
family, and with upwards of 200 species in the Old World, is represented by very 
few species in North or Central America, it there being replaced by Coptocycla. 


vi INTRODUCTION. 


The majority of the Cassidide are essentially tropical, and probably more than one 
half of the described species inhabit Tropical South America. Some genera, as 
Physonota, Coptocycla, Ctenochira, the eastern Aspidomorpha, &c., contain many 
species which are most brilliantly golden, silvery, or opalescent in life, the metallic 
colours fading immediately after death. These veritable living gems form a charac- 
teristic feature in tropical insect-life. | 


The Hispide are much more retired in their habits than the Cassidide, and the 
species, with some few exceptions, are by no means so numerous in individuals, many 
of them occurring as single specimens on leaves in the forest. Some remarks upon 
their habits are given by Baly. A large number of undescribed species exist. in 
collections. 


G. C. C. 
July 1894. 


LIST OF PLATES. 


Plate. Fig. Page. Plate. Fig Page. 
HisPipz. 

Euxema insignis..............6. I. 1 3 || Cephalodonta gemmans Se IT. 14 32 
‘Stenispa sallei ................ I. 2 4, 234 callosa .... cece eee lees II. 15 33 
Amplipalpa guerini * ............ I. 3 5 || —— godmani..........,....... IT. 16 34 
Alurnus ornatus................ I. 4 5 || —— aC: ) II. 17 34 
Salvini ..... cee cece eee I. 5 5 | —— maculata ................ IT. 18 35 
— a (:) I. 6 5 || —— quinquemaculata .......... II. 19 35 
cassideuS ............000. I, 7 6 || —— championi................ II. 20 36 
Xanthispa ceruleipennis ........ I. 8 6 || —— gracilenta ................ II. 21 37 
Homalispa variabilis ............ I. 9 7 | ——erudita ...............04. IT. 22 | 39, 234 
Cephaloleia gratiosa ............ I. 10 8 PYOXIMA...... ee ee ee II. 23 39 
championi ................ I. 11 9 antennata .............00, II. 25 40 
—OTnata ... ce cece cece eee I, 12 9 Do II. 24 40 
— nigropicta .......... eee eee I. 13 10 FeTOX voc. eee eee cee ee TIT. 1 44 
distincta .........e cee eee I. 15 10 | Charistena perspicua ............ III. 2 7 
erichsoni ...........0.00. I. 14 11 | Parachalepus brevicornis ........ Il. 3 48 
Salli... eee ee ee eee eee I, 16 12 | Chalepus morio ................ ITI. 4} 50,120 
lata wo. cece cece eee eee eee I. 17 13 parallelus ................ XII. 23 235 
pretios2 .......... eee eee I. 18 14 congener ................ ITI. 5 52 
. suturalis ...........0eaee I. 19 14 || —— placidus.................. III. 6 | 52, 236 
histrionica............205. I, 21 15 AMICUS 2... ... ec cee eee ITI. 7 54 
elegantula ................ I. 22 17 distinctus .............0.. IIT. 9 | 56, 236 
instabilis ................ I. 23 18 flavipes ........ cece eee ee XIII. 24 237 
—_—— nt) I. 24 18 marmoratus ...........00 ITI. 11 | 60, 237° 
leptomorphat ............ II. 4 | 25,120 Viridanus ............005, ITI. 8 62 
consanguinea.............. I. 25 23 || —— contiguus .............04. IIT. 12 64 
VICINA.. . eee eee eee es II. 1 24 || -—— fraternus .............4.. ITI. 10 64 
ruficollis..........00.e0eee II, 2 24. nigripictus || ...........04. III. 14 66 
—— fulvolimbata .............. IT. 3 | 24,234 | —— consanguineus ............ II. 13 67 
BLEVENS] .. 6... ee ee eee eee ee I. 20 26 68, 121, 
Demotispa limbatat ............ IL. 5 27 bellulus .........+ +s sees, Nr | 15 237 
Prosopodonta limbata............ IT. g 2 —— heematoderus.............. TIT. 23 69 
costata ........ cee eee IL. 9 : 70, 121, 
‘| Cheirispa dorsata .............- IL. 8 29 || —— chromaticus .............. il, | 22 238 
—— distincta ................ IL. 9 30 -posticatus .............00 ITI. 18 77 
. 10, —— yucatanus ..............2.. XIII. 25 238 
Arescus bicolor ................ II. 11 \ 31 Juspiciosus Seeeeeeenneneen II. 19 7 
1 II 12, 39 || — alienUS ........ 0. ce ee eee ITT. 21 78 
PORPIOXUS seresecserseeces 13 —— acuticornis................ III. | 20] 79,239 


* Amphipalpa guerini on the Plate. 


+ Cephaloleia stenosoma on the Plate. 
t+ Demotispa limbatella on the Plate. 


§ Cephalodonta generosa on the Plate. 


|| Chalepus nigripectus on the Plate. 


LIST OF PLATES. 


Plate. Fig. Page. Plate. Fig Page. 

: ur | a4 | {81121 138 

Chalepus waterhousii ............ H. { 239 || Dolichotoma distincta,j ........ V. 17 3d 

amplipennis .............. III. 17 82 conspersipennis, J «+--+. v. 3 134 

cece eee neces III. 16; 83, 239 salvini, Sw... eee eee eee Vv. 19 134 

signaticollis*.............. ITT. 25 86 a ee V. 20 135 

Octotoma scabripennis .......... IV. 2.| 87,240 || Calaspidea columbina............ Vv. 21 137 
marginicollis .............. IV. 1 | 88,240 || Mesomphalia punicea,S ........ Vv. 23 137 

Brachycoryna pumilaf .......... IV. 3 | 90, 240 rQevsecnceee tee eees Vv. 24 By 

Microrhopala perforata .......... IV. 4 91 , var. chevrolati, g v. 25 137 

rubrolineata .............. IV. 5 91 , var. elegans, ...... Vv. 26 137 

Uroplata explanata ............ IV. 6 93 illustris, $ ww. kee ee ee eee Vv. 22 138 

Lee e cece ee eees IV. 7 94 tristigma, do... eee eee eee Vv. 27 138 

vittatipennis .............. IV. 9| 95,124 p VAL, Q cece cece ees Vv. 28 138 

cee cece cee ences XIII. 26 241 lebasi, Gwe. eee ee eee eee VI. 1 139 

bocce cece nee e ee eees IV. 8 96 » var. primaria,? ...... VI. 2 139 

-——beatat ...... cc ccc eee eee IV. 10 99 svar.,Q eee eee wees VI. 3 139 

Lecce cece ee enees IV. 23 100 costaricensis ...... 20.0000. VI. 4 140 

hampionj Iv 11 | J 50, 100, xanthospila, ¢ .........05. VI. 5 140 

Champloni § se sees sees eee , 120 quadriguttata,Q .......... Vi. 6 141 

Lecce cece ee eeees IV. 12 103 Salvini, Oo... eee ee ee eee VI. 7 141 

—— dimidiata ..........000... Iv. | 13 103 War, 2 cee cece eee VI. 8 141 

bccn eee cee eees IV. 14 103 pictilis, So... cc eee ee eae VI. 2 142 

Lecce ee cee eee II. 27 242 ’ 

Seeeeeneeeneeeees “ty. | 33 107 i VI. { 1 \ 142 

—— hematopyga............5. IV. 18 108 isthmica, So. ee. cee eee ee VI. 12 143 

vee gseuneeeaeesaes Iv. | 15 110 Qesecececeececeeees? VL | 18 143 

eee e ec ee cece eece IV. 16 111 7: oe VI. 14 143 

Lecce eee e cece ees IV. 17 | 112, 242 weneovittata, ¢ .......e eee VI. 15 144 

fulvopustulata ....... Lees IV. 19 | 118, 242 quadrivittata,$ ow... ee eee VI. 16 145 

Lecce eceeceeene IV. 20 114 || ——- nigrolineata, ¢ ..... Leeeeee VI. 17 146 

variegata ....... Se eee eens IV. 21 114 interrupta, 9.1... ee cee eee VI. 18 146 

melancholica .............4. IV. 24 116 || Chelymorpha hépfneri,? ........ VI. 19 149 

Acanthodes flavipes ............ IV. 25 118 pubescens, 9 ...........04. VI. .20 149 

gressoria, Gwe. ee cece eee VI. 21 149 

re wD ——- sericea, Go... cece ee ee eee VI. 22 150 

ASSTDID ZB. comata, var.,Q .....eeeeeee VI. 23 150 

Delocrania panamensis .......... LV. 1 125 (17-notata), gd ........ VI. 24 150 

Himatidium impurum, var. ...... Vv. 2 | 126,127 , var, smithi, d........ VI. 25 | 150,151 

wee eee ee ee eens V. 3 | 126,127 rufipennis, 2 .............. VIL. 1 151 

———— ——-, VAP. cee ee eee V. 4 | 126,127 alternans,  ..... cece eee ee VII. 2 151 

rufomarginatum .......... Vv. 5 128 Vittata,Q ... cee ee ee eee VII. 3 152 

See cece ee ee eee V. 6 128 rugicollis, Q .......... 000. VII. 4 153 

sanguineum .............. XIII. 22 233 catenulata, 6 2. .... een VII. 5 154 

Calyptocephala brevicornis ...... V. 7 128 , var. 11-maculata, ? VIL. 6 154 

—— marginipennis ............ Vv. 8 128 a) en VII. 7 154 

been e eee eeees V. 9 129 Juvenca, 9 oo... eee eee VII. 8 154 

Porphyraspis circumdata ........ Vv. 10 130 mexicana, 9 .............. VII. 9 155 

Lee c cece eee ee cease Vv. 11 130 biannularis, $ ............ VII. 10 155 

Lecce cece cece ee Vv. 12 131 , Var. fasciata,¢ ...... VII. 11 155 

Tauroma casta ........ee..005e V. 13 131 || —— 14-punctata,? ............ VII. 12 156 

(ceruleopunctata) Vv. 14 131 , var. 16-stillata, 9 VII. 13 156 

azurelcornis ...........2.. Vv. 15 182 , Var. conjugata, J VIL. 14 156 

Dolichotoma bisbiplagiata, g¢...... V. 16 133 || —— 13-maculata,? ............ VII. 15 156 


* Chalepus notaticollis on the Plate. 
+ Physocoryna scabra on the Plate. 
¢ Uroplata rubida on the Plate. 


§ Uroplata emarginata on the Plate. 
|| Uroplata robinsoni on the Plate. 


LIST OF PLATES. 


1x 


Plate. Fig Page. Plate Fig. Page. 
Chelymorpha 12-signata,? ...... VII. 16 157 || Coptocycla tripartita, g .......... IX. 3 184 
guttifera ...... 002.000... VII. 17 157 nigropunctata,g .......... IX. 2 185 
| flavomaculata ............ VII. 18 157 || —— wagneri.................. IX. 1 185 
—— 10-stillata...... 02... VII. 19 158 leprosa, 2 .. 2... ee eee eee X. 1 185 
—— epilachnoides,? .......... VII. 20 158 dorsoplagiata, dg .......... X. 5 186 
obliterata, @ .............. VII. 21 159 marmorata,?@ .....,...... X. 2 187 
Selenis sparsa,g ...... 2.0.00... VIL. 22 159 orbiculata ................ X. 3 188- 
a VII. 23 159 sordida,Q ............008. X. 4 188 
Omoplata tersa,g .............. VIL. 24 160 PVA 1 Oo IX. 15 188 
4-stillata, $ .. 0... ee eee VII. 25 160 || —— wesmaeli ................ X. 6 190 
Omaspides bistriata ............ VIII 1 161 || —— a) ee X. 7 190 
Batonota aurita ................ Vill 2 161 || —— , Var. puerilis ........ X. 8 190 
yucatana .............0.. Vill 3 162 ephippiata ................ X. 9 191 
NOdOSA .......... 2. eee Vill 4 162 | —— p VAP. ieee ee eee X. 10 191 
—insidiosa ................ Vill 5 163 AaMONA ...........-. eee X. 11 191 
sexplagiata .............. VIII 6 163 opulenta .....2.......-.. X. 12 192 
|—— rufo-ornata .............. VIll 7 163 tricolorata .............00. X. 13 192 
—godmani ................ VO 9 163 atalanta... 2... eee eee X. 14 193 
biplagiata ................ VITl 10 164 extensa,@ 6... ew ee eee X. 15 1938 
Cistudinella foveolata, f ........ VIII 8 165 zetterstedti, ¢ ....... eee X. 16 193 
Physonota alutacea, var. cyrtodes,?| VIII 12 166 insubida,Q ...........4.. X. 17 194 
nitidicollis .............. VIII 13 166 salle@i,Q .. 0... eee ee eee X. 18 194 
OC) VIII 14 167 signifera(guttata),@ ...... X. 19 194 
gigantea ................ VIIl 11 167 || —— , var. trabeata, 9 X. 20 | 194,195 
perampla ................ VII 15 167 || —— , var. immunda, ¢ X. 21 | 194,195 
stigmatilis ................ Vill 16 168 lecontel, Q ........ 0.0 eee X. 22 196 
picticollis,@ .............. VIII 17 169 || —— gibbifera, ¢ .............. X. 23 197 
ovalis, Var. 6... 2... ee eee Vill 18 169 ||; —— » VAP, Q we ee cece eee X. 24 197 
—— vitticollis, var. ............ VIII 19 169 circulata ........ 0. eee ee X. 25 198 
——turgida ..............008- Vill 20 170 isthmica, @ ............4- X. 26 198 
mexicana ..............4. VIII 21 170 atroannulus, 9............ Xx. 27 199 
flavago .............004.. Vill 22 170 cingulata ................ XI. 1 199 
disjuncta ................ VIII 23 171 ambita .........-....000- XI. 2 199 
caudata,@ .... eee eee eee VIII. 24 171 balteata....... 62. eee eee XI. 3 200 
attenuata, .......... 006. VIII. 25 171 Irazuensis ...........0.00- XI. 4 201 
—— limoniata ................ IX. 5 172 puella ...............04. XI. 5 201 
—— humilis .................. IX. 4 172 bonvouloiri .............. XI. 6 201 
ovipennis,  .............. IX. 6 172 diophthalma .............. XI. 7 202 
translucida (flaveola), 3 IX. 7 173 semiatrata .............00. XI. 8 203 
eucalypta .............00. IX. 8 173 crucipennis .............. XI. 9 203 
maculiventris,¢ .......... IX. 9 173 dohrni -............0000. XI. 10 203 
calcarata,¢ oo... eee eee IX. 10 174. distorta ........ 0.0000 e eee XI. 11 203 
Eurypepla brevilineata, g ........ IX. 11 175 biannulifera .............. XI. 12 204 
Chersinella heteropunctata, var., 3 . IX. 12 175 incincta ..........0. 02 eee XI. 13 204 
Ischyrosonyx nigrosignata ...... IX. 13 176 circumducta .............. XI. 14 205 
Cassida mexicana .............. IX. 14 176 aurofasciata, G.........00, XI. 15 205 
pallidula ................ IX. 16 177 || —— , var. ffhrei, Q ...... XI. 16 205 
TUZOSA® ........ eee eee eee IX. 17 177 testudinaria, 9 ...........-. XI. 17 206 
Hybosa mellicula,? ............ IX, 18 178 || ——tuberculata .............. XI, 18 207 
Charidotis pustulata ............ IX. 19 179 ventricosa, ¢ «wee eee eee XI. 19 208 
auroguttata .............. IX. 20 179 egregia, 9... . cece eee eee XI. 20 208 
flavomarginata ............ IX. 21 180 || —— 1) en XI. 21 208 
erythrostigma ............ IX. 23 180 propinqua .........-.-..+- XI. 22 209 
—— yucatanensis .............. IX. 22 181 || —— subirrorata .............- XI. 23 209 
frontalis..........-........ IX. 24 181 bivulnerata, Q ...........- XI. 24 212 
seminulum, var. .......... IX. 25 181 hogbergi, Q ...... e+e eens XI. 25 2138 
curtula ...........-..02., IX. 26 182 emarginata ...........-.. XI. 26 213 

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x LIST OF PLATES. 


Plate. |Fig.| Page. Plate. | Fig.| Page. 
Coptocycla annexa.............. XI. 27 214 || Ctenochira infantula, var. salebrata. XII. 24 225 
tumida ............-. eee XII. 1 214 palmata.........0 eee eee XIII. 1 225, 
maculicollis .............. XII. 2 215 || —— , var. bilobata ........ XII. 2 225 
—— vilis, Qo... cc eee ee eee ee XII. 3 215 dissimilis .........-..00-- XII. 25 226 
proxima...............05. XII. 4 216 rubrocincta, 9 .........-.. XIII. 3 226 
—— evanescens............060. XII. 5 216 | —— , var, carnifex, 2 ...... XITI. 4 226 
——virgulata .............4.. XII. |6,7 217 melanota, G .....+-eeee05 XIII. 5 |. 227 
Giluta.. .... 0. eee eee eee XII. 8 217 plicata, Q ........ cece eee XIII. 6 | DOT Le 
sinuata ........ eee eee eee XII. 9 218 sagulata, ¢ «1.1... eee eee XIII. Thy 227 | 
scapularis ................ XII. 10 218 || ——vivida, 2 .............0.. XIII. 8 228 | 
—— duplex .................. XII. 11 219 || —— , var. nigrocincta, g....| XIII. 9 228 © 
——— marculenta, 9 ............ XII. 12 220 || —— , var. tabida, 9 ........ XIII. . | 10 228 - 
profligata ................ XII. 13 220 || —— punicea, Q .............. XIII. 11 | 229 
erratica, S 6... ee eee XII. 14 220 || —— plebeja ............-..0.6. XITi. 12 229 
angularis, ¢ ..........60.. XII. 15 221 coronata, 9 ........-...6- XIII. 13 229 
. . 16, —— p VAP, See eee eee XITI. 14 229 
Ctenochira bifenestrata, vars. .... XII. { 17 \ 223 |) hieroglyphica, G .......... XL: | 15 230 
hectica, dw... ec cece ee ee XII. 18 223 || —— Af) on XIII. 16 280 
fraterna.... 2... 6 eee eee XII. 19 223 || —— cumulata, 9 .............. _XITt. 17 231 
—— g VAT. Co.cc eee eee XI, 20 223 flavonotata, d ............ XITI. 18 231, 
—— lugubris...............00- XII. 21 224 fairmairei, var. ............ XIII. 19 231 — 
stali, Go... ec eee XII. 22 994. crux-flava, Go... eee eee XIII, 20 232 | 
— infantula ................ XII, 23 225 aspersa, do... . ee ee ee eae XIII. 21 232 
ERRATA ET CORRIGENDA. 
Page Line 
19 34 dele (Tab. IL. fig. 4.) 
49 34 for simillatus read similatus. 
87 24 for Octoma read Octotoma. 
93 32 — after fulvopustulata insert lineaticollis. 
185 24 for Alurna read Alurnus. 
177 The section “‘b. Claws angularly dilated at the base,” should be transferred upwards 
so as to include Cassida insculpta. 
178 24 for zonata read zona. 
201 1 for Tab. IX. read Tab. XI. 
222 Before CTENOCHIRA insert “b. Anterior claws angularly dilated, and the intermediate 


and posterior claws pectinate, at the base.” ‘ 


BIOLOGIA CENTRALI-AMERICANA 


ZOOLOGIA. 


Class INSECTA. Auf 0; ban 


Order COLEOPTERA. Corn of Werte 
Tribe PHYTOPHAGA (continued). 
Fam, HISPIDA. 


A large number of the Hispide contained in the present work are now described for 
the first time; but although so many of the species are new to science, all, with but 
two exceptions, belong to known generic groups ; two new genera, Huzema and Para- 
chalepus, are characterized in the following pages. The New-World genera Cladispa, 
Octocladiscus, Melanispa, Hispoleptis, Metarycera, Stethispa, Acentroptera, and Steno- 
podius* are as yet unrepresented in Central America; the last-named genus, however, 
recently established by Dr. Horn for the reception of a species from California and 
Arizona, will probably be found in Northern Mexico. 

Little is known of the habits of the exotic species of the family; but Mr. Champion, 
who during his residence in Central America paid great attention to the group, tells 
me that the smooth flattened species (Cephaloleia and its allies) are usually found in 


the rolled-up unopened leaves of Musacee (Heliconia, spp.), the inner surfaces of 


the leaves being eroded or eaten through (often for five or six thicknesses of the 
rolled-up leaves) to a considerable extent ; he took a long series of Stenispa attenuata, 
a smooth metallic insect, by sweeping undergrowth (Bambusacez), at a high elevation 
in the virgin forest; he also states that he captured, both in the forests and in the 
more open savanna country, the brightly coloured species of Arescus on the upper 
surfaces of leaves, basking in the full sunshine. Mr. Bates, who made a large collection 
of these interesting insects in the Amazon region, used to find numerous species of 
Cephaloleia hidden at the bases of bamboo-canes, lying between the leaves and the stem 

As a rule, the New-World Hispide are more brilliantly coloured than those of the 


* Stenopodius flavidus, Horn (Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. 1883, p. 301, t. 9. f. 8), a remarkable species, possessing 
a similarly shaped thorax to Huxema ; but judging from the structure of its antenne, and from the slight de- 
scription given of its labium, it should belong to the second section of the family, and be placed near Uroplata. 


BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Coleopt., Vol. VI. Pt. 2, January 1885. aa 


SASL 


TVELY (atts Sith, Aig, 
Mila 


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2 . PHYTOPHAGA. 


Old World. Many of the Central-American species are large and conspicuous, and © 
being abundant in the various localities in which they occur, are doubtless (as 
Mr. Wallace states) protected from the attacks of birds and other enemies by the pos- 
session of some noxious smell or taste. The coloration and markings of the different 
species are (with some remarkable exceptions) constant, and show little tendency to 
variation; in some groups a uniform pattern runs, with but little change, through a 
series of specific forms, in many cases belonging to separate genera. 

It will be seen that I have, as formerly, used the modifications in size and shape of 
the labium in the arrangement of the generic groups. 

The labium is large and exposed, and is thus readily examined a setu by an ordinary 
microscope without risk of injury to the specimens ; it is divided into two segments, 
the mentum and ligula. 

I. The mentum, or basal segment, is connected by its lower edge with the margin of 
the skull, and is attached on either side to the maxilla; at first small, and forming a 
single piece with the ligula, it gradually increases in size until ultimately it forms the 
larger portion of the whole labium. 

II. The ligula: this segment is placed in one division of the family at the apex, in 
the other on the dorsal surface of the mentum; it consists of two subsegments, the 
basilar and apical, which are separated from each other by well-defined sutural lines ; 
the basilar portion, from the anterior surface of which spring the labial palpi, varies 
greatly in size and shape; in the earlier genera of the family it is large and prominent, 
but gradually dwindles away in exact ratio to the increase of the mentum, until at 
length (Chondrina) it, together with its appendages, the labial palpi, entirely disappears ; 
the apical subsegment is corneous, and sometimes placed at the apex, sometimes on the 
dorsal surface of the preceding subsegment ; in the latter case it is hidden from view. 

I should not have thought it necessary to make these remarks had not the late 
Dr. Chapuis (Gen. Col. t. xi. p. 252) questioned the accuracy of my nomenclature of 
these parts, and in so doing fallen into a singular error, which, if not corrected, might 
tend to mislead future students of the group. 

After having stated (J. c. p. 255) that the maxille are attached, one on either side, to 
the base of the mentum, he proceeds to say that there is often an additional segment, 
the sous-menton, placed between the true mentum and the margin of the head, referring 
to Cat. Hisp. tab. i. A a, and fig. 8 f as illustrating the part in question. He thus divides 
the labium into three segments :—1, a basal one, or sous-menton; 2, an inter-mediate,or 
menton; and 3, the languette, which, according to his statement, carries the labial palpi. 

Had he, however, examined the parts in nature, for example, in Alurnus, to which 
figure he refers, he would have seen that the maxille are attached -to the short trans- 
verse segment (his sous-menton), showing it, even according to his own views, to be the 
true mentum; had he carried his investigations further, and examined the second 
segment, which he terms the menton, he would have found that the labial palpi spring, 


EUXEMA. 3 


one on either side, from its anterior margin, proving it without doubt to be the basilar 
subsegment of the ligula, from which these organs always arise. His third segment, or 
lanquette, to which he has erroneously assigned them, never bears these organs; it 
answers to the apical subsegment of the ligula and is placed sometimes on the anterior, 
sometimes on the dorsal surface of the basilar subsegment. 

The Hispide are separable into two primary sections, dependent on the relative 
positions of the mentum and ligula; in the first the ligula is placed at the apex of the 
mentum, in the second on its dorsal surface. 


Section I. Ligula placed at the apex of the mentum. _ : x 
Subsection 1. Sutwral line between the two segments obsolete. 


This subsection will include the new genus described below; the other genera 
belonging to it are Old-World forms. 


EUXEMA. 


Corpus suboblongatum, dorso modice depressum. Caput exsertum ; antennis filiformibus, articulis cylindricis, 
primo oblongo, paullo incrassato, secundo quam ille paullo breviori, tertio elongato; ligula elongata, ad 
basin et ad apicem constricta, cum mento intime connexa, linea suturali inter segmentos obsoleta. Thoraa 
transversus, margine antice antrorsum valde lobato. Elytra oblonga, punctato-striata. Unguicali divaricati. 


One species from the State of Panama will constitute this genus. 


1. Euxema insignis. (Tab. I. fig. 1.) 
Subelongata, modice convexa, dorso depressa, metallico-cerulea, nitida; antennis nigris apice extremo piceis, 
 tibiis tarsisque piceo-fulvis; thorace transverso-convexo ; lateribus reflexis, a basi apicem versus oblique 

convergentibus; margine apicali medio in lobum obtusum producto, utrinque sinuato, nec non prope 
angulum lateralem tuberculo brevi setifero instructo; disco levi, basi punctato, utrinque intra marginem 
excavato ; elytris oblongis, regulariter punctato-striatis. 

Mas. Abdominis segmento anale obtuse rotundato, leviter bisinuato. 

Fem. Abdominis segmento anali rotundato, integro. 


Long. 3 lin. 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 8000 feet (Champion). 


Antenne filiform, nearly half the length of the body, the third joint longer than the 
first and second united, black, the last three joints piceous. Thorax transversely 
convex; sides reflexed, obliquely converging from base to apex, more quickly rounded 
" near the anterior angles, the latter obtuse; anterior margin deeply sinuate on either 
side and armed near the outer angle with a small setiferous tubercle, visible only 
under a strong lens; medial portion produced anteriorly into a strong subangulate lobe, 
which extends over and partially covers the head; upper surface excavated just within 
the outer margin, finely punctured at the base; disc smooth, impunctate. Scutellum 
pentangular, its apex acute. Elytra oblong, broader than the thorax ; sides subparallel ; 
apex broadly rounded, apical margin minutely serrulate ; disc distinctly punctate-striate. 


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4 PHYTOPHAGA. 


Subsection 2. Sutural line between the mentum and ligula distinct. 


STENISPA. 
Stenispa, Baly, Cat. Hispide, p. 13 (1858). 


Three species, including one described below, are known from Central America, two 
from Mexico, and one from the State of Panama. 


1. Stenispa sallei. (Tab. I. fig. 2.) 


Stenispa sallei, Baly, Cat. Hispide, p. 164*. 
Mas. Abdominis segmento anali modice subangulato-emarginato; pygidio subtus fovea magna levi sat pro- 
funde impresso. . 


Hab. Mexico, Orizaba!, Toxpam (type, coll. Sallé). 


The female of this species is unknown to me. 


2. Stenispa attenuata. 


Stenispa attenuata, Baly, Cist. Ent. i. p. 185°. 
Mas. Abdominis segmento anali late angulato-emarginato; pygidio subtus fovea magna levi impresso. 
Fem. Abdominis segmento anali utrinque sinuato. 


Hab. GuateMata, Chiacam (Champion) ; Panama! (type, coll. Baly), Volcan de Chiriqui 
alt. 8000 feet (Champion). 


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3. Stenispa brevicornis. 

Angustata, elongata, postice atttenuata, subcylindrica, nigro-cuprea, nitida; thorace quam lato paullo longiori, 
lateribus rectis; disco subremote punctato; elytris elongatis, parallelis, ad apicem attenuatis; regulariter 
punctato-striatis; antennis ad caput cum thorace equilongis. 

Mas. Abdominis segmento anali modice concavo; pygidio subtus fovea levi magna impresso. 

Fem. Abdominis segmento anali apice truncato. 


Long. 24 lin. 
Hab. Mexico (coll. Deyrolle). | 


Antenne moderately robust, equal in length to the head and thorax. Front concave, 
rather closely punctured. Thorax rather longer than broad ; sides straight and parallel, 
incurved at the extreme apex; hinder angles acute, anterior ones produced anteriorly 
into an acute tooth; disc transversely convex, faintly impressed transversely in front of 
the scutellum ; surface minutely granulose, subremotely punctured. Elytra elongate, 
rather broader than the thorax; sides straight and parallel before their middle, thence 
gradually attenuated to the apex, the apical margin obsoletely serrulate; disc regularly 
punctate-striate, the puncturing nearly obsolete near the apex; interspaces minutely 
granulose. 


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AMPLIPALPA.—ALURNUS. 5 


This species is very closely allied to §. attenuata, but is separated by its smaller size, 
more robust and shorter antenns, and (in the male) by the less deeply concave apex of 
the anal segment of the abdomen. 


_ ~AMPLIPALPA. 
Amplipatpa v. Harold, Col. Heft. xiii. 1875, p. 185. ew~ ae 
a Gdiopalpa, Baly, Cat. Hispide, p. 16. 
All the species of this genus have the joints of the palpi more or less compressed and 
dilated. One species only is known as yet from Central America, the rest occurring in 
various localities in South America from Colombia to Brazil. 


1. Amplipalpa guerini. (Tab. I. fig. 3.) 

Amplipalpa guerinii, Baly, loc. cit. p. 20°. egg 

Hab. Mexico, Putla, Playa Vicente (Sallé); Panama (Boucard), Bugaba (Champion), 
Matachin (Thidme).—Cotomsra!, Bogota (coll. Baly, type); Upper Amazons (Bates). 


This insect, although having an extensive range, and apparently not uncommon, 
appears to have been but very rarely met with by Mr. Champion, only two specimens, 
from the State of Panama, having been sent by him. 


ALURNUS. 


Alurnus, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. ii. p. 51, no. 54. 

The species of Alurnus are all large and conspicuous insects, with the exception of 
A. marginatus, the coloration of each (within certain limits) tolerably constant; the 
range of the genus is from Mexico to Southern Brazil. Mr. Champion tells me that 
these insects are found upon the broad-leaved Musaceze in the virgin forest of the low 


country. 


Y . 1, Alurnus ornatus. (Tab. I. fig. 4.) 
Alurnus ornatus, Baly, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1869, p. 87 *. 


Hab. Nicaraava!, Chontales (Janson, Belt, Sallé) ; Costa Rica (Van Patten). 


9. Alurnus salvini. (Tab. I. fig. 5.) 
Anguste oblongus, niger, nitidus; elytris flavis, utrinque apice maculisque tribus, 2-1 dispositis, nigris. 
Var, A. Elytris flavis, apice externo nigro. (Tab. I. fig. 6.) 
Long. 7-9 lin. 


Hab. Costa Rica (Sallé); Panama, Chiriqui (Ribbe), Bugaba (Champion). 
Vertex and front rugose-punctate, medial line impressed with a longitudinal groove. 
Antenne half the length of the body, third joint twice the length of the basal two 
united. ‘Thorax broader at the base than long; sides converging from base to apex, 
obtusely angulate ; upper surface convex, finely punctured, the puncturing crowded on 


6 exrocwatient PHYTOPHAGA. 


the sides and at ‘the Base, remote on the medial disc. Elytra oblong, acutely rounded 
at the apex, convex; distinctly punctured, flavous; each with the apical fourth and 
three large patches, placed two obliquely below the. base, one on the humeral callus, 
the other on the inner disc, and a third transverse, obliquely placed near the middle, 
black. Extreme apex of abdomen fulvous. 

This insect differs from A. ornatus in the less coarsely punctured and entirely black 
thorax; in all other respects the two species closely agree. Its coloration is constant, 
so that I have considered it as distinct from the preceding insect. . 

Mr. Champion found this species upon the leaves of Musacez in the virgin forest of 
the low country. 


3. Alurnus cassideus. (Tab. I. fig. 7.) 
Alurnus cassideus, Westw. Ann. Nat. Hist. i. 1841, viii. p. 204°. 


Hab. Mexico (coll. Melly).—Urrser Amazons!, Pebas (Bates); Ecuapor (Buckley). 


The variety with black elytra from Ecuador, described by Mr. C. O. Waterhouse 
[Proc. Zool. Soc. 1881, p. 265], is much narrower than the typical form, and probably 
belongs to another species. 


XANTHISPA. 
Xanthispa, Baly, Cat. Hispide, p. 31. 

Although the insect here described differs from the original diagnosis of Xanthispa 
(2. c. p. 32) in having the second joint of the antenne short, it agrees so completely in 
the formation of the parts of the mouth with the typical species |X. cimicoides, Guérin, 
from Cayenne], that I do not hesitate to place it in the same genus. 


1. Xanthispa ceruleipennis. (Tab. I. fig. 8.) 


Ovata, subdepressa, rufo-testacea, nitida; antennis, articulo basali excepto, oculis scutelloque nigris; antennarum 
articulis basalibus duobus brevibus equalibus, tertio elongato; thorace transverso, levi, lateribus reflexis, 
a basi ad apicem convergentibus; elytris late ovatis, metallico-ceruleis, sat fortiter punctato-striatis, 
interspatiis ad latera convexis, hic illic costatis. . 

Long. 24 lin. 


Hab. Nicaraeua, Chontales (Belt). A single specimen. 


Antenne half the length of the body; two lower joints very short, equal, the basal 
one not thickened ; third joint longer than the preceding two united. Thorax trans- 
verse ; sides regularly rounded, and converging from base to apex ; the anterior angles 
obtuse ; apical margin concave; disc impunctate ; the lateral margin reflexed. Scutellum 
pentangular. lytra broadly ovate, rounded on the sides, more broadly rounded at the 
apex, outer margin minutely serrulate; disc slightly convex, flattened along the suture, 
broadly excavated laterally before the middle; rather strongly punctate-striate ; striee on 


HOMALISPA. 7 


the outer disc sulcate, their interspaces thickened, here and there distinctly costate ; 
outer limb reflexed, its surface concave, impunctate. 
In coloration this species strongly resembles many species of Homalispa. 


HOMALISPA. 
Homalispa, Baly, Cat. Hispide, p. 33. 

The present genus, apart from the structural differences of the mouth and antenne, 
may be known from Cephaloleia by the broader and more ovate form. With the excep- 
tion of the two described here the species inhabit the warmer parts of South America ; 
about a dozen species are known. 


1. Homalispa variabilis. (Tab. I. fig. 9.) 

Anguste oblongo-ovata, depressa, nitida; subtus nigra, pectoris medio nigro-piceo, thorace inferiori capiteque 
flavis; supra flava, antennis, capitis vertice scutelloque nigris; thorace levi, utrinque late excavato, vitta 
lata discoidali nigra ; elytris oblongis, distincte punctato-striatis, dimidio postico vittaque late suturali nigris, 

Var. A. Elytris flavis, vitta suturali pone medium obsoleta. 

Long. 23 lin. 

Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 3000 feet (Champion). 

Lower face excavated, concave ; vertex impressed with a few fine punctures. Antenne 
more than half the length of the body, filiform, very slightly attenuated at the base and 
apex; joints cylindrical, the second half the length of the basal one, the third as long 
again as the second. Thorax twice as broad as long at the base; sides very oblique, 
quickly converging from base to apex, straight behind the middle, slightly rounded 
anteriorly, apical angle produced, subacute, the basal one very acute; basal margin 
broadly concave, emarginate on either side, its medial portion very obtusely rounded 
and slightly reflexed; upper surface smooth and shining, remotely impressed with very 
fine punctures, only visible under a strong lens ; medial disc covered with a broad black 
vitta, which extends from base to apex; surface between this discoidal vitta and the 
lateral margin excavated, the lateral margin itself reflexed. lytra rather broader than 
the base of the thorax; sides straight, nearly parallel, apical margin (conjointly) 
obtusely rounded; the outer border very finely serrulate, serratures distant on the 
sides, closer at the apex; each elytron with eleven rows of distinct punctures, the first 
row short; outer striz subsulcate, their interspaces slightly convex. 

This species, of which I have seen five specimens, all collected by Mr. Champion, is 
very variable in pattern, and in the extent of the black coloration of the elytra. 


2. Homalispa limbifera. 


Late ovata, depressa, flava, nitida; scutello antennisque nigris, abdomine pallide piceo; thorace levi, ad latera 
sparse foveolato-punctato, disco plaga magna nigra, cuneiformi, a basi ad apicem producta instructo; 
elytris sat fortiter punctato-striatis ; piceo-nigris, limbo exteriori late flavo. 

Long. 2 lin. 


Hab. Guatemata, Cubilguitz, San Juan in Vera Paz (Champion). 


8 PHYTOPHAGA. 


Head smooth; antenne nearly three fourths the length of the body, filiform, first 
and second joints short, nearly equal in length. Thorax nearly twice as broad as long 
at the apex; sides broadly reflexed, straight, and obliquely converging from the base to 
beyond the middle, thence rounded and converging towards the apex ; disc impunctate, 
sides at the base impressed with a few large foveolate punctures. Elytra much broader 
than the thorax, quadrate-ovate, flattened on the disc, transversely depressed below 
the base, outer limb broadly reflexed; coarsely punctate-striate, interspaces obsoletely 
wrinkled ; outer limb impunctate. 

“Found sitting on the leaves of Musacee in the virgin forest” (Champion). 


3. Homalispa gracilis. 

Elongato-ovata, rufo-testacea, nitida; antennis, basi excepta, oculis scutelloque nigris; thorace transverso, 
lateribus anguste reflexis, a basi ad ultra medium fere rectis, hinc ad apicem rotundato-angustatis; disco 
levi, basi hic illic punctato; elytris viridi-eneis, oblongis, apice obtuse rotundatis, punctato-striatis. 

Long. 2 lin. 


Hab. Panama, Bugaba (Champion). A single specimen. 


Antenne half the length of the body, filiform, attenuated at base and apex; joints 
cylindrical, the basal one rufo-testaceous, the rest black. Thorax transversely convex ; 
sides nearly straight, scarcely converging from the base to beyond the middle, 
thence rounded and converging to the apex; anterior angle produced, obtuse ; apical 
margin truncate ; disc smooth and shining, impunctate, impressed at the base with a 
few distinct punctures. Elytra oblong, regularly punctate-striate. 


CEPHALOLEIA. 
Cephaioleia, Blanchard, Hist. des Insectes, 1. p. 182; Baly, Cat. Hispide, p. 39. 


With the exception of six, all the species described below are new to science; many 
of these are closely allied to Colombian forms, but are separated by good structural 
characters. Cephaloleia is one of the few genera in the family in which important 
characters can be drawn in both sexes from the emargination of the anal segments of 
the abdomen. 

Mr. Champion informs me that the Central-American species of this genus are, with 
one or two exceptions, found in the rolled-up unopened leaves of Musacece in damp 
places in the forests, often in company with species of Carabide ( Calophena). In fine 
weather these insects are to be seen sunning themselves on the leaves; many of the 
species are gregarious ; the young tender juicy leaves of these plants form their 


principal food. 


1. Cephaloleia gratiosa. (Tab. I. fig. 10.) 


Cephaloleia gratiosa, Baly, Cat. Hispide, p. 40}. 
Var. A. Elytris nigris. 
Var. B. Elytris nigris, apice rufo-fulvis. 


CEPHALOLETIA. 9 


Hab. Muxico!, Cordova, Toxpam (type and vars. A and B) (coll. Sallé), Juquila (Hoge, 
var. A); GuaTEMALA, Cerro Zunil 4000 feet (Champion). 


The metropolis of the present species appears to be Mexico, a single specimen only 
having been sent from Guatemala by Mr. Champion. 


2. Cephaloleia championi. (Tab. I. fig. 11.) 


Hlongata, parallela, dorso subdepressa, flava, nitida; oculis, antennis extrorsum, articulo ultimo apice excepto, 
scutelloque nigris; thorace quam longo vix latiori; lateribus rectis, ad apicem abrupte convergentibus, 
angulo antico acuto; dorso sparse punctato, lateribus anguste nigro marginatis; scutello elongato, acuto ; 
elytris tenuiter punctato-striatis, limbo exteriori vittaque lata suturali, hac vix pone medium ampliata, 
deinde ad apicem abrupte angustata, nigris. 


Mas. Antennarum articulis basalibus quatuor compressis, primo subclavato, sequentibus tribus trigonatis ; 


abdominis segmento anali leviter sinuato. 
Fem. Antennarum articulis cylindricis ; abdominis segmento anali obtuso. 
Long. 4 lin. 


Hab. Panama, Bugaba (Champion). 


Head smooth and shining, finely and remotely punctured. Antenne less than half 
the length of the body; basal joint thickened, twice the length of the second; the 
second, third, and fourth joints equal in length, compressed and trigonate in the 
male, the basal joint in the same sex subclavate; in the female the second to the 
fourth joints are cylindrical, the third being rather longer than either of the preceding ; 
the two to four lower joints, together with the apex of the eleventh, flavous. Thorax 
scarcely broader than long; sides straight and nearly parallel, rounded and converging 
at the extreme apex; anterior angles acute; upper surface very sparingly punctured ; 
extreme lateral margin narrowly edged with black or dark piceous. Scutellum penta- 
gonal, nearly twice as long as broad, its apex very acute. Elytra broader than the 
thorax, parallel, their apices rounded, conjointly sinuate at the sutural angle, the latter 
armed with a small acute tooth; upper surface smooth, finely punctate-striate. 

Nearly allied to C. whitei, distinguished by the narrower and more parallel form, 
together with the straighter sides and acute anterior angles of the thorax, the latter in 
C’. whitet being obtusely rounded ; the last segment of the abdomen in the male of the 
latter species (the only sex known to me) is more deeply sinuate. 

Taken in plenty by Mr. Champion in the rolled-up unopened leaves of Musacee in 
the virgin forest of the “ tierra caliente.” 
| OV NEL Donen, 1694 > 458 
8. Cephaloleia ornata. (Tab. I. fig. 12.) presee by Water FF 
Elongata, dorso subdepressa, nitida, subtus nigro-picea; thorace abdomineque fulvis, femoribus, apice exceptis, 
flavis; supra nigra, facie inferiori piceo-fulva; thorace fulvo, basi plagaque apicali trigonata, nigro-piceis ; 
elytris tenuiter punctato-striatis, utrinque vitta humerali, a basi fere ad medium extensa, postice ampliata, 
fasciaque lata subapicali, flavis. 
_ Long. 32 lin. 
Hab. Nicaraeva, Chontales (Belt). A single specimen. 
BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Coleopt., Vol. VI. Pt. 2, January 1885. bb 


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10 PHYTOPHAGA. 


Head sparingly punctured. Basal joint of the antenne compressed, subclavate; the 
second scarcely more than half the length of the first (the remaining joints in the single © 
specimen before me broken off). Thorax slightly broader than long; sides straight 
and parallel, incurved at the apex; apical angles rounded, distinctly produced ; hinder 
angles slightly produced, acute; disc smooth and shining, sparingly impressed on either 
side with large, round punctures. Scutellum trigonate, slightly longer than broad. 
Elytra parallel, obtusely truncate at the apex, flattened along the suture, finely 
punctate-striate, the striz on the inner side obsoletely sulcate. 


4, Cephaloleia nigropicta. (Tab. I. fig. 13.) 


Anguste elongata, pallide flava, nitida ; antennis, basi exceptis, scutelloque nigris; thorace subquadrato, levi, 
fere impunctato, plaga magna pentagonata, ab apice fere ad basin extensa, nigra; elytris sat fortiter 
punctato-striatis, punctis pallide piceis; utrisque plaga magna humerali fasciaque vix pone medium, 
communi, nigris. 

Mas. Abdominis segmento anali apice leviter concavo. 

Fem. Abdominis segmento anali obtuso, leviter bisinuato. 

Long. 22 lin. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2500 to 6000 feet (Champion). 


Head smooth and shining, vertex and front impressed with a longitudinal groove. 
Antenne filiform, less than half the body in length, the two lower joints fulvous, more 
or less stained with piceous, the rest black. Thorax subquadrate, scarcely broader than 
long; sides nearly straight and parallel; the anterior angles not produced, obtuse; disc 
smooth and shining, impunctate; a large pentagonal discoidal patch attached by its 
base to the apical margin, its apex extending backwards nearly to the base, black. 
Scutellum longer than broad. Elytra broader than the thorax; sides parallel, very 
slightly dilated near the apex, the latter obtusely rounded ; upper surface moderately 
convex, slightly flattened anteriorly along the suture, regularly and rather strongly 
punctate-striate, the striz faintly sulcate. 


5. Cephaloleia distincta. (Tab. I. fig. 15.) 


Elongata, fulva, nitida ; pectore abdomineque nigro-piceis, pedibus (femoribus basi coxisque exceptis) anten- 
nisque nigris; thorace sparse punctato; elytris parallelis, apice obtuse rotundatis; sat fortiter punctato- 
striatis, punctis piceis. 

Mas. Antennarum articulis basalibus quatuor compressis ; abdominis segmento anali late concavo-emarginato. 

Fem. Antennarum articulis cylindricis ; abdominis segmento anali leviter bisinuato. 

Long. 33 lin. © gro oe " 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2500 to 4000 feet, Bugaba (Champion). 


Head nitidous, very finely and sparingly punctured; face between the antenne with 
a strongly raised longitudinal ridge. Antenne less than half the length of the body, 
joints from the second to the apical one cylindrical in the female, the basal one 
thickened, obliquely compressed at the base; four lower joints in the male compressed 
and dilated, the basal one thickened and subclavate, the following three joints trigonate ; 
the second short, broader than long; the third and fourth less dilated, each longer than 


CEPHALOLETA. 11 


the second. Thorax about one fifth broader than long; sides straight and parallel, 
converging at the apex; anterior margin sinuate on either side just within the apical 
angle, the latter scarcely produced, rounded; disc nitidous, sparingly impressed with 
large round punctures, the puncturing rather more crowded on the sides. Scutellum 
much longer than broad, pentangular, its apex very acute. Elytra moderately convex, 
rather strongly punctate-striate, the punctures piceous; the suture also narrowly edged 
with piceous. 


6. Cephaloleia antennata. 

Sat elongata, fulva, nitida; antennis extrorsum nigris; thorace transverso, lateribus rectis, ad apicem con- 
vergentibus, angulis anticis antrorsum productis, obtusis, disco sparse tenuiter punctato, medio fere im- 
punctato; elytris oblongo-elongatis, parallelis, distincte punctato-striatis. 

Mas. Antennarum articulis basalibus quatuor compressis, singulis angulo antico-interno in dentum acutum 
antrorsum producto; abdominis segmento anali concavo-emarginato. 

Long. 3 lin. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet, David (Champion). 


Four lower joints of antenne compressed, the inner and anterior angle of each pro- 
duced into an acute tooth; basal joint clavate, the following three short, equal in 
length, the second and third trigonate; four lower joints fulvous, the rest black. 
Thorax broader than long; sides straight and parallel, converging at the apex; the 
anterior angles produced, obtuse; disc finely and sparingly punctured on the sides, the 
medial space nearly impunctate. Elytra broader than the thorax, oblong-elongate, 
parallel, distinctly and regularly punctate-striate. 

Separated from C. corallina, Er., by its smaller size, less elongate form, and by the 
shorter second and third joints of the antenne. 


7. Cephaloleia erichsoni. (Tab. I. fig. 14.) 
Cephaloleia erichsonii, Baly, Cat. Hispide, p. 43°. 


Hab. Panama, Bugaba (Champion).—CoLomBIa ! (coll. Baly, type). 


The specimens from the State of Panama are rather darker in colour than the type. 


8. Cephaloleia placida. 
Elongata, parallela, fulva, nitida; antennis, basi exceptis, nigris ; thorace subquadrato, levi, remote punctato ; 
elytris parallelis, tenuiter punctato-striatis. 
Mas. Abdominis segmento anali sat profunde concavo-emarginato; antennarum articulo tertio cylindrico. 
Fem, Abdominis segmento anali obtuse rotundato, medio truncato. 
Long. 8 lin. ~~ Til we 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2500 to 4000 feet (Champion). 


Antenne half the length of the body; joints cylindrical; the second one shorter than 
the first, the latter compressed. Thorax subquadrate ; sides straight and parallel ; 
anterior angle moderately produced, its apex obtuse; anterior margin concave; disc 


bb 2 


12 | PHYTOPHAGA. 


smooth and shining, very finely and remotely punctured. Elytra broader than the 
thorax, obtusely rounded at the apex; disc smooth and shining, very finely punctate- 
striate. | 

Very similar in form to C. erichsoni, somewhat smaller, the third joint of the 
antenne in the male cylindrical. 


9. Cephaloleia sallwi. (Tab. I. fig. 16.) 
Cephaloleia sallei, Baly, Cat. Hispide, p. 45°. % 
Hab. Mxxico, Santecomapam, Cordova (coll. Sallé); GuatemaLa, Chacoj, Panima 
in Vera Paz (Champion).—Cotoms1a, Bogoté (coll. Brit. Mus. and Baly). 


The specimens from Guatemala and Mexico differ from the Colombian ones in 
having the pygidium in the female entire or only very faintly sinuate on one or the 
other side; in the male, on the contrary, the same segment is sometimes obsoletely 
sinuate in the medial line ; the transverse impression at the base of the thorax is also 
occasionally absent, and the antennee are sometimes entirely black ; in all other respects 
they agree with the typical form. 


10. Cephaloleia puncticollis. 

Sat elongata, fulva, nitida ; antennis nigris; thorace transverso, lateribus a basi fere ad apicem rectis, parallelis ; 
disco sat fortiter punctato; elytris subelongatis, fere parallelis, apice obtuse rotundatis, regulariter 
punctato-striatis, punctis piceo tinctis. 

Mas. Abdominis segmento anali concavo-emarginato, medio sinuato. 

Fem, Abdominis segmento anali late sed leviter emarginato. 

Var. A. Antennis basi falvis. 

Long. 23 lin. yer S* 

Hab. Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt); Costa Rica, Cache (Rogers) ; Panama, Volcan 
de Chiriqui 2500 to 4000 feet, _Bugaba (Champion). 


Antenne filiform, rather more than half the length of the body, black; joints 
cylindrical, the basal one slightly thickened, very slightly compressed, longer than the 
second, the latter oblong. Vertex and front distinctly punctured. Thorax one third 
broader than long ; sides straight and parallel from the base nearly to the apex, then 
rounded and converging to the anterior angle, the latter obtuse; hinder angle slightly 
produced, very acute; disc transversely convex, impressed (but not very closely) with 
large round punctures. Llytra rather broader than the thorax, parallel, very slightly 
dilated below the middle, convex, flattened along the suture, rather strongly and 
regularly punctate-striate, the punctures more or less stained with piceous. 

Very closely allied to C. proxima, and possibly only a local form of that species, 
separated by the narrow thorax and by the rather more parallel form. 


11. Cephaloleia congener. 


Sat elongata, sordide rufo-fulva, nitida; antennis oylindricis, nigris ; thorace transverso, lateribus a basi ad 
ultra medium rectis, leviter divergentibus, hinc ad apicem rotundato-angustatis; disco remote punctato ; 
elytris anguste oblongo-ovatis, regulariter punctato-striatis. 


CEPHALOLEIA. 13 


Mas, Abdominis segmento anali late emarginato, fundo leviter concavo. 
Fem. Abdominis segmento anali late emarginato, fundo leviter bisinuatis. 
Long. 3-34 lin. 


Hab. Panama, Bugaba (Champion). 


Vertex and front finely and remotely punctured. Antenne rather less than half the 
length of the body, filiform ; joints cylindrical, black, the basal one obscure rufo-piceous. 
Thorax transverse ; sides straight and slightly diverging from the base to beyond the 
middle, then rounded and converging to the apex, apical angle obtuse; remotely and 
finely punctured, a narrow longitudinal space on the middle free from punctures. 
Scutellum scarcely longer than broad, pentangular. Elytra narrowly oblong-ovate, 
convex, sinuate on the sides before the middle, finely punctate-striate. 

Nearly allied to C. puncticollis, separated by the diverging sides, and the more 
remotely punctured disc, of the thorax. 


12. Cephaloleia perplexa. 

Elongata, parallela, fulva, nitida ; antennis nigris; thorace lateribus rectis, ad apicem convergentibus, angulo 
antico antrorsum vix producto, obtuso, angulo postico acuto; disco sparse punctato, medio fere impunc- 
tato ; elytris oblongo-elongatis, apice obtuse rotundatis, modice convexis, distincte punctato-striatis. 

Mas. Antennis filiformibus, articulo tertio cylindrico ; abdominis segmento anali concavo-emarginato, medio 
sinuato. 

Fem. Antennis filiformibus, articulo basali fulvo, tertio compresso, elongato-trigonato; abdominis segmento 
anali bisinuato, medio paullo producto. 

Long. 23-3 lin. 


Hab. GuatemMata, Senahu in Vera Paz (Champion). 


Antenne rather more than half the length of the body; joints cylindrical, the 
_ third (in the female) compressed and elongate-trigonate. Thorax rather broader than 
‘long; sides straight, rounded at the extreme apex, parallel in the male, slightly con- 
verging in the female; the anterior angle slightly produced, obtuse; distinctly but not 
closely punctured; a longitudinal space on the middle nearly free from punctures. 
Elytra narrowly oblong, shorter in the male, distinctly punctate-striate. 


18. Cephaloleia dilaticollis. 
Cephaloleia dilaticollis *, Baly, Cat. Hispide, p. 46, t. 5. fig. 5°. 


_ Hab. Guatemata, Duefias (Salvin) ; PANAMA, Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet ( Champton).— 
CotomBiA, Bogota! (coll. Baly, type). 


14. Cephaloleia lata. (Tab. I. fig. 17.) | 
Breviter subquadrato-ovata, modice convexa, fulva, nitida; antennis extrorsum nigris ; thorace transverso, 
lateribus anguste reflexis; disco levi, sparse hic illic punctis magnis impresso ; elytris regulariter punctato- 
striatis, pallide castaneis, limbo externo anguste flavo. 
Mas. Abdominis segmento anali concavo-emarginato. 


* This insect is figured in the Catalogue as C. quadraticollis, 


A ate 


14 PHYTOPHAGA. 


Fem. Abdominis segmento anali late sed leviter transversim emarginato. 


Var. A. Thorace cum elytris concolori, limbo laterali anguste flavo. 


Long. 2-23 lin. 
Hab. Panama, Bugaba, Volcan de Chiriqui 4000 to 6000 feet (Champion). 


Antenne half the length of the body, filiform, slightly attenuated at base and apex ; 
joints cylindrical, two lower ones short, equal, the basal one very slightly thickened, 
third joint nearly equal in length to the preceding two united ; five outer ones black, 
the rest fulvous; in some specimens the antenne are almost entirely black, the two or 
three lower joints being alone fulvous. Thorax twice as broad as long; sides narrowly 
reflexed, straight and nearly parallel from the base to below the middle, thence rounded 
and converging to the apex; apical angle anteriorly produced, obtuse; disc nitidous, 
very sparingly impressed with deep punctures. FElytra broader than the thorax, sub- 
quadrate, obtusely rounded at the apex, conjointly emarginate at the sutural angle ; 
upper surface moderately convex, obsoletely gibbous behind the scutellum, regularly 
punctate-striate, the punctures sometimes piceous. 

1 have placed this species in the present genus with some doubt ; it has the labium 
formed as in Cephaloleia, but with the broad form and the short basal joint to the 


-antenne as in Homalispa. 


15. Cephaloleia pretiosa. (Tab. I. fig. 18.) 
Cephaloleia pretiosa, Baly, Cat. Hispide, p. 50°. 


Hab. Panama (Boucard), Matachin (Thiéme).—Coromsia ! (coll. Baly, type). 


16. Cephaloleia suturalis. (Tab. I. fig. 19.) 


Sat elongata, nigro-picea; antennis, basi exceptis, nigris, pedibus abdomineque sordide fulvis ; thorace fortiter | 
punctato ; elytris fortiter punctato-striatis, flavis, sutura nigro-picea. 

Mas. Abdominis segmento anali late emarginato, medio sinuato. 

Fem. Abdominis segmento anali late sed leviter transversim emarginato. 

Var, A. Thorace sordide flavo, vitta discoidali nigro-picea. 

Long. 24 lin. 


Hab. Guatemata, Sinanja, Sabo, and Cubilguitz (Champion); Nicaraeua, Chontales. 
(Belt). 


Head closely punctured; face between the antenne with an elevated longitudinal 
ridge. Antenne with the basal joint subclavate, the second oblong-ovate, two thirds 
the length of the first, the third about equal in length to the basal one. Thorax about. 
one fifth broader than long ; sides straight and parallel, rounded and converging at the 
extreme apex, the anterior angle produced, obtuse ; upper surface transversely convex, 
smooth and shining, deeply impressed with large round punctures; a narrow medial 
line on the disc nearly free from punctures. Elytra subelongate, moderately convex ; 
sides parallel, apices (conjointly) obtusely rounded; upper surface strongly punctate- — 
striate; flavous; a sutural vitta, gradually narrowed towards the apex, nigro-piceous. 


CEPHALOLEIA. 15 


17. Cephaloleia discoidalis. 


Subelongata, picea, nitida; pedibus fulvis; scutello, capite thoraceque nigris, hoc sat crebre punctato, apice 
anguste piceo-fulvo ; elytris oblongis, sat fortiter punctato-striatis, sordide fulvis ; vitta suturali, postice 
angustata, pone medium fere obsoleta, alteraque discoidali, brevi, pone medium posita, nigris, instructis. 


Fem. Abdominis segmento anali late sed leviter transversim emarginato. 
Long. 24 lin. 


Hab. Mexico, Orizaba (Sailé). A single specimen. 


Head very closely punctured. Basal joint of the antenne longer than the second, 
slightly thickened, second and third nearly equal in length (the rest wanting). Thorax 
slightly broader than long; sides straight and parallel, anterior angle produced into an 
obtuse tooth; disc transversely convex, more strongly but less closely punctured than the 
head. Elytra broader than the thorax, oblong; sides subparallel, their apices obtusely 
rounded; above moderately convex, slightly excavated and sinuate on the side below 
the humeral callus; surface rather strongly punctate-striate; the sutural vitta, com- 
mencing at the basal margin and dilated just below the scutellum, is from thence 
gradually narrowed to a short distance below the middle of the elytron, where it 
terminates in a narrow line which runs along the suture nearly to the apex. 


18. Cephaloleia dorsalis. 


Anguste oblongo-ovata, nitida, subtus piceo et nigro variegata; abdomine pedibusque flavis, tarsis piceo tinctis ; 
supra nigra, thorace subcylindrico, subcrebre punctato ; lateribus rectis, ad apicem anguste piceis ; elytris 
oblongis, apice rotundatis, modice convexis, sat fortiter punctato-striatis, vitta suturali subcuneiformi a 
basi ad medium extensa, basi angustata, nigra, ornatis. 

Mas. Abdominis segmento anali apice late emarginato, medio sinuato. 


Fem. Abdominis segmento anali apice truncato utrinque sinuato. 
Long. 2—24 lin. 


Hab. Panama, Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet (Champion). 


Front between the eyes closely punctured. Antenne filiform, more than half the 
length of the body. Thorax slightly broader than long; sides straight and parallel ; 
disc subcylindrical, rather strongly punctured. Elytra oblong, moderately convex, 
rather strongly punctate-striate. 


19. Cephaloleia histrionica. (Tab. I. fig. 21.) 


Oblongo-elongata, nigra, nitida; pedibus flavis, coxis, genubus tarsisque nigris ; thorace quam longo vix latiori 
fortiter punctato, flavo, limbo anguste plagaque basali magna nigris ; elytris punctato-striatis, flavis, basi 
rufo-testaceis, vittis tribus, duabus externis basi abbreviatis, nigris, instructis. 

Mas. Abdominis segmento anali late transversim emarginato, medio leviter sinuato. 


Fem. Abdominis segmento anali leviter emarginato. 
‘Long. 2-22 lin. 


Hab. Panama, Bugaba, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 4000 feet (Champion). 


Front clothed with adpressed fulvous hairs. Antenne filiform, first and third joints 
nearly equal in length, the second rather shorter. Thorax rather broader than long; 


16 PHYTOPHAGA. 


sides straight and parallel, slightly converging at the apex, anterior angle subacute, the 
hinder one acute; anterior margin sinuate on either side ; surface impressed with round 
punctures, which are irregularly scattered over the hinder two thirds of the disc, but 
are nearly obsolete on the sides and at the apex; flavous; a large subquadrate patch, 
attached to the basal margin and covering the posterior two thirds of the disc, but not 
extending to the sides, black; outer limb also narrowly edged with black. Elytra | 
narrowly oblong, parallel, obtusely rounded at the apex, regularly punctate-striate ; 
flavous, a basal patch rufo-testaceous ; an entire sutural vitta, broad at its base, but 
gradually narrowed towards its apex, together with another on each elytron, discoidal, 
abbreviated at the base but extending downwards nearly to the apex, where it incurves 
and often joins the sutural vitta, black. 


20. Cephaloleia trivittata. 

Anguste elongata, parallela, modice convexa, nitida; subtus picea, pedibus flavis, piceo-tinctis ; supra nigra ; 
thorace subquadrato, subcylindrico, profunde punctato, lateribus rectis, parallelis ; elytris fortiter punctato- 
striatis, flavis, nigro trivittatis, vittis apice confluentibus, duabus externis basi abbreviatis. 

Mas. Abdominis segmento anali late emarginato, medio sinuato. 

Fem. Abdominis segmento anali late emarginato. 

Long. 2 lin. 


Hab. Guatemata, El Tumbador 2500 feet (Champion); Panama, Bugaba, Volcan de 
Chiriqui 2500 to 4000 feet (Champion). | 


Head closely punctured. Antenne filiform, joints cylindrical, the first slightly 
thickened, rather longer than the second, about equal in length to the third. Thorax 
subquadrate; sides straight and parallel, scarcely converging at the extreme apex, 
anterior angle produced, subacute; disc deeply but not very closely impressed with 
large round punctures. Scutellum rather longer than broad. Elytra much broader 
than the thorax, elongate, parallel; apices rounded, slightly sinuate conjointly at the 
sutural angle ; above moderately convex, slightly flattened on the anterior disc; strongly 
punctate-striate ; flavous; with three broad black vitte, the medial one of which is 
common, entire, slightly dilated below the scutellum and contracted just before reaching 
the sutural angle; the others, one on each elytron, commence below the humeral callus, 
and, after extending the whole length of the disc, incurve to unite with the sutural line. 

Much narrower and more elongate than the preceding species. 


21. Cephaloleia semivittata. 

Elongata, nitida, subtus picea ; pedibus abdomineque fulvis, hoc piceo tincto; pleuris fortiter punctatis ; supra 
nigra; thorace subquadrato, lateribus rectis; subcrebre fortiter punctato; elytris fortiter punctato- 
striatis, fulvis, vitta suturali communi integra, pone scutellum paullo dilatata, alteraque discoidali a medio 
ad apicem extensa, apice cum linea suturali connexa, nigris. 

Mas. Abdominis segmento anali late transversim emarginato, medio sinuato. 

Fem. Abdominis segmento anali apice utrinque sinuato. 

Long. 2 lin, 


Hab. Panama, Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet (Champion). 


CEPHALOLEIA. 17 


_ Front finely but not closely punctured. Antenne black or nigro-piceous, filiform, 
moderately robust; first and third joints equal in length, the second rather shorter. 
Thorax quadrate ; sides straight and parallel, anterior angle distinctly produced, obtuse ; 
upper surface strongly punctured, a longitudinal space on the middle disc impunctate ; 
apical margin, together with the anterior angles, narrowly piceous. Elytra narrowly 
oblong, flattened along the suture, rather strongly punctate-striate, the punctures stained 
with piceous. The piceous coloration of the under surface varies greatly in extent; in 
some specimens it is confined to the sides of the body, in others it extends over the 
whole breast and prothorax. 

This species agrees in general form with C. histrionica, but differs in coloration; the 
antenne are more robust, and the emargination of the anal segment of the abdomen in 
the female is different. 


22. Cephaloleia elegantula. (Tab. I. fig. 22.) 


Elongata, subdepressa, piceo-flava, nitida; supra nigra; antennarum articulo basali piceo; thorace profunde 
punctato, lateribus late flavis ; elytris elongatis, sat fortiter punctato-striatis, limbo laterali flavo. 

Mas. Pygidii apice obtuso; abdominis segmento anali angulato-emarginato. 

Fem. Pygidii apice angulato; abdominis segmento anali bisinuato, medio paullo producto. 

~ Long. 14-2 lin. 


Hab. Panama, Bugaba, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion). 


Head finely and subremotely punctured. Antenne two thirds the length of the body ; 
joints cylindrical, the first distinctly shorter than the second, the third somewhat longer, 
the third, fourth, and fifth nearly equal in length. Thorax broader than long; sides 
straight and parallel from the base to beyond the middle, thence obliquely rounded and 
converging to the apex; anterior angle moderately produced, obtuse; hinder angle 
acute; upper surface impressed with large round punctures, which are crowded on the 
sides, more distant on the disc, the medial line almost impunctate. Elytra broader than 
the thorax, subelongate, parallel anteriorly, slightly converging behind the middle, 
obtusely rounded at the apex, obsoletely angulate-emarginate at the suture in the 
female ; moderately convex, slightly flattened along the suture, rather strongly punctate- 
striate, the punctures less strongly impressed behind the middle in the male. | 


23. Cephaloleia lateralis. 


Anguste oblongo-ovalis, subdepressa, nitida; subtus pallide picea, pectore nigro-tincto, pedibus flavis; supra 
flava, scutello antennisque nigris, harum articulis primo et ultimo piceis ; thorace transverso, sat fortiter 
punctato, vitta lata discoidali nigro-picea; elytris oblongis, apice rotundatis, margine apicali obsolete 

_ serrulato, nigro-piceis, limbo externo flave. 

Mas.. Abdominis segmento anali sinuato. 

Long. 2 lin. 


. Hab. GUATEMALA, Panima in Vera Paz (Champion). A single example. 


Head sparingly but distinctly punctured. Antenne filiform, more than half the length 
BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Coleopt., Vol. VI. Pt. 2, March 1885. . CC 


18 . PHYTOPHAGA: 


of the body; joints cylindrical, the first short, about three fourths the length of the 
second, the third nearly as long as the preceding two united, fourth and fifth equal, 
each three fourths the length of the third. Thorax nearly one third broader than long; 
sides straight and parallel, abruptly rounded at the apex, hinder angle very acute, the 
anterior one moderately produced, obtuse ; upper surface coarsely but distantly punctured 
on the sides, the punctures closer and finer on the disc; an ill-defined longitudinal space 
in the medial line nearly free from punctures; medial disc covered with a broad wedge- 
shaped nigro-piceous vitta, which extends from the basal to the apical margin. Elytra 
broader than the thorax, oblong; lateral margin dilated, slightly reflexed ; apical margin 
rounded, conjointly subangulate, emarginate at the sutural angle; upper surface convex 
on the sides, slightly flattened along the suture, distinctly and regularly punctate-striate, 
the puncturing nearly obsolete on the hinder disc, but again stronger and more distinct 
near the apex. 


24. Cephaloleia chevrolati. 
Cephaloleia chevrolati, Baly, Cat. Hispide, p. 61°. 


Hab. Mexico, Yucatan ! (coll. Chevrolat). 


This species, described from a single specimen in M. Chevrolat’s collection, now not 
accessible to me, is closely allied to C. lateralis and C. elegantula. 


25. Cephaloleia instabilis. (Tab. I. figg. 23, 24.) 


Elongata ; subtus nigra, nitida, thorace fulvo, femoribus tibiisque anticis subtus pallide piceis ; supra pallide 
fulvo-picea, antennis verticisque plagis duabus magnis, superficiem fere amplectentibus, nigris; thorace 
subquadrato, utrinque ad latus excavato, sparse foveolato-punctato, disco levi, vitta nigro-picea ornato; 
scutello piceo ; elytris opacis, dorso deplanatis, leviter sed distincte punctato-striatis, nigris, ante medium 
fulvo-piceis. 

Mas. Abdominis segmento anali apice obtuso, medio leviter sinuato. 

Fem. Abdominis segmento anali apice obuse truncato. 

Var. A. Elytris nigris, utrinque vitta lata humerali, a basi ad medium extensa fulva. 

Var. B. Elytris fulvis, pone medium nigris. 

Var. C. Elytris totis fulvis. 

Long. 33-4 lin. 


Hab. Guatemaua, Chiacam, ‘Cahabon, Lanquin, and Cubilguitz in Vera Paz (Cham- 
pion) ; Panama, Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet (Champion). 


Vertex and front coarsely punctured, black, a narrow medial line alone piceo-fulvous. 
Antenne entirely black ; four lower joints compressed, the basal one clavate, the following 
three more or less trigonate and nearly equal in length in the male, third joint rather 
longer in the female. Thorax scarcely broader than long; sides straight and parallel, 
anterior angle scarcely produced, obtuse, the hinder one acute; upper surface broadly 
excavated on the sides, the excavation extending the whole length of the thorax, 
sparingly impressed with round irregular punctures; disc nearly impunctate, medial 


CEPHALOLEIA. 19 


line with a broad nigro-piceous vitta, which extends nearly from the base to the apex. 
Scutellum much longer than broad, pentangular, its apex very acute. Elytra broader 
than the thorax, parallel, flattened on the back, abruptly deflexed and concavely exca- 
vated on the sides, the junction of the two surfaces forming a distinct ridge ; minutely 
granulose, subopaque, finely but distinctly punctate-striate. The black coloration is 
very variable in extent, in some specimens reaching upwards along the suture nearly 
to its base, in others being entirely obsolete. 


26. Cephaloleia intermedia. 

Elongata, parallela, dorso depressa, nitida; subtus nigra, thorace, coxis anticis quatuor femorumque dimidio 
pasali fulvis ; supra rufo-fulva, capitis vertice, plagis duabus inter oculos antennisque nigris ; thorace 
quam lato vix longiori; lateribus rectis, parallelis, angulo antico fere rectangulari ; disco utrinque late 
excavato, fortiter et irregulariter punctato, medio fere impunctato, vitta lata interdum postice angustata 
nigra ornato; elytris parallelis, apice rotundatis, dorso sat deplanatis, tenuiter punctato-striatis, opacis, 
nigris, utrisque plaga lata marginali a basi ad medium extensa rufo-fulva ornatis. 

Mas. Antennis subfiliformibus, apicem versus paullo incrassatis, articulo tertio trigonato, quam secundus fere 
duplo longiori ; pygidii apice obtuse rotundato ; abdominis segmento anali late sed leviter emarginato. 

Fem. Antennis ut in ¢; pygidii apice obtuse angulato ; abdominis segmento anali truncato. 

Var. A. Elytris totis rufo-fulvis. 

Long. 33-4 lin. 


Hab. Paxama, Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet (Champion). 


Front concave between the eyes; a granulose space on either side, together with the 
middle of the neck, black. Antennz rather more than half the length of the body, 
robust ; joints slightly compressed, the basal joint subclavate, the second short, subtri- 
gonate, the third nearly twice the length of the second, trigonate, its apex obliquely 
truncate, its inner and upper angle acute. Thorax scarcely broader than long; sides 
straight and parallel, anterior angle slightly produced, obtuse ; upper surface broadly 
excavated and coarsely foveolate-punctate on either side, medial disc and anterior margin 
nearly impunctate. Scutellum rather longer than broad, acute. Elytra parallel ; sides 
obsoletely dilated towards the apex, the latter obtusely rounded ; upper surface convex on 
the sides and apex, flattened along the suture, sculptured as in the preceding species. 

This species is closely allied to the preceding, but may be separated by the straight 
sides and the nearly rectangular anterior angles of the thorax and by the different 
relative length of the lower joints of the antenne. | 


DB gee pl 
27. Cephaloleia stenosoma. H-fig-4 
Anguste elongata, parallela, dorso depressa, nitida ; subtus nigra, femoribus anticis basi, pectoreque fulvis ; supra 
fulva, capite nigro, collo lineaque inter oculos fulvis ; thorace subquadrato, lateribus rectis, ad apicem vix 
convergentibus, angulo antico acuto, antrorsum non producto; disco levi, ad latera vix excavato, sparse 
punctato, vitta discoidali lata, nigra aut piceo-nigra instructo; elytris parallelis, apice rotundatis, dorso 
deplanatis, ad latera convexis, tenuiter punctato-striatis, opacis, nigris, utrisque vitta lata, a basi ad ultra 
. medium extensa, et ad marginem lateralem adfixa, fulva. 
Var, A. Elytris totis fulvis. 
cc 2 


20 PHYTOPHAGA,. 


Mas. Antennis filiformibus, articulo tertio compresso trigonato, quam secundus distincte longiori ; abdominis 
segmento anali leviter sinuato. 


Fem. Antennis ut in ¢ ; abdominis segmento anali integro, obtuso. 
Long. 33 lin. 


Hab. Panama, Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet (Champion). 


Head shining, front minutely punctured, a narrow, slightly raised, longitudinal line 
free from punctures. Antenne more than half the length of the body, filiform; basal 
joint clavate, second short, ovate, the third rather longer than the second, moderately 
compressed, trigonate, its apex obliquely truncate, the inner angle acute. Thorax rather 
longer than broad; sides straight and parallel from the base nearly to the apex, thence 
obliquely converging to the anterior angle, the latter not produced, acute ; apical margin 
truncate; disc slightly convex, smooth and shining, obsoletely excavated and impressed, 
and with a few deep punctures on the sides. Scutellum pentagonal, its apex very acute. 
Elytra parallel, rounded at the apex, convex on the sides and at the apex, flattened 
along the suture, finely punctate-striate. 

The present species may be at once known from any of its near allies by its narrower 
form and also by the more elongate thorax. 


28. Cephaloleia leucoxantha. 


Angustata, parallela, nitida, subtus nigra; prothorace, pectoris medio, abdominis limbo femoribusque [his apice 
exceptis | pallide flavis ; supra pallide flava, scutello capiteque nigris ; facie inferiori oreque flavis; antennis 
filiformibus, articulo tertio compresso et trigonato; thorace subquadrato, lateribus rectis; disco levi, ad 
latera vage excavato et tenuiter punctato, macula trigonata nigra ad apicem adfixa ornato; elytris opacis, 
dorso deplanatis, tenuiter punctato-striatis, utrisque macula parva humerali nigra notatis. 

Fem. Abdominis segmento anali leviter bisinuato. 

Long. 34 lin. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2500 to 4000 feet (Champion). 


Vertex shining, impunctate. Antenne slender, filiform, nearly half the length of the 
body; the third joint compressed, trigonate. Thorax subquadrate, broader than long ; 
sides straight and parallel; disc transversely convex, obsoletely excavated and finely 
punctured on the sides. Elytra elongate, parallel, flattened along the suture, opaque, 
finely punctate-striate. 

The above insect, of which I have only seen a single specimen, agrees with 
C. stenosoma in its narrow form, but differs in its broader thorax, and in the bisinuate 
apical segment of the abdomen in the female. 


29. Cephaloleia bella. 


Elongata, nigra, nitida; thorace, pectoris medio, femoribus abdomineque flavo-fulvis, hoc piceo limbato ; tibiis 
anticis et posticis piceo-fulvis; capite tenuiter punctato, inter antennas plaga subcuneiformi sordide fulva 
instructo; thorace levi, intra latera remote punctato, basi et apice nigro-piceo maculatis ; lateribus fere 
rectis, apice incurvatis, angulo antico antrorsum producto, obtuso; elytris parallelis, disco subdeplanatis, 
ad latera deflexis, sat fortiter punctato-striatis, striis prope suturam et ad marginem sulcatis ; utrisque vitta 
lata, a basi fere ad apicem extensa, apice fere ad suturam intus curvata, flava ornatis, 


CEPHALOLEIA. 21 


Mas. Antennis articulo tertio trigonato; abdominis segmento anali late sed obsolete emarginato. 
Fem, Antennis ut in g; abdominis segmento anali apice utrinque sinuato. 
Long. 33-4 lin. 


Hab. Panama, Bugaba (Champion). 


Head finely but not closely punctured ; face broadly but slightly excavated on either 
side just above the insertion of the antenne ; between these latter is a slightly thickened 
wedge-shaped fulvous patch, which extends from the anterior edge of the clypeus nearly 
to the vertex. Antennz with the basal joint thickened, subclavate, the second subovate, 
the third half as long again as the second, trigonate, its apex obliquely truncate. 
Thorax subquadrate; sides nearly straight and parallel [very faintly diverging in the 
male|, rounded and converging at the apex, anterior angle produced, obtuse; disc 
transversely convex, smooth and shining, remotely impressed on the sides and at the 
base with large round punctures (which are sometimes obsolete) ; medial line with a very 
faint longitudinal impression, which runs upwards from the basal margin for a greater or 
less extent on the disc. Scutellum subcordiform, very acute. Elytra parallel, somewhat 
flattened on the disc, rather abruptly deflexed on the outer margin; strongly punctate- 
striate, the strie sulcate; the interspaces thickened, those on the middle disc less 
distinctly so than those near the suture or on the outer margin, the pair between the 
sixth and eighth rows of punctures subcostate. 

The larger size, the produced anterior angles of the thorax, together with the strongly 
punctured nitidous elytra, at once separate C. bella from its allies. 


30. Cephaloleia quadrilineata. 

Anguste elongata, nitida; subtus cum capite nigra aut nigro-picea, facie inferiori, thoracis lateribus, pectoris 
medio, abdominis limbo externo, femoribus [apice exceptis] tibiisque intus, flavis; capite subcrebre 
punctato; antennarum articulo tertio trigonato; thorace subquadrato ; lateribus rectis, parallelis, angulo 
antice fere rectangulo, antrorsum non producto; disco levi, utrinque punctis magnis impresso (his punctis 
se@pe obsoletis) flavo, vitta lata discoidali, a basi ad apicem extensa (rarwus interrupta), nigra ; scutello 
elytrisque nigris, his parallelis, dorso deplanatis, opacis, tenuiter punctato-striatis, utrisque limbo laterali, 
vittaque discoidali, a basi ad apicem extensa, apice cum limbo connexa, flavis. 

Mas. Abdominis segmento anali apice truncato. 

Fem. Abdominis segmento anali apice rotundato, utrinque sinuato. 

Var. A. Elytrorum limbo laterali vittaque discoidali ante apicem abbreviatis. 

Long. 3-33 lin. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2500 to 4000 feet, Tolé (Champion). 3 Parcl ype 
2NK 


Front finely and rather closely punctured. Antenne with the third joint half as long ” 
again as the second, compressed, trigonate. Thorax slightly broader than long; sides 
straight and parallel, anterior angle nearly rectangular ; disc smooth and shining, coarsely 
punctured on the sides (in some specimens these punctures being nearly obsolete); a 
broad discoidal vitta, extending from the base to the apex, black. Elytra parallel, flat- 
tened on the disc, abruptly deflexed on the sides, finely granulose, opaque, very finely 
punctate-striate. 


22 PHYTOPHAGA. 


In addition to the different pattern of the elytra, this insect is narrower and rather 
more elongate than C. suaveola. 


31. Cephaloleia separata. 


Anguste elongata, nitida ; subtus fulva, thorace utrinque macula, pleuris, genubus, tibiis anticis, dorso, posticis 
quatuor basi et apice, tarsisque nigris; abdominis vitta discoidali plus minusve interrupta nigro-picea; 
supra nigra, fronte tenuiter subcrebre punctata; antennarum articulo tertio trigonato; thorace subquad- 
rato, lateribus rectis, angulo antico obtuso, levi, fulvo, margine apicali medio nigro-piceo; elytris dorso 
deplanatis, subopacis, tenuiter punctato-striatis, utrisque linea marginali basi et apice abbreviata, vittaque 
discoidali a basi fere ad apicem extensa, fulvis, ornatis. 

Mas. Abdominis segmento anali sat profunde sinuato. 

Var. A, Klytrorum linea marginali fulva obsoleta. 

Var. B. Antennis basi piceis, elytris ut in var. A. 

Long. 3 lin. 


Hab. Mexico, Playa Vicente (type), Santecomapam (vars. A and B) (Sailé). 


Front finely and subremotely punctured. Antenne with the second joint short, subtrigo- 
nate ; the third joint rather longer than the second, trigonate, its apex obliquely truncate, 
the inner and upper angle acute. Thorax scarcely broader than long; sides straight and 
parallel, the anterior angle very slightly produced, rounded; disc smooth and shining, 
impunctate ; on the anterior margin is a small ill-defined transverse nigro-piceous patch. 
Elytra parallel, flattened along the disc, very minutely punctate-striate; each elytron 
with a broad fulvous vitta which commences at the base and extends downwards nearly 
to the apex. Medial portion of the apical margin of the abdominal segments more or 
less broadly edged with nigro-piceous. | 

The pattern of the elytra in the typical form of this insect, of which I know only the 
male, is similar to that of C. guadrilineata, but the emargination of the anal segment 
of the abdomen in the male of that species is entirely different; the nigro-piceous 
markings on the abdomen sometimes form a narrow vitta on the medial disc. 


32. Cephaloleia belti. 


Anguste elongata, nigra, nitida; thorace, meso- et metasterno, femoribus [apice exceptis]| tibilisque anticis intus 
flavo-fulvis ; abdomine opaco, disco basali piceo-fulvo; thorace subquadrato, utrinque ad marginem punc- 
tato, vitta lata discoidali, a basi ad apicem extensa, nigra ornato; elytris parallelis, dorso depressis, 
opacis, tenuissime punctato-striatis, utrisque linea marginali, ante apicem abbreviata, nec non vitta lata 
discoidali a basi fere ad apicem extensa, fulvo-flavis. 

Mas. Abdominis segmento anali late sed leviter emarginate, medio obsolete sinuato. 

Fem. Abdominis segmento anali leviter bisinuato. 

Long. 23-3 lin. 


Hab. Nicaracva, Chontales (Belt, Janson). 


Head nitidous, front finely punctured between the eyes. Antenne with the third joint 
slightly longer than the second, compressed, trigonate. Thorax broader than long; 
sides nearly straight and parallel, rounded and converging at the apex, anterior angle 
not produced, rounded ; disc smooth and shining, in some specimens coarsely punctured 


CEPHALOLEIA. 23 


and broadly excavated on the sides, the rest of the surface impunctate. Elytra parallel, 
flattened on the disc, abruptly deflexed on the outer margin, minutely granulose, opaque. 

Separated from either of the two preceding species by the different emargination of 
the anal segment of the abdomen in the male. 


33. Cephaloleia suaveola. 

Elongata, nitida, nigra ; thorace, pectoris medio, abdominis lateribus, femoribus [apice exceptis] tibiisque subtus, 
fulvis; fronte inter oculos leviter concava, tenuiter subcrebre punctata; antennarum articulo tertio 
trigonato; thorace subquadrato ; lateribus rectis, apice rotundato-angustatis, angulo antico paullo pro- 
ducto, obtuso; disco levi,"plaga cuneiformi ad marginem adfixa, nigra aut nigro-picea; elytris parallelis, 
dorso deplanatis, opacis, tenuiter punctato-striatis, utrisque vitta angustata basi et apice abbreviata, 
fulva, instructis. 

Mas. Abdominis segmento anali apice leviter sed late sinuato. 

Long. 34 lin. 


Hab. Guatemaua, Purula in Vera Paz (Champion). 


Front slightly excavated between the eyes, finely but closely punctured. Antenne 
nearly half the length of the body, the second joint ovate, the third slightly longer 
than the second, trigonate, its apex obliquely truncate, its inner and upper angle acute. 
Thorax scarcely broader than long, subquadrate; sides straight and nearly parallel, 
rounded and converging at the apex, anterior angle rounded, slightly produced; disc 
smooth and shining. Scutellum much longer than broad, pentangular, very acute. 
Elytra parallel, flattened on the disc, opaque, very finely punctate-striate; the narrow 
fulvous line commences just below the basal margin, and terminates some distance 
from the apex of the elytra. Fulvous limb of abdomen broad, maculiform. 

C. suaveola differs from C. luctuosa, to which it-is closely allied, in the entirely black 
antenne, and in the fulvous limb of the abdomen. 


34. Cephaloleia consanguinea. (Tab. I. fig. 25.) 

Elongata, nigra, subnitida; thoracis inferioris lateribus, sterno, femoribus (apice exceptis) tibiisque anticis 
intus fulvis, abdominis disco piceo-fulvo; capite thoraceque nitidis, illo inter oculos crebre punc- 
tato, antennarum articulo tertio trigonato, hoc subquadrato, lateribus rectis et ad apicem rotundato- 
angustatis; disco levi, ad latera plus minusve punctato (punctis interdum obsoletis), fulvo, plaga trigonata, 
ad apicem adfixa, nigra; elytris parallelis, dorso deplanatis, opacis, nigris, utrisque vitta fulva, a basi 
fere ad apicem extensa, apice incurvata, instructis. 

Mas. Abdominis segmento anali apice leviter sinuato. 

Fem. Abdominis segmento anali apice rotundato, utrinque sinuato. 

Var. A. Elytrorum vitta fulva sepe apice non incurvata sepe lineariformi. 

Long. 3-34 lin. ,; 

Hab. GuaTeMana, Cahabon, Sabo, Cubilguitz, Panima, and Chiacam in. Vera Paz 


(Champion). 


Front concave between the eyes, closely punctured. Antenne with the second joint 
short, ovate, the third half as long again as the second, trigonate, its apex obliquely 
truncate, its inner and upper angle acute. Thorax subquadrate, scarcely broader than 
long; sides straight, nearly parallel, rounded and converging at the apex; anterior 


24 PHYTOPHAGA. 


angle very slightly produced, its apex rounded; disc smooth and shining, sparingly 
punctured on the sides, the punctures sometimes obsolete; the wedge-shaped black 
patch varies greatly in size, in some examples being confined to the apical margin, in 
others extending backwards to the middle. Scutellum longer than broad, pentagonal. 
Elytra parallel, flattened along the disc, opaque, minutely granulose, very finely 
punctate-striate. | 

C. consanguinea, judging from the number of specimens collected at various localities 
by Mr. Champion, is abundant in Guatemala; it may be separated from its congeners by 
the fulvous disc of its abdomen, which character appears to be constant. The fulvous 
coloration of the hinder tibie varies greatly in extent in different individuals: in some 
examples it is entirely obsolete ; occasionally the anterior pair are more or less fulvous. 


35. Cephaloleia vicina. (Tab. II. fig. 1.) 
Cephaloleia vicina, Baly, Cat. Hispide, p. 55°. 
Antennarum [in utroque sexu] articulo tertio cylindrico, a basi apicem versus paullo ampliato. 
Hab. Mexico! (colls. Baly and Brit. Mus.*), Toxpam, Capulalpam, Cordova, Juquila, 
Oaxaca, Playa Vicente (Sad/é). 


This species may be at once known from any of the foregoing by the cylindrical third 
joint of the antenna, a distinctive character not mentioned in my original description. 


86. Cephaloleia ruficollis. (Tab. II. fig. 2.) 
Cephaloleia ruficollis, Baly, Cat. Hispide, p. 165°. 
fem. Abdominis segmento anali late sed leviter transversim emarginato. 
fab. Muxico1, San Andres, Tuxtla, Toxpam, Cordova (Sallé, type), Jalapa, Juquila 
(Hoge); GuatTEMALA, Sinanja and Senahu in Vera Paz, San Gerdénimo, Las Mercedes 
3000 feet, Cerro Zunil 4000 to 5000 feet (Champion). | 


The two specimens collected by Herr Hége have the elytra rather less strongly 
punctured ; in ali other respects they agree with the type. 


37. Cephaloleia fulvolimbata. (Tab. II. fig. 3.) 

Anguste elongata, subcylindrica ; subtus picea, nitida; supra nigra; thorace rufo, apice piceo tincto, subremote 
punctato; elytris parallelis, distincte sed tenuiter punctato-striatis, subnitidis, nigro-piceis, limbo laterali 
anguste fulvo. 

Mas. Abdominis segmento anali apice concavo, medio sinuato. 

Fem. Abdominis segmento anali apice leviter concavo. 

Var. A. Thorace nigro. 

Long. 13-1? lin. 


Hab. Mexico, Cordova (Saldé, var. A); GuaremaLa, San Juan, Chiacam, Cahabon, 
and Senahu in Vera Paz (Champion). 


* The type specimens in my own collection and in the British Museum were obtained from M. Sallé, and 
doubtless came from one or other of the localities above mentioned. 


CEPHALOLEIA. 25 


Head granulose, distinctly punctured. Antenne less than half the length of the body, 
robust ; basal joint somewhat thickened, scarcely longer than the second, nearly equal 
in length to the third. Thorax scarcely broader than long ; sides straight and parallel, 
broadly rounded, and abruptly converging at the apex, the anterior angle subacute, the 
hinder one produced into a small acute tooth; disc subcylindrical, smooth and shining, 
subremotely impressed with large round punctures. Elytra parallel, rounded at the 
apex, conjointly subangulate-emarginate at the sutural angle; subnitidous, finely but. 
distinctly punctate-striate, the punctures larger and more strongly impressed on the 
anterior disc. 


. WV 38. Cephaloleia metallescens. 


¢ Ovata, modice convexa, piceo-rufa, nitida; supra obscure cyanea; antennis (basi et apice exceptis) nigris ; 
wn" thorace transverso, sat crebre et fortiter punctato, margine laterali anguste rufo-piceo; elytris sat fortiter 
punctato-striatis, striis sulcatis, punctis pone medium minus fortiter impressis. 
Fem. Abdominis segmento anali rotundato, integro. 
Long. 12 lin. 


Hab. Guatemaua, San Juan in Vera Paz (Champion). A single specimen. 


Head closely punctured. Antenne about half the length of the body, robust ; first and 
third joints equal in length, the second slightly shorter ; basal joint, together with the 
apex of the terminal one, rufo-piceous. Thorax nearly twice as broad as long; sides 
straight, slightly converging from the base to the apex, anterior angle not produced, 
broadly rounded, hinder angle acute ; disc transversely convex, excavated on either side 
just within the lateral margin, somewhat closely covered with large round punctures ; 
lateral margin narrowly reflexed, rufo-piceous. Scutellum scarcely longer than broad. 
Elytra broadly oblong-ovate, moderately convex, strongly punctate-striate, the strize 
sulcate, the puncturing finer on the hinder disc; interspaces on the lateral margin, and 
to a less extent on the inner disc, thickened and convex. 


Ss, ‘ 


/ 39, Cephaloleia Jeptomorpha. (Tab fio 4 I) > 2 ne 


Elongata, angustata, subcylindrica, cuprea, nitida > ;> antennis nigris ; pedibus piceo-cupreis; thorace quam 
lato paullo longiori, lateribus rectis, disco sat remote et tenuiter punctato; elytris parallelis, distincte 
punctato-striatis. 

Mas, Abdominis segmento anali late sed leviter emarginato, medio sinuato. 

Fem. Abdominis segmento anali late sed leviter emarginato. 

_ Long. 2 lin. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 8000 feet (Champion). { fable — oe* 1 120) t Paral 


Ir 
USN 


Vertex and front finely impressed with a double longitudinal groove. Antenne nearly 
half the length of the body; basal joint thickened and equal in length to the third, the 
second joint rather shorter. Thorax distinctly longer than broad; sides straight and 
parallel, anterior angles rectangular; disc transversely convex, subnitidous, very finely and 
somewhat sparingly punctured. FElytra broader than the thorax; sides parallel, slightly 

BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Coleopt., Vol. VI. Pt. 2, April 1885. dd 


26 PHYTOPHAGA. 


converging near the apex; upper surface slightly flattened along the suture, rather 


strongly punctate-striate. 
The above insect closely resembles some of the species of Stenispa. 


40. Cephaloleia tenella. 

Elongata, angustata, parallela, nigra, nitida ; dorso neo vix micans ; abdomine piceo, tarsis piceo-fulvis ; thorace 
quam longo vix latiori, lateribus parallelis, disco subcylindrico, sat fortiter punctato; elytris parallelis, 
apice obtuse rotundatis, sat fortiter punctato-striatis. 

Mas. Abdominis segmento anali concavo-emarginato, medio sinuato. 

Long. 12 lin. 


Hab. GuatEMALA, Coatepeque 1300 feet (Champion). 


Vertex and front rather closely punctured. Antenne filiform, scarcely longer than the 
head and thorax, slightly thickened towards the apex, the two lower joints equal in length, 
the basal one not thickened. Thorax very slightly broader than long; sides straight 
and parallel, abruptly rounded and converging at the apex; anterior margin convex, 
sinuate on either side; disc transversely convex, rather strongly but not very closely 
punctured, the puncturing more distant on the medial disc. Elytra rather broader 
than the thorax, parallel on the sides, obtusely rounded at the apex; disc strongly and 
regularly punctate-striate, the interspaces Impunctate. 


41. Cephaloleia stevensi. (Tab. I. fig. 20.) 

Angustato-elongata, nigra, nitida; pedibus fulvis; thorace sat fortiter punctato, sordide fulvo, vitta discoidali 
nigra; elytris parallelis, apice obtuse rotundatis, fortiter punctato-striatis, flavis, puncto humerali macu- 
lisque rotundatis duabus, communibus, una basi et una vix pone medium positis, nigris. 

Long. 14 lin. 


Hab. Panama, Bugaba (Champion). 


Vertex and front closely punctured, the latter concave. Antenne half the length of 
the body, filiform, entirely black. Thorax distinctly longer than broad; sides straight 
and parallel, rounded at the extreme apex, anterior angles not produced, apical margin 
truncate; upper surface subcylindrical, slightly excavated transversely at the base, 
strongly and closely punctured; obscure fulvous, a broad longitudinal vitta on the 
middle disc black, the extreme lateral margin piceous. Scutellum pentangular. Elytra 
narrowly oblong, parallel, rounded at the apex, strongly punctate-striate, flavous, a 
small oblong patch on the humeral callus, together with two large common, rotundate 
spots, one at the base, the other placed just beyond the middle, black. 


42, Cephaloleia sulciceps. 

Sat elongata, subtus fulva, supra sordide rufo-fulva, nitida; antennis (articulis basalibus duobus exceptis) 
nigris ; vertice sat profunde bisulcato; thorace transverso, lateribus parallelis, disco sat remote punctato ; 
elytris parallelis, lateribus ad apicem oblique convergentibus, apice truncatis, dorso convexis, ad latera 
ante medium sinuatis, regulariter punctato-striatis. 


DEMOTISPA. OT 


Mas. Abdominis segmento anali late sed leviter transversim emarginato. 
Fem. Abdominis segmento anali late sed leviter transversim excavato, utrinque leviter sinuato. 
Long. 14 lin. 


‘Hab. Panama, Bugaba (Champion). 


Vertex and front deeply impressed with two closely approximating longitudinal grooves, 
which run downwards as far as the insertion of the antenne, the space between forming 
a slight and obsoletely thickened longitudinal ridge. Antenne scarcely longer than the 
head and thorax, robust ; two basal joints short, equal, rufo-piceous, glabrous, the rest 
black, closely clothed with adpressed concolorous hairs. Thorax transverse ; sides parallel 
from the base to some distance beyond the middle, thence rounded and converging to 
the apex, anterior angle scarcely produced, broadly rounded, apical margin truncate ; 
upper surface transversely convex, sparingly impressed with large but shallow punctures. 
Scutellum longer than broad, subcordate, the apex acute. lytra narrowly oblong ; sides 
straight and parallel, obliquely rounded and converging near the apex, the apex itself 
truncate; above convex, sinuate on the sides before the middle, regularly punctate- 


striate. 


DEMOTISPA. 
Demotispa, Baly, Cat. Hispide, p. 65, t. 1. f. 14. 


The species of this genus are natives of South and Central America and the Antilles; 
some of them bear a remarkable resemblance to certain forms of Cassidide (Himati- 
dium), and, as seen below, the late H. Boheman described one (#. limbatellum) as 


belonging to that genus. 


1. Demotispa bimaculata. 
Demotispa bimaculata, Baly, Cat. Hispidze, p. 68°. 


Hab. Mexico! (coll. Baly, type). 


2. Demotispa limbata. (Demotispa limbatella, Tab. II. fig. 5.) 


Late oblongo-ovata, depressa, flava, nitida ; pectore piceo, abdomine piceo-tincto, antennis nigris; thorace quam 
longo plus duplo latiori, basi et ad latera foveolato-punctato, plaga basali magna trigonata nigra ; scutello 
piceo; elytris subquadrato-ovatis, regulariter punctato-striatis, striis externis subsulcatis, nigris, limbo 


exteriori late flavo. 
Long. 22 lin. 
Hab. Guatema.a, Cubilguitz in Vera Paz 1000 feet (Champion). 


Head smooth and shining ; face concave between the eyes, medial line with an oblong 
ridge. Antenne nearly two thirds the length of the body, filiform ; joints cylindrical, 
first short, the second distinctly longer than the basal one, third longer than the 
preceding two united; apex of the terminal joint piceous. Thorax more than twice as 


dd 2 


28 PHYTOPHAGA. 


broad as long; sides straight and parallel from the base nearly to the middle, thence 
rounded and converging to the apex; upper surface slightly convex on the disc, reflexed 
on the sides, finely but not closely punctured; on the sides of the disc and along the 
basal margin are a number of large round foveolate punctures. Elytra subquadrate- 
ovate; sides rather broadly dilated, reflexed; regularly and distinctly punctate-striate, 
the striz on the outer disc subsulcate. 


3. Demotispa limbatella. 
Himatidium limbatellum, Boh. Mon. Cassidide, iv. (Suppl.), p. 29°. 


Late oblongo-ovata, depressa, nitida; subtus nigra, thorace pedibusque flavis, genubus tarsisque piceis; supra 
flava, antennis thoracisque plaga magna trigonata, a basi fere ad apicem extensa, nigris ; thorace quam 
longo fere duplo latiori, lateribus reflexis, rotundatis, a basi fere ad medium divergentibus ; disco levi, ad 
basin et ad latera sparse foveolato-punctato; scutello nigro; elytris subquadrato-ovatis, distincte 
punctato-striatis, striis externis sulcatis, interspatiis minute punctatis, ante medium obsolete rugulosis, 
nigris, limbo externo late flavo. 

Long. 3 lin. 


Hab. Guatemaa' (Sallé; type, Boheman). 


Antenne slender, filiform, more than half the length of the body ; joints cylindrical, 
the second distinctly longer than the basal one, the third longer than the preceding 
two united. Thorax twice as broad as long; sides straight and slightly diverging 
from the base nearly to the middle, thence broadly rounded and converging to the 
apex, posterior angle acute; upper surface broadly reflexed on the sides, smooth 
and impunctate on the anterior disc, sparingly impressed with deep punctures at the 
base and towards the lateral margin. Elytra broader than the thorax, subquadrate- 
ovate; distinctly punctate-striate, the strice near the outer limb sulcate; interspaces 
distinctly but finely punctured, faintly rugulose on the anterior disc; outer limb 
reflexed, smooth, impunctate. 

Very closely allied to D. limbata, differing in the slightly diverging and more broadly 
rounded sides of the thorax, the elytra being also more depressed and rather more 
strongly punctured, and the interspaces between the striz being also finely but distinctly 
punctured. The coloration of the under surface of the body is also different. 

The two specimens (one of either sex) from which Boheman drew up his description 
are now before me; they are fairly similar to each other. The species figured under the 
name of Demotispa limbatella (Tab. II. fig. 5) is to be referred to D. limbata. 


PROSOPODONTA. 
Prosopodonta, Baly, Cat. Hispide, p. 68, t. 1. f. 15. 


The species up to the present time described as belonging to this genus are few in 
number; they inhabit Central America and Colombia, 


PROSOPODONTA.—CHEITRISPA. 29 


1. Prosopodonta limbata. (Tab. II. fig. 6.) 
Prosopodonta limbata, Baly, Cat. Hispide, p. 69, t. 6. f. 2°. 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2500 to 6000 feet (Champion).—Cotomsia! (coll. 
Baly, type). 


In the specimens from the State of Panama the black colour covers a greater space 
on the dorsal surface of the elytra than in the type. 


VSmMyy Were 208. 0 = sé 
2. Prosopodonta costata. (Tab. II. fig. 7.) presse 4 Muctere 1579 


‘Oblongo-elongata, subtus nigra, nitida ; thorace fulvo-piceo; supra piceo-fulva, antennis nigris ; thorace quam 
longo vix latiori, lateribus leviter rotundatis, basi fere rectis, disco convexo, levi, basi et ad latera 
punctato; elytris oblongis, convexis, fortiter punctato-striatis, striis biseriatim dispositis, interspatiis 
secundo et quarto costatis, costa exteriori [nec non limbo laterali] sordide fulvis. 

Long. 32 lin. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion). 


Head smooth and shining; face armed between the antenne with an acute tooth. 
Antenne rather longer than the head and thorax, distinctly thickened towards the 
apex, the joints cylindrical. Thorax rather broader than long; sides obtusely rounded, 
obsoletely angulate immediately behind and again just before the middle, straight and 
slightly diverging at the base, converging from the middle to the apex, apical angle 
not produced, obtuse; upper surface convex, smooth and shining, impressed on the 
sides and hinder disc with large deep punctures. Elytra oblong, subparallel, regularly 
rounded at the apex; strongly punctate-striate, the strice (nine at the extreme base 
and eight on the rest of the surface) arranged in double rows; alternate interspaces 
slightly elevated, the second and fourth from the suture more strongly thickened, 
costate. 

The present insect differs entirely in the coloration of its thorax from any hitherto 
described species of the genus. 


CHEIRISPA. 
_ Cheirispa, Baly, Cat. Hispide, p. 71, t. 1. f. 16. 


Four species of this peculiar genus, are now known, all from Central America and 
Colombia. _ 


1. Cheirispa dorsata. (Tab. II. fig. 8.) 


Anguste oblonga, nitida, subtus nigra, thorace piceo; supra rufo-picea aut nigro-picea, antennis nigris; facie 
inter antennas creta elevata, spe in dentem curvatum producta, instructa; thorace quam longo latiori, 
lateribus a basi ad ultra medium fere rectis, parallelis, antice rotundato-angustatis, medio leviter angu- 
latis, disco levi, ad latera punctato; elytris oblongis, punctato-striatis, striis ad latera et apicem versus 


30 PHYTOPHAGA. 


subsulcatis ; rufo-fulvis, plaga magna ovata, communi, a paullo infra basin ad longe pone medium extensa, 
nigra, ornatis ; pedibus anticis in utroque sexu inermibus. 
Long. 2? lin. . 
Hab. Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt); Panama, Bugaba (Champion). 


Face between the antenne with a longitudinal ridge, its lower half usually produced 
into a recurved horn, the apex of which is sometimes dilated and truncate. Antenne 
filiform, slightly thickened towards the apex, third joint nearly equal in length to the 
preceding two united. Thorax broader than long; sides nearly straight and parallel, 
usually slightly angulate in the middle, rounded and converging towards the apex; disc 
smooth, punctate on the sides. Elytra oblong, convex, the humeral callus laterally 
prominent, but not compressed as in C. distincta; surface regularly punctate-striate, 
the strize on the sides and at the apex sulcate. Anterior pair of legs simple. 


2. Cheirispa distincta. (Tab. II. fig. 9.) 


Anguste oblonga, convexa, subtus nigra, nitida, thorace piceo; supra picea; antennis nigris ; thorace levi, ad. 
latera sparse punctato; elytris oblongis, regulariter punctato-striatis, striis ad latera et ad apicem sulcatis, 


pallide piceis, plaga magna, male definita, a basi ad pone medium extensa, picea. 
Mas. Antennis basi approximatis, cornu faciali nullo; femoribus anticis subtus spina acuta armatis; tibiis 


curvatis, extus infra basin tuberculo parvo armatis, apice valde incrassatis, 
Fem. Femoribus anticis inermibus, tibiis ad apicem minus incrassatis. 
Var. A. Tibiis anticis pallide piceis. 
Var. B. Pallide piceo-fulva, antennis extrorsum nigris. 
Long. 24 lin. 

Hab. Panama, Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 6000 feet 
(Champion). 

Vertex and front impunctate, the latter impressed with a longitudinal groove; lower 
face unarmed. Antenne more than half the length of the body, filiform, very slightly 
thickened towards the apex; the third joint slender, equal in length to the pre- 
ceding two. Thorax broader than long; sides sinuate and parallel from the base to 
beyond the middle, thence rounded and converging to the apex; disc convex, smooth 
and shining, sparingly punctured on the sides. Elytra oblong, convex, slightly flattened 
along the anterior two thirds of the suture, humeral callus compressed laterally into a 
short ridge; surface regularly punctate-striate, the strice sulcate on the sides and at the 
apex ; interspaces (with the exception of those on the anterior portion of the inner disc). 
thickened and more or less costate. Anterior thighs in the male thickened, armed 
beneath with an acute spine. 

Both this and the preceding species agree closely in coloration with those characterized 
in the ‘Catalogue of Hispide.’ C. distincta differs, however, in the absence of the 


frontal horn, and C. dorsata in having the anterior pair of thighs unarmed, 


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ARESCUS. 


Arescus, Perty, Del. Anim. Art. p. 100 (1832) ; Baly, Cat. Hispide, p. 80, t. 2. f. 2. 
Chelobasis, Gray, Griffith’s Animal Kingdom, Ins. ii. 148, t. 101. figg. 4, 4 a-g. , 


The insects belonging to the genus Arescus are above the medium size, brilliantly 
coloured, and are so variable in tint and markings that in a long series of individuals 
belonging to the same species, it is comparatively rare to find two specimens of 
precisely the same colour and pattern. From their abundance and variability it is fair 
to assume that the conditions under which these insects live are greatly in excess of the 
absolute requirements of the species, and that the additional vital energy thus produed 
expends itself in the development of innumerable variations from the original type of 
coloration. 

Of the same habits as Prosopodonta, Cheirispa, and most of the species of Cephaloleia, 
and found in the broad unopened leaves of Musaceee and Marantacez (Champion). 


1. Arescus bicolor. (Tab. IT. figg. 10, 11.) 

Chelobasis bicolor, Gray, loc. cit. p. 148, t. 67. f. 4°. 

Arescus labiatus (Perty), Baly, Cat. Hispide, p. 837. 

Oblongo-elongatus, fulvus aut flavus, nitidus; antennis [basi excepta], scutello, femoribus apice, tiblis tarsisque 
nigris ; thorace transverso; lateribus rectis, rarius ante medium ampliatis, ad apicem rotundato-angustatis, 
disco lwvi; scutello elongato-trigonato, obtuso; elytris anguste oblongis, parallelis, apice conjunctim 
rotundatis, regulariter punctato-striatis, utrisque maculis duabus infra basin, transversim dispositis, fascia 
prope medium, utrinque abbreviata, plaga magna ante apicem, lineaque marginali, postice abbreviata, in- 
terdum obsoleta, nigris. . 

Var. A. Thorace piceo aut nigro tincto, elytrorum fascia integra, plaga subapicali communi. 


Var. B. Thorace nigro, elytrorum apice toto nigro. 

Var. C. Niger, elytris rufis, fascia nigra communi extrorsum abbreviata, maculis basalibus interdum obsoletis. 

Var. D. Subtus niger, thorace rufo-fulvo, femoribus flavo-maculatis; supra rufo-fulvus; antennis (articulo 
secundo excepto), verticis macula, scutello elytrorumque punctis tribus, horum primo supra callum hume- 
rale, secundo vix ante medium, tertio inter medium et apicem positis, nigris. 

Var. E. Pallide flavus, antennis extrorsum, oculis, scutello, elytrorum puncto humerali, femorum apice, tibiis 
extus tarsisque nigris. 

Var. F. Elytris totis flavis aut fulvis. 

Var. G. Thorace flavo et fulvo, nigro variegato. 

Long. 43-5 lin. 
Hab. Guatemaua, Senahu and Sabo in Vera Paz (Champion); Panama, Bugaba 800 
to 1500 feet, Volcan de Chiriqui 2500 to 4000 feet (Champion).—Sourn Amenrtca!; 


Cotompia; Guana, Cayenne 2. 


This species is abundant in the forest-region of the State of Panama. Large numbers 
of specimens, including all the varieties, are often found clustered together in the 
unopened leaves (Champion). 

Although most inconstant in pattern, many of the specimens agree with the figure 
of Chelobasis bicolor, Gray, in Griffith’s ‘Animal Kingdom.’ I have therefore restored 
Gray’s name, which I had formerly given as a synonym of A. labiatus, Perty. Specimens 
from Colombia and Cayenne placed (Cat. Hisp.) under the latter species belong here. 


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2. Arescus perplexus. (Tab. II. figg. 12, 13.) 
Arescus perplexus, Baly, Cat. Hispide, p. 84° (nec Waterh.). 


Var. A. Subtus fulvo-piceus, piceo variegatus; supra fulvus; antennis extrorsum nigris ; elytris piceo-punc- 
tatis, utrisque macula parva humerali alteraque discoidali, vix ante medium posita, nigris, neo vix 
micantibus. 


Hab. Costa Rica (Van Patten).—Cotomsta ! (type, coll. Baly). 


This species, which probably is as variable as most of its congeners, is appa- 
rently rare, only two specimens (the typical one from Colombia and a second from Costa 
Rica) being known to me. The specimen from Costa Rica differs from the type in 
having the sides of the thorax obliquely converging ; in all other respects (except colour) 
it agrees with the typical form. A. perplexus may be at once separated -from its allies 
by the angular apices and deep punctuation of the elytra. 

Owing to this species having been accidentally omitted from Gemminger and Harold’s 
Catalogue, Mr. C. O. Waterhouse has since described another insect under the same name. 


CEPHALODONTA. 
Cephalodonta, Baly, Cat. Hispide, p. 124, t. 2. f. 15. 


Twenty-two species of this genus are described or enumerated below; of this number 
four only were previously known. 

Mr. Champion informs me that most of the species are found sitting upon leaves, 
some in the dense forest, others in the thinly-wooded savanna country ; they are more 
numerous in the “tierra caliente” than at the higher elevations. 


1. Cephalodonta gemmans. (Cephalodonta generosa*, Tab. II. fig. 14.) 


Anguste oblonga, convexa, nitida; subtus nigro-picea aut nigra; supra viridi-enea; capite granuloso, nigro- 
geneo aut eneo, facie inferiori antennisque piceo-fulvis, his filiformibus, ad apicem paullo incrassatis, 
articulis sexto et septimo flavis, ultimis quatuor nigris; thorace quam lato longiori, subcylindrico, crebre 
foveolato-punctato, basi et apice piceo-fulvo marginato; elytris oblongis, lateribus vix ante medium con- 
strictis, pone medium paullo ampliatis, apice subacute rotundatis, ad suturam leviter emarginatis, convexis, 
seriatim punctatis, tuberculis aut cretis oblongis octo aut novem quadriseriatim dispositis instructis, viridi- 
eeneis, basi nec non sutura piceo-fulvis, limbo exteriori flavo, eneo tincto. 

Long. 14-2 lin. 


Hab. Guatemaua, Cerro Zunil 4000 to 5000 feet, Las Mercedes 3000 feet (Cham- 
pion). 

Head finely granulose, vertex impressed with a deep longitudinal groove; front 
produced just above the insertion of the antenne into a short triangular plate. Antenne 
half the length of the body, filiform, slightly thickened towards the apex; joints cylin- 
drical, the basal one short, submoniliform, second slightly longer, subovate, the third, 


* On the Plate the name of this species is wrongly given as Cephalodonta generosa, a name already employed 
by Guérin for a species of the same genus. 


CEPHALODONTA. 33. 


fourth, and fifth slender, nearly equal, each one half as long again as the second. 
Thorax longer than broad ; sides nearly straight and parallel, slightly angulate, anterior 
angle armed with a short obtuse tooth ; upper surface closely covered with large foveo- 
late punctures. Scutellum narrowly oblong, longitudinally sulcate. Elytra oblong; 
sides slightly constricted just before the middle, rounded and slightly dilated posteriorly, 
apex acutely rounded, conjointly emarginate at the suture, sutural angle armed with a 
small tooth ; above convex, each elytron with ten, at the extreme base with eleven, 
rows of large punctures; humeral callus laterally produced, cristate, and forming the 
anterior portion of a longitudinal costa, which, interrupted in its middle portion, 
extends along the sixth interspace to its apex; on the rest of the interspaces are eight 
or nine longitudinal ridges or tubercles, placed as follows:—four on the second, three 
on the fourth, and one, very narrow, on the eighth [the basal one on the fourth is small 
and sometimes obsolete, and the apical one narrow, elongate,and posteriorly confluent with 
the apex of the longitudinal costa on the sixth interspace]; the flavous limb narrower 
at the base, much broader on the sides and apex, its surface irregularly stained with 
cupreous, its inner margin ill-defined. 


2. Cephalodonta callosa. (Tab. II. fig. 15.) 

Anguste oblonga, convexa, pallide picea, opaca; pectore abdomineque nitidis, illo nigro-piceo, hoc nigro ; 
antennis filiformibus, ad apicem paullo incrassatis, articulis ultimis quatuor piceo-nigris; thorace subey- 
lindrico, quam lato longiori, rude punctato, vittis callosis quatuor, duabus externis pone medium fere 
obsoletis, instructis ; elytris oblongis, convexis, fulvo variegatis, callo humerali lateraliter producto, cristato, 
seriatim punctatis, utrisque vittulis elevatis novem, quadriseriatim dispositis; femoribus dorso verrucatis,. 
tibiis ad apicem incurvatis. 

Long. 3 lin. 


Hab. Panama, Bugaba, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 


Front armed between the antenne with a short acute tooth. Antenne more than 
half the length of the body, filiform, slightly thickened at the apex; joints cylindrical, 
the basal one short, moniliform, second slightly longer, ovate, third, fourth, and fifth 
equal, each rather longer than the second, sixth and seventh gradually decreasing in 
length from the fifth, seventh pale fulvous, the four outer ones pitchy black. Thorax 
nearly one fourth longer than broad, subcylindrical; sides nearly parallel, obsoletely 
angulate, apical angle armed with a small obtuse tooth; coarsely punctured, slightly 
excavated transversely behind the middle; disc with four ill-defined slightly raised 
callose vittee, extending from the base to the apex, the outer pair much less distinct and 
nearly obsolete on the hinder disc. Elytra much broader than the thorax, oblong, 
parallel, rounded at the apex; above convex, flattened between the humeral calli, the 
latter strongly produced laterally, bicristate, acute ; each elytron with ten, at the.extreme 
_ base with eleven, rows of large deeply impressed punctures ; their interspaces with nine 
short, strongly raised, longitudinal ridges, arranged as follows:—four at nearly equal 
distances on the second interspace, two on the fourth (the anterior one just before, 

BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Coleopt., Vol. VI. Pt. 2, April 1885. ee 


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the hinder one just behind the middle), one on the sixth (halfway between its middle 
and the apex), and, lastly, two on the eighth (the first elongate, near the middle, the 
second shorter, subapical); the two ridges on the humeral callus cover, one nearly the 
basal half of the sixth, the other the basal fourth of the eighth interspaces. 

This and the preceding species ought to be placed near C. marginata, Guér. 


8. Cephalodonta godmani. (Tab. II. figg. 16, 17.) 


Subquadrata, postice paullo ampliata, pallide flava, nitida; capite(antennis exceptis), thorace scutelloque rufo- 
fulvis; pectore fulvo; thorace transverso, ante medium abrupte constricto, lateribus medio acute angu- 
latis; elytris late explanatis, rufis, punctato-striatis, striis gemellatis, nigris, limbo externo (hoc rufo bi- 
maculgto), fascia irregulari prope medium, ad limbum ampliata [nec nen callo longitudinali baseos] prope 
suturam albidis ; callo humerali lateraliter producto, acuto. 

Mas, Tibiis anticis intus ante apicem dente brevi armatis. 

Var, A (mas). Antennis apice fuscis; thorace latiori, sordide flavo; elytris flavis, spatiis inter costas rufo- 
fulvis. 

Long. 5-6 lin. . 


Hab. Nicaraaua, Chontales (Belt); Panama, Pefia Blanca 3000 to 4000 feet (Cham 
pion, var. A). 


Face between the antenne with an acute tooth. Antenne rather more than half the 
length of the body, filiform ; joints cylindrical, the two lower ones short, equal. Thorax 
twice as broad as long in the medial line, its anterior portion abruptly contracted to 
nearly half its width; sides straight and obliquely diverging from the base to the 
middle, thence to the apex entirely occupied by a deep angular notch, the anterior 
border of which is nearly perpendicular and forms the lateral margin of the constricted 
half of the thorax, whilst the hinder border is horizontal and runs directly outwards to 
form an acute angle with the oblique hinder portion of the margin; apical angle armed 
with a stout subacute tooth; upper surface transversely excavated at the base, 
impressed, but rather sparingly, with large irregular punctures, medial disc nearly 
impunctate. Elytra much broader than the thorax; sides broadly dilated, obtusely 
rounded, posterior angle not produced, obtusely angulate, apical margin obliquely 
rounded; upper surface flattened between the humeral calli, the latter strongly 
produced laterally, their apices acute; each elytron with ten longitudinal rows of deep 
punctures, arranged in pairs, the inner pair abbreviated at the base, the space being 
occupied by an irregular longitudinal callosity, which extends downwards from the 
basal margin for nearly one fourth the length of the elytron; the suture, together with 
the second, fourth, sixth, and eighth interspaces, costate ; rufous, the interspaces between 
the coste black; the outer limb, an irregular fascia [dilated on the outer margin] just 
behind the middle, together with the basal callus, white; the outer limb has two 
large rufous patches, attached by their inner edges to the disc, and extending 
outwardly nearly to the lateral margin, of these one is placed before, the other 
behind the middle. 


CEPHALODONTA. 35. 


Var. A (Tab. II. fig. 17) is larger, and paler in colour; the angular lobes on the sides 
of the thorax are longer and more acute, and occupy a larger portion of the surface; the 
anterior tibie are armed just behind the apex with a short tooth. These differences 

are probably sexual. 

The example from Pefia Blanca was captured by beating bushes in the open savanna 
country. 


4. Cephalodonta maculata. (Tab. II. fig. 18.) 


Late cuneiformis, dorso depressa, fulva, subtus nitida; pectoris lateribus, abdominis apice, coxis femoribusque 
basi et apice fusco-eneis ; supra subnitida; antennis robustis, filiformibus, obscure rufis, piceo tinctis, 
extrorsum nigris ; thorace conico, lateribus fere rectis, irregulariter sinuatis, antrorsum in dentem validum 
productis, disco crebre foveolato-punctato, vittis duabus fusco-sneis instructo 3 elytris quam thorax 
multo latioribus, subquadrato-oblongis, postice ampliatis, apice obtuse rotundatis, angulo postico acuto, 
convexis, dorso deplanatis, seriatim punctatis, interspatio secundo costato, quarto, sexto et octavo minus 
distincte elevatis, callo humerali lateraliter producto, subacuto ; fusco-sneis, fulvo maculatis. 

Mas. Tibiis anticis intus ante apicem dente brevi armatis. 

Fem. Tibiis anticis inermibus. 


Long. 42 lin. 
Hab. Guaremata, Sinanja in Vera Paz (Champion). 


Vertex smooth, impunctate ; front finely punctured, impressed with an oblong fovea, 
and armed between the insertion of the antenne with a minute tooth. Antenne scarcely 
half the length of the body, robust, filiform ; joints cylindrical, two lower ones short, 
equal, submoniliform, the third nearly equal in length to the preceding two united, the 
following three gradually decreasing in length ; the seven lower joints obscure rufous, 
stained with piceous, the four outer ones entirely black. Thorax conic; sides obliquely 
converging from the base to the apex, obsoletely and irregularly crenulate, apical angle 
produced anteriorly into a strong flattened subacute tooth; transversely convex, flattened 
and longitudinally excavated on the sides in front, closely covered with irregular foveolate 
punctures. Elytra much broader than the thorax; sides dilated posteriorly, apex 
obtusely rounded, the posterior angle acute ; upper surface slightly convex on the sides 
and apex, flattened on the disc; humeral callus laterally produced, subacute: each 
elytron with ten, at the extreme base with eleven, rows of large deep punctures; second 
interspace rather strongly, fourth, sixth, and eighth less distinctly, costate; fuscous- 
geneous, covered with a number of fulvous spots or patches irregularly scattered over 
the surface. 

Three examples were captured by Mr. Champion in the dense forest. 


5. Cephalodonta quinquemaculata. (Tab. II. fig. 19.) 
Metazycera quinquemaculata, Guér. Icon. du Régne Anim. Texte, p. 270’. 
Cephalodonta quinquemaculata, Baly, Cat. Hispide, p. 127, t. 9. f. 97. 
Hab. Mexico? (coll. Baly).—Cotomsta }. 
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36 PHYTOPHAGA. 


This species is apparently rare, as it is not represented in any of the collections from 
Central America now before me. 


6. Cephalodonta championi. (Tab. II. fig. 20.) 

Elongata, postice sat late ampliata, dorso deplanata ; subtus nigra, nitida ; capite inferiori, thoracis lateribus et 
medio, coxis, femoribus basi abdominisque lateribus sordide fulvis; supra minus nitida, fulva; macula 
verticali, antennis (basi picea excepta) scutelloque nigris; thorace transverso, lateribus basi rectis, 
parallelis, vix pone medium angulatis, hinc ad apicem obliquis, disco transversim convexo, basi excavato, 
crebre et fortiter punctato, nigro trivittato; elytris pone medium valde explanatis, apice late rotundatis, 
ad suturam valde et late emarginatis, serrulatis ; angulo suturali dente brevi ornato, angulo postico obsoleto ; 
disco deplanatis, fortiter punctato-striatis; utrisque bicostatis, limbo profunde punctato ; vitta brevi 
communi basali, bifurcata, nigra ornatis. : 

Var. A. Elytrorum vitta nigra obsoleta. 

Var. B. Elytris apice plagaque subanchoriformi a basi ad medium extensa, nigris. 


Long. 3-4 lin. 
Hab. Panama, Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet, Caldera in Chiriqui 1200 feet (Champion). 


Head rather strongly produced between thé eyes, front coarsely punctured ; inter- 
antennal space with a perpendicular ridge. Antenne half the length of the body, attenu- 
ated at the base and apex, robust; the two lower joints cylindrical, the third (which is 
nearly equal in length to the preceding two united) slightly compressed ; terminal joint 
acute, subuncinate. Thorax about one third broader than long; sides deflexed, 
straight and parallel at the base, distinctly angulate just behind the middle, thence 
straight and obliquely converging towards the apex, anterior angle armed with a small 
obtuse tooth; above transversely convex, deeply and rather broadly excavated on the 
hinder disc, closely and coarsely punctured ;- medial line with a narrow longitudinal 
groove ; a discoidal vitta, together with one on either side, just within the lateral 
margin, black. Scutellum oblong-quadrate. Elytra broader than the thorax, dilated 
from the base towards the posterior angle, the latter broadly rounded; apical margin 
rounded, conjointly emarginate at the suture; sutural angle armed with a short acute 
tooth; lateral margin finely, the apical one more coarsely serrulate; upper surface 
flattened between the humeral calli and also along the anterior two thirds of the suture, 
the calli themselves laterally prominent; disc deeply impressed at the base and apex, 
and with twelve, in the middle with eleven, rows of large round punctures; the third 
and sixth interspaces costate; on the lateral margin of the disc, immediately below the 
humeral callus, is also a short, third costa; dilated limb closely covered with similar 
punctures to those on the disc; at the extreme base, commencing at the scutellum and 
extending downwards for about one fourth the length of the elytron, is a narrow 
sutural black line, its hinder half bifurcate. Legs slender, elongate; thighs more or 
less stained beneath with piceous. 


CEPHALODONTA. 37 


7. Cephalodonta sallezi. 
Cephalodonta sallei, Baly, Cat. Hispide, p. 150°. 


Hab. Mexico, Cordova! (type, coll. Sallé); British Honpuras, Rio Hondo (Blan- 
CANEAUL). 


8. Cephalodonta pallida. 


Anguste cuneiformis, dorso subdepressa; subtus picea, nitida; pectoris medio, abdominis femorumque basi 
thoraceque inferiori (hoc utrinque piceo vittato) pallide flavis; supra subopaca, pallide flava ; capite levi, 
verticis macula, ore antennarumque articulo basali (ceteri desunt) nigro-piceis ; thorace lateribus obtuse 
angulatis, rude foveolato-punctato, vitta discoidali nigro-picea; scutello nigro; elytris postice ampliatis, 
apice obtuse rotundatis, angulo postico dente parvo acuto armato, profunde seriatim punctatis, inter- 
spatio quarto valde costato, secundo, sexto et octavo pone medium distincte elevatis; callo humerali lateraliter 
producto, acuto. 

Long. 4 lin. 


Hab. Nicaracva, Chontales (Belt). 


Head smooth ; the basal joint of the antenne short (the rest broken away). Thorax 
rather broader than long; sides parallel at the base, obtusely angulate in the middle, 
thence obliquely converging towards the apex, anterior angle subacute; upper surface 
convex on the sides, broadly flattened on the disc, slightly excavated behind the middle, 
closely covered with large round punctures; apical margin impunctate. lytra broader 
than the thorax; sides increasing in width from the base towards their apex, more 
abruptly dilated behind the middle, hinder angle armed with a small acute tooth, the 
apex of which is produced directly backwards; lateral margin entire, the apical margin 
finely serrulate; upper surface convex on the sides and apex, flattened along the 
anterior two thirds of the suture; humeral callus laterally produced, its apex acute ; 
each elytron with ten rows of large deep punctures; the fourth interspace strongly 
costate for its whole length, the second, sixth, and eighth thickened behind the 
middle of the disc. 

The broader thorax and acute apices of the humeral calli will separate this species 
from C. javett. 


9. Cephalodonta gracilenta. (Tab. II. fig. 21.) 


‘Anguste elongata, parallela, nitida ; subtus fulva, thoracis vitta laterali, pectoris lateribus femoribusque piceis, 
his basi, tibiis tarsisque pallide rufo-fulvis, abdomine piceo tincto; supra flava, antennis nigro-piceis aut 
nigris, apice sordide rufo-piceis ; thorace crebre foveolato-punctato, medio nigro-piceo vittato, lateribus 
vix pone medium angulatis; scutello nigro-piceo; elytris elongatis, parallelis, medio leviter constrictis, 
apice obtuse rotundatis, angulo postico spina acuta armato, fortiter seriatim punctatis, utrisque vitta 
humerali, fere ad medium extensa, anguloque postico nigro-piceis. 

Mas. Tibiis anticis intus prope apicem spina aut dente brevi armatis. 

Fem. Tibiis anticis intus prope apicem tuberculatis. 

Long. 3-33 lin. 


Hab. Panama, Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet (Champion). 


Vertex and front shining, impunctate, the latter impressed with an oblong fovea; the 


38 PHYTOPHAGA. 


face armed between the antenne with a minute tooth. Antenne nearly three fourths 

the length of the body, slender, filiform ; joints cylindrical, basal one short, moniliform, 

second to the fifth nearly equal in length, each about twice as long as the first ; four upper 
joints obtuse, rufo-piceous, the three lower ones (in some specimens) obscure piceous. 

Thorax scarcely longer than broad; sides straight and parallel from the base to just 

behind the middle, thence obliquely converging to the apex, the anterior angle armed 

with a short obtuse tooth ; upper surface closely covered with large irregular foveolate 
punctures, the space immediately behind the apical margin impunctate ; a narrow vitta 
on the medial disc, together with a few of the punctures on the extreme lateral margin, 
nigro-piceous; on the vitta is a very narrow and slightly raised longitudinal line. 

Elytra elongate, parallel; sides very slightly sinuate and constricted in the middle; 

apex obtusely rounded, the hinder angle armed with a short, acute, flattened spine, the 

apex of which looks directly backwards; upper surface convex on the sides and apex, 
flattened along the suture ; humeral callus produced laterally, its apex extending slightly 
beyond the lateral margin, acute; each elytron with ten, at the extreme base with 

eleven, regular rows of large deep punctures, which cover nearly the whole surface 3. 

fourth interspace obsoletely costate; a narrow vitta, extending from the apex of the 

humeral callus nearly to the middle of each elytron, less distinct and sometimes entirely 
obsolete posteriorly, together with the spine at the hinder angle, nigro-piceous, tinged 
with violaceous. In some specimens this colour is confined to the spine itself, in others. 
it extends inwards for a short distance across the disc. 
Several examples were captured by Mr. Champion in the forest region of the low country. 
| lonaple Baty Soe 
10. Cephalodonta elongata, (prescc)— ae. !20» 

Anguste elongata, fere parallela, flava, nitida ; pedibus (femoribus basi exceptis), scutello antennisque nigris ; 
thorace quam lato longiori; lateribus parallelis, obsolete bisinuatis, medio obsolete angulatis; foveolato- 
punctato, vitta discoidali lateribusque nigris; elytris parallelis, pone medium vix ampliatis, apice obtuse 
rotundatis, prope angulum externum leviter sinuatis, angulo ipso obtuso; seriatim punctatis, interspatio. 
quarto subcostato, sexto et octavo minus distincte elevatis; linea laterali, ante medium abbreviata, 


alteraque suturali, communi, pone medium obsoleta, nigris. 
Long. 4 lin. 


Hab. Panama, Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet (Champion). 


Antenne rather more than half the length of the body, filiform, very slightly 
thickened towards the apex; joints cylindrical. Thorax longer than broad 3 sides. 
straight and nearly parallel, very slightly bisinuate, obsoletely angulate, the anterior 
angle acute; disc closely foveolate-punctate. Elytra broader than the thorax; sides 
parallel, slightly constricted in the middle, very slightly dilated posteriorly, hinder 
angle obtuse ; apical margin obtusely rounded, sinuate just within the outer angle; the 
base with twelve, the middle disc with ten, and the hinder disc with eleven, regular rows. 
of punctures; fourth, sixth, and eighth interspaces thickened ; humeral callus laterally 
elevated, obtuse. 


CEPHALODONTA. 39 


11. Cephalodonta erudita. (Tab. II. fig. 22.) 


-Anguste elongata, fere parallela; subtus nigra nitida, pectoris medio femoribusque basi flavis; supra subopaca, 
pallide flavo-fulva, capitis vertice antennisque gracilibus nigris; thorace quam longo vix latiori ; lateribus 
bisinuatis, medio angulatis ; crebre rugoso-punctato, vittis duabus, basi convexis, lituram V-simulantibus, 
nec non lateribus nigris; scutello nigro; elytris parallelis, ad apicem paullo ampliatis; utrisque apice 
bidentatis, dentibus magnis, compressis; seriatim punctatis, interspatio quarto sat valde costato; sutura 
dimidioque apicali nigris. 

Var. A. Abdominis medio et lateribus elytrisque fulvis. 
Var. B. Thoracis vittis obliquis obsoletis, pedibus piceis. 

Long. 33 lin. 

Hab. Nicaraeua, Chontales (Belt); Panama, Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet, and David in 

Chiriqui (Champion). 


The type and var. B are from the State of Panama; the var. A is from Nicaragua. 

Front impressed with an oblong fovea. Antenne nearly three fourths the length of 
the body, slender, filiform ; joints obsoletely compressed, the basal one short, the second, 
third, and fourth nearly equal in length, each one half longer than the first. Thorax 
not longer than broad ; sides nearly parallel, slightly sinuate from the base to the 
middle, thence sinuate and obliquely converging to the apex, the anterior angle armed 
with an obtuse tooth ; above subcylindrical, slightly depressed transversely at the base, 
closely and coarsely punctured. Scutellum subquadrate. LElytra parallel, slightly 
dilated towards the posterior angle; apex of each elytron armed with two large 
flattened teeth—one acute at the posterior angle, its apex looking directly backwards, 
the other irregular, placed near the suture; each elytron at the extreme base with 
eleven, on the rest of the surface with ten, irregular rows of punctures; fourth inter- 
space from the suture costate; humeral callus flattened above, laterally produced, its 
apex acute. 


12. Cephalodonta proxima. (Tab. II. fig. 23.) 

Anguste elongata, fere parallela; subtus nigra, nitida, pectoris medio coxisque rufo-piceis, femoribus basi flavis ; 
supra subopaca, capite nigro, antennis perfoliatis apice, facieque inferiori fulvis, vertice oreque piceis; 
thorace quam lato vix longiori; lateribus bisinuatis, medio leviter angulatis; crebre rugoso-punctato, 
vitta discoidali lateribusque nigris; scutello nigro; elytris parallelis, ad apicem paullo ampliatis, utrisque 
apice bidentatis, dentibus magnis, compressis; seriatim punctatis, interspatio quarto sat valde costato; 
fulvis, dimidio postico suturaque nigris ; pedibus elongatis. 

Var. A. Thoracis vitta ad apicem abbreviata, elytris rufo-fulvis, sutura nigra, antennis apice piceis. 

‘Long. 33 lin. 

Hab. Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt, type); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2500 to 4000 


feet (Champion, var. A). 


Head sculptured as in C. erudita. Antenne three fourths the length of the body; the 
two lower joints short, equal, the third to the seventh compressed and dilated, perfoliate, 
the third longer than the preceding two united, fourth and fifth each shorter than the 
third, equal. Thorax rather longer than broad; sides slightly converging from the base 


40 PHYTOPHAGA. 


to the apex, bisinuate, distinctly angulate; upper surface closely rugose-punctate, 
obsoletely torulose on the sides and apex. Elytra as in C. erudita. 

Very nearly allied to C. erudita and found at the same localities; it is possibly the 
male of that species. I have thought it well, however, to consider it distinct, chiefly 
owing to the different form of the discoidal vitta on the thorax, and also to the different. 
relative lengths of the three lower joints of the antenne. 


13. Cephalodonta antennata. (Tab. II. fig. 25.) 


Elongata, dorso subdepressa, fulva, nitida ; pectoris lateribus, abdomine, femoribus posticis quatuor antennisque- 
piceis, harum articulis intermediis compressis ; thorace subconico, lateribus pone medium subangulatis,. 
anguste piceo marginatis, disco crebre foveolato-punctato, pone medium excavato; elytris subparallelis, 
apicem versus leviter ampliatis, apice obtuse truncatis ; angulo postico in spinam subtrigonatam, acutam,, 

- postice piceo marginatam, lateraliter producto; regulariter punctato-striatis, punctis piceis, interspatio 
quarto costato; pedibus sat elongatis. 

Long. 4 lin. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2500 to 4000 feet (Champion). 


Vertex smooth, impunctate; front impressed with a few deep punctures, the medial 
line with a longitudinal groove. Antenne more than half the length of the body; the 
two lower joints cylindrical, the basal one short, the second slightly longer, the third to 
the seventh compressed, quadrilateral, the third and fourth nearly equal, each longer 
than the two lower ones united, the fifth to the seventh gradually decreasing in length; 
four upper joints cylindrical, closely clothed with adpressed hairs. Thorax not broader 
than long; sides nearly parallel at the base, obtusely angulate behind the middle, 
thence converging and sinuate to the apex, and the anterior angle armed with an oblique, 
subacute, setiferous tooth ; above transversely convex, broadly excavated on the hinder 
disc, closely covered with large foveolate punctures. Elytra broader than the thorax ; 
sides nearly parallel, slightly enlarged towards the hinder angle [the latter dilated 
laterally into a triangular spinose process, the apex of which is produced directly back- 
wards, its outer margin being convex, and its hinder one concave], irregularly serrulate, 
and edged with nigro-piceous ; each elytron with ten, at the extreme base with eleven, 
rows of large deep punctures; the fourth interspace from the suture costate. 


14. Cephalodonta javeti. (Tab. II. fig. 24.) 
Cephalodonta javeti, Baly, Cat. Hispide, p. 160). 


Var. A. Elytris totis rufis. 
Hab. Mexico, San Andres, Tuxtla!(Sal/é); Guatemaua, Purula, Senahu, and Sinanja 
in Vera Paz (type and var. A., Champion). 


In the specimens from Guatemala the black colour occupies the hinder half of the 
elytra, the anterior half of the suture being also black. 


CEPHALODONTA. 4] 


15. Cephalodonta obscurovittata. 

Elongata, dorso subdepressa, flavo-fulva, nitida, pleuris anguste piceis; antennis gracilibus, apice pallide-piceis ; 
oculis nigris; thorace transverso, lateribus vix pone medium angulatis, dorso cylindrico, sat crebre 
punctato ; elytris parallelis, ad apicem vix ampliatis, apice obtuse rotundatis, angulo externo spina com- 
pressa, retrorsum spectante, armatis; punctato-striatis, sutura, nec non interspatio quarto, costatis; callo 
humerali lateraliter producto, acuto; vitta subsuturali alteraque submarginali, a basi apicem versus 


extensis, postice fere obsoletis, metallico-violaceis. 
Long. 4 lin. 


Hab. Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt, Janson). 


Front smooth, impressed with a longitudinal groove ; eyes black. Antenne slender, 
filiform, very slightly thickened at the apex; joints cylindrical, the second more than 
twice the length of the first, the third rather shorter than the second. Thorax broader 
than long; sides straight and parallel at the base, angulate behind the middle, thence 
obliquely converging to the apex, the anterior angle armed with a stout oblique tooth; 
upper surface transversely convex, excavated transversely on the hinder disc, impressed 
with large foveolate punctures, crowded on the sides, less closely placed on the middle 
disc. Hlytra broader than the thorax; parallel, slightly dilated near the hinder angle, 
the latter armed with an acute flattened spine, the apex of which is produced directly 
backwards ; disc of each elytron with ten rows of large deep punctures; the suture, and 
the fourth interspace, costate ; humeral callus laterally produced, acute ; the two discoidal 
vittee will in a series of specimens probably be found to vary greatly both in extent and 
depth of colouring: in the two individuals before me the submarginal one is distinct 
from the basal margin to the middle of the disc, where it terminates, whilst the 
discoidal is only strongly coloured at its extreme base (for the rest of its course, which 
extends nearly to the apex of the elytron, it is very faint and only visible in certain 
lights). Legs slender, elongate. 


16. Cephalodonta posticata. 

Subelongata, parallela, apicem versus paullo ampliata, dorso subdepressa, flavo-fulva, nitida; antennis flavis, 
apice pallide-piceis ; oculis nigris; thorace transverso, lateribus pone medium angulatis, disco transversim 
convexo, crebre foveolato-punctato; elytris ante medium parallelis, ad apicem paullo ampliatis, apice 
obtuse rotundatis, angulo postico in laminam compressam trigonatam, apice acutam, producto ; sat profunde 
seriatim punctatis, sutura nec non interspatiis secundo et quarto elevatis; callo humerali lateraliter pro- 
ducto, acuto; vitta submarginali, a basi ad fere medium extensa, basi ampliata et ad marginem adfixa, calli 
humeralis apicem amplectente, altera prope scutellum, brevi, fasciaque supra spinam posticam posita, 
intus ad disci medium extensa, metallico-violaceis ; pedibus gracilibus, elongatis. 

Long. 34 lin. 


Hab. Panama, Bugaba (Champion). 


_A single specimen. Head and antenne as in C. obscurovittata; the thorax more 
transverse, its disc less deeply impressed at the base, and more closely punctured on 
the middle than in that species. Elytra broader in proportion to their length than in 
C. obscurovittata; the posterior angle produced laterally into a flattened triangular 

BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Coleopt., Vol. VI. Pt. 2, May 1885. ff 


42 PHYTOPHAGA. 


process, the outer margin of which is convex and the hinder one concave, its apex very 
acute and produced directly backwards; the apical margin obtuse ; the disc with ten, 
the extreme base with eleven, rows of punctures; the suture, together with the second 
and fourth interspaces, thickened and subcostate; humeral callus laterally produced, 
acute; the submarginal vitta, which extends considerably beyond the middle of the 
elytron, is dilated at its base, and covers both the apex of the humeral callus and the | 
humeral margin; the transverse stripe commences at the outer edge of the posterior 
angle, runs along its hinder border, and extends inwards as far as the middle of the 


disc. 


17. Cephalodonta subparallela. 

Elongata, subtus piceo-nigra, nitida; capite inferiori, pectoris medio, coxis, femorum dimidio basali tarsisque, 
fulvis, piceo tinctis; supra fulva, scutello capiteque nigris, hoc utrinque piceo-fulvo vittato; antennis 
elongatis, articulis intermediis compressis, paullo dilatatis; thorace quam lato vix longiori, subconico, 
lateribus rectis, leviter bisinuatis, anguste nigro marginatis, disco rude et irregulariter foveolato-punctato, 
vitta lata discoidali nigra; elytris parallelis, pone medium vix angulatis, apice obtuse rotundato, angulo 
postico spina acuta, retrorsum producta, armato; seriatim punctatis, linea brevi humerali vittaque 
suturali, a basi ad medium extensa, postice attenuata, nigro ornatis. 

Long. 23-33 lin. 

Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 4000 feet (Champion). 

Vertex and front impunctate, the upper portion of the latter impressed with a fine longi- 
tudinal groove ; the interantennal space with a short tooth ; either side of the vertex with 
a broad piceo-fulvous patch, which extends downwards along the inner orbit of the eye. 
Antenne three fourths the length of the body, slender; the third to the seventh joints 
compressed, moderately dilated, the two lower ones short, nearly equal, the third longer 
than the preceding two united, the fourth rather shorter, the fifth, sixth, and seventh 
gradually decreasing both in length and breadth. Thorax rather longer than broad ; 
sides straight, bisinuate, slightly but distinctly converging from the base to the apex ; the 
hinder angle laterally produced, acute ; the anterior angle armed with an oblique obtuse 
tooth ; upper surface transversely convex, slightly flattened and excavated on the hinder 
disc, closely and strongly variolose-punctate, the puncturing on the sides irregular and 
much coarser than on the middle; a space immediately behind the anterior margin free 
from punctures. Elytra convex, broader than the thorax, parallel before the middle, 
very slightly dilated posteriorly, the lateral margin entire; apex obtusely rounded, its 
margin obsoletely serrulate ; posterior angle armed with a stout acute tooth, the apex of 
which is directed backwards; humeral callus distinct, obtuse, not laterally produced ; 
each elytron at its base with eleven, the rest of its surface with ten, longitudinal rows 
of large deeply impressed punctures, which cover the whole surface. Legs slender, 
elongate; basal halves of all the femora fulvous. 


18. Cephalodonta abbreviata. 
Elongata, postice vix ampliata, nitida, subtus piceo-nigra ; pectoris medio, thoracis plaga laterali, abdominis basi, 
coxis anticis quatuor femoribusque basi, flavo-fulvis; supra flava, frontis macula, antennis, thoracis 


CEPHALODONTA. 43 


lateribus angustis vittaque discoidali, scutello, elytrorumque vittis tribus, a basi fere ad medium extensis, 
nigris; antennis filiformibus, articulis cylindricis; thorace punctis magnis rotundatis irregulariter dis- 
positis fortiter i impresso, lateribus vix pone medium angulatis; elytris ante medium parallelis, postice 
leviter ampliatis, apice obtuse rotundatis ; angulo postico spina acuta retrorsum spectante armato ; fortiter 


punctato-striatis, interspatio quarto modice costato. 
Long. 4 lin. 


Hab. Panama, Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet (Champion). 


Vertex and front smooth, impunctate. Antenne filiform ; joints cylindrical, the basal 
one short, the second to the fifth nearly equal in length, each twice the length of the first, 
the sixth to the tenth rather shorter (the terminal joint is missing in the single specimen 
before me). Thorax rather broader than long; the sides straight and slightly diverging 
from the base to just behind the middle, thence obliquely converging and feebly 
sinuate to the apex, the anterior angle armed with a short oblique tooth ; disc slightly 
excavated behind the middle, impressed with large round punctures, placed irregularly 
over the surface. Elytra parallel before the middle, slightly dilated posteriorly, hinder 
angle armed with a stout acute tooth; apical margin obtusely rounded, entire; upper 
surface flattened along the suture, convex on the sides ; humeral callus laterally produced, 
acute; each elytron with ten, at the base with eleven, rows of large deeply impressed 
punctures ; fourth interspace subcostate; the black vitte are arranged as follows— 
one sutural, the others (one on either side) sublateral and covering the outer ridge of 
the humeral callus. 


19. Cephalodonta scherzeri. 
Cephalodonta scherzeri, Baly, Cat. Hispide, p. 157°. 
Var. A (mas). Elytrorum apice, plagis irregularibus tribus a basi ad medium extensis, suturaque angusta nigris. 
Var. B (mas). Elytris apice nigris. ee oe 
Hab. Guatema.a, Cordilleras’, (Scherzer); Nicaracva, Chontales (Bel¢, var. B); PANAMA, | 5 ee 
Caldera, Bugaba, David, Volcan de Chiriqui 2500 to 4000 feet (Champion, type and Dent, 


var. var. A). 


A specimen in my collection is labelled ‘“‘Amazons,” but I have reason to believe this 
locality to be wrong. The male in this species has the thorax broader, with its sides 


more distinctly angulate 
Mr. Champion informs me that this species is found in dry places in the thinly 


wooded savanna country of the “ tierra caliente.” 


20. Cephalodonta ampliata. 

Elongata, postice valde ampliata, depressa ; subtus nitida, nigro-picea; pectoris medio femoribusque basi flavis, 
abdomine piceo, flavo variegato; supra subopaca, flava; antennis compressis, verticis macula, thoracis 
vitta discoidali scutelloque, nigris; thorace quam longo vix latiori, crebre punctato, lateribus ante medium 
sinuatis; elytris cuneiformibus, a basi apicem versus valde ampliatis, apice rotundatis, ad suturam sub- 
quadrato-emarginatis, angulo suturali dente acuto armato ; angulo postico obsoleto; striato-punctatis, 

sutura et interspatio quarto costatis; limbo ampliato, sulcis numerosis transversis impresso ; vitta brevi 


ff 2 


44 PHYTOPHAGA. 


submarginali baseos, fascia interrupta, vix ante medium posita, apiceque late (hoc interdum metallico- 
tincto) nigris. 

Var, A. Elytrorum fascia obsoleta. 

Long. 43-5 lin. 


Hab. Nicaracva, Chontales (Belt). 


Body elongate, broadly wedge-shaped. Front stained with piceous, rugose-punctate, 
armed between the antenne with a minute tooth. Antenne nearly three fourths the 
length of the body, slender ; the third to the seventh joints compressed, cristate. Thorax 
scarcely broader than long at the base; sides nearly straight behind the middle, con- 
verging and sinuate between the latter and the apex, the apical angle armed with an acute 
tooth; transversely convex, slightly but distinctly excavated on the hinder disc, closely 
and coarsely punctured. Scutellum narrowly oblong, truncate, sinuate on the sides, 
Elytra rather broader than the base of the thorax, broadly wedge-shaped ; the outer limb 
broadly dilated, the dilatation commencing at the shoulder and regularly increasing to 
the posterior angle, the latter broadly rounded, the angle itself obsolete; apices rounded, 
conjointly quadrate-emarginate at the suture, the sutural angle armed with a stout 
acute tooth ; lateral margin entire, the apical margin finely serrulate; the dilated limb 
impressed with a number of deep transverse grooves, their direction following the 
curvature of the outer border, on the sides being horizontal, those near the hinder 
angle oblique, and those at the apex perpendicular; each elytron with ten, at the 
extreme base with eleven, rows of deep punctures; the sutural margin and the fourth 
interspace costate. Legs slender, elongate. 


21. Cephalodonta fraterna. 


Elongata, postice valde ampliata, depressa ; subtus nitida, nigra; pectoris medio, femoribus, nec non abdominis 
basi, fulvis; supra subnitida, fulva, capitis vertice antennisque compressis nigris; thorace subconico, late- 
ribus bisinuatis, anguste piceo marginatis, rugoso-punctato, vitta discoidali nigra; elytris cuneiformibus ; 
lateribus a basi apicem versus valde ampliatis, apice rotundatis, ad suturam late conjunctim emarginatis; 
angulo suturali acuto, angulo postico dente brevi armato ; fortiter seriatim punctatis, sutura interspatioque 
quarto costatis; limbo ampliato, sulcis numerosis transversis impresso; utrisque vitta brevi submarginali 
baseos nigra; apice late purpureo-nigro, metallico micanti. 

Long. 43 lin. 


Hab. Nicaragua, Chontales (Beit). 


So similar in form, sculpture, and coloration to C. ampliata that it is only neces- 
sary to point out the distinctive differences:—the thorax is narrower, rather more . 
conical, and distinctly bisinuate on the sides; the elytra are more broadly dilated behind 
the middle, the posterior angle being armed with a small tooth, the apical margin is 
more broadly emarginate at the suture, and the sutural angle, although acute, is not 
produced into a distinct tooth. 


22. Cephalodonta ferox. (Tab. III. fig. 1.) 


Elongata, subparallela, fulva, nitida ; pectoris lateribus, abdomine, pedibus elongatis antennisque, nigris ; thorace 


CHARISTENA. 45 


subconico, sat crebre foveolato-punctato, lateribus leviter angulatis; elytris fere parallelis, postice vix 
ampliatis, apice obtuse rotundatis, angulo postico dente acuto, ad apicem nigro, armato ; seriatim punctatis, 
interspatio quarto modice costato, callo humerali apice spina valida elongata, lateraliter producta, nigra, 
armato. 

Long. 33 lin. 


Hab. Nicaraaua, Chontales (Belt). 


Antenne slender, filiform, more than half the length of the body; two lower joints 
subovate, equal, the third nearly as long as the preceding two united. Thorax not 
broader than long, subconic; sides straight and parallel from the base to the middle, 
thence obliquely converging and sinuate to the apex, the anterior angle produced ante- 
riorly into a strong subacute tooth ; upper surface subcylindrical, transversely grooved at 
the base, closely foveolate-punctate. Elytra parallel, slightly dilated posteriorly ; apical 
margin obtusely rounded, entire, the posterior angle armed with a strong flattened acute 
tooth, the apex of which looks directly backwards; upper surface with ten, at the 
extreme base with eleven, regular rows of punctures; fourth interspace from the suture 
moderately costate; humeral callus laterally produced, and armed with a very long 
acute black spine, the apex of which extends directly outwards. 

The long humeral spine renders this species one of the most remarkable of the whole 
genus. Unfortunately both the specimens before me are very imperfect. 


Section II. Basal segment of the ligula arising from the dorsal surface of the mentum. 


Section 1. Antenne 10-11-jointed, the five upper joints distinctly separable from 
each other. 


+ Interocular space not produced anteriorly ; antenne 11-jointed, 


CHARISTENA. 
Charistena, Baly, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1864, p. 253 ; Horn, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. 1883, p. 298. 
The above genus, established by myself for the reception of a small group of species 
from Northern and Central America, has been united by Von Harold, in his Catalogue, 
with Chalepus ; it is, however, distinctly separated by the non-prominent interocular 
space, and, as pointed out by Dr. Chapuis, by the curved intermediate tibie. 


1. Charistena bellula. 
‘Charistena bellula, Baly, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1864, p. 253°. 


Hab. Muxico, Playa Vicente (Sallé).—Cotomsia, Bogota, Magdalena River? (coll. 
Baly, type). . | 


9. Charistena elegantula. 
Charistena elegantula, Baly, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1864, p. 254°. 


Ow 


46 PHYTOPHAGA. 


Hab. Guaremata (type in coll. Baly ex coll. Laferté); Panama, David, Taboga Island 
(Champion).—CotomBsta !. 


3. Charistena trilineata. 
Charistena trilineata, Baly, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1864, p. 255 '. 


Hab. Mexico ! (types in coll. Chevr. and Baly). 


4. Charistena pilatei. 
Charistena pilatet, Baly, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1864, p. 254°. 
Hab. Muxtco, Teapa! (coll. Baly, type); Guatemata, Chiacam in Vera Paz 
(Champion). 


5. Charistena championi. 

Angustata, subcylindrica; subtus cum capite nigra, pedibus flavis, antennis basi tarsisque pallide-piceis; supra 
flava, scutello nigro; thorace subcylindrico, profunde et crebre punctato, lateribus plaga margineque apicali 
nigris; elytris parallelis, apice rotundatis, minute serrulatis ; utrisque octo-seriato-punctatis, interspatiis 
secundo, quarto sextoque, nec non sutura, modice costatis ; maculis communibus duabus, una ad basin 
altera vix ante apicem positis, vittaque brevi submarginali baseos, nigris, eneo tinctis. 

Var. A. Elytrorum macula subapicali obsoleta. 

Long. 13 lin. 


Hab. Guatemaua, Zapote, Tamahu in Vera Paz (Champion). 


Head tinged with eneous; vertex and front impressed with a number of longitudinal 
grooves. Antenne slightly longer than the head and thorax, robust, thickened towards 
the apex; joints cylindrical, the five upper ones forming an ill-defined elongate club; six 
lower joints rufo-piceous, the rest black. Thorax subcylindrical, rather broader than 
long; sides. obtusely angulate, straight and parallel behind the middle, obliquely con- 
verging anteriorly; upper surface deeply and closely punctured; a patch on the lateral 
margin, together with the extreme apex, black. Elytra parallel, regularly rounded at the 
apex, faintly sinuate at the sutural angle, distinctly serrulate; each elytron with eight, 
at the extreme base with nine, rows of large deep punctures ; the second, fourth, and 
sixth interspaces moderately costate, the suture also thickened. 


6. Charistena funesta. 


Angustata, subcylindrica, nigra, nitida, dorso eneo tincta ; thorace profunde foveolato-punctato, disco anteriori 
fere impunctato ; elytris parallelis, tricostatis, interspatiis profunde biseriato-punctatis. 
Long. 2 lin. 


Hab. Mexico, Orizaba (Sallé); Guatema.a, San Gerénimo (Champion). 


Head very finely granulose, front impressed between the eyes with a faint elongate 
fovea. Antenne equal in length to the head and thorax ; five terminal joints thickened, 
forming a narrow elongate club. Thorax longer than broad ; sides parallel, very slightly 
angulate ; subcylindrical, excavated at the base just in front of the scutellum,. 


CHARISTENA.—PARACHALEPUS. 47 


impressed on the sides and at the base with large round punctures; anterior disc nearly 
impunctate. Elytra broader than the thorax, parallel on the sides; lateral margin 
entire, the apical margin rounded, emarginate at the suture, finely serrulate ; cylindrical, 
slightly flattened along the suture ; each elytron with eight, at the base with nine, rows 
of deeply impressed large round punctures; second, fourth, and sixth interspaces 
costate. 


7. Charistena perspicua. (Tab. III. fig. 2.) 
Charistena perspicua, Horn, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. 1883, p. 298°. 


Filiformis, subcylindrica, nigra, nitida, pedibus cyaneo tinctis; supra cyanea, antennis nigris; thorace quam 
lato longiori, fortiter crebre punctato; elytris parallelis, octo-seriato-punctatis, sutura nec non inter- 
spatiis secundo, quarto et sexto costatis. 

Var. A. Femoribus intermediis basi rufo-fulvis. 

Long. ‘2-23 lin. 

Hab. Norra America, Arizona and New Mexico ! (Horn).—MeExtico, Northern Sonora 

(Morrison). —) xt ena de la lonveption (EL. bora, Tipre) Were 906k Dalle, Lt Bs 9% 


Vertex smooth, impunctate ; front trisulcate ; third joint of the antenne longer than 
the second, five upper joints slightly thickened. Thorax distinctly longer than broad ; 
sides obtusely rounded ; subcylindiical, transversely depressed on the hinder disc ; deeply 
and closely punctured, the punctures larger and stronger on the middle ; a space imme- 
diately behind the anterior margin nearly free from punctures. Elytra broader than 
the thorax, parallel on the sides, regularly rounded at the apex, apical margin minutely 
serrulate; upper surface subcylindrical; each elytron with eight, at the extreme base 
with nine, rows of deeply impressed punctures; the suture, together with the second, 
fourth, and sixth interspaces, costate. Mesofemora with a distinct row of teeth beneath. 

The present species may (according to Dr. Horn) be known from C. nigrita, Oliv., by 
the relatively greater length of the third joint of its antenne, by its larger size, by the 
different coloration of the upper surface of the body, and lastly by the stronger teeth on 
the under surface of the mesofemora ; from C. funesta it is separated by the presence of 
these teeth, by the different punctuation of its thorax, and by its strong metallic tint. 


++ Interocular space anteriorly produced. 


* Antenne 10-jointed. 


PARACHALEPUS. 
Caput inter oculos valde productum ; antennis 10-articulatis ; ore ut in Chalepo. Corpus elongatum. 
The above genus agrees with Chalepus in all essential characters with one exception— 


the antenne are ten- instead of eleven-jointed. I only know a single species, P. brevi- 
cornis from Mexico, and of that only a single specimen. 


48 PHYTOPHAGA. 


1. Parachalepus brevicornis. (Tab. III. fig. 3.) 


Elongatus, parallelus; subtus subnitidus, niger, purpureo tinctus ; pectoris medio, abdominis lateribus femorumque 
basi, fulvis; supra fulvo-flavus, opacus, antennis elytrorumque apice nigris ; thorace transverso, lateribus 
sat profunde bisinuatis, crebre rugoso-punctato, lateribus vittaque discoidali nigro-piceis ; scutello piceo ; 
elytris subelongatis, fere parallelis, serrulatis, apice obtuse rotundatis ; utrisque decem-seriato-punctatis + 
interspatiis secundo, quarto nec non octavo, costatis, punctis inter interspatia quartum et octavum ante 


medium triseriatis ; vitta brevi suturali baseos picea. 
Long. 22 lin. 


Hab. Mexico, Cordova (Hége). 


Head very strongly produced between the eyes, truncate anteriorly. Antenne not 
longer than the head and thorax, robust, slightly thickened towards the apex; joints 
cylindrical, first very short, moniliform, second to the fourth nearly equal, each rather 
longer than the basal one, the sixth to the ninth short, broader than long, the tenth or 
apical joint ovate, subacute. Thorax transverse; sides converging from the base to 
the apex, bisinuate; disc transversely convex, flattened behind, coarsely and closely 
rugose-punctate. Scutellum quadrate. Elytra broader than the thorax; sides sub- 
parallel, apex obtusely rounded; outer margin distinctly and rather coarsely serrulate, 
the apical serratures finer than the lateral ones; each elytron before the middle with 
nine, at the extreme base and on the hinder disc with ten, rows of deep punctures ;. the 
second, fourth, and eighth interspaces costate, the punctures between the middle and 
outer coste triseriate on the anterior and quadriseriate on the hinder disc; the sixth 
interspace elevated at the base and apex, the suture also thickened. 


** Antenne 11-jointed. 


CHALEPUS. 


Chalepus, Thunberg, Gotting. Gelehrt. Anzeig. 1805, p. 282. 
Odontota, Chapuis, Gen. des Coléopt. xi. p. 318; Horn, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. 1883, p. 294. 
Sixty-four species of this genus are contained in the present work; of this number no 
less than fifty-eight are characterized for the first time. Chalepus is probably the most 
numerous in species of any genus of the family, although up to recently a very 
large majority of them have remained undescribed in collections. Forty-three species 
are enumerated in Von Harold’s Catalogue. In 1877 the late Dr. Chapuis (ef, 
Trans. Ent. Soc. de Belg. xx. pp. 5 e¢ seg.) gave brief diagnoses of upwards of sixty 
additional ones ; unfortunately, in many cases, his descriptions are so brief that it is 
very difficult to work out the species; he has, however, divided the genus into sections, 
which, with some alterations, I have followed here *. 


* Dr. Chapuis has founded his sectional divisions on the number of rows of punctures and of the coste on 
the elytra. Many of the species possess a short additional row of punctures placed at the base next the suture, 
the presence or absence of which I have found of great use in subdividing the genus. A very great number of 
species have the interstices between the punctures more or less thickened, forming a fine irregular network 
between the cost. I have but rarely mentioned this character in my specific descriptions. 


CHALEPUS. ‘ 49 


The head quarters of the genus will be found to be in Tropical America; a few species 
inhabit the Southern United States, and one or two are found in the Antilles. | 

Closely allied to Uroplata; the species, as a rule, are more simple in form than those of 
that genus; the antenne, with a few exceptions, are filiform or subfiliform, and their 
joints are more or less cylindrical; the apices of the elytra are more regularly rounded, 
the posterior angle of the latter being rarely produced. 

Below is a table of the species :— 


TABLE OF SPECIES. 
I. Elytra each with 8 rows of punctures. _ 
1. Apices of the elytra conjointly emarginate at the sutural angle. 
Species 1-2.—morio, championi. 
2. Apices of the elytra entire, or only obsoletely sinuate at the sutural angle. 
Species 3-4.—semilimbatus, suturalis. 
II. Elytra each with 8 rows of punctures, the base with a short additional row next the suture. 
1, Apices of the elytra conjointly emarginate at the sutural angle. 
Species 5.—congener. 
2. Apices of the elytra conjointly rounded, the sutural angle entire. 

Species 6-17.—placidus, opacicollis, saundersi, amicus, terminatus, tibialis, jansoni, 

pallescens, distinctus, breviceps, roseus, fryi. 
IIT. Elytra each at the base with 8, at the apex with 9, rows of punctures. 
1. Apices of the elytra sinuate before reaching the sutural angle, the latter entire. 

Species 18.—diversipes. 

2. Apices of the elytra conjointly rounded, the sutural angle entire. 
Species 19.—instabilis. 
IV. Elytra each with 10, about the middle portion with 8 or 9, rows of punctures. 

Species 20-34.—marmoratus, subapicalis, vittaticollis, viridanus, productus, californicus, 
contiguus, fraternus, pascoei, amabilis, digressus, nigripictus, vicinalis, 
consanguineus, bellulus. 

V. Elytra each with 10 regular rows of punctures. 
1. Second and eighth interspaces costate, entire. 
Species 35-37.—hematoderus, rufithorax, sanguinosus. 
2. Second, fourth, and eighth interspaces costate, entire. 

Species 38-54.—chromaticus, propinguus, clypeatus, horni, subparallelus, angulosus, 
stmillatus, subhumeralis, amiculus, marginatus, lateralis, generosus, 
hepburni, posticatus, suspiciosus, alienus, anchora. 

VI. Elytra each with 10 rows of punctures, the base with a short additional row next the suture. 
A. Margin of the elytra serrulate. 
1. Sutural angles of the elytra entire. 
a. Second, fourth, and eighth interspaces costate, entire. 
Species 55-57.—acuticornis, contubernalis, chapuist. 
6. Second and eighth interspaces costate, entire: 
Species 58.—waterhousei. 
2. Sutural angles of the elytra conjointly emarginate. 
Species 59-63 .—amplipennis, deyrollei, omogerus, univittatus, palmeri. 
B. Margin of the elytra entire, not serrulate. 
Species 64.—signaticollis. 


BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Coleopt., Vol. VI. Pt. 2, May 1885. gg 


50 . PHYTOPHAGA. 


I. Elytra each with eight rows of punctures. 
1. Apices of' the elytra conjointly emarginate at the sutural angle. 


1. Chalepus morio, (Tab. III. fig. 4.) 
Hispa morio, Fabr. Syst. t. 2. f. 60. 


Sat elongatus, niger, subtus nitidus, supra subnitidus; thorace transverso, subconico, disco utringue calloso, 
medio rude foveolato-punctato ; elytris parallelis, ad suturam late subquadrato-emarginatis, utrisque octo- 


seriato-punctatis, interstitiis granulosis, planis, interspatio secundo costato. 
Long. 24 lin. 


Hab. Mexico, Toluca, Guanajuato (Sallé). 


Head moderately produced between the eyes; vertex and front trisulcate. Antenne 
very slightly thickened towards the apex; two lower joints equal in length, the third 
as long as the preceding two united. Thorax transverse, subconic ; sides nearly straight, 
converging from the base to the apex; disc with a longitudinal callosity on either side, 
closely and coarsely punctured. Elytra broader than the thorax, parallel, broadly sub- 
quadrate-emarginate at the suture, the sutural angle acute; lateral margin obsoletely, 
the apical one distinctly, serrulate; each elytron with eight rows of punctures, the 
second interspace, together with the suture, costate; interstices between the punctures 
granulose, plane. 

The original type of Hispa morio, Fabr., is in all probability lost. I have therefore, 
following Dr. Chapuis, adopted the Fabrician name, by which this species is known in 
most collections; the diagnosis given by Fabricius is extremely brief, and the locality 
given merely as South America. 


2. Chalepus championi. 

Elongatus, niger, nitidus ; pectore femoribusque flavis, his ad apicem nigro maculatis; capite fulvo trimaculato ; 
antennis ad corporis longitudinem fere equalibus, articulis intermediis compressis, dorso modice cristatis ; 
thorace crebre foveolato-punctato, utrinque late flavo-fulvo vittato; elytris subparallelis, apicem versus 
leviter ampliatis, apice rotundatis, ad suturam late quadrato-emarginatis; lateribus tenuiter, apice magis 
fortiter, serrulatis ; modice convexis, utrisque octo-seriato-punctatis, interspatiis alternis modice costatis ; 
flavo-fulvis, vitta suturali plagaque magna apicali nigris. 

Long. 22 lin. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 


Front rather strongly produced between the eyes, irregularly grooved. Vertex smooth ; 
a patch on either side of the neck, together with one on the front, extending downwards 
to the base of the antenne, fulvous. Antenne nearly four fifths the length of the body ; 
first and second joints subovate, equal, the third and the following three compressed, 
cristate, the third equal in length to the first and second united, the sixth and following 
ones cylindrical. Thorax nearly one fourth broader than long at the base, slightly 
converging towards the apex, sides subangulate, anterior angle armed with a short 
oblique tooth; upper surface cylindrical on the sides, flattened on the disc, closely 


CHALEPUS. 51 


covered with large, round, foveolate punctures; medial line with a short longitudinal 
groove. KElytra subparallel, slightly increasing in width towards the apex; lateral 
margin finely serrulate; the apical margin dilated, regularly rounded, broadly quadrate- 
emarginate at the sutural angle, more coarsely serrulate than the sides; moderately 
convex, slightly flattened along the suture; each elytron with eight longitudinal rows 
of large, deeply impressed punctures; the second, fourth, and sixth interspaces, together 
with the suture, costate. 


2. Apices of the elytra entire, or only obsoletely sinuate at the sutural angle. 


3. Chalepus semilimbatus. 


Elongatus, angustatus, parallelus, flavus, nitidus; oculorum orbitis, antennis pedibusque (femoribus basi 
exceptis) nigris ; thorace subcylindrico, fortiter punctato, lateribus, pone medium fere rectis, ante medium 
constrictis ; elytris parallelis, apice rotundatis, minute sed distincte serrulatis; utrisque octo-seriato- 
punctatis, stria sexta medio obsoleta; interspatiis alternis costatis; lateribus anguste nigro-eeneo mar- 
ginatis. 

Long. 24 lin. 

Hab. Mexico, Vera Cruz (Sallé). 


Vertex and front impressed with a deep longitudinal fovea; interocular space 
moderately produced. Antenne about one third the length of the body, slightly but 
distinctly thickened towards the apex; joints cylindrical. Thorax transverse; sides 
rounded, nearly straight and parallel behind the middle, thence rounded and converging 
towards the apex, deeply sinuate behind the anterior angle, the latter produced laterally 
into a short, acute tooth; transversely convex, rather deeply excavated in front of the 
scutellum, deeply and rather closely punctured. Elytra subelongate, parallel, obtusely 
rounded at the apex, finely serrulate; each elytron with eight rows of deep punctures, 
the sixth row obsolete on the middle disc; second and fourth interspaces broadly, the 
sixth less strongly, costate; lateral margin narrowly edged with blackish neous. 


4, Chalepus suturalis, 


Anguste oblongus, subtus niger, nitidus; supra rufo-fulvus, minus nitidus; capite nitido elytrorumque linea 
suturali nigro-zneis, scutello antennisque nigris; thorace transverso, rude et crebre punctato, lateribus 
angulatis; elytris oblongis, parallelis, apice rotundatis, utrisque octo-seriato-punctatis, interspatiis alternis 
vix elevatis. 

Long. 2 lin. 


Hab. GuatuMaLa, Duefias (Champion). 


Vertex smooth, front trisulcate ; interocular space slightly produced. Antenne 
nearly half the length of the body, robust, slightly thickened towards the apex ; joints 
cylindrical. Thorax transverse; sides angulate, straight and parallel from the base to 
the middle, thence obliquely converging to the apex, the anterior angle acute; disc 
transversely convex, slightly excavated behind the middle, coarsely rugose-punctate. 
Elytra narrowly oblong; sides parallel, obtusely rounded at the apex; lateral margin 


gg 2 


52 PHYTOPHAGA. 


obsoletely, the apical margin more distinctly, serrulate ; each elytron with eight regular 
rows of punctures, their alternate interspaces slightly elevated. 


Il. Elytra each with eight rows of punctures, the base with a short additional row, 
neat the suture. 


1. Apices of the elytra conjointly emarginate at the sutural angle. 
5. Chalepus congener. (Tab. III. fig. 5.) 


Elongatus, subparallelus, niger; subtus nitidus, femoribus basi fulvis; supra subopacus, macula frontali 
thoraceque fulvis, hoc subconico, crebre punctato, lateribus vittaque lata discoidali nigris; elytris parallelis, 
ad apicem vix ampliatis, apice rotundatis, ad suturam conjunctim angulato-emarginatis, lateribus pone 
medium obsolete, apice distincte, serrulatis ; utrisque octo- basi nono-seriato-punctatis, interspatio secundo 


sat valde elevato, quarto, sexto nec non sutura, modice costatis; plaga magna, a basi ad vix pone medium 
extensa, postice attenuata, flava ornatis. 
Long. 24-22 lin. 


Hab. Panama, Bugaba (Champion). 


Vertex smooth, impunctate; front broadly sulcate, piceo-fulvous; interocular space 
rather strongly produced, obtuse. Antenne less than half the length of the body, 
robust, subfusiform, attenuated at the base and apex; two lower joints stout, equal, 
the third nearly as long as the preceding two united. Thorax slightly broader than 
long; sides subangulate, straight and nearly parallel from the base to the middle, 
thence obliquely converging towards the apex; transversely convex, depressed behind 
the middle; coarsely and closely punctured. FElytra broader than the thorax; sides 
parallel, slightly dilated towards the apex, the latter rounded, conjointly subangulate- 
emarginate at the suture; each elytron with eight, at the extreme base with nine, rows. 
of large, deep punctures ; the second interspace rather strongly, and the suture together 
with the fourth and sixth interspaces moderately, costate. 


2. Apices of the elytra conjointly rounded, the sutural angle entire. 
6. Chalepus placidus. (Tab. III. fig. 6.) | 


Elongatus, parallelus, subtus cum antennis niger, nitidus; pectoris medio, abdominis femorumque basi fulvis ; 
supra fulvus, subnitidus ; scutello elytrorumque vitta brevi communi, infra scutello posita, nigro-piceis ; 
thorace quam longo paullo latiori, subcylindrico, basi ante scutellum transversim excavato, rude et crebre 
foveolato-punctato, lateribus angulatis vittaque discoidali, antice abbreviata, nigro-piceis ; elytris 
parallelis, apice rotundatis, serrulatis, apice acute denticulatis, utrisque octo- basi nono-seriato-punctatis, 
interspatiis alternis costatis, sutura paullo elevata. 

Long. 3 lin. 


Hab. GuaTEMALA, Chacoj and Teleman (Champion). c 
Head smooth, impunctate ; interocular space moderately produced. Antenne scarcely 


more than half the length of the body, filiform ; two lower joints short, submoniliform, 
the basal one slightly thickened, third joint nearly twice as long as the second. Thorax 


CHALEPUS. 53 


broader than long; sides obtusely angulate, straight and parallel from the base to 
the middle, thence obliquely converging to the apex, anterior angle armed with an 
oblique obtuse tooth ; subcylindrical, broadly flattened and excavated on the hinder 
disc, closely covered with large, irregular, foveolate punctures; an irregular longitudinal 
space on the middle disc, commencing in front of the transverse depression, and 
extending anteriorly nearly to the apical margin, shining, impunctate; its medial line 
impressed with a fine longitudinal groove; a longitudinal vitta, abbreviated anteriorly, 
together with the extreme edge of the lateral margin, nigro-piceous. Scutellum oblong- 
quadrate; sides distinctly, the apex faintly, emarginate. Elytra parallel, serrulate on 
the sides, the apex rounded and acutely denticulate ; each elytron with eight, at the 
extreme base with nine, rows of punctures; tricostate, the suture also elevated. 


7. Chalepus opacicollis. 


Hlongatus, parallelus, nitidus, subtus niger; thorace (utrinque nigro maculato), pectoris medio abdominisque 
basi, fulvis; supra fulvus, scutello, collo utrinque antennisque nigris; thorace quam lato vix longiori; 
lateribus rotundatis, medio obsolete angulatis ; opaco, sat profunde punctato, vitta discoidali lateribusque 
nigris ; elytris parallelis, lateribus minute serrulatis; apice regulariter rotundato, magis evidenter et 


irregulariter serrulato; utrisque octo- basi nono-seriato-punctatis ; interspatiis secundo, quarto sextoque 
costatis. , 
Long. 3 lin. 


Hab. Panama, Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet (Champion). 


Head smooth, vertex and front faintly impressed with a longitudinal groove; inter- 
ocular space very slightly produced. Antenne robust, slightly tapering at the base and 
apex; first and second joints equal, the third distinctly longer. Thorax scarcely longer 
than broad; sides rounded, converging in front, obsoletely angulate; convex, trans- 
versely impressed on the hinder disc, and again less distinctly so before the middle; 
opaque, impressed, but not very closely, with large, ill-defined punctures. LElytra 
elongate, parallel, regularly rounded at the apex; sides finely, the apical margin more 
strongly and irregularly, serrulate; each elytron with eight, at the extreme base with 
nine, rows of large, deeply impressed punctures; second, fourth, and sixth interspaces 
costate, the sixth serrulate. 


‘8. Chalepus saundersi. 


Hlongatus, subtus niger, nitidus ; femoribus anticis quatuor macula basali flava ornatis; supra minus nitidus, 
scutello capiteque nigris, hoc macula frontali sordide-fulva; thorace subcylindrico; lateribus breviter 
subangulato-rotundatis, basi fere rectis; dorso crebre et fortiter punctato, fulvo, lateribus vittaque lata 
discoidali nigris; elytris fere parallelis, apicem versus vix ampliatis, apice obtuse rotundatis, minute 
serrulatis ; utrisque octo- basi nono-seriato-punctatis ; interspatiis alternis, nec non sutura, modice costatis ; 
fulvis, plaga apicali vittaque suturali nigris. 

Var. A. Elytrorum plaga apicali obsoleta. 

Long. 2 lin. 


Hab. GuaTEMALA, Panima ( Champion) ; Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2500 to 4000 
- feet (Champion). 


54 PHYTOPHAGA. 


Head smooth; the interocular space rather strongly produced, its apex angulate. 
Antenne nearly half the length of the body, filiform, moderately robust, slightly attenu- 
ated at the apex; joints cylindrical. Thorax transverse; sides obtusely subangulate- 
rotundate, nearly straight and parallel behind the middle; subcylindrical, slightly 
flattened transversely on the hinder disc, strongly and closely punctured. Elytra 
natrowly oblong; sides straight, slightly diverging from the base towards the hinder 
angle; apex obtusely rounded, finely serrulate; each elytron with eight, at the extreme 
base with nine, regular rows of punctures; the second, fourth, and sixth interspaces, 
together with the suture, moderately costate. 

The apical patch on the elytra varies greatly in size; in var. A, from Guatemala, it 
is entirely obsolete. 


9. Chalepus amicus. (Tab. III. fig. 7.) 


Sat elongatus, subparallelus, niger ; subtus nitidus, femoribus basi fulvo maculatis ; supra minus nitidus, vertice 
fronteque fulvis, levibus; thorace subcylindrico, pone medium transversim excavato, rude punctato, 
fulvo, vitta lata discoidali lateribusque nigris; elytris fere parallelis, minute serrulatis, utrisque octo- 
basi nono-seriato-punctatis, interspatiis secundo, quarto sextoque costatis; vitta lata laterali a basi ad 
ultra medium extensa, postice angusta, linea brevi nigra notata, fulva ornatis. 

Long. 13-2 lin. 


Hab. Panama, David, Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet (Champion). 


Vertex and front smooth, impunctate, the latter obsoletely sulcate. Antenne nearly 
half the length of the body, filiform, slightly thickened towards the apex; joints 
cylindrical, the third short, scarcely longer than the second. Thorax broader than 
long, subcylindrical; sides converging from base to apex, more quickly converging and 
sinuate before the middle, the latter obtusely rounded, anterior angle acute; disc trans- 
versely excavated behind the middle, coarsely and deeply punctured. Elytra nearly 
parallel, conjointly rounded at the apex, minutely serrulate; each elytron with eight, 
at the extreme base with nine, regular rows of punctures, the second, fourth, and sixth 
interspaces costate. 

This species may be separated from C. terminatus by its longer and narrower form, 
by its broader thorax, and by the more strongly raised costz on the elytra; the fulvous 
apical spot is also absent. 


10. Chalepus terminatus. 


Elongatus, niger, subtus nitidus; abdominis basi, femoribus anticis fere totis, posterioribusque basi, flavis ; 
supra subopacus, capite levi, fronte breviter trisulcata, facie inter oculos thoraceque fulvis, hoc subconico, 
crebre punctato, lateribus fasciaque lata discoidali nigris ; elytris parallelis, apicem versus obsolete ampliatis, 
apice obtuse rotundatis, margine ad apicem obsolete serrulatis ; utrisque octo- basi nono-seriato-punctatis, 
interspatiis secundo, quarto sextoque modice costatis; vitta submarginali a basi ad ultra medium extensa, 
callum humerale amplectente, postice angustata, maculaque apicali, fulvis. 

Long. 14 lin. 


Hab. Guatemaia, Vera Paz (Champion); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2500 to 
4000 feet, Bugaba (Champion). 


CHALEPUS. | 55 


Head smooth, impunctate; front impressed with three short longitudinal grooves ; 
interocular space moderately produced. Antenne nearly half the length of the body, 
filiform, rather slender, slightly thickened towards the apex ; joints cylindrical, first and 
second short, equal, slightly thickened. Thorax rather broader than long, subconical ; 
sides converging from base to apex; transversely convex, transversely depressed on the 
hinder disc, closely punctured ; the hinder margin elevated. Elytra broader than the 
thorax ; sides parallel, very slightly enlarged towards the posterior angle ; apex obtusely 
rounded, outer margin nearly entire, obsoletely serrulate behind the middle and at the 
apex; each elytron with eight, at the extreme base with nine, rows of large, deep punc- 
tures; second, fourth, and sixth interspaces moderately costate. 

Resembles in coloration C. congener, but half the size, and rather less parallel in form, 
the elytra with an additional row of punctures at the base: 


11. Chalepus tibialis. 


Angustatus, elongatus, subcylindricus; subtus niger, nitidus; femoribus basi, anticis fere totis, tibiis anticis 
basi, posticis fere totis, pectoris medio abdominisque disco, flavis; supra flavus, subnitidus, scutello capiteque 
nigris, facie inter oculos flava; thorace transverso, crebre punctato, lateribus vittaque lata discoidali 
nigris; elytris parallelis, octo- basi nono-seriato-punctatis, tricostatis, linea laterali baseos vittaque suturali 
nigris ; tibiis anticis intus ante apicem spina brevi armatis. 

Long. 2 lin. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2500 to 4000 feet (Champion). 


Head smooth, slightly produced between the eyes. Antenne nearly half the length 
of the body, slightly thickened towards the apex; joints cylindrical, the two lower 
ones short, nearly equal, the third distinctly longer. Thorax broader than long; sides 
obsoletely angulate, straight and parallel from the base to the middle, thence converging 
and slightly sinuate to the apex; anterior angle obliquely produced into a distinct 
subacute tooth ; transversely convex, faintly excavated transversely behind the middle, 
coarsely and closely foveolate-punctate, the punctures rather more distant on the medial 
— jine; the lateral margin, together with a broad discoidal vitta, black, the apical margin 
narrowly edged with piceous. Elytra rather broader than the thorax; sides parallel, 
very faintly constricted in the middle, obsoletely serrulate; apex regularly rounded, its 
serratures rather more distinct; each elytron with eight, at the extreme base with nine, 
rows of punctures; the second, fourth, and sixth interspaces costate. 


12. Chalepus jansoni. 

Subelongatus, subtus cum capite niger, nitidus; pedibus maculaque frontali fulvis; supra fulvus, minus 
nitidus, scutello nigro; thorace subcylindrico, rude et crebre punctato; elytris anguste oblongis, 
parallelis, apice rotundatis, margine serrulatis; utrisque octo- basi nono-seriato-punctatis, interspatiis 
secundo, quarto sextoque nec non sutura modice costatis. 

Long. 14 lin. 

Hab. Nicaraeua, Chontales (Janson). 


Vertex finely granulose, front longitudinally grooved; interocular space moderately 


56 PHYTOPHAGA. 


produced, obtuse. Antenne rather longer than the head and thorax, thickened towards 
the apex; joints cylindrical, the two lower ones slightly thickened, short, equal, the five 
outer ones forming a slender, ill-defined, elongate club. Thorax broader than long; 
sides very slightly rounded, nearly straight and parallel behind the middle, slightly 
converging anteriorly, the apical angle armed with a short obtuse tooth ; subcylindrical, 
obsoletely depressed on the hinder disc, coarsely and closely punctured. Elytra broader 
than the ‘thorax, parallel, regularly rounded at the apex, outer margin distinctly 
serrulate ; each elytron with eight, at the extreme base with nine, rows of large deep 
punctures; second, fourth, and sixth interspaces moderately costate, the suture, its 
extreme base excepted, also thickened. 


13. Chalepus pallescens. 


Subelongatus, subtus cum capite niger, nitidus; thoracis lateribus pedibusque flavis, facie inferiori tarsisque 
rufo-piceis ; supra minus nitidus, sordide-flavus; scutello nigro-piceo, elytris ad apicem maculis parvis 
piceis sparse notatis; thorace subcylindrico, rude et crebre punctato; elytris oblongis, parallelis, apice 
rotundatis, ad suturam vix sinuatis, minute serrulatis, dorso deplanatis, utrisque octo- basi nono-seriato- 
punctatis, interspatiis secundo, quarto sextoque modice costatis. 

Long. 14 lin. 


Hab. Panama, Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet (Champion). 


Vertex minutely granulose, impressed in the medial line with a deep longitudinal 
groove; interocular space only slightly produced. Antenne about one third the length 
of the body; joints cylindrical, the five outer ones distinctly thickened. Thorax sub- 
cylindrical, scarcely broader than long; sides slightly rounded, nearly straight and 
parallel at the base, slightly converging before the middle, anterior angle produced 
into a small subacute tooth; upper surface faintly impressed transversely at the base, 
closely covered with large coarse punctures. Elytra oblong, parallel on the sides, 
obtusely rounded at the apex, faintly sinuate at the suture, the sutural angle armed with | 
a minute tooth ; lateral margin minutely and rather closely, apical border more distantly 
and irregularly, serrulate; each elytron with eight, at the extreme base with nine, rows 
of punctures, the alternate interspaces moderately costate; towards the apex are a few 
small, ill-defined piceous spots, which form an irregular band across the surface. 


14. Chalepus distinctus. (Tab. III. fig. 9.) 


Anguste oblongus, nitidus; subtus nigro-piceus, flavo variegatus, thoracis lateribus, femoribus tibiisque flavis ; 
supra flavo-fulvus, antennis, oculis, thoracisque lateribus nigris ; thorace subcylindrico, crebre foveolato- 
punctato; elytris oblongis, apice rotundatis, serrulatis ; dorso deplanatis, utrisque octo- basi nono-seriato- 
punctatis, interspatiis secundo, quarto nec non sexto costatis ; nigro-eneis, plaga communi magna, 
irregulari a basi ad longe pone medium extensa, maculisque nonnullis versus apicem flavo-fulvis. 

Long. 13 lin. 


Hab. GuateMaLa, San Geronimo, San Juan in Vera Paz (Champion). 


Face only moderately produced between the eyes, front trisulcate. Antenne less 
than half the length of the body, thickened towards the apex ; joints cylindrical, the 


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_ five outer ones forming a slender elongate club. Thorax slightly broader than long ; 
sides obsoletely angulate, nearly straight and parallel at the base, obliquely converging 
before the middle ; disc subcylindrical, closely foveolate-punctate ; the lateral margins, 
and also a few of the punctures on either side of the middle disc, black; a patch just 
in front of the scutellum, together with the apical margin, piceous. Elytra oblong, 
parallel, obtusely rounded at the apex; outer margin minutely serrulate, the serratures 
rather coarser near the hinder angle, the latter rounded ; each elytron with eight, at the 
extreme base with nine, rows of large deep punctures ; second, fourth, and sixth inter- 
spaces costate, the fifth also elevated at its base ; nigro-zeneous, a large irregular patch 
which extends from the base to beyond the middle, and which covers laterally the 
space between the humeral calli, together with some irregular spots on the apical 
third of the disc, flavo-fulvous. 


C. distinctus is closely allied in general form and sculpture to C. inwqualis, Weber, 
a North-American species. 


15. Chalepus breviceps. 


Anguste oblongus, postice vix ampliatus, dorso subdeplanatus, nitidus; subtus cum capite rufo-piceus, pectore 
nigro-piceo, pedibus flavis; supra pallide flavus; capite brevi, facie inter oculos vix producta; thorace 
subcylindrico, profunde subcrebre punctato; lateribus obsolete angulatis, piceo-tinctis ; elytris oblongis, 
parallelis, ad apicem vix ampliatis, minute serrulatis, apice obtuso, obsolete irregulariter serrulato, angulo 
postico distincto, breviter dentato; disco piceo-eneo marmorato; utrisque octo- basi nono-seriato- 


punctatis ; interspatiis secundo, quarto et sexto, nec non sutura, costatis ; costa externa ante apicem minus 
distincte elevata. 
Long. 13 lin. 


Hab. Panama, David in Chiriqui (Champion). A single specimen. 


Head short, rotundate; clypeus very short, transverse; interocular space obso- 
letely produced. Antenne robust, equal in length to the head and thorax, the five 
outer joints distinctly thickened; eyes piceous. Thorax transverse, subcylindrical ; 
sides straight and parallel from the base to the middle, thence very slightly converging 
towards the apex, armed just behind the latter with a minute tooth, the anterior 
angle with an oblique obtuse tooth; disc transversely depressed behind, deeply and 
somewhat closely punctured. Elytra oblong, slightly dilated towards the posterior 
angle ; apices conjointly obtuse, the hinder angle distinct; sides minutely, the apical 
margin obsoletely, serrulate ; posterior angle armed with one or two coarser serratures 
than those on the sides; moderately convex, flattened along the suture ; each elytron 
with eight, at the extreme base with nine, regular rows of punctures; the second, 
fourth, and sixth interspaces, together with the suture, costate ; the outer costa less 
distinctly raised before its apex, the apex itself more strongly elevated; apices of 
the coste free. 

The form of the head will at once separate C. breviceps from its allies. 


BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Coleopt., Vol. VI. Pt. 2, November 1885. hh 


58 | PHYTOPHAGA. 


16, Chalepus roseus. 
Mispa rosea, Weber, Obs. Ent. 1801, p. 66. 


Anguste oblongus, pallide flavo-fulvus ; pectore, oculis elytrorumque maculis nigro-piceis ; antennis basi piceo- 
tinctis ; thorace subcylindrico, disco utrinque leviter excavato, rude et fortiter punctato ; angulo antico 
dente obliquo obtuso armato ; limbo (basi excepta) vittisque discoidalibus duabus (his sepe obsoletis) piceis ; 
elytris parallelis, apicem versus vix ampliatis, serrulatis, apice obtusis, angulo postico distincto obtuso ; 
utrisque octo- basi extrema nono-seriato-punctatis, striis inter costas 1™ et 2" ad apicem minus regu- 
lariter dispositis; interspatiis secundo, quarto et sexto, nec non sutura, costatis, costis ante apicem 
abbreviatis, tertia apice cristata, externis duabus apice connexis. 

Var. A. Thoracis vittis nigris, abdomine elytrisque nigro-piceis aut nigris, his apice maculisque flavis. 
(Hispa philemon, Newman, Ent. Mag. v. p. 390.) 

Var. B. Thoracis elytrorumque signaturis fere obsoletis. 

Var. C. Antennis piceis. 

Long. 13-2 lin. 


Hab. Nortu America, Canada, United States (var. A), Trenton Falls, New York.— 
Mexico, Northern Sonora (Morrison), Yolos (Satlé, var. C). 


Vertex smooth, impunctate, impressed with a longitudinal groove; interocular 
space moderately but distinctly produced, obtuse. Antenne rather longer than the 
head and thorax ; joints cylindrical, the five outer ones distinctly thickened. ‘Thorax 
broader than long ; sides obsoletely angulate, nearly straight and parallel from the base 
to the middle, thence slightly converging to the apex, anterior angle armed with a 
strong, oblique, obtuse tooth ; subcylindrical, faintly excavated on either aide the medial 
line, strongly and coarsely punctured. Elytra oblong, very slightly dilated posteriorly ; 
hinder angle obtuse, very slightly produced in the male, rather less distinctly so in the 
female; apices conjointly, obtusely rounded in either sex; sides and apex rather 
coarsely serrulate ; each elytron with eight, at its extreme base with nine, rows of 
punctures, the puncturing of the rows between the first and second coste confused 
towards the apex (in some specimens there are traces on the hinder disc of an additional 
row); second, fourth, and sixth interspaces, together with the suture, costate; the 
discoidal cost terminate before reaching the hinder margin of the elytron; the third 
or outer costa is cristate at its termination, and is connected with the raised apex of the 
second or intermediate one by a short curved ridge; a transverse raised line (sometimes 
ill-defined) also connects the apices of the first and third coste. 

Contrary to the opinion of American entomologists, I cannot help considering 
C. roseus, Weber, and C. inequalis of the same author, usually united under the former 
name, to be distinct. C. roseus is separated by the pale antenne, and by the obtuse 
apices and the more or less defined hinder angle of the elytra; distinct and apparently 
constant differences also exist in the elytral coste. In C. inequalis the apices of the 
elytra are regularly rounded, the posterior angles being obsolete and the apices of all the 
coste free; the third or outer costa is not more strongly raised posteriorly, as is the 
case in the present species. Both insects are equally variable in coloration. 

I do not (with one exception) give any synonymy, as I have not had an opportunity 


CHALEPUS. 59 


of examining authentically named specimens. C. roseus is usually placed as a synonym 
of C. nervosus, Panz.; but Panzer’s description, ‘‘ dorso nervoso-reticulato, nervis seu 
costis basi ramosis, in singulo elytro tribus apicem versus vero haud attingentibus 
spatio interjecto reticulato,” scarcely agrees with the present species. 

In Von Harold’s Catalogue this species has in error been placed in the genus Uroplata. 


17. Chalepus fryi. 

Anguste oblongus, fulvus, nitidus; pectore nigro-piceo, abdomine piceo-tincto ; elytris piceo-eneo marmoratis ; 
thorace subcylindrico, rude crebre punctato, lateribus piceo marginatis; elytris oblongis; lateribus 
serrulatis, ad apicem vix ampliatis, medio obsolete sinuatis, apice obtuse rotundatis; dorso deplanatis, 
utrisque octo- basi nono-seriato-punctatis ; interspatiis secundo, quarto sextoque costatis, costis duabus 


externis apice elevatis, connexis ; callo humerali paullo lateraliter producto. 
Long. 13 lin. 


Hab. Mux1co, Cordova (Sallé); Guaremata, Capetillo (Champion). 


Vertex and front opaque, impressed with a longitudinal groove; interocular space 
moderately produced. Antenne longer than the head and thorax ; joints cylindrical, 
the five outer ones distinctly thickened. Thorax subconic, slightly broader than long ; 
sides converging from base to apex, obsoletely angulate, slightly stained with piceous ; 
subcylindrical, transversely depressed on the hinder disc, coarsely punctured. Elytra 
oblong; sides sinuate, very slightly dilated towards the apex, the apex itself obtuse, 
the outer margin obsoletely serrulate ; each elytron with eight, at the extreme base with 
nine, regular rows of punctures; second, fourth, and sixth interspaces costate ; the outer 
costa less distinct on the hinder disc, abruptly elevated at its apex, and confluent with 
the apex of the middle one ; humeral callus laterally produced, its apex obtuse. 

This species may be known from C. roseus by the rows of punctures on the elytra 
being regular for their whole length. 


III. Elytra each at the base with eight, at the apex with nine, rows of punctures *. 
1. Apices of the elytra sinuate before reaching the sutural angle, the latter entire. 
18. Chalepus diversipes. 

Elongatus, subtus piceo-niger, nitidus ; abdominis lateribus, coxis tarsisque piceis, femoribus flavis, dorso nigro- 
lineatis, tibiis nigris; supra niger, opacus; fronte longitudinaliter sulcata, antice piceo maculata; thorace 
lateribus angulatis, crebre et fortiter punctato, utrinque macula parva picea ornato; elytris oblongis, 
postice paullo ampliatis, serrulatis, apice obtusis, ante suturam sinuatis, basi et medio octo- apice nono- 
seriato-punctatis, punctis parvis; sutura ad apicem interspatioque secundo valde costatis, sexto minus 


-fortiter elevato ; minute granulosis, punctorum fundo maculaque apicali piceis. 
Long. 23 lin. 


Hab. Mexico, Juquila (Sallé). 


Head moderately produced between the eyes, minutely granulose ; front impressed 
with a longitudinal groove. Antenne slender, filiform ; apical joints loosely articulated. 
Thorax transverse; sides converging from base to apex, distinctly angulate, slightly 


* In Chalepus instabilis there is a very short ninth row of punctures at the extreme base of each elytron. 


hh 2 


60 PHYTOPHAGA. 


bisinuate; upper surface subcylindrical, transversely depressed on the hinder disc, 
closely covered with large coarse punctures. Elytra narrowly oblong, slightly dilated 
posteriorly ; apical margin conjointly obtuse, broadly sinuate on either side; outer 
margin (the sinuate apices excepted) serrulate ; upper surface granulose ; each elytron 
at the base and on the medial disc with eight, at the apex with nine, rows of fine, but 
distinctly impressed punctures ; the second interspace, together with the suture at its 
apex, strongly costate ; the sixth interspace less strongly elevated. 


2. Apices of the elytra conjointly rounded, the sutural angle entire. 


19. Chalepus instabilis. 


Subelongatus ; subtus niger, nitidus, femoribus anticis subtus, posticisque basi, flavis; supra subnitidus, fulvus 
aut rufo-fulvus, vertice, antennis scutelloque nigris; thorace subcylindrico, dorso leviter deplanato, 
crebre et fortiter punctato, lateribus vittaque discoidali nigris ; elytris anguste oblongis, fere parallelis, 
apice rotundatis, minute serrulatis; utrisque octo- basi extrema et apice nono-seriato-punctatis ; inter- 
spatiis secundo, quarto sextoque, nec non sutura, costatis; nigris, utrisque vitta laterali, a basi ad ultra 
medium extensa (basi lata, ad apicem attenuata), fulva ornatis. 

Var. A. Elytris nigris, utrisque macula basali alteraque apicali, rufo-fulvis ornatis. 

Var. B. Elytris totis fulvis. 

Var, C. Thorace elytrisque fulvis. 

Long. 2 lin. . 


Hab. Mexico, Toxpam, Yolos, Cordova (Sallé, Hoge); GuatemaLa, Capetillo, San 
Gerdnimo, Cerro Zunil 4000 to 5000 feet, Panajachel 5000 feet, Chiacam in Vera Paz 
(Champion). 


Head smooth, impunctate ; interocular space moderately produced ; vertex sometimes 
black. Antennee more than one third the length of the body, filiform, very slightly 
thickened towards the apex; joints cylindrical. Thorax transverse ; sides very slightly 
converging from base to apex, obsoletely angulate ; upper surface subcylindrical, flattened 
on either side the medial disc, leaving (in some specimens) a narrow, ill-defined, longi- 
tudinal ridge. Elytra narrowly oblong, very slightly increasing in width from the 
base to the posterior angle, regularly rounded at the apex; outer margin finely serru- 
late; each elytron with eight, at the extreme base and at the apex with nine, rows of 
punctures; second, fourth, and sixth interspaces, together with the suture, costate. 


IV. Each elytron with ten, about the middle portion with eight or nine, rows of punctures. 


20. Chalepus marmoratus. (Tab. III. fig. 11.) 


Anguste oblongus, subcuneiformis, -nitidus, fulvus ; pectore piceo, thorace pedibusque flavis, tarsis pallide 
piceis, elytris castaneo marmoratis; thorace transverso, subcylindrico, pone medium transversim excavato, 
crebre et rude punctato, lateribus a basi ad apicem convergentibus, leviter rotundatis, medio obsolete 
angulatis ; elytris oblongis, a basi apicem versus vix ampliatis, serrulatis, apice obtusis ; dorso deplanatis, 
utrisque decem-, paullo ante medium nono-, apice extremo octo-, seriato-punctatis; interstitiis elevato- 
reticulatis; interspatiis secundo, quarto, sexto (basi et apice) octavoque costatis, hoc apice cristato; callo 
humerali oblique elevato, subacuto. 

Long. 2-23 lin. 


CHALEPUS. 61 


Hab. Mexico, Playa Vicente (Sallé); Guatemala, Zapote (Champion) ; NICARAGUA, 
Chontales (Janson); Panama, Caldera in Chiriqui 1200 feet, David, Taboga Island 
(Champion). 


Vertex smooth, impunctate ; front longitudinally sulcate ; interocular space moderately 
produced, obtuse. Antenne rather longer than the head and thorax, robust, thickened 
towards the apex; joints cylindrical, the five outer ones forming an ill-defined slender 
club. Thorax broader than long ; sides converging and slightly rounded from base to 
apex, obsoletely angulate; disc transversely convex, excavated transversely behind the 
middle, coarsely and closely punctured ; lateral margin (in some specimens) narrowly 
edged with piceous. Elytra broader than the thorax ; sides slightly enlarged from the 
base towards the apex, the latter obtuse; margin serrulate; each elytron with ten, on 
the anterior disc with nine, rows of punctures, the seventh and eighth rows abbreviated 
posteriorly ; the second, fourth, and sixth interspaces (the last at base and apex) strongly 
costate, the eighth less strongly elevated, its apex cristate, serrulate; the third costa 
arises from the apex of the humeral callus, and runs obliquely downwards to join the 
second one at the termination of its anterior third; its apical portion is confluent with 
the cristate apex of the fourth. 


21. Chalepus subapicalis. 


Anguste oblongus, subcuneiformis, nitidus ; subtus cum capite niger, femoribus anticis basi thoraceque fulvis ; 
supra minus nitidus, piceo-fulvus, elytrorum fascia lata subapicali picea; thorace transverso, subcylin- 
drico, lateribus angulatis, disco postico transversim excavato, subopaco, rude et crebre punctato, margine 
antico lateribusque anguste piceis; elytris oblongis, apicem versus vix ampliatis, apice obtuse rotundatis, 
margine serratis, dorso deplanatis ; utrisque decem- paullo ante medium nono-seriato-punctatis ; interstitiis 
elevato-reticulatis ; interspatiis secundo, quarto et octavo, nec non sexto basi et apice, costatis ; costis 
duabus externis serrulatis. 


Long. 23 lin. 
Hab. Mexico, Juquila, Oaxaca (Sallé). 


Vertex smooth, impunctate; front longitudinally grooved, finely rugose-punctate on 
either side ; interocular space very slightly produced. Antenne slightly longer than 
the head and thorax, robust, slightly increasing in thickness towards the apex. Thorax 
transverse; sides slightly but distinctly angulate, straight and nearly parallel from 
the base to the middle, thence obliquely converging towards the apex; transversely 
convex, excavated on the hinder disc, closely, deeply, and coarsely punctured. Elytra 
broader than the thorax ; sides regularly but only slightly dilated from the base towards 
the apex, the apex itself obtusely rounded, the outer margin rather strongly serrulate ; 
each elytron at the extreme base with ten, just before the middle with nine, rows of punc- 
tures ; second, fourth, and eighth interspaces costate, the sixth also elevated at its base 
and apex. 


62 PHYTOPHAGA. 


22. Chalepus vittaticollis. 


Anguste cuneiformis, nitidus ; subtus niger, abdomine pedibusque flavis, tarsis piceis ; supra sordide piceo-fulvus ; 
antennis nigris, extrorsum piceis; thorace transverso, foveolato-punctato, lateribus vittisque discoida- 
libus duabus nigro-piceis ; scutello nigro; elytris oblongis, a basi apicem versus leviter ampliatis, apice 
obtuse rotundatis, margine serrulatis ; utrisque decem- medio nono-seriato-punctatis, interstitiis elevato- 
reticulatis ; interspatiis secundo, quarto, sexto (basi et apice) nec non octavo costatis, callo humerali 
modice lateraliter producto; nigro-piceis, eneo tinctis, maculis parvis numerosis fulvis ornatis. 


Var, A. Antennis totis nigris, thoracis vittis abbreviatis, elytris rufo-piceo variegatis. 
Long. 24 lin. 


Hab. Mexico, Juquila (Hége). 


Head smooth: vertex and front impressed with a longitudinal groove. Antenne 
scarcely longer than the head and thorax, thickened towards the apex, five outer joints 
forming a slender ill-defined club. Thorax transverse; sides angulate, straight and 
parallel from the base to the middle, thence obliquely converging towards the apex, 
the anterior angle produced, acute; upper surface transversely convex, transversely 
depressed and excavated on the hinder disc, deeply foveolate-punctate; the lateral 
margin, together with two discoidal vitte (the latter confluent at the base), nigro- 
piceous. Elytra broader than the thorax, oblong, gradually but slightly dilated from 
the base towards the apex, the latter obtuse; outer margin distinctly but finely serrulate ; 
each elytron with ten, on the anterior disc with nine, rows of punctures, the second, 
fourth, sixth (at base and apex), and the eighth interspaces costate; humeral callus 
laterally produced, obtuse. Broader, and with the humeral callus more distinctly pro- 
duced than in C. vittaticollis, the elytral costee more strongly elevated. 


23. Chalepus viridanus. (Tab. III. fig. 8.) 


Subcuneiformis, subdepressus; subtus niger, nitidus ; pedibus (tibiis apice tarsisque exceptis) flavis, pectoris 
lateribus obscure fulvis ; supra flavus, minus nitidus, scutello, collo utrinque, antennisque piceis; thorace 
sat crebre punctato; elytris decem- medio nono-seriato-punctatis ; prasinis, late flavo limbatis, limbi 
maculis fasciaque subapicali nigris. 

Long. 2 lin. 


Hab. Panama, Caldera in Chiriqui 1200 feet (Champion). 


Interocular space very slightly produced; vertex and front smooth, impunctate, 
obtuse, fulvous, sides of neck nigro-piceous. Antenne longer than the head and thorax, 
thickened towards the apex, joints cylindrical, the five outer ones forming a slender, elon- 
gate club; eyes black. Thorax transverse 3 sides straight and parallel, converging at 
the extreme apex, anterior angle armed with an obtuse tooth; disc transversely convex, 
transversely depressed behind the middle, closely and coarsely punctured, outer limb 
narrowly edged with piceo-fulvous. Elytra oblong, increasing in width from the base 
towards the apex, the latter obtusely rounded ; lateral margin finely, the apical one more 
strongly, serrulate ; each elytron at the base and apex with ten, the middle disc with nine, 
rows of punctures; the second, fourth, sixth (at base and apex), and eighth interspaces 


CHALEPUS. . 63 


moderately costate; green, the basal limb narrowly, the outer one broadly, flavous; the 
latter with some irregular markings together with a narrow subapical fascia, black. 


24. Chalepus productus. 


Subcuneiformis, subdepressus, nitidus, subtus piceus ; pedibus (tarsis exceptis) thoraceque flavis; supra pallide 
flavus, capite levi, vertice antennisque nigro-piceis; thorace subcylindrico, pone medium transversim 
excavato, crebre punctato, utrinque prope basin piceo notato; elytris oblongis, postice vix ampliatis, apice 
obtusis, utrinque sinuatis, angulo postico paullo lateraliter producto, obtuso; margine laterali distincte, 

_apicali obsolete, serrulatis; utrisque decem- prope medium nono-seriato-punctatis ; interspatiis secundo, 
quarto, sexto (basi et apice) octavoque (hoc minus distincte) costatis, sutura (basi excepta) elevata ; 
nigro-piceis, apice maculisque flavis. 

Long. 2 lin. 


Hab. Guatemata, Panajachel 5000 feet (Champion). 


Head smooth, impunctate ; face very slightly produced between the eyes. Antenne 
rather longer than the head and thorax, robust ; joints cylindrical, gradually increasing 
in thickness from the sixth to the apical one. Thorax transverse ; sides slightly rounded, 
nearly straight and parallel from the base to the middle, thence slightly rounded and 
converging towards the apex, apical angle armed with a short, oblique, subacute tooth ; 
above subcylindrical, transversely excavated on the hinder disc, coarsely and closely 
punctured ; either extremity of the transverse depression with a small piceous spot, 
the lateral margin narrowly edged with pale piceous. Elytra much broader than the 
thorax, oblong; sides parallel anteriorly, very slightly dilated towards the hinder angle, 
the latter slightly produced laterally, obtuse ; apex slightly sinuate on either side near 
the outer angle; lateral margin distinctly, the apical one minutely and much less 
distinctly, serrulate ; each elytron with ten, on the anterior disc with nine, rows of large 
deep punctures; the second, fourth, sixth (the last broadly interrupted in the middle), 
together with the eighth interspaces costate, the eighth less strongly elevated than the 
rest, the suture (its extreme base excepted) also costate. 


25. Chalepus californicus. 

Odontota californica, Horn, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. 1883, p. 297’. 

Anguste oblongus, modice convexus, nitidus ; subtus nigro-piceus, pedibus fulvis, tarsis piceis ; supra pallide 
rubiginosus, antennis piceo-nigris aut nigris ; thorace crebre punctato, lateribus piceo marginatis ; elytris 
oblongis, hic illic piceo tinctis ; utrisque decem- prope medium nono-seriato-punctatis ; interspatiis secundo, 
quarto, octavo (hoc basi excepta) nec non sexto basi et apice, costatis, sutura elevata. 

Var. A. Elytrorum maculis piceis obsoletis. 

Long. 13-2 lin. 

Hab. Norta America, California, Arizona! (Horn).—Mexico, Northern Sonora 

(Morrison). - 


Head smooth, opaque ; face between the eyes obsoletely produced ; front and upper 
face impressed with a deep longitudinal groove. Antenne equal in length to the head 
and thorax, slightly thickened towards the apex, joints cylindrical ; eyes black. Thorax 


y) / 
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64 PHYTOPHAGA. 


slightly broader than long; sides converging from base to apex, obsoletely angulate ; 
above subcylindrical, transversely depressed on the hinder disc, closely and coarsely 
punctured ; lateral margin narrowly edged with piceous. Elytra oblong, parallel ; apices 
conjointly, obtusely rounded ; margin minutely serrulate ; upper surface convex on the 
sides and at the apex, slightly flattened along the suture; each elytron with ten, 
about the middle disc with nine, at the extreme base with eleven, rows of deeply 
impressed punctures; the second, fourth, and eighth interspaces (the basal third of the 
last excepted), together with the sixth at base and apex, costate, the suture also 
elevated. | 

This species differs, according to Dr. Horn, from the smaller forms of C. (Odontota) 
rubra in having the thorax much less dilated posteriorly, and in the absence of the rather 
abrupt expansion of the apices of the elytra; the elytral coste are also less elevated. 


26. Chalepus contiguus. (Tab. III. fig. 12.) 
Anguste elongatus ; subtus niger, nitidus, prosterno thoracisque apice, fulvis; supra minus nitidus; thorace sub- 
cylindrico, disco postico transversim depresso, fortiter subcrebre foveolato-punctato, lateribus obsolete 
angulatis; fulvo, plaga subquadrata discoidali ad basin adfixa, interdum vittam angustam ad marginem 
anticum emittente nigro-picea instructo; elytris elongatis, parallelis, medio obsolete constrictis, apice 
rotundatis, serrulatis ; utrisque decem- medio octo-seriato-punctatis, interstitiis elevato-reticulatis ; inter- 
spatiis secundo, quarto octavoque costatis; plaga laterali lata a basi ad longe pone medium extensa, 


fulva ornatis. 
Var. A. Thoracis plaga fere obsoleta. 
Long. 23 lin. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2500 to 4000 feet (var. A), Taboga Island 
(Chanvpion). 

Vertex and front bisulcate ; interocular space moderately produced. Antenne more 
than one third the length of the body, filiform, slightly thickened towards the apex. 
Thorax transverse; sides nearly straight and parallel from the base to the middle, 
thence obliquely converging and slightly rounded to the apex; above subcylindrical, 
transversely excavated on the hinder disc, deeply and somewhat closely punctured. 
Elytra parallel, obsoletely constricted in the middle, serrulate, regularly rounded at the 
apex ; each elytron with ten, about the middle with eight, rows of punctures; second, 
fourth, and eighth interspaces costate, the suture also elevated. 


27. Chalepus fraternus. (Tab. III. fig. 10.) 


Elongatus, fere parallelus, fulvus; pectoris lateribus, pedibus, femoribus (basi excepta), antennis elytrorumque 
apice nigris ; thorace transverso, crebre punctato, lateribus subangulato-rotundatis; scutello nigro-piceo ; 
elytris subparallelis, apice obtuse rotundatis, margine serrulato; utrisque decem- vix ante medium nono- 
seriato-punctatis ; interspatiis secundo et quarto equaliter, octavo minus fortiter, costatis, sutura modice 


elevata. 
Long. 3 lin. 


Hab. Mexico, Cordova (Hége). 


Vertex smooth, impunctate; interocular space moderately produced, angulate. 


CHALEPUS. 65 


Antenne robust, obsoletely thickened towards the apex, rather longer than the head 
and thorax; joints cylindrical, the first two short, equal, the third scarcely longer than 
the second. Thorax broader than long, sides converging from base to apex, subangulate- 
rotundate ; disc transversely convex, transversely excavated behind the middle, coarsely 
and closely punctured. Elytra broader than the thorax ; sides very slightly dilated, the 
apices regularly rounded, outer margin distinctly serrulate ; each elytron at the extreme 
base and on the hinder disc with ten, on the anterior disc with nine, rows of 
large, deeply impressed punctures; second and fourth interspaces rather strongly and 
equally costate, the eighth interspace less strongly elevated, the sixth interspace 
thickened at its apex, the suture also thickened. 


28. Chalepus pascoei. 

Subelongatus ; subtus niger, nitidus ; pectoris medio, femoribusque basi fulvis ; supra flavo-fulvus, minus nitidus ; 
antennis, scutello, nec non elytrorum vitta suturali baseos nigris; thorace transverso, lateribus angulatis ; 
disco crebre, minus fortiter punctato; lateribus angustis vittaque discoidali, hac seepe basi et apice abbre- 
viata, nigris; elytris fere parallelis, apice rotundatis, margine minute serrulato; utrisque decem- paullo 
ante medium nono-seriato-punctatis; interspatiis secundo et quarto equaliter, octavo minus distincte, 


costatis. 
Long. 2$ lin. 


Hab. Guatemata, San Gerénimo (Champion). 


Head smooth, impunctate; vertex impressed with a shallow longitudinal groove; 
interocular space moderately produced. Antenne robust, rather longer than the head 
and thorax, slightly thickened towards the apex; joints cylindrical. Thorax trans- 
verse; sides angulate, converging from base to apex; disc transversely convex, trans- 
versely excavated behind the middle, closely and coarsely, but not very deeply punctured. 
Elytra broader than the thorax, subparallel, regularly rounded at the apex, the outer 
margin minutely serrulate ; each elytron with ten, just before its middle with eight or 
nine, rows of punctures; the second and fourth interspaces costate, the eighth less 


strongly elevated. 


29. Chalepus amabilis. 

Anguste elongatus, parallelus, flavo-fulvus ; subtus lete fulvus, nitidus; pectoris lateribus abdominisque apice 
nigro-piceis, pedibus nigris, femoribus (apice excepto) piceo-fulvis; supra opacus, capite (vertice excepto) 
nigro; thorace conico, lateribus fere rectis, medio obsolete angulatis, anguste nigro marginatis; disco 
subcylindrico, pone medium transversim excavato, crebre rugoso-punctato ; elytris parallelis, apice rotun- 
datis, lateribus minute serrulatis, margine apicali paullo dilatato, acute denticulato ; utrisque decem- 

. prope medium nono-seriato-punctatis; interspatiis secundo et quarto equaliter, octavo minus fortiter, 
costatis. 


Long. 33 lin. 
Hab. Mexico, Tehuantepec (Sal/é). A single specimen. 
Face strongly produced between the eyes; front deeply trisulcate. Antenne mode- 


rately robust, filiform, slightly thickened towards the apex ; joints cylindrical, the third 
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66 PHYTOPHAGA. 


nearly one half longer than the second. Thorax slightly broader than long, conic ; 
sides nearly straight, obsoletely angulate in the middle ; disc subcylindrical, transversely 
excavated behind the middle, closely rugose-punctate. Elytra parallel, regularly 
rounded at the apex; sides finely serrulate; apical margin narrowly dilated, acutely 
denticulate ; each elytron with ten, the medial disc with nine, rows of punctures; 
second and fourth interspaces rather strongly and equally costate, the eighth less 
strongly elevated, the sixth obsoletely costate at base and apex. 


30. Chalepus digressus. 

Anguste elongatus, parallelus ; subtus niger, nitidus, pectoris medio fulvo; supra opacus, fulvus, capite scutel- 
loque nigris ; thorace transverso; lateribus a basi apicem versus convergentibus, bisinuatis, medio angu- 
latis; disco transyersim convexo, crebre rugoso-punctato, linea discoidali, apice abbreviata, lateribusque 
angustis, nigro-piceis; elytris parallelis, apice obtuse rotundatis; lateribus obsolete serrulatis, margine 
apicali acute dentato ; utrisque decem- prope medium nono-seriato-punctatis ; interspatiis secundo, quarto 
octavoque xqualiter costatis, sexto basi et apice minus fortiter elevato; linea suturali baseos apiceque 
extremo piceo-nigris. 

Long. 3 lin. 


Hab. Mexico, Tuxtla (Sallé). A single specimen. 


Face between the eyes rather strongly produced ; front trisulcate. Antenne robust, 
slightly but distinctly thickened towards the apex; joints cylindrical, the third nearly 
one half longer than the second. ‘Thorax transverse; sides converging from base to 
apex, bisinuate, distinctly angulate in the middle; disc transversely convex, closely 
rugose-punctate. Elytra parallel, obtusely rounded at the apex, lateral margin minutely 
serrulate, apical border rather strongly denticulate ; each elytron with ten, the medial 
disc with nine, rows of punctures; second, fourth, and eighth interspaces equally and 
rather strongly costate, the sixth subcostate at base and apex. 

This species, although very nearly allied to C. amabilis, presents, in addition to the dif- 
ferent coloration, distinct structural differences: thus the thorax is broader, and has its 
lateral margin more distinctly angulate ; the outer costa on the elytron is equal in height 
to the other two, whilst the apical margin is not dilated, and is more strongly toothed. 


31. Chalepus nigripictus. (C. nigripectus, Tab. III. fig. 14.) 

Anguste elongatus, parallelus, niger, nitidus, pectoris medio obscure fulvo; fronte trisulcato; antennis fusi- 
formibus ; thorace subconico, lateribus ante medium constrictis; subcylindrico, pone medium transversim 
excavato, fortiter subcrebre punctato ; fulvo, opaco, vitta lata discoidali lateribusque nigris ; elytris paral- 
lelis, apicem versus vix ampliatis, apice rotundatis, lateribus serrulatis, margine apicali dentibus acutis 
brevibus armato ; utrisque decem- medio nono-seriato-punctatis ; interspatiis secundo, quarto fortiter, sexto 
(basi et apice) octavoque, nec non sutura modice costatis ; fulvis, dimidio postico fere, vitta suturali lata, 
necnon vitta humerali, nigris. 


Long. 3 lin. 
Hab, Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2500 to 4000 feet (Champion). 


Front deeply trisulcate; interocular space strongly produced, its apex angulate. 
Antenne nearly half the length of the body, robust, fusiform; first and second joints 


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CHALEPUS. | 67 


short, equal, the third one half longer than the second, subclavate. Thorax broader 
than long, subconic; sides obliquely converging from base to apex, constricted before 
the middle, anterior angle armed laterally with a short obtuse tooth; subcylindrical, 
flattened and broadly excavated on the hinder disc, impressed with large round punc- 
tures, well defined on the medial disc, shallower and less distinct on the sides. Elytra 
elongate, parallel, the apex regularly rounded, entire; lateral margin serrulate, 
apical border armed with regularly placed acute teeth; above convex, flattened along 
the suture; each elytron with ten, in the middle with nine, rows of large deeply 
impressed punctures; the suture, together with the second, fourth, sixth, and eighth 
interspaces, costate, the sixth interrupted on its middle third; fulvous, the apical third, a 
sutural vitta, together with a short line on the humeral callus, black. Legs elongate, 
the apices of the anterior tibie thickened. 


32. Chalepus vicinalis. 

Elongatus, parallelus ; subtus niger, nitidus, thoracis margine antico prosternoque fulvis; supra minus nitidus, 
fulvus, capite scutelloque nigris; thorace transverso, lateribus bisinuatis, medio distincte angulatis ; 
fortiter subcrebre punctato, lateribus extremis vittaque discoidali nigris; elytris parallelis, apice rotun- 
datis, marginibus obsolete serrulatis, margine apicali dentibus brevibus armato; utrisque decem- prope 
medium nono-seriato-punctatis, interstitiis elevato-reticulatis; interspatiis secundo, quarto octavoque sat 
valde costatis, sexto basi et apice minus distincte elevato; vitta lata suturali, a basi ad medium extensa, 
parteque tertia apicali, nigris. 

Long. 33 lin. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2500 to 4000 feet (Champion). A single specimen. 
Vertex and front impunctate, the latter trisulcate ; interocular space rather strongly 


produced. Antenne more than one third the length of the body, robust, thickened 
towards the apex ; joints cylindrical, the third nearly one half longer than the second. 


Thorax transverse ; sides angulate, bisinuate, nearly parallel from the base to the 


middle, thence obliquely converging to the apex; disc subcylindrical, transversely 
excavated behind, deeply impressed with large round punctures. lytra parallel, 
regularly rounded at the apex; sides obsoletely serrulate, apical margin denticu- 
late; each elytron with ten, the medial disc with eight or nine, rows of punctures, 
the sixth and seventh rows being more or less obsolete in the middle part of their 
course ; second, fourth, and eighth interspaces rather strongly costate, sixth interspace 
slightly elevated at base and apex. 

Nearly allied to the preceding species. The thorax broader, distinctly angulate on the 
sides, the apical teeth of the elytra shorter, the interspaces between the discoidal coste 
more distinctly elevate-reticulate. 


88. Chalepus consanguineus. (Tab. III. fig. 13.) 

Elongatus, parallelus, niger, nitidus; thorace elytrisque subnitidis, fulvis; illo transverso, lateribus leviter 
angulatis, crebre punctato; margine laterali anguste, vittaque lata discoidali, antice abbreviata, nigris ; 
elytris parallelis, apice rotundatis, margine laterali obsolete, apicali distincte, serrulatis ; utrisque decem- 


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68 PHYTOPHAGA. 


medio nono-seriato-punctatis ; interspatiis secundo et quarto squaliter, octavo minus distincte, costatis ; 
vitta suturali lata, postice angustata, apiceque late, nigris. 
Long. 3 lin. 


Hab. Panama, Bugaba, David, Volcan de Chiriqui 2500 to 4000 feet (Champion). 


Vertex smooth, impunctate; front deeply impressed with a longitudinal groove; 
interocular space strongly produced, obtuse. Antenne less than half the length of the 
body, moderately robust, slightly thickened towards the apex; joints cylindrical. Thorax 
transverse ; sides slightly but distinctly angulate, converging from base to apex, more 
quickly converging before the middle ; disc transversely convex, excavated transversely 
behind the middle, coarsely and closely punctured. Elytra broader than the thorax, 
parallel, rounded at the apex; lateral margin obsoletely, the apical one distinctly, 
serrulate ; each elytron with ten, just before the middle with nine, rows of punctures ; 
the second and fourth interspaces costate, the eighth less distinctly elevated. 


34. Chalepus bellulus. (Tab. III. fig. 15.) 
Odontota bellula, Chapuis, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. 1877, p. 11. 


Elongatus, parallelus, rufo-fulvus, nitidus; capite pedibusque nigris, his basi fulvis; thorace transverso, sub- 
-  conico, rude foveolato-punctato ; elytris parallelis, medio leviter coarctatis, apice rotundatis, margine 
serrulatis ; utrisque tricostatis, decem-seriato-punctatis, seriebus 7° et 8* medio interruptis; nigro- 
-eyaneis, vitta lata discoidali, prope suturam posita, a basi ad pone medium extensa, fulva, ornatis; abdo- 
minis segmento ultimo plus minusve nigrescente. , 
Var. A. ‘Hlytris nigro-cyaneis, macula basali parva irregulari fulva. (Odontota tricolor, Chapuis, l. c. p. 11.) 
Long. 3'Jin. 


Hab. ‘GUATEMALA, San Gerénimo, El Reposo 800 feet (Champion); NicaRaaua, 
Chontales (Belt). © neSso0 A Te Re lee y Wave 1905 DEZ Ip 133) 


Head smooth, impunctate; vertex and front impressed in the medial line with a 
deep longitudinal groove; front produced between the eyes into a conical process. 
Antenne half the length of the body, robust, filiform, slightly thickened towards the 
apex ; first and second joints short, equal, the basal one slightly incrassate, the third 
obconic, one third longer than the second. Thorax broader than long; sides obtusely 
angulate-subrotundate, nearly parallel from the base to the middle, thence obliquely 
converging to the apex; anterior angle armed with a very short subacute tooth; upper 
surface subcylindrical, broadly excavated transversely on the hinder disc, coarsely and 
deeply foveolate-punctate ; medial line with an ill-defined shallow longitudinal groove. 
Elytra subelongate, parallel, slightly constricted on the sides, the concavity extending 
from the shoulder to the posterior angle ; outer margin serrulate, apex rounded, rather 
more strongly serrulate than the sides; each elytron with ten rows of deep punctures, 
the ninth and tenth irregular, and the seventh and eighth entirely obsolete in their 
middle third; second, fourth, and eighth interspaces strongly costate, the suture also 
thickened ; nigro-zneous, a broad vitta on the inner disc, confluent at the base with its 
fellow on the opposite elytron, and extending from the basal margin to below the 
middle of the elytron, fulvous. 


CHALEPUS. 69 


I have united the two species of Chapuis for the following reasons: the punctu- 
ation of the thorax and the angularity of its sides vary greatly in different individuals, 


and the fulvous vitte on the elytra also greatly vary in length, being sometimes confined 
to a small basal patch. 


V. Elytra each with ten regular rows of punctures. 
1. Second and eighth interspaces costate, entire. 
35. Chalepus hematoderus. (Tab. III. fig. 23.) 


Elongatus, niger ; subtus nitidus, supra opacus; pro- et mesosternis, thorace, scutello elytrorumque plaga basali, 
rufo-fulvis; thorace transverso ; lateribus rotundatis, ad apicem convergentibus ; basi utrinque profunde 
excavata ; disco velutino, pone medium transverso excavato, utrinque ad latus obsolete foveolato ; elytris 
basi lobatis, lateribus parallelis, medio leviter constrictis, irregulariter serrulatis, apice rotundato, breviter 
denticulato; granulosis, utrisque decem-seriato-punctatis ; interspatiis secundo valde, quarto et sexto basi 
et apice, nec non octavo toto, modice costatis. 

Mas. Tibiis anticis intus ante apicem dente acuto armatis. 


Long. 33 lin. 
Hab. Panama, David, Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet, Caldera in Chiriqui 1200 feet, San 
Lorenzo, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion). 


‘Vertex smooth and shining ; front subnitidous, rather strongly produced between the 
eyes, trisulcate ; clypeus subpentangular, rugose, impressed at the apex with two large 
oblique fovee. Antenne half the length of the body, filiform; joints cylindrical, the 
terminal one acute; two lower joints short, equal in length, the first of these thickened, 


submoniliform, the second ovate; third joint rather longer than the preceding two . 


united. Thorax transverse; sides sinuate at the base, then nearly straight to the 
middle, thence gradually converging towards the apex, anterior angle armed with a 


short obtuse tooth; basal margin deeply excavated on either side in order to receive - 


the strongly produced basal lobes of the elytra; above subcylindrical in front and on 
the sides, basal half of disc deeply and transversely excavated ; surface smooth, velvety, 
faintly impressed on the sides with a few large, very shallow and ill-defined fovee. 
Scutellum broader than long, subquadrate. Elytra subelongate, each with the basal 
margin produced into a strong lobe which fits, when at rest, into the corresponding 
basal excavation of the thorax; sides parallel, slightly constricted in the middle, 
irregularly serrulate, the serratures (fine at the base) gradually increasing in size 
towards the hinder angle ; apex rounded, armed with strong acute teeth; upper 
surface convex on the sides, flattened along the suture, coarsely granulose ; each elytron 
with ten rows of round nitidous punctures; the second interspace raised into a strong 
smooth nitidous costa, the basal and apical portions of the fourth and sixth, together 
with the whole of the eighth, also costate*, but less strongly so than the second. Legs 
slender, elongate. 


* In some specimens the basal portion of the fourth, in others the apex of the sixth, interspace is not 
costate. 


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70 PHYTOPHAGA. 


36. Chalepus rufithorax. 

Elongatus, niger, nitidus, thorace mesosternoque rufo-fulvis ; metasterni medio, abdominis basi scutelloque, 
rufo-piceis ; thorace transverso, lateribus a basi apicem versus convergentibus, leviter trisinuatis, margine 
basali utrinque sat profunde excavato; disco opaco, leviter foveolato, pone medium transversim excavato ; 
elytris basi lobatis ; lateribus parallelis, medio vix constrictis, serrulatis, apice rotundato, breviter spinoso; 
supra granuloso-punctatis, utrisque decem-seriato-punctatis ; interspatiis secundo valde, quarto apice, sexto 


basi et apice extremo, nec non octavo toto, mediocriter costatis. 
Long. 3? lin. 


Hab. Mexico, Tuxtla (Sal/é). 


So closely allied to C. hematoderus, of which species it is possibly only a local form, 
that it will be only necessary to give the principal points of difference: the clypeus is 
rather larger, less distinctly pentangular, and the oblique apical foveee are much smaller 
and narrower ; the sides of the thorax are slightly distinctly trisinuate; the elytra 
are entirely black, and their apical teeth are rather finer; in all other respects it agrees 
with the preceding species. 


37. Chalepus sanguinosus. 


Elongatus, parallelus, niger ; subtus nitidus, supra subopacus ; mesosterno thoraceque sanguineis, scutello piceo ; 
thorace transverso, lateribus trisinuatis, ad apicem convergentibus ; convexo, pone medium sat profunde 
transversim excavato, rude et crebre punctato; elytris parallelis, basi lobatis, apice conjunctim rotundatis, 
denticulatis, lateribus tenuiter serrulatis ; utrisque decem-seriato-punctatis, interstitiis elevato-reticulatis ; 
interspatiis secundo valde, quarto basi et apice, sexto basi, nec non octavo toto, modice costatis. 

Long. 34 lin. 


Hab. Nicaragua (Sallé). 


Very closely allied structurally to the two preceding species. The thorax more 
strongly punctured, its sides distinctly angulate before the middle; the clypeus larger, 
and its apical fovee narrower than in C. hematoderus. 


2. Second, fourth, and eighth interspaces costate, entire. 


38. Chalepus chromaticus. (Tab. III. fig. 22.) 


Elongatus, parallelus ; subtus niger, nitidus ; supra minus nitidus, rufo-fulvus, capite scutelloque nigris ; thorace 
transverso ; lateribus a basi apicem versus convergentibus, subangulato-rotundatis, basi fere rectis; velu- 
tino, vage punctato, lateribus vittaque lata discoidali nigris; elytris parallelis, minute serrulatis, apice 
rotundatis, margine apicali denticulato ; utrisque decem-seriato-punctatis ; interspatiis secundo, quarto 
octavoque, nec non sexto basi et apice, costatis; opacis, costis nitidis; vitta suturali, a basi ad longe pone 
medium producta, postice attenuata, nigra, 

Long. 3-34 lin. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2500 to 4000 feet (Champion). 


Var. A. Supra flavo-fulvus, elytrorum vitta suturali obsoleta, thoracis vitta discoidali angustata. 


Hab. GuatTemata, San Gerénimo (Champion); Costa Rica (Van Patten). 


Vertex longitudinally grooved; interocular space strongly produced, its apex angu- 
late. Antenne robust, nearly half the length of the body, filiform ; joints cylindrical. 


CHALEPUS. 71: 


Thorax transverse ; sides nearly parallel at the extreme base, thence converging towards 
the apex, sinuate just behind the latter, anterior angle slightly produced laterally, acute ; 
above transversely convex, transversely depressed on the hinder disc, opaque, impressed 
with large, shallow, ill-defined punctures. LElytra parallel, regularly rounded at the 
apex ; lateral margin minutely serrulate, the apex armed with a number of acute teeth, 
equal in length and placed at nearly equal distances on the margin; each elytron with 
ten regular rows of punctures, the second, fourth, and eighth, together with the base 
and apex of the sixth, interspaces, costate. 


89. Chalepus propinguus. 


Hlongatus, parallelus; subtus cum capite niger, nitidus; supra subopacus, fulvus; thoracis vitta discoidali, 
scutello elytrorumque linea suturali, nec non tertia postica, nigris; thorace transverso, lateribus rotun- 
datis, basi rectis; dorso convexo, pone medium leviter transversim excavato, crebre et rude punctato; 
elytris parallelis, apice regulariter rotundatis, margine laterali obsolete, apicali distincte serrulatis; utris- 
que decem-seriato-punctatis; interspatiis secundo et quarto equaliter, octavo minus distincte, costatis. 


Long. 3-33 lin. 
Hab. Mexico (coll. Baly); Guatumata, Capetillo, El Tumbador 2500 feet, Duefias, 
Senahu in Vera Paz (Champion). 


Head smooth, impunctate, hinder vertex sometimes fulvous; front longitudinally 
grooved ; interocular space moderately produced, angulate. Antenne robust, filiform, 
scarcely thickened towards the apex, rather longer than the head and thorax. Thorax 
transverse ; sides straight and parallel from the base to the middle, thence rounded and 
narrowed to the apex, constricted just behind the latter, the anterior angle armed with 
a very short oblique tooth ; upper surface transversely convex, slightly excavated trans- 
versely on the hinder disc, coarsely and closely punctured. Elytra broader than the 
thorax, parallel on the sides, regularly rounded at the apex; lateral margin obsoletely, 
the apical one distinctly, serrulate ; each elytron with ten rows of deep punctures, the 
second and fourth interspaces equally, the eighth less strongly, costate, the hinder 
portion of the sixth slightly elevated. 


40. Chalepus clypeatus. 
Elongatus, parallelus, nitidus ; subtus niger, pectoris medio fulvo; supra flavo-fulvus, scutello capiteque nigris ; 
__-vertice profunde sulcato; antennis robustis, subfusiformibus, clypeo quadrato-elongato; thorace subcylin- . 
drico, basi transversim excayato, rude et irregulariter punctato, lateribus angulatis; vitta discoidali lateri- 
busque angustis nigris; elytris parallelis, serrulatis, apice rotundatis, breviter spinosis; utrisque decem-~ 
seriato-punctatis ; interspatiis secundo, quarto octavoque costatis ; linea suturali, necnon tertia parte 
postica, nigris. 
Long. 3} lin. 


Hab. Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt). 
Head strongly produced between the eyes, front deeply sulcate; clypeus quadrate- 


elongate, thickened, coarsely and deeply punctured; antenne robust, subfusiform. 
Thorax transverse; sides straight and slightly converging from the base to beyond the 


72. PHYTOPHAGA. 


middle, thence obliquely converging and sinuate to the apex, apical angle armed late- 
rally with a very short acute tooth; upper surface transversely convex, excavated 
transversely behind the middle, coarsely and irregularly punctured. Elytra parallel, 
serrulate on the sides, rounded at the apex, the apical margin armed with a number of 
strong acute teeth; each elytron with ten regular rows of punctures, the second, fourth, 
and eighth interspaces costate, the apex of the sixth subcostate. 
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41. Chalepus horni. <3- we Sae OF hornvanve Weise [Gl 

Elongatus, parallelus, niger, nitidus ; femoribus anticis puncto basali thoraceque rufo-fulvis ; hoc subcylindrico, 

disco postico excavato, rude et fortiter rugoso-punctato, lateribus angulatis; elytris parallelis, apice 

regulariter rotundatis, tenuiter serrulatis; utrisque decem-seriato-punctatis ; interspatiis secundo, quarto 

octavoque costatis, hoc minus elevato; rufo-fulvis aut fulvis, vitta suturali dimidiaque apicali nigris. 
Long. 3 lin. 


Hab. Mexico, Cordova, Juquila, Toxpam (Sad/é). 


Vertex and front smooth, trisulcate, a small indistinct patch just above the antenne 
piceo-rufous ; interocular space rather strongly produced. Antenne less than a third the 
length of the body, filiform, slightly thickened towards the apex; seventh joint short, . 
narrower than either the sixth or eighth. Thorax subcylindrical; sides distinctly angu- 
late, nearly straight and parallel from the base to the middle, thence obliquely converging 
towards the apex; upper surface subcylindrical, rather deeply excavated transversely 
on the hinder disc, closely and coarsely rugose-punctate. Elytra parallel on the sides, 
regularly rounded at the apex, the outer margin finely serrulate, the serratures scarcely 
stronger at the apex than on the sides; each elytron with ten rows of punctures, the 
second, fourth, and eighth interspaces (the last less strongly) costate. 

The apical black patch varies greatly in extent; in some specimens it covers the 
hinder disc, in others it is confined to the extreme apex. 


42. Chalepus subparallelus. 


Elongatus, subparallelus ; subtus cum capite niger, nitidus ; supra subopacus, fulvus; thoracis lateribus vittaque 
discoidali, scutello elytrorumque linea suturali, nigris; thorace crebre et fortiter punctato, disco postico 
transversim excavato, lateribus subangulato-rotundatis ; elytris anguste elongato-ovalibus, apice rotun- 
datis, angulo suturali leviter subangulato-emarginatis; margine laterali tenuiter, apicali distincte, serrulatis ; 
utrisque decem-seriato-punctatis ; interspatiis secundo et quarto modice, sexto basi et apice, octavoque 
toto minus distincte, costatis. 

Long. 33 lin. 


Hab. Mexico, Juquila (Sad/é). 


Vertex and front irregularly grooved ; interocular space strongly produced. Antenne 
about one third the length of the body, filiform, slightly thickened towards the apex ; 
joints cylindrical, two basal ones short, equal, the third nearly equal in length to the 
preceding two, subcylindrical. Thorax transverse ; sides nearly straight and very slightly 
converging behind the middle, thence obliquely converging and slightly rounded to the 
apex, notched at the anterior angle, the latter armed laterally with a very short acute 


CHALEPUS, 73 


tooth ; upper surface subcylindrical, rather deeply excavated transversely on the hinder 
disc, closely and strongly punctured, medial line with a very fine longitudinal groove. 
Elytra narrowly elongate-ovate ; sides slightly rounded, finely serrulate; apex regularly 
rounded, angulate-emarginate at the sutural angle, distinctly serrulate; each elytron 
with ten rows of punctures, the second and fourth interspaces distinctly, the sixth at 
base and apex, together with the eighth entirely, obsoletely costate. 


43, Chalepus angulosus. 


Hlongatus, fere parallelus, niger ; subtus nitidus, prosterno fulvo; supra subopacus, capite scutelloque nigris, illo 
inter oculos sat valde producto, apice angulato ; thorace transverso ; lateribus angulatis, dorso transversim 
convexo, ante basin depresso, velutino, vage subcrebre punctato; fulvo, lateribus vittaque lata discoidali 
nigris ; elytris fere parallelis, apicem versus obsolete ampliatis, apice regulariter rotundatis ; margine@picali 
obsolete, apicali distincte, serrulatis; utrisque decem-seriato-punctatis; interspatiis secundo, quarto octavoque 
nec non sexto basi, costatis ; vitta lata laterali a basi ad longe pone medium extensa, postice attenuata, basi 
- linea submarginali brevi nigra, fulva notata, ornatis. 

Long. 3 lin. mare 


Hab. Panama, David, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 4000 feet (Champion). 


Vertex and front opaque, trisulcate; interocular space rather strongly produced, its 
apex angulate. Antenne nearly half the length of the body, tapering at base and apex ; 
joints cylindrical, the first and third nearly equal in length, the second joint shorter. 
Thorax transverse; sides angulate, nearly straight, obsoletely sinuate behind the 
middle, converging and distinctly sinuate from thence to the apex, the apical angle 


laterally acute; upper surface transversely convex, transversely depressed on the hinder _ 


disc and again obsoletely before the middle, vaguely but somewhat closely punctured. 
Elytra nearly parallel, obsoletely dilated towards the posterior angle, rounded at the 
apex, the lateral margin obsoletely, the apical one distinctly, serrulate; each elytron 
with ten rows of punctures, the second, fourth, and eighth interspaces, together with 
the basal portion of the sixth, costate. 


44, Chalepus similatus. 


Elongatus, subcylindricus, niger nitidus ; femoribus anticis quatuor basi thoraceque fulvis ; hoc transverso, rude 
foveolato-punctato ; apice, lobo basali, nec non lateribus angulatis, anguste piceo marginatis; elytris 
parallelis, apice rotundatis, serrulatis; utrisque decem-seriato-punctatis, striis integris, sutura inter- 
spatiisque secundo, quarto et octavo, nec non sexto pone medium, costatis ; vitta lata discoidali, a basi ad 
medium extensa, fulva. 

Long. 3 lin. 


‘Hab. Guaremaa, Cubulco (Champion) ; Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2500 to 4000 
feet (Champion). : 


Head smooth and shining, faintly tinged with eneous; front moderately produced, 
trisulcate, its anterior portion covered with an ill-defined fulvo-piceous patch. Antenne 


rather more than one third the length of the body, filiform, slightly thickened towards 
the apex; the two basal joints subovate, equal in length, the third joint one fourth | 


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74 PHYTOPHAGA. 


longer than the second. Thorax about one third broader than long; sides nearly 
straight and parallel from the base to the middle, thence obliquely converging to. the 
apex; anterior angle armed with a very short obtuse tooth; above subcylindrical, 
closely covered with large foveolate punctures, the hinder disc flattened ; upper surface, 
together with the sides beneath, fulvous; the apical and lateral margins, together with 
the basal lobe, narrowly edged with piceous. Elytra parallel, rounded at the apex, 
finely serrulate, the apical serratures not coarser than those on the lateral margin ; each 
elytron with ten rows of large deeply impressed round punctures, the rows entire ; 
second, fourth, and eighth interspaces, together with the suture, strongly costate ; 
the sixth interspace below its middle also raised, but much less distinctly so than the 
others; middle disc covered with a broad fulvous vitta, which extends downwards from 
the basal margin to the middle of the elytra. | 


45. Chalepus subhumeralis. 

Elongatus, parallelus, niger, nitidus, femoribus basi flavis; thorace transverso, lateribus angulatis; dorso 
transversim convexo, pone medium transversim excavato, fortiter punctato; lateribus vittaque discoidali 
nigris; elytris parallelis, apice regulariter rotundatis, margine minute serrulatis ; utrisque decem-sefiato- 
punctatis; interspatiis secundo et quarto (nec non octavo minus distincte) costatis ; vitta submarginali, a 
basi ad medium extensa, callum humerale amplectente, flavo-fulva. 

Long. 2-23 lin. 

Hab. Guatemaua, Senahu, Lanquin, Chacoj in Vera Paz, Cerro Zunil 4000 feet 

(Champion). | 


Front impressed with a broad longitudinal fovea; interocular space moderately 
produced, its apex angulate, a small patch above the antenne obscure rufo-piceous. 
Antenne rather more than one third the length of the body, slightly thickened towards 
the apex, joints cylindrical. ‘Thorax transverse; sides angulate, straight and parallel 
behind the middle, thence obliquely converging and faintly sinuate to the apex; anterior 
angle armed laterally with a small subacute tooth ; upper surface subcylindrical, rather 
deeply excavated transversely on the hinder disc, strongly and deeply punctured. 
Elytra parallel, regularly rounded at the apex, outer margin very finely serrulate ; each 
elytron with ten rows of punctures, the second and fourth interspaces rather strongly, 
the eighth less distinctly, costate. 


46. Chalepus amiculus. 


Angustatus, elongatus, subcylindricus, nitidus ; subtus niger, femoribus anticis basi fulvis; supra fulvus, scutello 
capiteque nigris, hoc macula parva inter oculos fulva; thorace transverso, lateribus rotundatis, ante 
medium sinuatis, ad apicem constrictis; crebre foveolato-punctato, lateribus vittaque lata discoidali nigris ; 
elytris parallelis, lateribus obsolete serrulatis, apice rotundatis, distincte denticulatis; utrisque decem- 
seriato-punctatis; interspatiis secundo, quarto, sexto et octavo costatis; vitta suturali vix ante apicem 
abbreviata, nec non linea marginali, a basi ultra medium extensa, nigris, 

Long. 22 lin. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 


CHALEPUS. 75 


Head moderately produced between the eyes; front longitudinally sulcate on the 
medial line, irregularly sculptured on either side. Antenne half the length of the body, 
slightly thickened towards the apex; the two lower joints ovate, equal, the third rather 
longer. Thorax longer than broad; sides rounded, nearly straight and parallel from 
the base to the middle, sinuate just behind the latter, constricted in front, the anterior 
angle produced obliquely into a subacute tooth; upper surface transversely convex, 
slightly excavated on the hinder disc, closely foveolate-punctate; the lateral margin, 
together with abroad discoidal vitta, black. Elytra broader than the thorax; sides 
parallel, obsoletely constricted in the middle, the apex regularly rounded ; lateral 
margin obsoletely, the apical one more distinctly, serrulate ; each elytron with ten rows 
of punctures, the second, fourth, sixth, and eighth interspaces costate, the sixth less 
strongly raised, its margin serrulate. 


47, Chalepus marginatus. 


Elongatus, subtus niger, nitidus; thorace, lateribus exceptis, pectoris medio femoribusque anticis quatuor basi, 
fulvis ; supra subnitidus, fulvus ; scutello capiteque nigris, hoc macula frontali sordide fulva; thorace 
lateribus rotundatis, antice constrictis ; rude rugoso-punctato, vitta discoidali lateribusque nigris; elytris 
parallelis, apice rotundatis, tenuiter serrulatis; utrisque decem-seriato-punctatis; interspatiis secundo 
quartoque modice, octavo obsolete, costatis ; limbo laterali anguste nigro, sutura ante medium anguste 
nigro-picea. 

Long. 2 lin. 


Hab. Mexico, Cordova (Sallé). <A single specimen. 


Front moderately produced between the eyes, longitudinally sulcate. Antenne 
nearly half the length of the body, subfiliform, slightly thickened towards the apex ; 
joints cylindrical. Thorax transverse; sides rounded, obliquely diverging from the base 
to the middle, deeply sinuate behind the apex, the apical angle armed laterally with an 
acute tooth; disc coarsely and strongly punctured, transversely excavated behind the 
middle. Elytra parallel, regularly rounded at the apex; lateral margin obsoletely, the 
apieal margin finely, serrulate ; each elytron with ten regular rows of punctures, the 
second and fourth interspaces moderately costate, the eighth obsoletely thickened. 


48. Chalepus lateralis. 

Elongatus, parallelus; subtus niger, nitidus; thoracis lateribus, abdominis disco, femoribus basi tibiarumque 
annulo lato, fulvis; supra subopacus, fulvus, scutello capiteque nigris; thorace transverso, lateribus 
rotundatis, pone medium fere rectis, ante medium sat abrupte constrictis ; disco transversim convexo, pone 
medium transversim excavato, rude et crebre punctato ; lateribus maculaque vix pone medium posita, nigris ; 
elytris parallelis, apice rotundatis, ad apicem minute serrulatis ; utrisque decem-seriate-punctatis, sutura 
nec non interspatiis secundo et quarto modice costatis, interspatio octavo minus distincte elevato ; utrisque 
linea laterali, a basi ad longe pone medium extensa, nigra ornatis. 

Long. 2 lin. 


Hab. Guatemaua, Zapote, Capetillo, Panima in Vera Paz ( Champion). 


Vertex smooth, impunctate ; front irregularly sulcate, subrugose ; interocular space 


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76 PHYTOPHAGA. 


slightly produced, obtuse. Antenne about one third the length of the body, rather 
slender below the middle, slightly thickened towards the apex; joints cylindrical. 
Thorax transverse ; sides rounded, nearly straight and parallel from the base to the 
middle, thence deeply sinuate and obliquely converging towards the apex, the anterior 
angle produced into a subacute tooth ; disc transversely convex, transversely excavated 
behind the middle, closely and coarsely punctured. Elytra broader than the thorax, 
parallel, regularly rounded at the apex, the latter, together with the lower portion of 
the sides, faintly serrulate ; each elytron with ten regular rows of large deep punctures, 
the suture, together with the second and fourth interspaces, costate, the eighth less 
distinctly elevated. 


49. Chalepus generosus. 


Subelongatus, parallelus, niger, nitidus; femoribus anticis basi, thorace elytrisque rufo-testaceis; illo trans- 
verso, ad apicem angustato, lateribus obtuse angulatis; rude foveolato-punctato, vitta angusta discoidali 
lateribusque nigris; elytris parallelis, apice obtuse rotundatis, minute serrulatis ; decem-seriato-punctatis, 
sutura et interspatiis secundo et quarto equaliter, octavo minus fortiter, costatis. 


Long. 23 lin. 7 
Hab. GuatEMAa, Sinanja in Vera Paz (Champion). 


Head smooth and shining; front moderately produced, its surface with an ill-defined 
rufo-piceous patch ; on either side, running along the inner border of the eye, is a deep 
longitudinal groove. Antenne about one third the length of the body, filiform, not 
thickened at the apex ; joints cylindrical, the first and second short, equal in length, 
ovate, the basal one slightly thickened, the third joint nearly half as long again as the 
second. ‘Thorax about one fourth broader than long at the base; sides straight and 
very slightly diverging from the base to the middle, thence obliquely converging to the 
apex, anterior angle armed with a short oblique tooth; subcylindrical, flattened and 
broadly excavated on the hinder disc, closely covered with foveolate punctures; the 
lateral margin, together with a narrow discoidal vitta (the latter not extending to the 
apical margin and also sometimes’ abbreviated at the base), black. Elytra narrowly 
oblong-elongate, parallel, the sides finely serrulate, the apex obtusely rounded ; upper 
surface convex on the sides, flattened along the suture; each elytron with ten regular 
rows of large deep punctures, the suture, together with the second and fourth inter- 
spaces, distinctly and equally costate, the eighth less strongly elevated. 


50. Chalepus hepburni. 


Subelongatus, niger, nitidus, thorace elytrorumque plaga humerali fulvis ; thorace transverso, subconico, late- 
ribus bisinuatis ; disco crebre et irregulariter foveolato-punctato ; macula discoidali nigra ; elytris parallelis, 
apice conjunctim rotundatis ; lateribus obsolete, apice distincte, serrulatis ; utrisque decem-seriato-punctatis, 
interstitiis elevato-reticulatis ; interspatiis secundo et quarto modice, octavo minus distincte, costatis. 

Long. 23 lin. 


Hab. Mexico, Pinos Altos in Chihuahua (Buchan-Hepburn). 


CHALEPUS. 77 


Front trisulcate; interocular space rather strongly produced, obtuse. Antenne 
-subfiliform, equal in length to the head and thorax; third joint one half longer than 
the second. Thorax transverse; sides converging from base to apex, bisinuate, the 
anterior angle acute, the basal one obtuse; disc transversely convex, closely covered 
with large irregular punctures. Scutellum transverse, its apex truncate. Elytra 
narrowly oblong, parallel, the apices conjointly and regularly rounded, the lateral margin 
obsoletely, the apical one distinctly, serrulate; convex, slightly flattened along the 
suture; each elytron with ten regular rows of punctures, the interstices thickened, 
elevate-reticulate ; second and fourth interspaces moderately, the eighth less distinctly, 
-costate; the humeral fulvous patch, covering the humeral callus, commences at the 
basal margin and runs downwards for about one third the length of the elytron, but 
does not extend to the lateral margin. 


51. Chalepus posticatus. (Tab. III. fig. 18.) 


Elongatus, postice ampliatus ; subtus niger, nitidus; pectoris medio, abdominis basi femoribusque basi, fulvis ; 
supra fulvus, opacus ; capite (plaga frontali excepta), thoracis vittis tribus, scutello elytrorumque vitta brevi 
suturali baseos, tertioque parte apicali, nigris; antennis rigidis, acutis; thorace transverso, pone medium 
transversim excavato, velutino, punctis magnis vage impresso; elytris a basi apicem versus ampliatis, 
apice rotundatis, serruJatis, margine apicali hic illic spinis brevibus armato ; decem-seriato-punctatis, inter- 
spatiis secundo et quarto sat valde costatis. , 

Long. 43 lin. 


Hab. Nicaraeua, Chontales (Belt). 


Face strongly produced between the eyes; vertex and front opaque. Antenne half 
the length of the body, robust, rigid, very slightly compressed ; two lower joints short, 
cylindrica], the basal one submoniliform, the second turbinate, the third and fourth 
equal, each nearly as long as the preceding two united, apical joint acute. Thorax 
transverse; sides slightly rounded, converging from base to apex, in some specimens 
obsoletely angulate just before the middle; upper surface transversely excavated on 
the hinder disc, opaque, impressed, but not very closely, with large shallow punctures ; 
the lateral margin, together with a discoidal vitta, sometimes abbreviated anteriorly, 
black. Elytra broader than the thorax; sides gradually dilated from the base towards 
the apex, the apex itself regularly rounded ; lateral margin distinctly serrulate, apical 
margin armed with several short, acute_spines ; each elytron with ten regular rows of 
large deep punctures, the second and third Jnterspaces rather strongly costate ; a short 
sutural vitta at the base, together with a large apical patch, covering rather more than 
the hinder third of the disc, black. 


52. Chalepus suspiciosus. (Tab. III. fig. 19.) 


Subelongatus, subparallelus ; subtus niger, nitidus; pectoris medio, abdominis disco et lateribus femoribusque 
basi fulvis ; supra fulvus, subnitidus; antennis, oculis, collo, thoracis vittis tribus, scutello elytrorumque 
vitta brevi suturali, nigris ; thorace transverso, conico, lateribus leviter bisinuatis, disco velutino, pone 
medium transversim excavato, apice et ad latera irregulariter et leviter foveolato; elytris a basi ad 


78 | PHYTOPHAGA. 


apicem leviter ampliatis, margine serratis; apice rotundato, integro,- spinis longioribus armato ; decem- 
seriato-punctatis, interspatiis secundo et quarto valde, sexto basi, nec non octavo toto, mediocriter costatis. 


Long. 44 lin. 
Hab. Panama, Caldera 1200 feet, and David in Chiriqui (Champion).—CoLomBIa, 
Santa Marta. a 


Head black, the neck shining, the vertex and front opaque, the latter strongly 
produced between the eyes, its hinder dorsal surface with three short longitudinal 
sulci, the anterior upper surface with a narrow, distinctly raised longitudinal ridge. 
Antenne half the length of the body, robust, rigid, slightly compressed, attenuated 
towards the apex, the apical joint very acute ; basal joint slightly thickened, submoni- 
liform, the second very short, subturbinate, the third and fourth each about twice 
the length of the second, the fourth being rather shorter than the third. Thorax 
transverse at the base; conic, the sides obliquely converging from base to apex, obso- 
letely bisinuate, anterior angle armed laterally with a short acute setiferous tooth ; 
basal margin deeply sinuate on either side; above subcylindrical, broadly depressed and 
excavated on the hinder disc, irregularly foveolate on the sides and apex; a discoidal 
vitta, abbreviated anteriorly, together with the lateral margin, nigro-piceous or black. 
Scutellum oblong-quadrate, its apex obtuse. Elytra narrowly oblong, gradually but 
slightly increasing in width from the base towards the apex, basal margin strongly 
lobed, the lobes received into the excavations of the thorax; sides rather strongly 
serrate; apical margin obtusely rounded, irregularly denticulate and armed on each 
elytron with four or five spinous teeth; above rather coarsely granulose-punctate, each 
elytron with ten regular rows of deep punctures ; second and fourth interspaces strongly 
costate, nitidous ; basal portion of the sixth interspace, together with the entire eighth, 
less strongly raised, the latter obsoletely serrulate. 

C. normalis, Chapuis, an insect which I have not seen, appears to be closely allied 
to the present species. 


53. Chalepus alienus. (Tab. III. fig. 21.) 


Subelongatus, ad apicem vix ampliatus, niger; subtus nitidus, pectoris medio, abdominis plaga basali femori- 
busque basi, fulvis; supra niger, minus nitidus; antennis apice acutis; thorace conico, lateribus leviter 
bisinuatis; velutino, subcrebre punctato, utrinque vitta lata sublaterali, basi subcallosa, flavo-rufa in- 
structo; elytris oblongis, ad apicem vix ampliatis, ante medium obsolete, pone medium et ad apicem 
fortius, serrulatis, apice utrinque spinis duabus brevibus armato; decem-seriato-punctatis, interspatiis 
secundo, quarto, nec non octavo, costatis; flavo-fulvis, apice plagaque magna anchoreformi, a basi ad 
medium extensa, nigris. 


Long. 33—4 lin. 
Hab. Nicaracua (Sallé); Panama, Bugaba, Caldera in Chiriqui 1200 feet, David, 
Volcan de Chiriqui 2500 to 4000 feet (Champion).—CoLomBia (Goudot). 


Front trisulcate, interocular space strongly produced, obtuse, its upper surface with 
a short longitudinal ridge. Antenne half the length of the body, filiform; the five 


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outer joints closely articulated, the apical one very acute. Thorax transverse, sub- 
conic; sides obliquely converging from base to apex, bisinuate ; subcylindrical, trans- 
versely excavated on the hinder disc, torulose at the base on either side; opaque, 
irregularly punctured. Elytra narrowly oblong, parallel, finely and subremotely 
serrulate on the sides; apex conjointly rounded, coarsely denticulate, and armed on 
either side with two or three large teeth or spines; each elytron with ten regular rows 
of punctures, their interstices elevate-reticulate; the second and fourth interspaces 
rather strongly, the eighth moderately, costate, the sixth also costate at base and apex. 


54, Chalepus anchora. 
Odontota anchora, Chapuis, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. 1877, p. 18. 


Elongatus, ad apicem vix ampliatus, niger ; subtus nitidus, pectoris medio, abdominis disco antico et lateribus, 
femoribusque anticis quatuor basi, flavo-fulvis ; supra minus nitidus; thorace subconico, lateribus medio 
subangulatis ; dorso subcylindrico, disco postico transversim excavato, crebre punctato, utrinque vitta lata 
sublaterali, subcallosa, fulva instructo; elytris parallelis, lateribus ante medium obsolete, pone medium 
et ad apicem distinctius, serrulatis; utrisque apice breviter trispinosis; decem-seriato-punctatis, inter- 
spatiis secundo, quarto et octavo, nec non sexto basi et apice, costatis ; utrisque plaga humerali, a basi fere 
ad tertiam partem longitudinis extensa, fasciaque vix pone medium posita, fulvis. 


Long. 3% lin. 
Hab. Mexico (Sallé).—Co tomsia, Santa Marta. 


Very closely allied to the preceding species; the thorax more coarsely and closely 
punctured, the apex of the elytra more obtuse, the five outer joints of the antenne 
more loosely articulated, the apical one less acute. I have only seen two specimens of 
this species—one from Mexico, without precise locality, the other from Colombia; in 
the Mexican specimen the hinder femora are entirely black, whilst in the Colombian 
one the sides of the thorax are less distinctly angulate. 


VI. Elytra each with ten rows of punctures, the base with a short additional row 
next the suture. 


A. Margin of the elytra serrulate. 
1. Sutural angles of the elytra entire. . 


/ 55. Chalepus acuticornis. (Tab. III. fig. 20.) 
Odontota acuticornis, Chapuis, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. 1877, p. 12. 


Elongatus, niger, nitidus ; pectoris medio, abdominis plaga basali femoribusque basi fulvis ; supra fulvus, capite 
scutelloque nigris ; thorace transverso, subconico, lateribus bisinuatis, medio obtuse angulatis ; dorso opaco, 
pone medium transversim excavato, vage rugoso-punctato; lateribus vittaque discoidali nigris; elytris 
parallelis, apice rotundatis, lateribus serrulatis, margine apicali spinuloso ; utrisque decem, basi extrema 
undecim, punctatis, striis quinto ad octavum medio interdum confusis ; interstitiis elevato-reticulatis ; inter- 
spatiis secundo et quarto sat valde et equaliter costatis, octavo toto, sextoque basi et apice, modice elevatis ; 


80 PHYTOPHAGA. 


plaga communi subpyriformi a basi ad medium extensa apiceque nigris antennis rigidis, articulis quinque 
ultimis intime approximatis, articulo ultimo acuto. 
Long. 33-4 lin. 


Rio Hondo (Blancaneaus) : GUATEMALA, Yaabal (Sallé), Zapote, San Gerénimo, La 
Tinta, Tamahu, Chiacam, Panima (Champion) ; Nicaraaua, Chontales (Bele). 


Front deeply trisulcate ; interocular space strongly produced, the apical portion of 
its upper surface with a short longitudinal ridge. Antenne nearly half the length of 
the body, rigid, obsoletely thickened towards the apex, the five outer joints very closely 
articulated, the apical one very acute. Thorax transverse, subconic; sides obliquely 
converging from base to apex, bisinuate, obtusely angulate in the middle, anterior angle 
armed laterally with a short acute tooth; upper surface subcylindrical on the sides 
and at the apex, transversely depressed and excavated on the hinder disc, covered with 
coarse but shallow foveolate punctures, the apical margin nearly impunctate. LElytra 
narrowly oblong, parallel, regularly rounded at the apex, finely serrulate, apical border 
with a few spinous teeth ; convex on the sides, flattened along the suture; each elytron 
with ten, at the extreme base with eleven, rows of punctures, the fifth to the eighth rows 
sometimes confused and irregular on the middle disc; second. and fourth interspaces 
strongly and equally costate} the basal portion of the sixth, together with the whole of 
the eighth, less strongly elevated. 

Separated from the two preceding species, to which it is otherwise closely allied, by 
the presence of the additional short row of punctures at the base of the elytra. 


56. Chalepus contubernalis. 


Elongatus, niger, nitidus; pectoris medio, thorace elytrorumque vitta lata laterali, a basi fere ad medium ex- 
tensa, fulvis ; thorace transverso, subconico, lateribus bisinuatis, disco pone medium transversim excavato, 
rude et crebre foveolato-punctato, vitta lata discoidali, apice attenuata, nigra; elytris subelongatis, 
parallelis, apice rotundatis, lateribus tenuiter, apice magis distincte, serrulatis; utrisque decem, basi 
extrema undecim, seriato-punctatis, interstitiis elevato-reticulatis ; interspatiis secundo, quarto et octavo 
totis, nec non sexto basi, costatis. 


Long. 3 lin. 
Hab. GuatemaLa, San Gerénimo (Champion). 


Head nitidous, front strongly trisulcate, the middle groove broad; interocular space 
strongly produced, obtuse. Antenne subfiliform, the second joint slightly shorter than 
the basal one, submoniliform, the third nearly one half longer than the second. Thorax 
transverse, subconic; sides converging from base to apex, bisinuate, the anterior and 
posterior angles subacute ; upper surface transversely convex, transversely excavated on 
the hinder disc, strongly, coarsely, and irregularly punctured. Scutellum quadrate- 
oblong. Elytra subelongate, parallel, rounded at the apex, finely serrulate on the sides, 
the apical margin denticulate ; each elytron with ten, at the extreme base with eleven, 
regular rows of punctures, their interstices thickened, reticulate; the second and fourth 


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rather strongly, the eighth, together with the basal portion of the sixth, less distinctly 

costate ; the fulvous vitta which stretches from the base nearly to the middle of the 

elytra extends inwards from the outer border as far as the second interspace, its apex 
obliquely truncate. 


57. Chalepus chapuisi. 

Elongatus, niger; subtus nitidus, prosterno rufo-fulvo; supra subnitidus, thorace elytrorumque vitta lata, a 
basi ad ultra medium extensa, rufo-fulvis ; thorace transverso, subconico, lateribus bisinuatis, transversim 
convexo, disco postico transversim excavato, velutino, subcrebre punctato, vitta lata discoidali nigra 
instructo ; elytris subelongatis, parallelis, apice obtuse rotundatis, serrulatis, apice denticulatis ; utrisque 
decem-, basi extrema undecim-seriato-punctatis, interstitiis vix elevatis ; interspatiis secundo, quarto et 


octavo totis, sextoque basi, costatis. 
‘Long. 32 lin. 


Hab. Mexico, Oaxaca (Sallé). 


Vertex and front deeply trisulcate, the medial groove broad; interocular space 
strongly produced, obtusely angulate. Antenne filiform, robust, about equal in length 
to the head and thorax ; second joint slightly shorter than the basal one, moniliform ; 
third joint nearly twice the length of the second. Thorax transverse, subconic; sides 
strongly converging from the base to the apex, bisinuate, their posterior angle obtuse, 
the anterior one produced into a short obtuse tooth ; upper surface transversely convex, 
rather deeply excavated behind the middle, opaque, impressed, but not very closely, 
with large shallow ill-defined punctures, which are rather more crowded on the sides. 
Elytra sculptured as in C. contubernalis, with this exception, that the interstices between 
the punctures are less thickened and less distinctly reticulating with each other; the 
rufo-fulvous vitta, which stretches inwards from the outer margin nearly to the suture, 
is continued downwards on the outer border and along the first costa to below the 
middle of the elytra. . 


58. Chalepus waterhousii. (Tab. III. fig. 24.) 


Elongatus, subparallelus, niger; subtus nitidus, pectoris medio femoribusque anticis basi, fulvis; supra sub- 
opacus; thorace transverso, subconico, ante basin transversim excavato, subcrebre foveolato-punctato ; 
fulvo, marginis basalis medio, plaga transversa ante basin lateribusque, his ante apicem abbreviatis, nigris ; 
elytris subparallelis, apice rotundatis, lateribus pone medium apiceque fortius serrulatis utrisque decem-, 
basi extrema undecim-seriato-punctatis ; interspatiis secundo valde, quarto apice, sexto basi, nec non octavo 

. toto, mediocriter costatis ; utrisque plaga basali, callum humerale amplectente, fulva. 

Long. 33 lin. 


Hab. Guatemaa, Vera Paz (Champion). 


Vertex shining, impunctate; front rather strongly produced, 5-sulcate, the inter- 

mediate pair of sulci ill-defined. Antenne half the length of the body, filiform ; basal 

joints subovate, slightly thickened, the second shorter than the first, nodose; third 

joint equal in length to the preceding two united, the sixth distinctly shorter than 

either the fifth or seventh, the eighth to the tenth equal in length, the eleventh rather 
BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Coleopt., Vol. VI. Pt. 2, February 1886. uy 


Pro ik ee 


82 PHYTOPHAGA. 


longer, its apex subacute. Thorax transverse, about one third broader than long at the 
base ; sides slightly rounded and converging from the base to the apex, the anterior angle 
with a short lateral tubercle; basal margin deeply excavated on either side the medial 
lobe ; transversely convex, rather- deeply excavated transversely on the hinder disc 
immediately in front of the basal lobe; surface covered with large fovex, shallow on 
the sides, more deeply impressed on the disc. Elytra subelongate, strongly lobed at 
the base, parallel, very feebly dilated towards the apex, the latter entire, and regularly 
rounded ; lateral margin finely, its hinder third, together with the apical border, rather 
coarsely, serrulate; above convex on the sides, flattened along the suture ; each elytron 
with ten, at the extreme base with eleven, regular rows of large deep punctures, the 
second interspace strongly, the eighth, together with the extreme apex of the fourth 
and the basal fourth of the sixth, moderately costate; each elytron with an irregular 
fulvous patch, covering the humeral callus, and extending downwards from the base 
nearly to the middle of the disc. 


2. Sutural angles of the elytra conjointly emarginate. 


59. Chalepus amplipennis. (Tab. III. fig. 17.) 


Elongatus, postice ampliatus ; subtus cum capite niger, nitidus, pectoris medio femoribusque basi fulvis ; supra 


subopacus, fulvus aut rufo-fulvus; capite inter oculos antrorsum valde producto, et antice plaga fulva 
ornato; antennarum articulis compressis, in mare dorso cristatis; thorace quam longiori vix latiori, 
conico, lateribus subangulatis, disco medio depresso, utrinque toruloso, velutino, lateribus vittaque discoidali 
 nigris; scutello nigro; elytris a basi apicem versus modice ampliatis, apice rotundatis, sutura conjunctim 
subquadratim emarginatis ; limbo distincte explanato, serrato; dorso deplanatis; utrisque decem-, basi 
extrema undecim-punctatis; interspatiis secundo valde, sexto basi nec non octavi dimidio antico medio-— 
criter, costatis ; fulvis, dimidio postico, nec non linea suturali, nigris. 
Var. A. Elytris rufo-fulvis, linea suturali nigra. 
Long. 4 lin. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2500 to 6000 feet (Champion). 


Interocular space very strongly produced, opaque, its hinder half faintly grooved on 
either side, its anterior portion obscure fulvous, its medial line with a slightly raised 
longitudinal ridge. Antenne half the length of the body, compressed, tapering from the 
sixth joint to the apex; the third joint to the ninth cristate in the male, less distinctly 
so in the female ; two lower joints short, equal, the first thickened, submoniliform, the 
second subovate, the third subcordate, and equal in length to the preceding two, the 
fourth and following ones to the tenth nearly equal in length, each distinctly shorter 
than the third. Thorax rather broader than long at the base, conic; sides notched just 
in front of the posterior angle, slightly but distinctly angulate just beyond the middle, 
thence obliquely converging to the apex, the anterior angle armed with an. obtuse lateral 
tooth ; above opaque, the sides abruptly deflexed, coarsely foveolate-punctate, the disc 
depressed, its hinder half broadly excavated; surface opaque, irregularly and feebly 
foveolate-punctate, the medial line with a faintly impressed narrow longitudinal groove ; 


CHALEPUS. 83 


basal margin rather deeply excavated on either side. Elytra dilated from the base to 
the hinder angle, thence narrowly rounded to the apex, the latter deeply quadrate- 
-emarginate ; outer margin distinctly dilated, finely serrulate, more coarsely so posteriorly 
and on the apical border; each elytron with ten, at the base with eleven, rows of large 
punctures ; second interspace strongly costate, the sixth at its base, together with the 
anterior half of the eighth, moderately elevated. 

The cristate antenne will at once separate this species from its congeners. 


60. Chalepus deyrollei. 
Odoniota deyrollei, Chapuis, Annales de la Société Ent. de Belgique, xx. p. 8 (1877). 


Elongatus, niger; subtus nitidus, pectoris medio, femoribus anticis basi nec non abdominis limbo, fulvis aut 
tufo-fulvis ; supra subopacus; fronte antica rufo-fulvo maculata; thorace transverso, conico, lateribus 
bisinuatis, convexo, disco postico transversim excavato, rude rugoso-punctato, rufo-fulvo, lateribus vittaque 
discoidali lata, interdum antice abrupte angustata, nigris; elytris subparallelis, postice paullo ampliatis, 
apice rotundatis, serrulatis, apice serratis, angulo suturali conjunctim subangulato-emarginatis ; utrisque 
decem-, basi undecim-seriato-punctatis, interstitiis elevatis, inter se reticulatis ; interspatiis secundo valde, 
octavo modice, quarto sextoque obsolete, costatis; vitta lata laterali a basi apicem versus plus minusve 


extensa, rufo-fulva. 
Long. 33-32 lin. 


Hab. Mexico, Cordova, Puebla (Sailé). 


Vertex trisulcate; interocular space strongly produced. Antenne filiform; joints 
_cylindrical, the third equal in length to the preceding two united. Thorax transverse, 
conic; sides converging from the base to the apex, bisinuate ; subcylindrical, transversely 
excavated on the hinder disc, torulose on either side behind the middle, coarsely rugose- 
punctate, the excavated surface nearly free from punctures. Elytra subparallel, slightly 
dilated towards the apex, the latter conjointly and regularly rounded, the lateral margin 
‘serrulate, the apical border rather strongly dentate ; subnitidous; each elytron with ten, 
at the extreme base with eleven, rows of punctures, their interstices thickened, elevate- 
reticulate; the second interspace strongly, the eighth moderately, and the fourth and 
sixth, together with the suture, obsoletely costate. 
_ Separated from C. omogerus by the regularly rounded and less strongly dentate apices 
of the elytra, as well as by the slightly elevated fourth and sixth interspaces ; the 
insterstices between the punctures are also thickened and reticulate with each other. 


61. Chalepus omogerus. (Tab. III. fig. 16.) 
Odontota omogera, Crotch, Proc. Acad. Phil. 1873, p. 80’; Horn, Trans. Amer. Ent, Soc. 1883, 


p. 295% Werse 1905. DEL. | ia 


. Elongatus, postice ampliatus, niger; subtus nitidus, thoracis medio femorumque anticorum basi fulvis; supra 
opacus; thorace transverso, conico, lateribus bisinuatis, convexo, pone medium transversim excavato, 
rude rugoso-punctato, utrinque vitta velutina torulosa rufo-fulva instructo ; elytris subelongatis, postice 
ampliatis; apice subacute rotundatis, angulo suturali conjunctim, subquadratim emarginatis; margine 


2 


84 PHYTOPHAGA. 


laterali serrato, margine apicali forte denticulato; utrisque decem-, basi extrema undecim-seriato- 
punctatis, interstitiis minus distincte incrassatis, prope suturam planis ; interspatiis secundo valde, octavo 
modice, costatis ; utrisque macula basali rufo-fulva ornatis. . 
Var. A. Elytrorum vitta lata laterali retrorsum plus minusve extensa, rufo-fulva. (Odontota palliata, Chapuis, 
Ann. de la Société Ent. de Belg. 1877, p. 8.) 
Long. 33-32 lin. 

Hab. Norra America, Arizona 2,—Mexico 2, Oaxaca, Cordova, Vera Cruz, Tuxtla, 
Misantla, Jalapa, Yolos, Juquila, Tapansacualco, Puebla (Sallé, Hoge), Tampico 1; 
Guatemata, Duefias, Capetillo, San Gerénimo, Panima, Chaco}, Cubilguitz, Senahu, 
Cerro Zunil 4000 feet, Las Mercedes 3000 feet ; Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2500 feet 


(Champion). 


Vertex trisulcate; interocular space strongly produced, a small patch on its anterior 
surface rufo-fulvous. Antenne filiform, nearly half the length of the body, the third 
joint nearly equal in length to the preceding two united. Thorax transverse, conic ; 
sides obtusely angulate, bisinuate ; transversely convex, flattened and transvetsely exca- 
vated'on the hinder disc, coarsely and irregularly punctured, a smooth torulose vitta 
on either side rufo-fulvous. Elytra elongate-ovate, slightly dilated posteriorly; apices 
conjointly subacutely rounded, the apical limb distinctly dilated, broadly and deeply 
subquadrate-emarginate at the suture, its outer edge strongly dentate, the lateral 
margin serrulate; each elytron with ten, at the extreme base with eleven, rows of 
punctures, the interstices between the punctures nearly plane; the second interspace 
strongly, the eighth moderately, costate, the basal portion of the sixth interspace also 
slightly elevated; at the base of each elytron is a rufo-fulvous patch, which varies 
greatly in size, in some specimens being confined to a small spot, in others (var. A) 
covering nearly the whole of the anterior half of the elytron. 


62. Chalepus univittatus. 


Elongatus, postice paullo ampliatus, niger; subtus nitidus, capite nigro, pectoris medio femoribusque anticis 
basi fulvis ; supra opacus, thorace elytrisque fulvis, illo vitta discoidali, basi quadratim ampliato, lateribus, 
nec non elytrorumque vitta suturali, nigris; thorace transverso, lateribus a basi ad apicem bisinuatis, 
supra subcylindrico, disco postico transversim excavato; scutello nigro; elytris a basi apicem versus 
paullo ampliatis, apice subangulato-rotundatis, ad suturam quadratim emarginatis; margine laterali, 
evidenter, apicali fortius, serrulatis ; utrisque decem-, basi undecim seriato-punctatis, interspatiis secundo 
sat valde, quarto octavoque minus distincte, costatis. 


Long. 4 lin. 


Hab. Mexico, Yolotepec (Sallé). 


Vertex trisulcate; interocular space strongly produced. Antenne about one third 
the length of the body, filiform, slightly thickened towards the apex ; joints cylindrical, 
the third to the fifth very slightly compressed ; two lower joints short, equal, the third 
rather longer than the preceding two united. Thorax transverse ; sides converging 
from the base to the apex, bisinuate ; upper surface transversely convex, rather deeply 
excavated transversely on the hinder disc, coarsely and closely, but not very deeply, 


CHALEPUS. 85 


rugose-punctate. lytra very slightly increasing in width from the base towards the 
posterior angle, thence subacutely rounded to the apex, conjointly quadrate-emar- 
ginate at the sutural angle, distinctly serrulate, the serratures stronger at the apex 
than on the sides; each elytron with ten, at the extreme base with eleven, rows of 
punctures, the second interspace strongly, the fourth and the eighth more or less 
distinctly, costate. 

. Nearly allied to C. omogerus, Crotch. Narrower, the second interspace less strongly 
costate, the serratures at the apices of the elytra smaller. 


63. Chalepus palmeri. 


Subelongatus, niger ; subtus nitidus, thorace inferiori, coxis femoribusque anticis basi rufo-fulvis ; supra opacus, 
capite inter oculos modice angulatim producto, plaga parva rufo-testacea instructo ; thorace rufo-testaceo, 
crebre et fortiter punctato, utrinque toruloso, lateribus angulatis ; elytris anguste oblongis, serrulatis, ad 
angulum suturalem subquadratim emarginatis; utrisque decem-, basi undecim-seriato-punctatis ; inter- 
spatiis secundo valde, octavo mediocriter, costatis ; interspatiis quarto sextoque leviter elevatis; utrisque 
- plaga basali callum humeralem amplectente, rufo-testacea ornatis. 


Long. 34 lin. 
Hab. Mexico, Monclova i in Coahuila (Dr. Palmer). 


Interocular space moderately produced, 5-sulcate, the middle sulcus short, terminated 
anteriorly by a longitudinal ridge. Antenne less than half the length of the body, 
filiform, slightly thickened beyond the middle; joints cylindrical, the two lower ones 
equal, the basal joint slightly thickened, the third nearly equal in length to the 
preceding two united, the fourth about two thirds the length of the third, the 
seventh to the tenth short, equal, the sixth still shorter, subturbinate. Thorax trans- 
verse ; sides straight and nearly parallel from the base to beyond the middle, thence 
obliquely converging and slightly sinuate to the apex, the anterior angle armed with 
a short oblique tubercle; above transversely convex, flattened and broadly excavated 
on the hinder disc ; on either side is a longitudinal ill-defined irregular torulose space, 
which extends from the basal nearly to the apical margin; on the medial line is also a 
very fine longitudinal groove. Elytra narrowly oblong, subparallel, rounded at the, 

apex, deeply subquadrate-emarginate at the sutural angle; margin serrulate, the apical 
 serratures rather coarser than those on the side; upper surface granulose ; each elytron 
with ten, at the base with eleven, rows of deeply punctured striz; the second inter- 
space strongly, the eighth moderately, costate, the latter finely serrulate on the hinder 
disc, the fourth and sixth faintly costate at the base and apex, the suture also distinctly 
elevated ; each elytron with a wedge-shaped rufo-fulvous basal patch, which stretches 
‘along the base from the suture nearly to the lateral margin, and extends downwards 
(covering the humeral callus) for about one fourth the length of the elytron. 


86 PHYTOPHAGA. 


B. Margin of the elytra entire, not serrulate. 


64, Chalepus signaticollis. (C. notaticollis *, Tab. III. fig. 25.) 

Elongato-ovatus, modice convexus, nitidus, niger, neo vix micans; thorace crebre punctato, utrinque macula. 
parva rufa ornato; elytris anguste oblongis, utrinque decem-, basi undecim-seriato-punctatis, interspatiis 
quarto et octo modice costatis; striis inter has costas medio confusis, fulvis ; vitta lata suturali, basi 
angustata, ante apicem abbreviata, eneo-nigra. 

Long. 3 lin. 


Hab. Mxxico, Puebla (Sallé). 


Face angularly produced between the eyes; front excavated, rugose. Antenne 
rather longer than the head and thorax, slightly thickened towards the apex; joints 
cylindrical, the lower two short, equal, the third one half longer than the second, the 
five upper ones forming a slender club. Thorax transverse; sides obtusely rounded, 
converging from the base to the apex, more quickly so anteriorly, the apical angle 
armed with a short, oblique, obtuse tooth ; upper surface subcylindrical, transversely 
excavated on the hinder disc, closely covered with large variolose punctures; on either 
side on the anterior disc is a small rufous patch. Elytra narrowly oblong-ovate ; sides 
nearly parallel, the apex regularly rounded, the outer margin entire; nitidous; each 
elytron with ten, at the extreme base with eleven, rows of deep punctures; interstices 
plane; second interspace broad, flattened, the fourth and eighth moderately costate, 
the striae between these coste confused and less regularly arranged i in the middle part 
of their course. 


SPECIES UNKNOWN TO ME, BUT APPARENTLY BELONGING TO THIS GENUS, 


Odontota gregorii. 
Odontota gregorii, Chapuis, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xx. p. 6 (1877) °. 


“ Oblongo-elliptica, nigra, vertice antico carinato; pronoto transverso, lateraliter subrotundato, dense pune- 
tato, utrinque ad marginem vitta flava, sublevi; elytris postice ampliatis, tenuissime serrulatis, (octo-). 
striato-punctatis, punctis transversis, interstitiis 2° et 6° costatis, nigro-fuscis, interstitio 4° basi elevato 
et breviter flavo; femoribus partim flavis. 

* Long. 63 mill.” 


Hab. Mexico 1. 


I have not seen any species answering to the above description. In Dr. Chapuis’s 
paper it stands immediately before C. morio. | 


Hispa atricornis. 
Hispa atricornis, Say, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist. i. p. 196 ; (May 1835)*; Leconte, Complete Writings 


of Thomas Say, u. p. 666 (1859). 
* Above yellowish ; antenne, thoracic line, and tip of elytra black. Inhabits Mexico. 


* This insect is figured as C. notaticollis; but I have subsequently discovered that the name has been used 
by Dr. Chapuis for another species belonging to the same genus. 


OCTOTOMA. 87 


Body above yellowish fulvous; head impunctate; antenne black; thorax with rather 
large punctures, a black dorsal line; scutellum black; elytra serrate, with double 
series of punctures, and interstitial, slender, elevated lines ; tip black-brown, not more 
than one fifth of the whole surface of the elytra; pectus and postpectus with a lateral 
black vitta, dilating behind ; feet black, thighs fulvous at bases; venter black, yellowish 
each side. Length more than one fifth of an inch.” 


- Hab. Mexico}, 


Dr. Chapuis has included this species in the present genus, placing it not far from 
C. bellulus. Say’s description does not well agree with the subsection to which Chapuis 


has assigned it. 


Section 2. Four to nine upper joints of the antenne united into a single piece. 


+ Interocular space not distinctly produced ; four to five upper joints of the antenne 
closely united. 


* Elytra sinuate-punctate, irregularly elevate-reticulate. 


CTOTOMA. 
Octotoma, Suffrian, Wiegm. Archiv, 1866, i. p. 234; Horn, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. x. p. 299. 


The species of this peculiar genus may be at once known from any other American 
form by the strongly raised anastomosing ridges which extend irregularly over the whole 
disc of the elytra. The different species are very closely allied, and it will require long 
careful study, and the examination of a long series of each specific form, to define 
accurately their proper limits. The genus ranges from the United States of North 


America to Brazil. 


1. Octotoma scabripennis. (Tab. IV. fig. 2.) 
Octoma scabripennis, Guér. Icon. de Régne Anim. iii. Texte, p. 279". 
- Sat elongata, dorso deplanata; subtus nitida, nigra, thoracis inferioris lateribus pedibusque piceis, his nigro 
maculatis; supra subnitida, piceo-fulva aut picea, vertice thoracisque plagis nigris; thorace fortiter punc- 


_ tato, disco excavato; elytris anguste oblongis, apicem versus paullo ampliatis, serrulatis, apice obtuse 
rotundatis, magis fortiter serratis, nigro-cupreis, seriato-punctatis, rete elevato irregulari, hic illic valde 
cristatis. . 

Mas. Elytrorum iateribus ante apicem sinuatis, angulo postico extrorsum producto. 
Fem. Elytrorum lateribus ante apicem non sinuatis, angulo postico extrorsum non producto, — 


Long. 24-3 lin. . 
Hab. Mexico}, Juquila, Guanajuato, Oaxaca (Sallé, Hoge); Guatemaua, San Geré- 
nimo (Champion) ; Nicaracua, Chontales (Belt). 


Vertex subrugose-punctate. Antenne rather longer than the head and thorax, 
piceo-fulvous, the upper joints sometimes black or nigro-piceous. Thorax transverse ; 


88 | PHYTOPHAGA. 


sides in the male straight and diverging from the base to some distance beyond the 
middle, thence abruptly converging to the apex; nearly parallel posteriorly, then 
converging and sinuate from immediately above the middle towards the apex in the 
female, the anterior angle in both sexes armed with a stout subacute tooth ; upper surface 
rugose-punctate, an irregular vitta on the sides, together with four longer depressions 
on the disc, black, the two anterior depressions transverse, often confluent, and in some 
specimens concolorous with the general surface of the thorax. Scutellum subquadrate. 
Elytra narrowly oblong, slightly increasing in width towards the posterior angle, the 
latter distinct in both sexes, abruptly dilated laterally in the male; the lateral margin 
armed with a number of short acute teeth, the apical margin obtusely rounded, more 
coarsely serrate ; upper surface finely seriate-punctate ; each elytron with a number of 
strongly raised ridges, which anastomose, and form an irregular network over the 
surface; on the middle disc and again at the apex near the suture, they are more 
strongly elevated than on the other portions of the surface. 


2. Octotoma championi. 

Oblongo-elongata, dorso subdeplanata, nigra, nitida ; pedibus nigro-piceis, femorum basi genubusque pallide rufo- 
piceis; capite thoraceque piceo-rufis, illo vertice antennarumque clavo nigris; thorace transverso, lateribus 
rotundatis, dorso nigro maculato, crebre et fortiter punctato, disco posteriori utrinque excavato; elytris 
oblongis, apicem versus ampliatis, lateribus serratis, ante angulum posticum sinuatis, angulo ipso late - 
extrorsum dilatato, fortiter serrato; cupreis, seriato-punctatis, rete irregulari, fortiter sed. irregulariter 
elevatis. 

Long. 22 lin. 


Hab. Guatemaa, Capetillo (Champion). A single specimen. 


Vertex opaque, minutely granulose, and, together with the antennal club, black. 
Thorax nearly twice as broad as long; sides rounded, more quickly converging ante- 
riorly, the anterior angle produced into a stout, subacute, slightly excurved tooth ; 
surface transversely convex, strongly and deeply punctured on the sides, more closely 
and rather less strongly punctured on the middle disc; hinder disc broadly excavated 
on either side, the anterior disc with faint traces of two similar excavations. Elytra 
oblong, slightly dilated posteriorly; sides serrate, sinuate just before reaching the 
posterior angle, the latter broadly dilated laterally, coarsely serrate ; upper surface 
sculptured as in O. scabripennis. 

Separated from the above-named species by its broader thorax and by the much more 
broadly dilated posterior angles of the elytra—in other respects very similar. 


8. Octotoma marginicollis. (Tab. IV. fig. 1.) 
Octotoma marginicollis, Horn, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. x. p. 300, t. 9. fig. 9. 
Subcuneiformis, depressa, picea, subnitida; subtus nitida, pedibus piceo-fulvis, antennis (basi excepta) scutelloque 


flavis; thorace transverso, rude rugoso-punctato, ante medium et ad basin transversim excavato, flavo, 
piceo maculato ; elytris oblongis, pone medium paullo ampliatis, apice rotundatis, irregulariter serrulatis, 


OCTOTOMA.—BRACHYCORYNA. 89 


angulo postico extrorsum vix producto, rotundato; seriato-punctatis, rete elevato, irregulari ante medium 
minus elevato et laxius reticulato; flavo-piceis, macula parva basali, altera discoidali, vix ante medium 
posita, margineque apicali, flavis: femoribus inermibus. 
Long. 24 lin. 
Hab. Nortu America, Arizona (Horn).—Mexico, Monclova in Coahuila (Dr. Palmer), 
Guanajuato (Saillé). 


Vertex impressed with a shallow groove. Antenne rather longer than the head and 
. thorax ; joints cylindrical, the five upper ones forming an oval club, the two lower ones 
pale piceous. Thorax transverse ; sides straight and nearly parallel from the base nearly 
to the apex, thence quickly converging to the anterior angle, the latter produced into a 
subacute tooth ; disc coarsely and closely rugose-punctate, transversely excavated before, 
and again behind the middle, the space between forming an ill-defined transverse 
elevation, from the middle of which a short perpendicular ridge runs backwards to the 
basal margin, dividing the hinder depression into two sections. Elytra oblong ; sides 
parallel anteriorly, slightly dilated behind the middle, rounded at the apex, the hinder 
angle slightly produced laterally, broadly rounded; outer margin finely but distinctly 
serrulate ; disc punctate-striate, the whole surface covered with a number of raised 
piceous reticulations, which form an irregular network over the surface, more especially 
on the hinder half, the reticulations on the anterior disc being less raised and ana- 
stomosing less freely with each other than those behind the middle of the elytra ; an 
irregular longitudinal ridge running upwards from the middle disc to the basal margin. 

Broader and shorter than O. scabripennis, the reticulations on the anterior half of 
the elytra less distinctly raised ; more variable in tint, in some specimens the entire disc 
being dark piceous ; in one from Guanajuato the anterior disc (including its reticulations) 
is pale piceo-fulvous. ‘This insect, described under the above name by Dr. Horn, agrees 
_ with O. plicatula, Fabr., a North-American species; but differs from 0. scabripennis and 
O. championé in its femora being unarmed. | 


** Elytra seriate-punctate ; interspaces plane or costate. 


a. Antenne not longer than the head and thorax together, four to five upper joints 
forming a distinct club. 


ar BRACHYCORYNA. 


Brachycoryna, Guérin, Icon. du Régne Anim. iii. Texte, p. 280. 


Corpus breviter oblongum, convexum. Caput inter oculos fere planum, antrorsum non productum ; antennis 
quam caput cum thorace brevioribus, articulis brevibus, cylindricis, ultimis quatuor vel quinque incras- 
satis, clavam ovatam formantibus. Thoraw transversus. Hlytra elevato-vittata, interspatiis biseriato- 
punctatis. Pedes breves, simplices ; unguiculis contiguis. 


The late Dr. Chapuis, in his ‘ Genera des Coléopteres,’ has omitted all notice of the 
- BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Coleopt., Vol. VI. Pt. 2, February 1886. mm 


90 a | PHYTOPHAGA. 


above generic form, the characters of which'are clearly given by Guérin in the specific 
description of Brachycoryna pumila, the species on which it was founded by that author. 
Von Harold (Mun. Catal.) subsequently placed the insects in Octotoma, a genus with 
which, the structure of the antenne excepted, it has no affinity. 

Since the earlier part of this work was published, I have, through the kindness of 
Dr. Horn, received a specimen of Stenopodius flavidus of that author. It belongs to 
the present section of the family, and stands close to Brachycoryna. It agrees with 
that genus in possessing very short antenne, but differs in the produced anterior margin 
of the thorax, and in the greater number of punctate-strie on its elytra. S. flavidus 
is a native of California, and will probably, sooner or later, be found in Central 
America. 


1. Brachycoryna pumila. (Physocoryna scabra, Tab. IV. fig. 3.) 
Brachycoryna pumila, Guér. Icon. du Régne Animal, ii. Texte, p. 280°. 
Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Hoge); GuaTEeMALA, San Gerénimo, Duefias, Zapote (Champion); 
Nicaracua, Chontales (Janson).—CoLomBIA, Cartagena 1. 


Guérin, in his description of the species, gives the elytra as unicolorous. In all the 
specimens that I have seen they are more or less spotted with piceous or black. 


2. Brachycoryna fulvipes. 


Anguste oblonga, convexa, subnitida ; subtus nitida ; pedibus elytrorumque puncto prope suturam posito, fulvis ; 
thorace rugoso-punctato ; elytris tricostatis, costis exterioribus duabus late interruptis, interspatiis fortiter 
. biseriato-punctatis. 
Long. 1 lin.. 


Hab. Panama, Tolé (Champion). 


Vertex granulose, impressed on the medial line with a deep longitudinal fovea. 
Antenne rather shorter than the head and thorax; joints cylindrical, gradually 
increasing in thickness from the third to the sixth;. this last nearly as long as the 
preceding two united, and together with the five upper joints, which are closely united, 
forming an oblong acute club. Thorax scarcely longer than broad; sides slightly 
rounded, parallel at the base, converging towards the apex; upper surface subcylin- 
drical, granulose, coarsely and closely punctured, the medial line with a longitudinal, 
groove. FElytra oblong, parallel, regularly rounded at the apex, the outer margin finely , 
serrulate; above convex, each elytron with three strongly elevated coste, the inner one, 
which is interrupted below the basilar space, terminating some distance before reaching 
the apical margin, its apex curving abruptly outwards, and the outer two, which are _ 
shorter than the preceding one, interrupted for the greater part of their course, their 
apices being confluent and abruptly elevated; spaces between the coste each with a 
double row of large deep punctures; on the inner costa, near its middle, i is a small 
fulvous spot. 


MICRORHOPALA. 91 


This species, of which a single specimen only is known to me, differs from the 
preceding in having the five instead of the four outer joints coalescent. 


b. Antenne distinctly longer than the head and thorax together, the amalgamated 
apical joints compressed or cylindrical. 


MICRORHOPALA. 
Microrhopala, Baly, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3rd ser. xiv. p. 268 (1864). 


The insects entering into the present genus form a natural group, closely allied to 
Uroplata, but separated by the nearly plane interocular space and by the more regular 
oval form. The present species, four in number, inhabit North and Central America, 
one (I. sallat) being also found in Colombia. ' 


Y 1. Microrhopala pulchella. 
_ Microrhopala pulchella, Baly, loc. cit. p. 270°. 


Var, A. Elytris rufo-fulvis, plaga communi subscutellari, macula parva subhumerali, fascia communi vix pone 
medium maculaque subapicali, metallico-cieruleis. 
Var. B. Thorace fusco maculato. 


Hab. Mexico! (coll. Baly, type), Teapa (Pilate), Cordova, Vera Cruz (Sallé) ; Hon- 
puras (Sallé). 


Y 2. Microrhopala perforata. (Tab. IV. fig. 4.) 
_ Microrhopala perforata, Baly, loc. cit. p. 269°. 


Var. A. Elytrorum macula posteriori obsoleta. 
Var. B. Elytrorum macula obliqua antice dilatata, trigona. . 
Var. C. Elytrorum maculis fere deletis. 


Hab. Guatnmata (coll. Baly, type).—Cotompra}, Cartagena (coll. Baly ex coll. Laferté, 
vars. A, C). 


The present and the preceding species stand very close to each other; the differences 
in coloration between the two are, however, constant, and they come from distinct 
localities. 


8, Microrhopala sallzi. 
- Microrhopala sallei, Baly, loc. cit. p. 271°. 


Hab. Mexico 1, Oaxaca, Capulalpam (coll. Baly, type ; Sallé); Guatemaa! (coll. | 
Baly). 


4. Microrhopala rubrolineata. (Tab. IV. fig. 5.) 
Microrhopala rubrolineata, Mann. Bull. Mose. ii. p. 807 (1843)!; Horn, Trans. Am. Ent. Soe. x. 
p. 292%. . 


‘mm 2 


92 PHYTOPHAGA. 


Anguste ovata, convexa ; subtus nigra, cyaneo tincta, supra nigro-enea aut metallico-cerulea ; thorace conico, 
erebre punctato ; elytris anguste oblongis, minute serrulatis, utrisque octo-, basi nono-seriato-punctatis. 

Var. A. Thorace utrinque vitta aut macula submarginali elytrisque vitta discoidali ante apicem abbreviata, 
punctoque subapicali, hoc sepe obsoleto, sordide fulvis. . 

Var. B. Thorace immaculato; elytro utroque vitta lata, postice angustata et abbreviata, sordide fulvo. 
(M. vulnerata, Horn, Trans. Ent. Soc. x. p.'292 *.) 

Var. ©. Thorace ut in A, elytrorum vitta fulva obsoleta. (Var. MU. signaticollis, Lec. Proc. Acad. Phil. 1859, 
p. 844; Horn, loc. cit. p. 292.) 

Long. 2 lin. 


Hab. Nortu America, California 12, Tejon+, Arizona? (Horn).—MExico, Northern 
Sonora (Morrison). oo . 


The fulvous markings both of the thorax and of the elytra apparently vary greatly 
in this species. I have only given the principal forms of coloration above, but inter-. 
mediate grades exist. M. rubrolineata is very closely allied to J. xerene, Newman, 
but may be known by its smaller size and narrower and more conical. thorax ; the 
serratures also on the outer margin of the elytra are nearly obsolete in the latter 


species. 


++ Interocular space distinctly produced ; four upper joints of the antennae 
consolidated into a single piece. 


UROPLATA. 


Uroplaia, Guérin, Icon. du Régne Ann. iii. Texte, p. 274; Baly, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3rd 
ser. xiv. p. 335 (1864). 


Uroplata is closely allied to Chalepus, being only separated from that genus by the 
soldering together of the four upper joints of the antenne.. As a rule the insects: 
belonging to the two genera can be readily separated; but in certain- species of 
Chalepus (morio and its allies) several of the upper joints are so closely articulated 
with each other, and at the same time so densely clothed with adpressed hairs, that it 
requires a close examination to ascertain whether they are distinct or consolidated 
w th each other. 

Uroplata, taken as a whole, is more heterogeneous than Chalepus in the form both 
of its antenne and of its elytra; it probably, next to the latter genus, is also more 
numerous in species than any other (with perhaps the exception of Hispa proper) in 
the family. | 

‘The species are found in Central and South America; none, so far as my knowledge 
extends, occurring in the United States or in any other part of North America; the 
insects placed by Von Harold in his Catalogue as inhabiting the northern continent 
belong to the genus Chalepus. 


UROPLATA. 93 


TABLE OF SPECIES. 


A. Vertex and front impressed with from two to five deep longitudinal grooves. 
a. Elytra each with eight regular rows of punctures. 
o. Elytra emarginate at the sutural angle.—explanata, rodriguezi, fairmairet. 
oo. Apices of the elytra entire.—vitiatipennis, salleiv 
b. Elytra each with eight, at the extreme base with nine, rows of punctures. 
o. Elytra emarginate at the sutural angle.—distincta. ~: 
oo. Apices of the elytra entire.—chevrolati, candezei, melanurd, beata. 
c. Elytra each with ten, at the extreme base with eleven, rows of punctures. 
o. Elytra rounded at the apex, emarginate at the sutural angle ; apical margin spinous. 
—bellicosa. 
oo. Posterior angle of the elytron laterally produced.—aterrima. ~ 
B. Vertex and front plane, often impressed on, the medial line with a shallow longitudinal groove ; 
anterior surface of the front in some species finely carinate. 
a. Elytra each with eight rows of punctures; posterior angle not laterally produced. 
o. Elytra more or less distinctly emarginate at the sutural angle.—championi, con- 
sociata, fulvescens, emorsitans, dimidiata, elegantula, aberrans. 
oo. Apex of each elytron rounded, entire.—decepta. 
ooo. Apices of the elytra. conjointly rounded, entire.—clypeata, limbata, belti. 
b. Elytra each with eight regular rows of punctures ; posterior angle laterally produced. 
o. Humeral callus strongly elevate-cristate.—elevata, buqueti, centromaculata. 
oo. Humeral callus not elevate-cristate.—hematopyga. 

c. Elytra each at the extreme base with nine, before the middle with eight, and on the 
hinder disc with nine or ten, rows of punctures ; posterior angle laterally produced. — 
fulvopicia. 

d. Elytra each with ten, at the extreme base with eleven, rows of punctures. 

o. Posterior angle of the elytron not produced; apical margin more or less strongly 
spinose.—pascoei, armata, distinguenda. 
oo. Posterior angle of the elytron not produced ; apical margin finely serrate or serru- 
late.—excisa, westwoodi. 
000. Posterior angle of the elytron produced laterally into a more or less acute triangular 
_ plate.—fulvopustulata, armigera, variegata, nebulosa, dolorosa, melancholica. 


A. Vertex and front impressed with from two to five deep longitudinal grooves. 
| a. Elytra each with eight regular rows of punctures. 


o. Elytra emarginate at the sutural angle. 


1. Uroplata explanata. (Tab. IV. fig. 6.) 

Elongata, postice ampliata ; subtus nitida, supra subnitida, nigra ; antennis compressis, articulis intermediis 
cristatis; clypeo lamina transversa bifida armato ; fhorace subconico, lateribus breviter bisinuatis, 
transversim convexo, pone medium depresso, crebre punctato, utrinque vitta sublaterali bicallosa im- 
punctata fulva; elytris ad apicem ampliatis, distincte, apicem versus fortius, serrulatis, margine apicali 
dilatato, ad suturam late quadratim emarginato; utrisque octo-seriato-punctatis, interspatio secundo 
valde costato. 

Long. 3-34 lin. 

Var. A. Elytris fulvis, plaga communi subtrigona, a basi fere ad medium extensa, linea submarginali infra 


€ 


94 | PHYTOPHAGA. 


basin apiceque, nigris, purpureo tinctis,.vitta submarginali interdum obsoleta. (Odontota explanata, 
Chapuis, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xx. p. 5*.) 
Hab. MxExico.—Cotompta 1, Magdalena River, Bogota. 
Var. B. Elytris fulvis, apice lineaque suturali nigris. 
Hab. Mexico, Cordova (Sailé), Jalapa (Hage). , 


Var. C. Elytris nigris, purpureo tinctis, plaga humerali, a basi ad pone medium extensa, falva. 


Hab. Mexico, Cordova, Misantla, Oaxaca (Hége).—GuateMa.a, Senahu in Vera Paz, 
Cerro Zunil 4000 to 5000 feet, Capetillo (Champion) ; Nicaracua, Chontales (Janson) ; 
Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2500 to 4000 feet, Caldera 1200 feet (Champion). 


Head with an eneous tinge ; vertex trisulcate, the lateral grooves deeply impressed ; 
apex of the clypeus produced into a transverse bifid plate. Antenne rather more than 
half the length of the body; first and second joints short, subnodose, the rest of the 
joints compressed, the third to the seventh cristate; the joints from the eighth to the 
apical one gradually decreasing in width. Thorax transverse, subconic ; sides con- 
verging from the base to the apex, slightly bisinuate ; transversely convex, flattened 
and excavated on the hinder disc, coarsely punctured; a broad bicallose impunctate 
vitta on either side fulvous. Elytra gradually increasing in width towards the apex ; 
sides finely serrulate ; apical margin dilated, more strongly serrate, broadly subquadrate- 
emarginate at the sutural angle; each elytron with eight regular rows of punctures, 
the second interspace strongly costate. 

The three types of coloration of the elytra which I have indicated appear to be 
fairly constant, intermediate forms rarely occurring in a long series of specimens. 

In this species the four upper joints of the antenne, although closely amalgamated, 
are indicated by notches on the upper margin of the club; this probably misled 
Dr. Chapuis, and caused him to Place the ‘Species in -Chalepus. 

Cre aga meh 
2. Uroplata <odriguezi, (Tab. IV. fig. 7.) 
Uroplata (Pentispa) rodriguezi, Chapuis, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xx. p. 22 (1877)}. 


Oblonga, nigra, nitida, supra subnitida; capite sneo tincto, facie inferiori piceo-fulvo; antennis modice. 
compressis; thorace transverso, subconico, lateribus leviter angulatis, crebre punctato, utrinque vitta lata. 
sublaterali torulosa, impunctata, fulva instructo ; elytris subparallelis, apice rotundatis, lateribus tenuiter, 
apice forte et irregulariter, sinuatis, ad suturam emarginatis, dorso deplanatis; utrisque octo-seriato- 
punctatis, interspatiis secundo, quarto sextoque, nec non sutura, costatis; vitta brevi humerali, plaga 
magna communi ad basin apiceque, nigris, purpureo tinctis. 


Long. 23 lin. 


Hab. Guatemata!; Panama, Bugaba 3500 feet, Boquete 3500 feet, Volcan de Chiriqui 
2500 to 4000 feet (Champion). 


Head tinged with zneous, vertex and front impressed with four longitudinal grooves ; 
clypeus transverse, semilunate, its upper edge free, obsoletely angulate. Antenne half 
the length of the body, robust, slightly compressed. Thorax transverse, subconic; sides 


s 


UROPLATA. 95 


converging from the base to the apex, slightly but distinctly angulate ; upper surface 
transversely convex, transversely excavated on the hinder disc, closely and coarsely punc- 
tured ; either side with a broad submarginal torulose, impunctate, fulvous vitta. Elytra 
-subparallel, obtuse, rounded at the apex; lateral margin finely serrulate, the apical one 
irregularly notched, and subquadrate-emarginate at the sutural angle; upper surface 
depressed, each elytron with eight regular rows of punctures, the second, fourth, and 
sixth interspaces, together with the suture, costate, 

It is with some doubt that I assign Dr. Chapuis’s name to this species, as that author 
does not mention the irregular notches on the apical margin of the elytra; should it 
prove distinct I’ would propose to name it clarkella. 


_ 8. Uroplata fairmairei. 

Uroplata (Pentispa) fairmairii, Chapuis, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xx. p. 22 (1877)'. 

Anguste oblonga, dorso deplanata, nigra, nitida ; supra subnitida ; capite interdum nigro-eneo, clypeo piceo ; 
thorace subconico, lateribus subangulato-rotundatis, disco dense et fortiter punctato, utrinque vitta sub- 
laterali torulosa, impunctata, flava instructo ; elytris parallelis, acute serrulatis, apice rotundatis, fortius 
serratis, hic illic et ad suturam emarginatis, utrisque octo-seriato-punctatis ; sutura, nec non interspatiis 
secundo, quarto et sexto, costatis, plaga magna, a basi ad ultra medium extensa, fulva. 

Var. A. Elytrorum plaga fulva postice abbreviata. 

Long. 23 lin. . . 

Hab. Mexico (Sallé), Jalapa ({ége) ; Guaremata, San Geronimo, La Tinta, San Juan 
in Vera Paz (Champion); Nicaragua, Chontales (Janson) ; Costa Rica}. 


Head nigro-zneous or black. Vertex and front deeply trisulcate ; clypeus semilunate, 
- piceous, its upper margin free. Antenne longer than the head and thorax, robust;- 
club slightly compressed. Thorax transverse, the sides obtusely angulate; upper surface | 
excavated behind the middle, closely and deeply punctured; on either side, just within 
the lateral margin, is a broad, torulose, impunctate, fulvous vitta. Elytra oblong ; 
lateral margin ‘serrulate, the apical one irregularly notched, emarginate at the sutural 
angle, strongly serrulate; each elytron with eight regular rows of punctures, the 
second, fourth, and sixth interspaces, together with the suture, strongly costate. 
Rather more parallel than the preceding species. | 


| | 00. Apices of the elytra entire. 
4. Uroplata vittatipennis. (Tab. IV. fig. 9.) 


Anguste oblonga, nigra, nitida, eneo vix micans; thoracis inferioris lateribus obscure fulvis; thorace transverso, 
lateribus a basi ad apicem convergentibus, medio angulatis, dorso transversim convexo, pone medium 
depresso, rude et irregulariter punctato, utrinque vitta lata torulosa fere impunctata instructo; elytris 
oblongis, parallelis, apice rotundatis, margine laterali distincte, apicali fortius, serrulatis ; utrisque octo- 


seriato-punctatis, interspatiis secundo, quarto sextoque, nec non sutura, costatis; utrisque vitta lata, a basi 
fere ad apicem extensa, sordide fulva. 


: Long. 24 lin. 
Hab. Nicaragua, Chontales (Janson, Belt). 


96  PHYTOPHAGA. 


Vertex deeply trisulcate ; interocular space rather strongly produced ; clypeus nigro- 
piceous, prominent, transverse, subpentangular. Antenne robust, longer than the head 
and thorax, scarcely thickened towards the apex; joints cylindrical. ‘Thorax trans- 
verse ; sides obliquely converging from the base to the apex, distinctly angulate ; upper 
surface transversely convex, flattened on the hinder disc, coarsely and strongly punc- 
tured ; a subcallose, nearly impunctate, vitta on either side, obscure fulvous. Scutellum 
transverse, its apex truncate. Elytra oblong, parallel on the sides, rounded at the apex ; 
lateral margin distinctly, the apical one more strongly, serrulate; each elytron with 
eight regular rows of punctures, the second, fourth, and sixth interspaces, together 


with the suture, costate. 


5. Uroplata sallzi. (Tab. IV. fig. 8.) 

Anguste oblonga, nitida; subtus piceo-fulva, pectore pedibusque piceis; supra picea, antennis nigris ; thorace 
transverso, lateribus a basi ad apicem angustatis, medio obsolete angulatis, profunde et irregulariter 
- punctato, vittis duabus discoidalibus, male definitis, basi confluentibus, apicem versus abbreviatis, fulvis ; 
elytris oblongis, parallelis, apice obtuse rotundatis, margine laterali distincte, apicali fortius serrulatis ; 
utrisque profunde octo-seriato-punctatis, interspatiis secundo, quarto sextoque, net non sutura, subcos- 
tatis ; vitta obliqua, nec marginem nec suturam attingente, fasclaque irregulari longe pone medium, flavis. 

Long. 2 lin. 


Hab. Muxico, Cuernavaca, Puebla (Sal/é). 


Vertex deeply trisulcate; interocular space produced. Antenne scarcely equal to 
the head and thorax in length, robust; joints short, cylindrical, the seventh and four 
following ones forming an ill-defined club; apical joint truncate. Thorax transverse ; 
sides converging from the base to the apex, obsoletely angulate, the exterior angle armed 
with a very short lateral tooth ; upper surface transversely convex, transversely flattened 
on the hinder disc, coarsely, deeply, and irregularly punctured, the fulvous markings 
nearly impunctate. Scutellum transverse, truncate, nigro-piceous. Elytra oblong, 
parallel, obtusely rounded at the apex; lateral margin distinctly, the apical one more 
strongly, serrulate; each elytron with eight regular rows of large, deeply impressed 
punctures, the second, fourth, and sixth interspaces subcostate; the suture rather 
more strongly elevated. | 


b. Elytra each with eight, at the extreme base with nine, rows of punctures. 
o. Elytra emarginate at the sutural angle. 


6. Uroplata distincta. 


Subelongata, postice vix ampliata, nigra; subtus nitida, supra subopaca; thorace utrinque vitta sublaterali 
torulosa, impunctata, elytrorumque plaga humerali, a basi fere ad medium extensa, fulvis; thorace trans- 
verso, lateribus a basi ad apicem convergentibus, medio subangulatis, disci medio rude et crebre punctato ; 
elytris subparallelis, apice rotundatis, ad suturam late subquadratim emarginatis, lateribus minute, margine 
apicali fortius et minus regulariter, serrulatis; utrisque octo-, basi extrema nono-seriato-punctatis ; inter- 
spatiis secundo, quarto sextoque costatis. , . 

Var, A. Thorace fulvo, lateribus angustis plagaque subquadrata discoidali, ad basin adfixa, nigris. 

Long. 2-23 lin. 


UROPLATA. 97 


Hab. Mexico (var. A.), Jalapa (Hége, type); GuateMaLa, Tamahu, Chiacam in 
Vera Paz (Champion). 


Vertex and front deeply sulcate; clypeus transverse, produced, its upper edge sub- 
angulate. Antenne nearly half the length of the body, slightly thickened towards the 
apex; joints subcylindrical. Thorax transverse, subconic; sides converging from base 
to apex, obsoletely angulate; disc coarsely and closely punctured, a broad submarginal 
torulose, impunctate vitta on either side, fulvous. Elytra subparallel, very slightly 
‘increasing in width towards the apex; the latter rounded, broadly subquadrate-emar- 
ginate at the suture, the lateral margin finely, the apical one more strongly and some- 
what irregularly, serrulate ; each elytron with eight, at the extreme base with nine, 
regular rows of punctures; the second, fourth, and sixth interspaces costate, the last 
less distinctly raised than the two others. 

Very similar in the emargination of the elytra to U. explanata, but the form of the 
antenne is entirely different ; the elytra are less dilated at the apex, their upper surface 
with an additional row of punctures at the base. 


00. Apices of the elytra entire. 


7. Uroplata chevrolati. 
Uroplata (Pentispa) chevrolati, Chapuis,. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xx. p. 21 (1877 y. 


Anguste oblonga, dorso deplanata, nigra; subtus nitida, supra subnitida; clypeo piceo; thorace transverso, 
conico, lateribus bisinuatis, transversim convexo, disco postico leviter depresso, rude et crebre foveolato- 
punctato, utrinque vitta subtorulosa, fulva ornato; elytris oblongis, fere parallelis, apice obtusis, minute 
serrulatis; utrisque octo-, basi extrema nono-seriato-punctatis, interspatiis secundo, quarto et sexto, nec 
non sutura, costatis ; plaga humerali, retrorsum plus minusve extensa, fulva instructis. 


Long. 2-23 lin. 
Hab. Mexico, Vera Cruz (Sallé); Guatemata1, Duefias, Capetillo, Cerro Zunil 4000 
feet (Champion); Costa Rica (Van Patten).—CoLoMBIa. 


‘Head tinged with neous; vertex and front impressed with three to five longitudinal 
grooves ; clypeus produced, transverse, trigonate. Antenne rather longer than the head 
and thorax, slightly thickened towards the apex ; joints cylindrical, the club very slightly 
compressed. Thorax transverse ; sides converging from base to apex, bisinuate ; upper 
surface transversely convex, transversely excavated on the hinder disc, closely and strongly 
punctured ; a subtorulose vitta on either side, rather less closely punctured than the disc, 
fulvous. Elytra broader than the thorax, parallel on the sides, obtusely rounded at the 
apex; lateral margin finely, the apical one rather more distinctly, serrulate; each elytron 
with eight, at the extreme base with nine*, rows of punctures; the suture, together 
with the second, fourth, and sixth interspaces, moderately costate. 


* In this species the short sutural stria is represented only by one or two punctures. 


BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Coleopt., Vol. VI. Part 2, April 1886. nn 


98 PHYTOPHAGA. 


| 8. Uroplata candezei. 
_Uroplata (Pentispa) candezei, Chapuis, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xx. pp. 22 (1877)*. 


Anguste oblonga, dorso subdepressa, nigra; subtus nitida, supra subnitida; capite nigro-eneo, clypeo piceo, 
thorace elytrisque fulvis ; thorace transverso, lateribus a basi ad apicem convergentibus, medio angulatis ; 
rude et crebre punctato, vitta discoidali, ad apicem plerumque abbreviata, lateribusque macula, nigris ; 
elytris parallelis, apice rotundatis, lateribus distincte, apice fortius, serrulatis ; utrisque octo-, basi extrema 
nono-seriato-punctatis, sutura, nec non interspatiis secundo, quarto sextoque, costatis; dimidio postico 
maculaque infra scutellum, nigris. 

Long. 24-3 lin. 


Hab. Mexico, Cordova, Misantla (Hoge), Vera Cruz, Oaxaca, Juquila (Sallé) ; 
GuaTEMALA 1, Capetillo (Champion). 


Neck and vertex rugose-punctate ; front trisulcate, the medial groove less strongly 
impressed than the lateral ones; interocular space rather strongly produced ; clypeus 
produced, transverse, its apex obtuse. Antenne rather longer than the head and thorax; 
joints cylindrical, the club slightly compressed. Thorax transverse ; sides converging 
from base to apex, obtusely angulate, sinuate from the base to the middle, thence bi- 
sinuate and more quickly converging to the apex; upper surface transversely convex, 
depressed on the hinder disc, closely and coarsely rugose-punctate. Scutellum transverse, 
its apex truncate, slightly bisinuate. Hlytra broader than the thorax, oblong, parallel, 
regularly rounded at the apex; sides distinctly and somewhat irregularly, the apical 
margin more strongly, serrulate ; each elytron with eight, at the extreme base with nine, 
rows of punctures; the suture, together with the second, fourth, and sixth interspaces, 
strongly costate. 


9. Uroplata melanura. 

Uroplata melanura, Chapuis, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xx. p. 22 (1877) 1. 

Anguste oblonga, subtus nitida, supra subnitida, nigra, sepe purpureo tincta, capite nigro-virescenti; thorace 
subconico, lateribus a basi apicem versus convergentibus, medio distincte angulatis; dense et fortiter 
punctato, utrinque vitta lata sublaterali flava; elytris oblongis, apice rotundatis, tenuiter, ad apicem paullo 
distinctius, serrulatis ; utrisque octo-, basi extrema nono-seriato-punctatis, interspatiis secundo et quarto, 
nec non sutura, sat valde costatis, interspatio sexto minus distincte elevato; flavis aut fulvo-flavis, 
dimidia fere postica parte plagaque suturali post scutellum posita, nigris. 

Var. A. Elytris fulvis, dimidio postico, macula communi subscutellari vittulisque duabus infra basin, una 
inter costas primam et secundam, altera inter costam tertiam et marginem positis, nigris. 

Long. 22 lin. 


Hab. Mzxico}, Oaxaca, Jalapa, Misantla, Cordova, Juquila, Vera Cruz (Hage, Sallé), 
Capulalpam, Guanajuato (Sallé). 


\ 


Vertex trisulcate ; interocular space moderately produced ; clypeus transverse, 
produced, semilunate. Antenne black, robust ; lower joints cylindrical, the seventh and 
the club slightly compressed. Thorax transverse ; sides converging from base to apex, 
distinctly angulate; upper surface entirely covered with coarse punctures. Elytra 
parallel on the sides, rounded at the apex, finely serrulate (more strongly on the apical 


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margin); each elytron with eight, at the extreme base with nine, rows of punctures, 
the second, fourth, and sixth interspaces, together with the suture, costate. 
In some specimens from Juquila the apices of the elytra are rather more strongly 


serrate. 


10. Uroplata beata*. (Uroplata rubida, Tab. IV. fig. 10.) 


Subelongata, fere parallela, nigra, eneo vix tincta, nitida; thorace elytrisque rufis, illo transverso, conico,. 
lateribus fere rectis, anguste nigris; dorso subcylindrico, disco pone medium paullo deplanato, crebre 
foveolato-punctato; elytris parallelis, sinuatis, apice obtuse rotundatis ; utrisque octo-, basi extrema nono- 
seriato-punctatis, interspatiis alternis costatis, costis duabus internis magis fortiter elevatis; plaga 
discoidali inter costas primam et tertiam vix pone medium, posita, lateribus anguste margineque apicali, 
nigris. 

Var, A. Elytrorum plaga discoidali obsoleta. 

Long. 33 lin. 


Hab. Mexico, Cordova (Hége). 


Head smooth; front moderately produced between the eyes, deeply trisulcate. 
Antenne robust, equal in length to the head and thorax; first and second joints short, 
the former slightly thickened, the third rather longer than the second, subovate, the’ 
fourth and fifth each equal in length to the second, the sixth very short, subturbinate, 
the seventh nearly twice its length ; club slightly compressed and dilated. Thorax about 
one fourth broader than long at the base; sides nearly straight, obsoletely bisinuate, 
obliquely converging from base to apex, the anterior angle armed laterally with a short 
acute tooth ; upper surface subcylindrical on the sides and at the apex, flattened on the 
hinder disc, closely and deeply foveolate-punctate. Elytra narrowly oblong, parallel, 
obtusely rounded at the apex, rather coarsely serrulate ; each elytron with eight, at the 
base with nine, regular rows of punctures; second and fourth interspaces rather 
strongly costate, the sixth less strongly elevated, finely serrulate below its middle. 


c. Elytra each with ten, at the extreme base with eleven, rows of punctures. 


o. Elytra rounded at the apex, emarginate at the sutural angle; apical margin spinous. . 


11. Uroplata bellicosa. 

Elongata, subparallela, nigra; subtus nitida, supra subopaca ; tarsis anticis capitisque maculis fulvis, femoribus 
anticis quatuor flavis; vertice utrinque fortiter sulcato; antennis rigidis, compressis, ad apicem attenu- 
atis; thorace conico, lateribus rectis, ad apicem sinuatis, angulo antico dente subacuto, obliquo armato, 
dense punctato, pone medium transversim excavato, utrinque vitta lata submarginali fulva; elytris ab 
ante medium apicem versus paullo ampliatis, apice rotundatis, ad suturam quadrato-emarginatis, irregula- 
riter spinosis; utrisque decem-, basi undecim-seriato-punctatis, interspatiis secundo, quarto octavoque, 


-* Since the Plate was drawn I have discovered that the specific name rubida under which I first described 
the above insect had been previously used for another species of the same genus. I have, therefore, been com- 


pelled to change it. 
nn 2 


100 PHYTOPHAGA. 


nec non sexto ad apicem, minus distincte costatis, plaga basali callum humeralem amplectente fulva in- 
structis ; pedibus elongatis, femoribus intermediis dentibus brevibus nonnullis armatis. 
Long. 33 lin. 


Hab. Panama, Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet (Champion). A single specimen only. 


Head rather strongly produced between the eyes; vertex and front deeply impressed — 
on either side with a longitudinal groove; a small patch on the hinder border of the 
eye, and one on the anterior portion of the front, obscure fulvous. Antenne rigid, half 
the length of the body, compressed, attenuated towards the apex, the latter acute; the 
two lower joints short, moniliform, the third and four following ones carinate. 
Thorax slightly broader than long, conic; sides nearly straight, sinuate immediately 
behind the anterior angle, the latter armed with a subacute oblique tooth. Elytra 
subparallel, rounded at the apex, emarginate at the suture, the apices with several long 
spinous teeth; each elytron with ten, at the base with eleven, regular rows of punc- 
tures, the second, fourth, and eighth interspaces costate; the sixth interspace towards 
its apex, together with the suture, less strongly elevated. » 


oo. Posterior angle of the elytron laterally produced. 
12. Uroplata aterrima. (Tab. IV. fig. 23.) 
Euprionota aterrima, Guér. Icon. du Régne Anim. iii. Texte, p. 278°. 


- Hab. Mexico1, Jalapa (Hoge), Parada, Juquila (Sallé); Guatemata, Capetillo, 
Duefias, Cerro Zunil 4000 feet, Purula (Champion); Nicaragua, Chontales (Janson) ; 
Costa Rica, Cache (Rogers). 


The diagnosis given by Guérin so accurately defines this species, that a detailed 
description is unnecessary. 


B. Vertex and front plane, often impressed on the medial line with a shallow longitu- 
dinal groove ; anterior surface of the front in some species finely carinate. 


a. Elytra each with eight rows of punctures ; posterior angle not laterally 
produced. 


o. Elytra more or less distinctly emarginate at the sutural angle. 


13. Uroplata championi. (Uroplata emarginata, Tab. IV. fig. 11.) 


Chalepus championi, antea, p. 50. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2500 to 4000 feet, Bugaba (Champion). 


Misled by the general resemblance of this insect to certain species of Chalepus, I, 
without sufficiently careful examination, originally placed it in that genus. Quite 


UROPLATA. 101 


recently, when working out the species of Uroplata, I came across a series of specimens 
which I placed without hesitation in the present genus, and redescribed before dis- 
covering that they were specifically identical with the insect previously described by me 
as Chalepus championi: hence the discrepancy in the naming of the plate. 


14. Uroplata consociata. 

Elongata, subparallela, subdepressa ; subtus nitida, nigra, antepectoris medio, mesosterno, coxis, femoribus basi 
abdominisque limbo extremo, fulvis; supra subopaca, fulva, scutello antennisque nigris; thorace trans- 
verso, lateribus a basi ad ultra medium rectis, fere parallelis, hinc apicem versus oblique convergentibus, 
dorso subcylindrico, disco pone medium transversim depresso, rugoso-punctato, medio anguste longitu- 
dinaliter suleato ; vitta mediali, antice interdum abbreviata, nigra, lateribus anguste nigris aut nigro- 
piceis; elytris subparallelis, serrulatis, apice rotundatis, ad suturam conjunctim emarginatis, utrisque octo- 

' seriato-punctatis, interspatiis secundo, quarto sextoque subcostatis. 

Var. A. Elytris nigris, plaga magna humerali, a basi ad medium extensa, fulva. 

Var. B. Elytris fulvis, linea suturali dimidioque postico nigris. 

Var. C. Elytris fulvis, apice extremo nigris. 

Var. D. Elytris totis fulvis (mas). 

Mas. Antennarum articulis intermediis compressis, dorso cristatis. 

Long. 23 lin. 

Hab. Mexico, Cordova, Misantla (Hoge: A and B), Yolos (Sallé: C); Guatema.a, 
near the city (Champion). 


-Interocular space moderately produced ; vertex and front opaque, in some specimens im- 
pressed on the medial line with a faint longitudinal groove ; upper portion of the clypeus 
thickened, its apex sulcate. Antenne rather slender, more than half the length of the 
body, filiform ; the apical joint not thicker than the preceding ones ; third joint longer 
than the preceding two united, the third and fourth obsoletely flattened. Thorax more 
than one half broader than long ; sides straight and nearly parallel from the base to 

just beyond the middle, thence obliquely converging towards the apex, the latter 
armed with a small subacute tooth; upper surface transversely convex, transversely 
depressed on the hinder disc, coarsely rugose-punctate, the medial line with a faint 
longitudinal groove ; a medial vitta, usually abbreviated anteriorly, black, the lateral 
margin narrowly, nigro-piceous or black. Elytra subparallel, subacutely rounded at 
the apex, conjointly emarginate at the sutural angle, finely serrulate; upper surface 
flattened along the suture ; each elytron with eight regular rows of large transversely 
oblong punctures, the second, fourth, and sixth interspaces slightly elevated Rather 
broader and less parallel than U. championi. _ 


15. Uroplata fulvescens. 

Elongata, parallela; subtus nigra, nitida, femoribus anticis quatuor basi, pectorisque medio, flavis ; supra sub- 
opaca, lete fulva ; capite levi, antennis, verticis macula colloque utrinque, nigris; thorace transverso, 
lateribus a basi ad ultra medium rectis, hinc ad apicem convergentibus ; dorso rugoso-punctato, medio 
tenuiter canaliculato, vitta discoidali lateribusque nigris ; elytris parallelis, apicem versus vix ampliatis, 
apice rotundatis, ad suturam emarginatis, serrulatis, utrisque octo-seriato-punctatis, linea suturali, a 


102 | . PHYTOPHAGA. 


basi ad vix pone medium extensa, apiceque extremo; nigris; tibiis anticis intus prope apicem dente brevi 
armatis. 

Var. A. Elytris immaculatis. 

Long. 3 lin. 


Hab. Guatemata, Capetillo (Champion: var. A); Panama, Volean de Chiriqui 
(Champion : type). 


Head smooth, impunctate. Antenne filiform ; first and second joints short, submo- 
niliform ; third joint longer than the preceding two united, obsoletely compressed ; club 
not thicker than the preceding joints, attenuated towards itsapex. Thorax nearly half 
as broad again as long; sides straight and nearly parallel from the base to beyond the 
middle, thence obliquely converging to the apex, the anterior angle armed with a short 
subacute tooth; upper surface rugose-punctate, the medial line with a fine longitudinal 
groove; the extreme lateral margin, together with a discoidal vitta, black. Scutellum 
black. Elytra subelongate, parallel, very slightly dilated towards the posterior angle, 
rounded at the apex, distinctly emarginate at the suture ; finely serrulate, the serratures 
rather more distinct on the apical margin; each elytron with eight regular rows of 
punctures, all the interspaces, from the first to the sixth, slightly prominent, but not 
distinctly costate. | 

This species may be separated from its allies by the non-costate elytra. 


16. Uroplata emorsitans. (Tab. IV. fig. 12.) 


Elongata, subdepressa, nigra; subtus nitida, antepectoris medio, femoribus anticis fere totis, posticisque 
quatuor basi, fulvis; supra subopaca, thorace fulvo aut rufo-fulvo, scutello capiteque nigris; antennis. 
quam corpus dimidio longioribus, compressis, dorso cristatis ; thorace subconico, dorso subcylindrico, disco- 
postico transversim excavato, crebre punctato, lateribus angustis vittaque discoidali nigris ; elytris sub- 
parallelis, apice rotundatis, ad suturam late emarginatis, minute serrulatis, utrisque octo-seriato-punc- 
tatis, interspatiis secundo, quarto sextoque costatis, sexto minus elevato; linea brevi communi subscu- 
tellari, margineque apicali, nigris. 

Var. A. Facie piceo-fulva, elytrorum margine apicali nigro obsoleto. 

Long. 33 lin. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2500 to 4000 feet, Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet 
(Champion). | 


Interocular space rather strongly produced ; vertex impressed on the medial line 
with a faint longitudinal groove ; front finely carinate. Antenne more than half the 
length of the body, strongly compressed, attenuated towards the apex; the third to 
the seventh joints cristate; two lower joints short, cylindrical. Thorax not broader 
than long in the male, rather more transverse in the female; sides nearly straight and 
parallel at the base, thence slightly converging and slightly rounded to the apex; 
upper surface transversely convex, broadly and distinctly excavated on the hinder disc, 
closely punctured. -Elytra subparallel, very slightly increasing in width from the base 
towards the apex; the latter rounded, broadly emarginate at the sutural angle; outer 
margin finely serrulate; each elytron with eight regular rows of punctures; the second, 


UROPLATA. 103 


fourth, and sixth interspaces costate, the outer costa less strongly elevated than the 
others. | 

Closely allied to the following species ; its thorax less coarsely punctured and more 
opaque. 


17. Uroplata dimidiata. (Tab. IV. fig. 13.) 


Elongata, subparallela, dorso subdepressa ; subtus nigra, nitida, antepectoris medio, femoribus anticis fere totis, 
posticisque quatuor basi, fulvis; supra subopaca, rufo-fulva, scutello capiteque nigris, facie piceo-fulva ; 
antennis compressis, dorso cristatis ; thorace subconico, lateribus fere rectis, in 2 ad apicem magis con- 
vergentibus, dorso subcylindrico, pone medium paullo excavato, rude et crebre punctato; nigro, utrinque 

-vitta lata sublaterali fulva ; elytris a basi apicem versus paullo ampliatis, apice rotundatis, ad suturam 
late subquadratim emarginatis, lateribus minute, margine apicali magis distincte, serrulatis; utrisque 
octo-seriato-punctatis, interspatiis secundo, quarto sextoque costatis, tertio quintoque pone medium minus 
distincte elevatis ; dimidio postico lineaque suturali, postice plus minusve abbreviata, nigris. 

Var. A. Elytris nigris, utrisque plaga humerali, fere ad medium extensa, fulva. 

Long. 33-34 lin. 

Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2500 to 4000 feet, Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet 


(Champion). 


Head strongly produced between the eyes. Antenne strongly compressed, attenuated 
at the apex; the third to the seventh joints cristate; front finely sulcate, its anterior 
surface faintly carinate. Thorax subconic, slightly broader than long in the male, 
rather more transverse in the female ; sides straight and converging from base to apex 
in the male, more obliquely converging at the apex in the other sex; transversely 
convex, slightly depressed on the hinder disc, coarsely and irregularly punctured ; 
medial line with a fine longitudinal groove. LElytra slightly dilated from the base 
towards the apex, the latter subacutely rounded, broadly emarginate at the suture ; 
sides finely, the apical margin rather more strongly, serrulate; apical border in the male 
distinctly dilated ; each elytron with eight regular rows of punctures; the second, 
fourth and sixth interspaces costate, the third behind the middle, and the fifth at its 
base and apex, slightly elevated. 


18. Uroplata elegantula. (Tab. IV. fig. 14.) 


__Anguste elongata, rufo-testacea, subtus nitida, supra subnitida, antennis piceis; thorace transverso, rude 
rugoso-punctato ; elytris fere parallelis, apice rotundatis, lateribus minute serrulatis, margine apicali irre- 
gulariter serrato et ad suturam emarginato; utrisque octo-seriato-punctatis, stria octava medio interrupta, 
interspatiis alternis costatis ; vitta lata suturali, ante apicem obsoleta, piceo-eenea instructis. 

Long. 23 lin. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet, David (Champion). 


Thorax about one third: broader than long ; sides straight and nearly parallel from 
the base to just beyond the middle, thence rounded and converging towards the apex, 
the anterior angle armed with a short, subacute, oblique tooth; upper surface convex, 
transversely excavated on the hinder disc, coarsely rugose-punctate. Elytra parallel, 


104 PHYTOPHAGA. 


slightly constricted at the sides, rounded at the apex; lateral margin finely, the apical 
one more strongly and irregularly, serrulate, slightly notched at the sutural angle ; 
each elytron with eight rows of large, deeply impressed punctures, the eighth row 
obsolete in the middle part of its course; the second, fourth, and sixth interspaces. 
strongly costate. 


19. Uroplata aberrans. 
Uroplata aberrans, Chapuis, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xx. p. 25 (1877). 


Elongata, subdepressa, nigra; subtus nitida, prosterni medio abdomineque fulvis, femoribus anticis quatuor 
basi, flavis ; supra subopaca, vertice fronteque levibus, hac tenuiter carinata ; antennis ad corporis dimidium 
eequilongis, articulis intermediis compressis, cristatis ; thorace transverso, lateribus a basi apicem versus. 
convergentibus ; dorso transversim convexo, pone medium transversim excavato, crebre rugoso-punctato ; 
utringue vitta sublaterali, punctata, obsolete torulosa ; fulvo, lateribus vittaque lata discoidali, ante apicem. 
abbreviata, nigris ; elytris anguste elongato-ovalis, apice subacute rotundatis, ad suturam emarginatis ; 
minute serrulatis, utrisque octo-seriato-punctatis, interspatiis secundo et sexto costatis, quarto basi et’ 
apice minus distincte elevato; nigris, macula parva basali fulva ornatis. 

Mas. Clypeo in laminam transversam ampliato, apice levi, margine superiori bilobato. 

Fem. Clypeo cuneiformi, apice paullo producto, subtuberculato. 

Long. 3 lin. 


Hab. Mexico 1, Cordova (Hoge, Sallé).—CoLomBIA. 


Vertex and front smooth, the latter finely carinate; interocular space moderately 
produced. Antenne about half the length of the body, slender; two lower joints short, 
neatly equal in length, subcylindrical, the third to the sixth compressed, moderately | 
dilatad, cristate, the third equal in length to the preceding two united; club slender, 
subfiliform ; clypeus in the male produced and dilated into a broad, smooth bilobate- 
plate, the outer edges of which extend on either side over the inner border of the eye. 
Thorax nearly one half broader than long ; sides converging from the base towards the 
middle, very slightly rounded ; upper surface transversely convex, transversely excavated 
on the hinder disc; closely rugose-punctate, a subtorulose vitta on either side, just . 
within the lateral margin, rather less closely punctured than the rest of the surface. . 
Elytra very narrowly ovate, subacutely rounded at the apex, subquadrate-emarginate 
at the sutural angle; outer margin minutely serrulate, narrowly dilated on the sides, 
more distinctly so at the apex; each elytron with eight regular rows of large, trans- 
versely oblong punctures; the second and sixth interspaces costate, the fourth slightly 
elevated at the base and apex. 


oo. Apex of each elytron rounded, entire. 


20. Uroplata decepta. 


Elongata, fere parallela; subtus nigra, nitida, pectoris medio femoribusque basi flavis ; supra subopaca, fulva; 
antennis, capitis macula verticali, thoracis vitta discoidali lateribusque angustis, scutello elytrorumque: 
linea suturali, a basi ad medium extensa, nigris; thorace transverso, lateribus pone medium fere parallelis, 
hine apicem versus convergeutibus; dorso rugoso-punctato, medio tenuiter, longitudinaliter sulcato,. 


-UROPLATA. 105 


disco postico leviter transversim depresso; elytris fere parallelis, minute serrulatis, singulis apice 
rotundatis ; utrisque octo-seriato-punctatis ; interspatiis secundo, quarto sextoque subcostatis. 


Long. 3 lin. 
Hab. Nicaraaua, Chontales (Janson) ; Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2.000 to 3000 feet, 
Bugaba (Champion). 


Vertex and front smooth, impressed on the medial line with an oblong fovea. 
Antenne half the length of the body, filiform, the third joint longer than the preceding 
two united, slightly compressed. Thorax nearly one half broader than long; sides 
nearly straight and parallel from the base to the middle, thence converging and slightly 
rounded to the apex, the anterior angle armed with a short subacute tooth ; upper surface 
transversely convex, slightly depressed on the hinder disc, coarsely rugose-punctate, the 
medial line impressed with a fine longitudinal groove. Elytra nearly parallel, obsoletely 
dilated posteriorly; each elytron regularly rounded and entire at its apex, forming, 
conjointly with the opposite elytron, a subangulate emargination at the sutural angle ; 
outer border finely serrulate, the serratures more irregular on the apical margin ; each 
elytron with eight regular rows of punctures, the second, fourth, and sixth interspaces 


subcostate. 
ooo. Apices of the elytra conjointly rounded, entire. 


21. Uroplata clypeata. 

Elongata, subparallela, depressa, fulvo-flava ; subtus nitida, supra subopaca, pectoris lateribus abdomineque piceo 
tinctis ; capitis vertice antennisque nigris, pedibus nigro-piceis, femoribus subtus fulvis; clypeo tumido, 
disco superiori trituberculato ; antennis robustis, subcylindricis ; thorace transverso ; lateribus roturdatis, 
a basi ad apicem convergentibus, disco pone medium transversim excavato, subcrebre foveolato-punctato, 
utrinque vitta lata sublaterali nigra instructo ; elytris a basi apicem versus paullo ampliatis, apice rotun- 
datis ; distincte, margine apicali remotius, serrulatis; utrisque octo-seriato-punctatis, interspatiis secundo, 
quarto sextoque «qualiter sat valde costatis; vitta brevi humerali lineaque communi subscutellari, 


nigris. , 
Long. 34 lin. 
Hab: Mxxtco, Cordova (Sallé). 


Vertex impressed with a large deep fovea; upper half of the clypeus strongly thick- 
ened, its. apex trituberculate. Antenne robust, rigid, scarcely thickened towards the 
apex, the latter acute; joints subcylindrical. Thorax more than one half broader than 
long; sides rounded and bisinuate before the middle, armed at the apex with a short 
obtuse tooth; upper surface subcylindrical, strongly excavated transversely on the 
hinder disc, impressed with large, round, deep punctures; on either side within the 
lateral margin is a broad black longitudinal stripe, which extends from the basal 
margin nearly to the apical one. LElytra very slightly dilated towards the apex, the 
latter broadly rounded, entire; outer margin narrowly dilated, rather broader towards 
the apex, distinctly serrulate ; each elytron with eight regular rows of large transversely 
oblong punctures, the second, fourth, and sixth interspaces strongly and equally 


costate. 
BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Coleopt., Vol. VI. Pt. 2, Apri 1886. “00 


106 PHYTOPHAGA. 


22. Uroplata limbata. 


Elongata, parallela, dorso deplanata; nitida, rufo-fulva; antennis nigris, thoracis vittis duabus elytrorumque 
limbo exteriori piceo-sneis ; thorace rude punctato; elytris parallelis, apice rotundatis, tenuiter serru- 
latis; utrisque oeto-serinto-punetatis, interspatiis secundo, quarto sextoque modice elevatis. 

Long. 24 lin. 


Hab. MExico, Yucatan (coll. Baly). 


Interocular space very slightly produced. Antenne rather longer than the head and 
thorax, slightly. thickened towards the apex; joints cylindrical, the five upper ones 
forming a very narrow club. Thorax broader than long; sides rounded, nearly straight 
and parallel behind the middle; upper surface transversely convex, excavated on the 
hinder disc, coarsely and closely punctured, a submarginal vitta on either side piceo- 
zneous. Elytra rather broader than the thorax, parallel, rounded at the apex, the 
outer margin serrulate ; each elytron with eight regular rows of punctures, the second, 
fourth, and sixth interspaces moderately costate ; outer limb broadly piceo-zneous, the 
eeneous tint (in the single specimen before me) gradually lost towards the apex of the 
elytron. 


23. Uroplata belti. 


Anguste cuneiformis, dorso depressa ; subtus nigra, nitida, pectoris medio femoribusque basi fulvis; supra sub- 
opaca, fulva; capite inter oculos modice producto, vertice antennisque nigris, ore nigro-piceo; thorace 
transverso ; lateribus pone medium fere rectis, ante medium rotundatis, et ad apicem convergentibus ; disco 
fortiter et crebre punctato, lateribus vittaque lata discoidali nigris ; scutello nigro; elytris apicem versus 
ampliatis, apice regulariter rotundatis, minute serrulatis, dorso depressis ; utrisque octo-seriato-punctatis ; 
dimidio postico vittaque communi suturali, nigris. 

Long. 34 lin. 


Hab. Nicaraeva, Chontales (Belt). A single specimen. 


Front plane, opaque. Antenne nearly half the length of the body ; third joint equal 
in length to the basal two united, slightly compressed, the fourth, fifth, and seventh equal 
to each other in length, the sixth rather shorter; club not more dilated than the preceding 
joints. Thorax about one half broader than long; sides nearly straight and parallel 
from the base to the middle, thence rounded and converging to the apex, the anterior 
angle armed with a subacute tooth ; transversely convex, strongly and deeply punctured ; 
a narrow lateral stripe, abbreviated at the extreme apex, together with a broader medial 
vitta, black. Elytra rather broadly dilated posteriorly, broadly rounded at the apex, 
finely serrulate, the posterior angle obsolete; each elytron with eight regular rows of 
punctures, the second, fourth, and sixth interspaces costate. 


UROPLATA. 107 


b. Elytra each with eight regular rows of punctures ; posterior angle laterally 
produced. 


o. Humeral callus strongly elevate-cristate. 


24. Uroplata elevata. (Tab. IV. fig. 22.) 


Elongata, dorso deplanata, pallide fulva, nitida; antennarum dimidio basali piceo-nigro; thorace conico, rude 

_ punctato, piceo trivittato ; elytris parallelis, apice obtusis, serrulatis, angulo postico in laminam trigonatam 

acutam extrorsum producto; utrisque octo-seriato-punctatis, interstitiis alternis costatis, callo humerali 

valde elevato-cristato ; margine laterali angusto, linea longitudinali, super cristam humeralem posita, et ad 

vix ultra medium elytri extensa, fascia angusta subapicali, lineisque duabus obliquis, interdum fere 
obsoletis (harum una ante, altera vix pone medium, positis), rufo-piceis, angulo postico nigro-piceo. 


Long. 3 lin. 
Hab: Mexico, Playa Vicente (Salle); Panama, Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet, David, 
Caldera in Chiriqui 1200 feet, Taboga Island (Champion). 


Head strongly produced between the eyes; vertex and front opaque, the latter 
impressed with a faint longitudinal fovea. Antenne rigid, equal in length to the head 
and thorax; six lower joints short, cylindrical, the five upper ones forming a distinct, 
slightly compressed club; five lower joints piceous, the rest fulvous. Thorax conic, 
scarcely broader at the base than long; sides converging from base to apex; sub- 

cylindrical, hinder disc transversely excavated, coarsely and closely punctured. Elytra 
parallel, obtusely rounded at the apex; the hinder angle produced laterally into an 
acute, triangular, nigro-piceous tooth, the apex of which curves slightly backwards, its 
upper surface carinate ; sides rather strongly serrulate, the serrations more irregular 
on the apical margin; each elytron with eight regular rows of large deep punctures, 
the second, fourth, and sixth interspaces costate; humeral callus strongly elevated, 


‘cristate. 


25. Uroplata buqueti. | 
‘Elongata, depressa, fulva; subtus nitida, pedibus flavis; supra subnitida, antennis pallide rufo-castaneis ; 
thorace cum longitudine equilato, conico, lateribus rectis ; disco rugoso-punctato, castaneo trivittato ; ely tris. 
parallelis, apice obtuse truncatis, angulo postico i in laminam trigonatam, dorso cristatam, lateraliter pro- 
ducto; margine laterali minute, apicali magis distincte et irregulariter, serrulatis ; utrisque octo-seriato- 
punctatis, interspatiis secundo, quarto sextoque costatis ; callo humerali valde elevato, cristato; linea 
submarginali, a basi ad apicem extensa, fasciaque angusta subapicali, rufo-piceis, angulo postico piceo. 


Long. 2 lin. 

Hab. Panama, Bugaba (Champion). 

Vertex and front smooth, impunctate, the former with a faint fuscous patch. Antenne 
scarcely longer than the head and thorax, robust, thickened towards the apex.; joints 
short, cylindrical ; apex of the club slightly compressed. Thorax not longer than broad, 
conic; sides straight, converging from base to apex, rugose-punctate, the lateral margin, 
together with a narrow discoidal vitta, rufo-piceous. Elytra subelongate, parallel, 

002 


108 PHYTOPHAGA. 


obtusely truncate at the apex, the posterior angle produced laterally into a short 
triangular plate; each elytron with eight regular rows of punctures, .the second, fourth, 
and sixth interspaces costate, the apex of the third costa extending over the surface of 
the dilated posterior angle; a narrow submarginal vitta extending from base to apex 
_and running along the edge of the cristate humeral callus, together with a narrow 
subapical band, rufo-piceous; the dilated posterior angle dark piceous; in the single 
specimen before me there is a faint trace of a small subapical black spot. 
Similar in form to U. elevata, but less than half the size, its antenne unicolorous. 


26. Uroplata centromaculata. 
Uroplata (Octhispa) centromaculata, Chapuis, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xx. p. 24 (1877) *. 


Hab. Mexico!, Tuxtla (Sallé); Guatemata, Duefias (Champion). 


This species, which is well although briefly described by Dr. Chapuis, is much 
shorter and broader than U. elevata and U. buqueti; its antenne are shorter, being 
scarcely longer than the head and thorax; the thorax is more transverse ; the elytra are 
oblong-quadrate and the humeral callus is more strongly cristate. 


oo. Humeral callus not elevate-cristate. 


27. Uroplata hematopyga. (Tab. IV. fig. 18.) 


Anguste subcuneiformis, dorso depressa; subtus nitida, supra subopaca, rufa, capitis vertice nigro; antennis 
rigidis, ad apicem paullo incrassatis; thorace transverso, rude punctato, plus minusve piceo tincto; 
elytris ante medium parallelis, apicem versus paullo ampliatis, apice obtuse rotundatis, angulo postico 
lateraliter paullo producto, obtuso ; lateribus minute, margine apicali magis distincte, serrulatis; utrisque 
octo-seriato-punctatis, interspatiis secundo, quarto sextoque, nec non sutura, costatis ; nigro-piceis, apice 
maculisque parvis discoidalibus rufis. . 

Long. 23-3 lin. 


Hab. Mexico, Cordova (Hége); Panama, Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet (Champion). 


Vertex and front plane, the latter carinate on the medial line. Antenne slightly 
longer than the head and thorax, robust, thickened towards the apex ; joints cylindrical. 
Thorax nearly one half broader than long; sides converging from the base to the apex, 
sinuate near the base and again just before the apex; subcylindrical above, transversely 
excavated on the hinder disc, coarsely and deeply foveolate-punctate ; more or less © 
stained with piceous, in some specimens this colour covering almost the entire surface. 
Elytra parallel from the base to beyond the middle, slightly dilated posteriorly, obtusely 
rounded at the apex, the posterior angle distinctly laterally produced, obtusely rounded ; 
lateral margin finely, the apical border more strongly, serrulate; each elytron with 
eight regular rows of punctures, the suture, together with the second, fourth, and sixth 
‘interspaces, costate. 

The specimen from Bugaba is rather smaller, more darkly coloured, and the elytra 
have a distinct metallic violaceous tint ; the front is also less distinctly carinate. 


UROPLATA. . 109 


c. Elytra each at the extreme base with nine, before the middle with eight, and on the 


hinder disc with nine or ten, rows of punctures ; posterior angle laterally 
— produced. 


28. Uroplata fulvopicta. 

Elongata, ad apicem ampliata, depressa, nitida; subtus cum capite nigro-picea ; pedibus posticis nigris, anticis 
quatuor, femoribus posticis basi, thoraceque inferiori, fulvis ; capite inter oculos ‘antennisque pallide rufo- 
fulvis ; thorace transverso, lateribus rotundatis, a paullo ante basin ad apicem convergentibus, trans- 
versim convexo, pone medium transversim excavato, rude et crebre punctato; rufo-fulvo, vitta lata 
discoidali nigra ; elytris subelongatis, parallelis, ad apicem ampliatis, serrulatis, apice obtuse rotundatis, 
angulo postico in laminam trigonatam extrorsum producto; utrisque basi extrema novem-, ante medium 
octo-, et pone medium novem- aut decem-, seriato-punctatis ; interspatiis secundo, quarto sextoque, nec non 


sutura, costatis ; piceo-zeneis, fulvo variegatis, angulo postico nigro. 
Long. 3? lin. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion). 


Vertex rather strongly punctured, impressed with a longitudinal fovea ; interocular 
space strongly produced, and, together with the lower face, rufo-fuscous. Antenne more 
than one third the length of the body, slightly thickened towards the apex; joints 
cylindrical, the two lower ones short, oval, the basal one being rather longer than the 
second, and the third nearly equal in length to the preceding two; five lower joints 
nigro-piceous, the rest obscure fulvo-rufous. ‘Thorax transverse ; sides nearly straight 
and parallel at the base, thence rounded and converging to the apex, the anterior angle 
armed with a small obtuse tooth; above transversely convex, transversely excavated 
just in front of the basal margin, strongly and closely punctured ; fulvous, a broad 
discoidal vitta black. Scutellum black. Hlytra subelongate ; sides parallel, finely but 
distinctly serrulate, the hinder angle produced laterally into a subtrigonate coarsely sculp- 
tured plate, the hinder edge of which is strongly serrate; apical margin obtuse, very 
faintly sinuate at the suture; each elytron at the extreme base with nine, before the 
middle with eight, and on the hinder disc with nine or ten, rows of large deep punc- 
tures; second, fourth, and sixth interspaces, together with the suture, costate ; nigro- 
eeneous, a small patch at the base of each elytron, two ill-defined fasciz (broadly 
abbreviated towards the suture, one placed before, the other behind, the middle), a 
transverse subapical patch, the apical margin, and the coste for the greatest portion of 
their extent, rufo-fulvous. 


_d. Elytra each with ten, at the extreme base with eleven, rows of punctures. 


o. Posterior angle of the elytron not produced ; apical margin 
more or less strongly spinose. 


29. Uroplata pascoei. 
Elongata, parallela ; subtus nigra, nitida, pectoris medio femoribusque flavis, his nigro maculatis ; supra fulva, 
subnitida, capitis plaga magna verticali antennisque filiformibus nigris; thorace subconico, lateribus 


110 | PHYTOPHAGA. 


leviter angulatis, subcylindrico, disco postico late transversim depresso, crebre foveolato-punctato, vitta 
discoidali lata lateribusque nigris ; scutello nigro, nitido ; elytris parallelis, ad apicem obsolete ampliatis, 
minute serrulatis, apice rotundato ; spinis compressis nonnullis ornatis ; utrisque decem-, basi undecim- 
seriato-punctatis, suture basi nigro lineata. 

Mas. Femoribus anticis subtus spina brevi, tibiis anticis intus ante apicem dente brevi, armatis. 

Fem. Femoribus anticis subtus dente brevi, tibiis ejusdem paris inermibus. 

Long. 33 lin. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 3000 to 4000 feet, Bugaba (Champion). 


Vertex smooth, impunctate ; front moderately produced between the eyes, its upper 
portion coarsely but not deeply punctured, the medial line with a fine longitudinal groove. 
Antenne rather more than half the length of the body, filiform ; two lower joints short, 
equal, subovate; the third to the sixth joints slightly compressed, the third equal in: 
length to the two basal ones; club not thickened, cylindrical, attenuated towards the apex. 
Thorax slightly broader than long at the base; sides obtusely angulate, converging 
from base to apex, the anterior angle armed with a short, oblique, obtuse tooth; upper 
surface subcylindrical at the sides and apex, broadly depressed and slightly excavated 
on the hinder disc, closely foveolate-punctate. Scutellum subquadrate, dilated at the 
apex, its apical margin notched.. Elytra parallel, rounded at the apex, very slightly 
dilated towards the posterior angle ; sides finely serrulate ; apical margin armed with | 
a few strong irregular flattened teeth, sometimes confluent at the base; each elytron 
at the extreme base with eleven, the rest of the surface with ten, rows of large punc- 
tures; interspaces not costate. Legs long; intermediate pair of tibiz curved in both 
sexes. 


30. Uroplata armata. (Tab. IV. fig. 15.) 


Elongata, subparallela, nigra; subtus nitida, pectoris medio femoribusque anticis basi, fulvis; supra subopaca, 
thorace elytrisque fulvis ; thorace subconico, lateribus obsolete angulatis ; crebre rugoso-punctato, vitta. 
discoidali lateribusque angustis nigris; elytris subparallelis, apicem versus paullo ampliatis, apice rotun- 
datis; ad suturam subquadratim emarginatis, ante medium obsolete, pone medium magis distincte, serru- 
latis ; margine apicali dentibus brevibus nonnullis armato, angulo postico spina valida obliqua instructo; 
utrisque decem-, basi extrema undecim-seriato-punctatis, interspatiis alternis costatis, secundo quartoque 
magis elevatis; linea suturali nigra; pedibus elongatis, femoribus anticis subtus ante medium spina 


brevi armatis. 
Long. 23-3 lin. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2500 to 4000 feet (Champion). 


Vertex and front subopaque ; interocular space moderately produced. Antenne half 
the length of the body, compressed, the second joint shorter than the basal one; the 
third and fourth each equal in length to the first; club not incrassate. “Thorax 
broader than long ; sides obliquely converging from base to apex, subangulate; upper 
surface convex, transversely excavated on the hinder disc, closely and coarsely 
punctured, Elytra subelongate, parallel before, slightly dilated behind, the middle; 
lateral margin in front obsoletely, behind the middle more distinctly, serrulate; the 
hinder angle armed with a strong acute oblique spine; apical margin rounded, sub- 


UROPLATA. 111 


quadrate-emarginate at the sutural angle, its outer half obsoletely, the inner half | 
irregularly, serrulate ; each elytron with ten, at the extreme base with eleven, rows of 
punctures, the alternate interspaces costate, the second and fourth rather more strongly 
elevated. 


31. Uroplata distinguenda. 


Elongata, postice paullo ampliata, nigra ; subtus nitida, pectoris medio fulvo; supra subopaca ; thorace velutino, 
vage punctato, fulvo, vitta discoidali nigra ; elytris ad apicem paullo dilatatis, apice rotundatis, margine 
laterali distincte serrulato, angulo postico spina brevi armato, margine apicali breviter spinoso; utrisque 
decem-, basi extrema undecim-seriato-punctatis, interspatiis secundo, quarto octavoque costatis, sexto ad 
apicem leviter elevato ; utrisque plaga lata, a basi ad ultra medium extensa, maculaque submarginali, 
infra basin nigra notata, fulvis ornatis. 


Long. 3 lin. . 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2500 to 4000 feet, Bugaba ( Champion). 


Vertex and front impressed with a faint longitudinal groove, opaque, impunctate ; 
interocular space slightly produced. Antenne about one third the length of the 
body ; joints cylindrical, the five upper ones forming a slender elongate club. Thorax 
transverse; sides subangulate, converging from base to apex; disc opaque, vaguely punc- 
tured, a broad discoidal vitta, black. Tlytra broader than the thorax; sides parallel 
from the base to the middle, thence slightly dilated towards the posterior angle, the 
latter armed with an oblique spine; apical margin rounded, armed with short spines; 
each elytron with ten, at the extreme base with eleven, rows of punctures ; the second, 
fourth, and eighth interspaces costate, the apical half of the sixth also slightly elevated. 
Legs slender, elongate. : 


oo. Posterior angle of the elytron not produced ; apical margin finely 
. serrate or serrulate. 


32. Uroplata excisa. (Tab. IV. fig. 16.) 


Elongata, fere parallela; subtus nigra, nitida, femoribus basi abdominisque lateribus piceo-fulvis ; supra sub- 
opaca; capite piceo-fulvo, vertice antennisque subfiliformibus nigris; thorace transverso, subconico, 
lateribus fere rectis ; disco transversim convexo, pone medium leviter transversim depresso, rugoso-punc- 
tato; utrisque vitta subtorulosa, minus punctata, fulva instructo, vitta lata discoidali nigra ; scutello nigro; 
elytris parallelis, apice rotundatis, margine apicali paullo ampliato, ad suturam late subquadrato-emargi- 
nato; minute, ad apicem distinctius, serrulatis ; utrisque decem-, basi extrema undecim-seriato-punctatis, 
sutura nec non interspatiis secundo et quarto modice costatis, interspatio octavo minus distincte elevato ; 
nigris, plaga humerali, a basi ad ultra medium extensa, fulva. 

Var. A. Thoracis vitta discoidali antice abbreviata. 

Long. 2 lin. 


Hab. Mexico, Cordova (Hége); GuatEMALa, Cerro Zunil 4000 feet, Panajachel 5000 
feet (Champion); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). — 


Vertex smooth, impressed anteriorly with a short longitudinal groove; interocular 
space slightly produced, obtuse. Antenne less than half the length of the body, slightly 
dilated towards the apex; joints cylindrical, the club very slightly compressed, its apex 


112 PHYTOPHAGA. 


acute, the two lower joints ovate, short, equal, very slightly thickened, the third equal in 
length to the preceding two united. Thorax broader than long; sides nearly straight, 
converging from base to apex ; upper surface transversely convex, the hinder disc faintly 
excavated on either side the medial line, coarsely and deeply punctured; a broad sub- 
torulose vitta on either side near the lateral margin less closely punctured. Elytra 
parallel, very slightly dilated at the obsolete hinder angle; apex rounded; apical 
margin dilated, broadly emarginate at the suture; sides finely, the apex rather more 
strongly, serrulate; each elytron with ten, at the extreme base with eleven, rows of 
deep punctures; the second and fourth interspaces, together with the suture, moderately 
costate, the eighth interspace obsoletely elevated. | 


33. Uroplata westwoodi. (Tab. IV. fig. 17.) 

Elongata, parallela, nigra; subtus nitida, thorace, abdominis limbo angusto femoribusque subtus, flavis; supra 
subopaca ; capite sordide fulvo, vertice antennisque nigris; thorace transverso, lateribus angulatis ; 
crebre punctato, sordide fulvo, lateribus vittaque lata discoidali, hoc sepe ante apicem abbreviata, nigris ; 
scutello nigro; elytris parallelis, lateribus obsolete serrulatis; apice rotundatis, fortius sed minus regu- 
lariter serratis, utrisque decem-, basi extrema undecim-seriato-punctatis, interspatio secundo valde costato, 
interspatiis quarto apice, sexto basi, nec non octavo toto, minus distincte elevatis ; callo humerali lateraliter 
paullo producto, acuto ; nigris, vitta laterali, a basi ad angulum posticum extensa, basi nigro maculata, 


maculaque apicali sordide fulvis. 
Long. 3 lin. 


Hab. Mexico, Playa Vicente, Cordova, Juquila (Sallé) ; NIcaracua (Salle) ; PANAMA, 
David in Chiriqui (Champion).—Cotomsta (coll. Baly). 


Vertex smooth, opaque; interocular space produced, its apex angulate. Antenne 
rather more than one third the length of the body, filiform, very slightly thickened 
towards the apex; joints cylindrical. Thorax transverse ; sides straight and parallel 
to the middle, thence obliquely converging to the apex, the apical angle not produced ; 
upper surface transversely convex, broadly depressed on the hinder disc, opaque, closely 
punctured ; obscure fulvous, the lateral margin, a broad discoidal vitta (the latter some- 
times abbreviated anteriorly) together with the apical margin, black. Scutellum black. 
Elytra parallel, rounded at the apex; the lateral margin obsoletely serrulate, the apical 
one rather coarsely serrate, the apical teeth sometimes placed at irregular intervals along 
the margin ; each elytron with ten, at the extreme base with eleven, rows of punctures ; 
the second interspace strongly costate, the fourth interspace at its apex, the sixth at the 
base, and the entire eighth, less strongly raised. | , 

This species is very closely allied to U. infuscata, Chapuis, the chief difference being 
in the rather broader and less strongly punctured thorax in the latter insect.. U. west- 
woodi varies greatly in the extent of the fulvous colouring ; in some specimens from — 
Colombia the marginal vitta on the elytron is submarginal for nearly the whole of its ) 
course, and is continued onwards to join the apical spot; in others the fulvous coloration 
covers to a greater or lesser extent the outer disc. SO 


-UROPLATA. 113 . 


000. Posterior angle of the elytron produced laterally into a more or less acute 
triangular plate. 


34. Uroplata fulvopustulata. (Tab. IV. fig. 19.) 


Late cuneiformis, depressa, piceo-fulva, nitida; thorace, scutello pedibusque flavis ; capite inter oculos paullo 
producto, levi; thorace transverso, transversim convexo, rude rugoso-punctato ; elytris a paullo ante me- 
dium apicem versus ampliatis, apice obtusis, angulo postico lateraliter in laminam trigonatam producto; 
lateribus laxe et minute, margine apicali distinctius, serrulatis ; dorso deplanatis, utrisque decem-, basi 
extrema undecim-seriato-punctatis, sutura interspatiisque alternis costatis; callo humerali lateraliter 
paullo producto ; fusco-eneis, maculis parvis fulvis ornatis. 

Long. 2 lin. 


Hab. Guaremara, Tamahu (Champion); Panama, Bugaba, David (Champion). 


Head very slightly produced between the eyes; front and vertex smooth, impunctate. 
Antenne more than one third the length of the body, slender at the base, thickened 
towards the apex, their joints cylindrical. Thorax twice as broad at the base as long; 
sides straight and slightly converging from the base to the middle, thence more quickly 
converging and slightly sinuate to the apex, the anterior angle armed with a subacute 
tooth; upper surface transversely convex, transversely excavated on the hinder disc, 
coarsely and irregularly punctured. Elytra much broader than the thorax; sides 
gradually dilated from just before the middle to the posterior angle, the latter produced 
into a triangular concave plate; apical margin obtuse, distinctly serrate; lateral margin 
finely and subremotely serrulate ; each elytron with ten, at the extreme base with eleven, 
rows of punctures; the suture, together with each alternate interspace, costate; the 
humeral callus laterally prominent; fusco-eneous, marked with numerous small fulvous 
patches, arranged as follows:—one basal; two placed on the first costa, one about its 
middle, the other towards its apex; one on the outer margin, halfway between the 
middle and the apex; and, lastly, one on the apical margin, transverse. 


35. Uroplata lineaticollis. | 

Late cuneiformis, depressa, fulva, nitida, pectoris lateribus antennisque nigro-piceis; thorace subconico, late- 

. ribus a basi ad apicem convergentibus, leviter rotundatis, disco transversim convexo, pone medium leviter 
transversim excavato, profunde crebre punctato, punctis disci medio magis remotis; lateribus nigro-piceis, 
vittis brevibus duabus discoidalibus, male definitis, pallide piceis ; elytris subquadrato-oblongis, ad apicem 
ampliatis, serrulatis, apice obtuse rotundato, angulo postico in laminam obtusam lateraliter producto; 
utrisque decem-, basi undecim-seriato-punctatis, interspatiis secundo, quarto et octavo totis, nec non sexto 
basi, costatis ; piceis, rufo-piceo variegatis, apice, macula laterali pone medium, nonnullisque parvis 

- discoidalibus, falvis. 
. Long. 2 lin. 


Hab. Guaremata, Tamahu (Champion). 


So closely allied in form and coloration to U. fulvopustulata that it will be only 
necessary to point out the distinctive differences: its thorax is narrower, subconic, and 
not unicolorous; the antenne are nigro-piceous instead of fulvous, and, lastly, the pro- 
duced hinder angles of the elytra are shorter and much more obtuse; in all other 

BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Coleopt., Vol. VI. Pt. 2, May 1886. pp 


114 | PHYTOPHAGA. 


respects it agrees with U. fulvopustulata, amongst specimens of which I had until now 
placed it. ' | 7 — 


tg ate 


36. Uroplata armigera. (Uroplata robinsoni, Tab. IV. fig. 20,) « 
Subcuneiformis, depressa, fulva; subtus nitida, pectore utrinque macula nigra, tarsis pallide piceis ; supra sub- 
nitida ; capite levi, fronte tuberculo parvo nitido instructa, macula verticali antennarumque dimidio 
basali nigro-piceis ; thorace quam longo duplo latiori; lateribus a paullo ante basin ad apicem oblique con- 
vergentibus, breviter rotundatis, dorso pone medium transversim excavato, rugoso-punctato, medio anguste 
longitudinaliter sulcato; vitta discoidali lateribusque piceo-eneis; elytris parallelis, ad apicem paullo 
ampliatis, minute serrulatis, apice obtuse truncatis, angulo postico in spinam validam trigonatam acutam 
lateraliter producto; callo humerali acuto, lateraliter paullo producto; utrisque decem-, basi undecim- 
-seriato-punctatis, interspatiis secundo, quarto octavoque costatis; limbo laterali, ante apicem obsoleto, 
angulo postico, fascia transversa subapicali angusta, macula parva pone medium super costam secundam, 
lineis brevibus duabus inter costam primam et suturam, una ad basin, altera ante medium positis, vittaque 
subbasali brevi, inter costas primam et secundam, wneis; femoribus anticis subtus dentibus duobus, 
posticis quatuor singulis dente uno armatis. 


Long. 3 lin. 


fab. Nicaracua, Chontales (Belt). 


Interocular space moderately produced; vertex and front smooth, impunctate, the . 
latter with a small nitidous tubercle. Antenne rather longer than the head and thorax, 
subclavate ; joints cylindrical, the club obsoletely compressed ; nigro-piceous, the basal 
Joint and club piceo-fulvous. Thorax twice as broad at the base as long; sides quickly 
converging from: immediately above the base towards the apex, very slightly rounded ; 
upper surface transversely excavated on the hinder disc, rugose-punctate, the medial line — 
with a narrow longitudinal groove. Elytra- broader than the thorax ; sides parallel, 
slightly dilated posteriorly, the apex obtusely truncate; outer margin minutely serrulate, 
the serratures not stronger on the apical margin than on the sides; posterior angle 
produced laterally into a strong acute triangular plate, the surface of which is obliquely 
thickened and convex ; each elytron with ten, at the extreme base with eleven, regular 
rows of punctures, the second, fourth, and eighth interspaces costate, the eighth rather — 
less elevated than the others. Anterior thighs beneath armed with two small acute 


teeth, the four posterior ones unidentate. 


37. Uroplata variegata. (Tab. IV. fig. 21.) 


Subcuneiformis, subdepressa ; subtus nigro- aut piceo-snea, nitida, pectoris medio, abdominis basi pedibusque 
fulvis; supra minus nitida, capite rufo-piceo, antennis nigris; thorace transverso ; lateribus a basi ad 
apicem convergentibus, paullo rotundatis; crebre rugoso-punctato ; sordide fulvo, vittis tribus nigris in- 
structo; scutello nigro; elytris anguste oblongis, lateribus serrulatis, parallelis, apicem versus abrupte 
ampliatis, angulo postico lateraliter in laminam trigonatam producto ; apice obtuse rotundato, fortius ser- 
rato; utrisque decem-, basi undecim-seriato-punctatis, interspatiis secundo, quarto octavoque, nec non 
sexto basi et apice, costatis ; eeneis, maculis confluentibus fulvis variegatis, angulo postico nigro. 

Long. 3 lin. 


Hab. Panama, Bugaba, David in Chiriqui (Champion). 


_ Head subopaque, the vertex longitudinally excavated, stained with nigro-piceous ; inter- 


UROPLATA. . 115 


ocular space moderately produced, angulate. Antenne black, more than a third the 
length of the body, thickened towards the apex ; joints cylindrical. ‘Thorax transverse ; 
sides converging from base to apex, obtusely rounded, the anterior angle produced into an 
obtuse tooth; upper surface transversely convex, the hinder disc transversely depressed, 
coarsely and closely punctured ; disc with three black vitte, extending from the base to 
the apex. Elytra broader than the thorax; sides parallel, rather quickly dilated at the 
hinder angle, serrulate; posterior angle dilated laterally into an acute triangular plate ; 
apex obtusely rounded; apical margin, together with the hinder margin of the dilated 
posterior angle, more strongly serrulate than the sides; each elytron with ten, at the 
extreme base with eleven, rows of. large deeply impressed punctures; the second, fourth, 
and eighth interspaces, together with the base and apex of the sixth, costate ; aneous, 
variegated with fulvous markings, which. form an irregular semicircular band extending 
from the middle of the basal margin to the suture just before its middle, an irregular | 
fascia just below the middle of the elytron, and a transverse patch or fascia immediately 


_above the apex: these markings vary greatly in extent, and in some specimens the 
apical margin is also fulvous. 


38. Uroplata nebulosa. 


Subcuneiformis, depressa ; subtus piceo-nigra, nitida ; thorace, abdominis limbo femoribusque anticis fere totis, 
posticisque quatuor basi et apice, sordide fulvis; supra opaca, sordide fulva; capite impunctato, vertice 
nigro, antennis nigro-piceis ; thorace transverso, lateribus basi rectis, parallelis, medio breviter rotundato- 
ampliatis, angulo antico dente subacuto armato ; dorso velutino, inzequali, medio punctis nonnullis remote 
impresso, lateribus fere impunctatis, disco postico utrinque ante basin transversim excavato; basi margi- 
neque laterali nigro-piceis ; elytris a basi ad medium parallelis, hinc apicem versus ampliatis, apice obtusis, 
margine laterali minute serrulato, apicali paullo dilatato, irregulariter serrato; angulo postico lateraliter 
producto; dorso deplanatis, utrisque decem-, basi undecim-punctatis, interspatiis secundo, quarto et octavo, 
nec non sexto ad basin, costatis, costa secunda ante medium et ante apicem interrupta; velutinis, piceo 
nebulosis ; tibiis anticis compressis, dorso ampliatis, subcristatis. 

Long. 3 lin. 


Hab. Mexico (Sallé). A single specimen. 


Head moderately produced between the eyes; front impressed on the medial line with 
a shallow longitudinal groove. Antenne slender at the base, thickened towards the 
apex, rather more than a third the length of the body; joints cylindrical, the basal 
one short, the second about one half longer than the first, rather shorter than the third, 
and about equal inlength to the fourth. Thorax nearly twice as broad as long; sides 
nearly straight and parallel at the base, rounded and dilated in the middle, converging 
at the apex, the anterior angle armed with a stout subacute tooth ; transversely convex ; 
surface unequal, transversely excavated on either side just before the base; velvety, 
nearly impunctate on the sides, impressed on the middle disc with a few large piceous 
punctures; lateral] margin and base stained with nigro-piceous. Scutellum piceous. 
Elytra much broader than the thorax; sides gradually dilated from the middle to the 
posterior angle, the latter produced laterally into a triangular plate; apical margin 


pp? 


116 PHYTOPHAGA. 


slightly dilated, strongly and irregularly serrate, the lateral border finely serrulate ; each 
elytron with ten, at the extreme base with eleven, rows of deep punctures, the second, 
fourth, the basal portion of the sixth and the entire eighth interspaces, costate ; the 
second costa more strongly elevated than the rest, interrupted below the base and again 
before the middle; apical portion of the suture distinctly costate. | 


39. Uroplata dolorosa. | 

Subcuneiformis, subdepressa, nigra; subtus nitida, thoracis lateribus femoribusque basi fulvis ; supra velutina, 
capite (antennis exceptis) thoraceque sordide fulvis; hoc rude punctato, lateribus angustis plagisque 
magnis discoidalibus, basi adfixis et fere ad apicem extensis, nigris; elytris ad apicem ampliatis, apice 
obtuse rotundatis, angulo postico lateraliter paullo extenso, obtuso; margine laterali obsolete, apicali sat 
fortiter, serrulatis ; utrisque decem-, basi extrema undecim-seriato-punctatis, interspatiis secundo et quarto 
valde costatis, leviter sinuatis, nitidis, callo humerali.lateraliter producto, obtuso; margine basali macu- 
laque disvoidali, vix pone medium posita, obscure fulvis ; tibiis compressis, anticis dorso cristatis. 

Long. 24 lin. . . . . 

Hab. Panama, Bugaba 800-1500 feet, Volcan de Chiriqui 3000 to 4000 feet 
(Champion). 

Vertex and front opaque, the former impressed with an ill-defined fovea ; interocular 
space moderately produced, obtuse. Antenne less than one third the length of the 
body, thickened towards the apex ; joints cylindrical, the apex of the club acute. Thorax 
transverse ; sides straight and parallel from the base to the middle, thence rounded and 
converging towards the apex, sinuate anteriorly, the apical angle armed with a strong 
subacute tooth; disc coarsely punctured, a narrow medial line, and the space imme- 
diately behind the apical margin, free from punctures. Elytra subparallel before 
the middle, thence gradually dilated towards the posterior angle, the latter laterally 
produced ; apex obtusely rounded ; lateral margin very finely, the apical one coarsely 
and irregularly, serrulate ; each elytron with ten, at the extreme base with eleven, 
rows of punctures; the second and fourth interspaces strongly costate, subsinuate, 
the eighth interspace very slightly thickened; humeral callus laterally produced, its 


apex obtuse. 


40. Uroplata melancholica. (Tab. IV. fig. 24.) 


Subcuneiformis, dorso subdepressa, nigra, nitida; supra subnitida, prosterno, femoribus basi, capite thoraceque 
fulvis aut piceo-fulvis, genubus piceis ; capite inter oculos paullo producto, vertice antennisque subclavatis 
nigris; thorace transverso, lateribus a basi ad medium fere parallelis, hinc ad apicem rotundato-angustatis 
angulo antico dente valido obtuso, antrorsum producto, armato ; disco profunde, minus crebre foveolato- 
punctato, margine laterali, nec non plagis discoidalibus duabus, a basi ad apicem extensis, interdum ante 
apicem abbreviatis, nigris ; elytris oblongis, lateribus ante medium fere parallelis, hinc ad apicem perparum 
ampliatis, minute serrulatis, angulo postico abrupte lateraliter dilatato; apice obtuse truncato, fortiter ser- 
rato; utrisque decem-, basi extrema undecim-seriato-punctatis, interspatiis secundo et quarto valde costatis 
lateraliter biflexuosis, costa interna basi obsoleta, interspatiis sexto ad basin, nec-non octavo toto leviter 
elevatis; opacis, margine basali maculaque parva vix pone medium posita, fulvis. , 

Var. A. Elytrorum maculis obsoletis. . 

Long, 23-2? lin. 


UROPLATA. 117 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 3000 to 4000 feet, Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet 
(Champion). 


Head very finely granulose, the front only slightly produced between the eyes. Antenne 
gradually thickened towards the apex, rather longer than the head and thorax, robust 
in the male, rather more slender in the female; the two lower joints equal, submonili- 
form, the third obconic, rather shorter than the preceding two united. Thorax trans- 
_ verse ; sides straight and nearly parallel from the base to the middle, sometimes slightly 
- sinuate, thence rotundate-angustate to the apex, the anterior angle armed with a strong 
obtuse tooth ; disc transversely convex on the sides and apex, broadly depressed and 
excavated on its hinder surface, coarsely and strongly foveolate-punctate, the punctures 
scattered .on the anterior disc, more crowded behind the middle. FElytra oblong; sides 
- nearly parallel before the middle, thence gradually dilated to the posterior angle, finely 
serrulate, the posterior angle abruptly produced into a flattened subtriangular obtuse 
plate; apices obtusely truncate, the margins, together with the hinder edge of the 
lateral plate, coarsely serrate ; upper surface opaque, finely granulose ; each elytron at its 
extreme base with eleven, at the extreme apex with six or seven, and on the rest of its 
surface with ten, rows of punctures; second and fourth interspaces strongly costate, 
laterally sinuate, the inner costa obsolete at its base; the basal portion of the sixth, 
and the entire eighth interspace, moderately elevated. Legs thickened; tibiae com- 
pressed, the outer edge of the anterior pair subcristate, the intermediate pair curved. 


41. Uroplata sculptilis. 
Uroplata sculptilis, Chapuis, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. 1877, p. 27°. 


Hab. Mexico 1. 
This species is nearly allied to, and probably identical with, U. excisa, described in 


the present work (antea, p. 111), but without comparison of the types it is impossible 
to decide the point. 


42, Uroplata crassicornis. 
Uroplata crassicornis, Chapuis, loc. cit. p. 28°. 


Hab. t Mexico 1.—Brazit. 


Dr. Chapuis has, I think, given the wrong locality for this species; all the specimens 
that I have seen (from various sources) were labelled Brazil. 


The three following species are unknown to me :— 


| 43. Uroplata fastidiosa. 
- Uroplata fastidiosa, Chapuis, Ann. Soc. Ent. ‘Belg. XX. p. 21 (1877)’. 


Oblonga, subnitida, nigra ; pronoto subtransverso, conico, “lateribus subrectis, dense et profunde punctato, vitta 


118 PHYTOPHAGA. 


utrinque flava, laterali, torulosa, impunctata, ornato; elytris oblongis, parallelis, acutius densiusque et 
versus apicem longius serrulatis, tricostatis, nigris, cum plaga flava humerali, fere ad medium extensa ; 
__ Corpore subtus cum pedibus nigro. (Chapuis.) — 
Long. 54 millim. 


Hab. Mexico 1, 


44. Uroplata subvirens. 
Uroplata subvirens, Chapuis, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xx. p. 22 (1877) *. 


Oblonga, subnitida, nigra ; pronoto transverso, conico, lateribus subrectis, sat dense et fortiter punctato, nigro- 
virescenti, utrinque vitta sublaterali flava, torulosa, impunctata, ornato; elytris parallelis, tricostatis, 
breviter sed versus apicem longius serrulatis, nigro-virescentibus cum plaga flava a basi ad ultra medium 
et a sutura ad marginem extensa ; corpore subtus cum pedibus nigro, (Chapuis.) 

Long. 5 millim. , 


Hab. GuatTEMALA 1. 


‘I cannot refer any of the specimens before me with certainty to either U. subvirens © 
or U. fastidiosa. The author does not mention in any of his diagnoses the short ninth 
row of punctures on each elytron; it is therefore uncertain in which of my subsections 
of Section A these species ought to be placed. 


45. Uroplata bipuncticollis. 
Uroplata bipuncticollis, Chapuis, loc. cit. p. 28°. 


Hab. Mexico 1. 


This insect is quite unknown to me, but, judging from the description, it is closely 
allied to U. crassicornis. . 


Section 3. Seven to nine upper joints of the antenne closely united into a single piece. 


ACANTHODES. 
Acanthodes, Baly, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3rd ser. xiv. p. 262 (October 1864). 


The peculiarity in the structure of the antenne at once. separates the present genus 
from Uroplata, to which. in general form and in all other characters it is closely allied. 
With the exception of the one described below, the rest of the species inhabit South 
America. 


1. Acanthodes flavipes. (Tab. IV. fig. 25.) 


Anguste subcuneiformis, dorso depressa, nigra ; pedibus flavis, supra ceneo vix micans ; antennis rigidis; thorace 
conico, subcylindrico, crebre et fortiter punctato; elytris oblongis, lateribus parallelis, angulo postico in 
laminam coneavam apice obtusam, oblique lateraliter producto; apice obtuse rotundato; utrisque octo-, 

_ basi nono-seriato-punctatis, interspatiis secundo, quarto sextoque, nec non sutura, costatis. 

Long. 2 lin. , 


ACANTHODES. . . 119 
Hab. Panama, David in Chiriqui (Champion). 


Head rather strongly produced between the eyes; vertex finely rugose, irregularly 
sulcate. Antenne equal in length to the head and thorax, robust ; first and second joints 
short, moniliform, the basal one thickened ; the third and following joints closely united, 
and forming a slightly compressed club; the articulations between the third, fourth, and 
fifth joints (when viewed under a strong leris) distinct, the rest not defined; third joint — 
nearly as long as the preceding two united. Thorax conic, subcylindrical, obliquely 
converging from base to apex ; very slightly depressed on the hinder disc, closely and 
deeply punctured. Elytra narrowly oblong; sides parallel, minutely serrulate ; hinder 
angle produced laterally and somewhat obliquely into a subtrigonate concave plate ; 
apical margin obtuse, minutely serrulate ; upper surface with eight, at the extreme 
base with nine, rows of deep punctures; the second, fourth, and sixth interspaces, 
together with the suture, costate. 

In some specimens the puncturing between the second and third costa behind their 
middle is less regular, and occasionally there is a trace of an additional row of 
punctures. 


SUPPLEMENT. 


CEPHALOLEIA (p. 8). 


Cephaloleia stenosoma (p. 19). 
The reference to Tab. II. fig. 4 must be erased ; the figure represents C. leptomorpha 


Cephaloleia leptomorpha (p. 25). (Tab. II. fig. 4.) 


The locality “Volcan de Chiriqui 8000 feet (Champion),” and the concluding remarks, 
“Taken abundantly by sweeping undergrowth (Bambusaces) in the virgin forest at a 
high elevation,” must be transferred from Stenispa attenuata (p. 4) to the present 
insect. 


CEPHALODONTA (p. 82). 


Cephalodonte longula. 
Cephalodonta elongata, ante, p. 38. 


I find that the name elongata has ‘been already used by Guérin for another species 
of the genus. 


CHALEPUS (p. 48). | 
Chalepus morio (p. 50): 


In all the specimens that I have seen of this species there is a single puncture placed 
- between the inner row of punctures and the scutellum. 


Chalepus championi (p. 50). 
This species belongs to Uroplata; it is inserted in its proper place in that genus on 
p. 100. 


Chalepus suturalis (p. 51). 
To the locality given, add :—Mexico, Cordova (Sailé). 


PHYTOPHAGA. . 121 


5 (a). Chalepus bivittaticollis. 


Sat elongatus, niger, subtus nitidus, supra subnitidus ; thorace subconico, disco crebre punctato, utrinque vitta 
submarginali callosa impunctata fulva instructo; elytris parallelis, ad suturam late subquadrato-emar- 
ginatis, utrisque octo-, basi extrema nono-seriato-punctatis, interspatio secundo nec non sutura costatis ; 
interspatiis tertio ad sextum subelevatis. 

Long. 3 lin. 


Hab. MEXxico, Parada, Oaxaca (Sallé). 


Front trisulcate; antenne filiform, the four upper joints closely articulated, the 
sutural lines only visible under a lens. Thorax transverse; sides converging from base 
to apex, more quickly so before their middle; upper surface transversely convex, 
transversely excavated posteriorly, coarsely and strongly punctured; on either side, 
within the lateral margin, is a broad, callose, impunctate, fulvous vitta. Elytra parallel ; 
sides serrulate, rather more coarsely so towards the apex; apical margin distinctly 
dilated, broadly subquadrate-emarginate at the sutural angle; each elytron with eight, 
at the extreme base with nine, rows of deeply impressed punctures; the second inter- 
space, together with the suture, costate; the third to the sixth interspaces slightly but 
distinctly elevated. | 

Very similar in form to C. morio, but the short additional basal row of punctures, 
together with the sublateral fulvous thoracic vitte, will at once distinguish it from that 


~ species. 


Chalepus bellulus (p. 68). 


‘To the localities given, add :—Mexico, Ventanas (Forrer), Tuxtla, Playa Vicente, 
Panistlahuaca (Sal/é). 


Chalepus chromaticus (p. 70). 
To the localities given, add :—Mexico, Cordova (Hége), Toxpam (Salle). 


Chalepus angulosus * (p. 78). 


Var. A, Elytris nigris, vitta submarginali a basi ad medium extensa, fulva ornatis. 


Hab. Panama, David (Champion). 


Chalepus similatus (p. 73). 
To the localities given, add :—Mexico, Oaxaca, Cordova (Hoge). 


Chalepus waterhousii (p. 81). | 

To the localities given, add:—Mexico, Teapa (Sa/é); Guaremata, Cubilguitz, 
Cahabon, Panima, Tamahu (Champion). | - 

* The last line of the diagnosis of this species should read :—linea submarginali brevi fulva, nigro notata, 


ornatis ; not linea submarginali brevi nigra, fulva notata ornatis. 


BIOL. CENTR:-AMER., Coleopt., Vol. VI. Pt. 2, May 1886. qq 


122 SUPPLEMENT. 


Chalepus deyrollei (p. 83). 


To the localities given, add :—Mexico, Jalapa (Hoge); Guatemata (coll. Baly), San 
Gerénimo, Zapote (Champion). 


60 (a). Chalepus mediolineatus. 


Subelongatus, niger; subtus nitidus, prosterno rufo-fulvo; supra subopacus; thorace transverso, lateribus a 
basi ad apicem oblique convergentibus, medio obsolete angulatis, dorso transversim convexo, pone 
medium transversim excavato, crebre punctato, utrinque vitta lata subtorulosa, fere impunctata, fulva 
instructo; elytris anguste oblongis, parallelis, apice rotundatis, ad suturam leviter conjunctim emarginatis, 
lateribus minute, apice distinctius, serrulatis ; utrisque plaga brevi humerali fulva ornatis, decem-, -basi 
extrema undecim-seriato-punctatis, interspatio secundo valde costato, quarto et octavo, nec non sutura, | 
leviter elevatis. 

Long. 3 lin. 


Hab. Muxtco, Oaxaca, Capulalpam (Sal/é). 


Antenne about one third the length of the body, very slightly thickened towards the 
apex ; joints cylindrical. Thorax nearly twice as broad as long at the base; sides obso- 
letely angulate, quickly converging from base to apex ; upper surface closely punctured, 
transversely excavated behind the middle, either side with a broad submarginal, torulose, 
nearly impunctate, fulvous vitta. Elytra narrowly oblong, parallel and finely serrulate 
on the sides, regularly rounded at the apex, conjointly emarginate at the suture, the 
apical margin rather more strongly serrulate; each elytron with ten, at the extreme 
base with eleven, rows of punctures ; the second interspace strongly costate, the fourth 
and eighth interspaces, together with the suture, slightly elevated. | 

Separated from C. deyrollei by its smaller size, broader thorax, and by the more 
regularly rounded apices of the elytra. 


60 (s). Chalepus fraternalis. | 

Subelongatus, niger; subtus nitidus, prosterno, femoribusque anticis basi, fulvis; supra opacus, thoracis vittis 
duabus latis sublateralibus, apice abbreviatis, rufo-fulvis ; thorace transverso, subconico, disco fortiter punc- 
tato, pone medium transversim excavato, utrinque ad latus minus crebre punctato, velutino ; elytris sub- 
parallelis, apice rotundatis, ad suturam conjunctim emarginatis ; lateribus minute serrulatis, margine apicali 
irregulariter serrato; utrisque decem-, basi extrema undecim-seriato-punctatis, interspatiis secundo et 
quarto valde costatis, octavo toto, sexto basi, nec non sutura, modice elevatis. 

Var. A. Elytris singulis plaga magna marginali, a basi ad medium extensa, rufo-fulva ornatis. 


Var, B. Elytrorum plaga rufo-fulva ad marginem non extensa. 
Long. 33 lin. 


Hab. Guaremaa, Las Mercedes 3000 feet (Champion). 


Antenne rather more than one third the length of the body, very slightly thickened 
towards the apex ; joints cylindrical. ‘Thorax transverse, subconic, sides quickly con- 
verging from the base towards the apex ; upper surface transversely excavated on the 
hinder disc, coarsely punctured, a broad rufo-fulvous vitta on either side, extending 
nearly to the lateral border, but abbreviated just before reaching the apical margin, less 


PHYTOPHAGA. | 123 


deeply punctured. Elytra narrowly oblong, subparallel, finely serrulate on the sides, 
regularly rounded at the apex, conjointly emarginate at the sutural angle, the apical 
margin serrate; each elytron with ten, at the base with eleven, rows of punctures; the 
second and fourth interspaces rather strongly costate, the eighth, the sixth on its basal — 
half, together with the suture, less distinctly elevated. | . 

Nearly allied to the preceding species and to C. deyrollei, but separated from both by 
the coarser serrations of the apical margin of the elytra, and by the second and fourth 
interspaces being equally strongly costate. 


* 


UROPLATA (p. 92). 


Uroplata fairmairei (p. 95). 


The ‘following are localities for Var. A :—Mexico, Jalapa (Sallé); Guatnmaua, Las 
Mercedes 3000 feet (Champion). 


Var. B. Elytris fulvis, plaga communi basali, vitta laterali a basi ad elytri tertiam partem extensa, trienteque 
postico, nigris. 


Hab. Muxico, Playa Vicente (Sallé); Panama, Tolé (Champion). 


3 (4). Uroplata sanguinipennis. 

Anguste oblonga, subparallela, nigra, nitida, pectoris medio fulvo; thorace lateribus angustis, disco crebre et 
profunde punctato, pone medium leviter transversim excavato, fulvo, vitta lata discoidali lateribusque 
nigris ; elytris a basi apicem versus leviter ampliatis, apice conjunctim obtuse rotundatis, ad suturam 
leviter conjunctim emarginatis, lateribus obsolete, apice distincte et irregulariter, serratis ; utrisque octo- 
seriato-costatis, interspatiis secundo, tertio, quarto quintoque modice costatis, primo sextoque minus 
distincte elevatis ; sanguinosis, linea suturali, male definita, ante apicem fere obsoleta, plagaque marginali 
basi, nigris. 

Long. 22 lin. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2500 to 4000 feet (Champion). 


Vertex and front quadrisulcate, the outer grooves ill defined ; antenne half the length 
of the body, very slightly thickened towards the apex, moderately compressed. Thorax 
transverse; sides angulate, bisinuate ; upper surface coarsely and deeply punctured, 
transversely excavated on the hinder disc. Elytra subparallel, very slightly dilated from 
the base towards the apex, the latter obtusely rounded, broadly and slightly emarginate 
at the suture, the lateral margin obsoletely, the apical one strongly and irregularly, 
- serrate ; each elytron with eight rows of deep, transverse punctures, the second, third, 
fourth, and fifth interspaces elevated, the first and sixth less distinctly thickened. 

This species must follow U. fairmairei. 


18 (a). Uroplata coxalgica. — 
Subfiliformis, fulva, nitida; antennis, capitis macula parva verticali, thoracis vitta discoidali, scutello, elytrorum 
vitta suturali (postice abbreviata), mesopleure linea, coxis, femoribusque dorso ad apicem, nigris ; tarsis 


124 SUPPLEMENT. 


- nigro-piceis ; thorace subcylindrico, rude et crebre punctato, lateribus rotundatis ; -elytris parallelis, apice 
rotundatis, ad suturam leviter conjunctim emarginatis ; lateribus sinuatis, minute serrulatis, margine api- 


cali paullo ampliato, breviter serrato ; utrisque octo-seriato- punctatis, stria octava medio obsoleta, inter- 
spatiis secundo, quarto sextoque costatis. 
Long. 3 lin. 


Hab. Muxico, Toxpam (Saddé). 


Vertex and front jmpuncetate, the latter with a faintly raised longitudinal ridge, the 
surface on either side of which is obsoletely sulcate. Antenne less than ‘half the 
length of the body, slightly thickened towards the apex ; joints cylindrical. Thorax rather 
broader than long; sides rounded, converging at base and apex ; surface coarsely and 
deeply punctured. Elytra elongate, parallel, sinuate on the sides, the latter finely ser-° 
rulate; apices rounded, conjointly emarginate at the suture, the apical margin slightly 
dilated, armed with very short teeth; each elytron with eight rows of punctures, the _ 
outer row broadly interrupted, the second, fourth, and sixth interspaces costate. 

Nearly allied to U. elegantula (in which species the outer row of punctures is also 
interrupted), but much narrower in form and more elongate. 


Uroplata vittatipennis (p. 95). 


Var. A, Elytrorum linea brevi subapicali fulva, ceteris ut in typo. 


To the locality given, add :—Hownpuras (Sallé) ; Costa Rica (Van Patten). 


DELOCRANIA. 125 


Fam. CASSIDIDA *. 


The characters used to separate this Family from the Hispide are of exceedingly 
doubtful value; and some of the species placed in Himatidium by Boheman really 
belong to Demotispa, Baly, a genus of Hispide. Most of the South-American genera 
are represented within our limits by at least one species, but several are wholly absent, 
as Spheropalpus, Calopepla, Calliaspis, Spilophora, Canistra, and Pacilaspis. The head- 
quarters of the family in the New World is in Tropical South America. Chelymorpha 
and Physonota are perhaps the most characteristic genera of the Central-American 
Cassidide, and Platycycla is peculiar to Mexico and Guatemala. Eurypepla is common 
to the Antilles and Yucatan. Further remarks on the distribution of the Central- 


American representatives of the family will be given in the ‘“ Introduction” to this 
Volume. 


"Section I. Antenne rigid, the joints very closely articulated ; first and second ventral 
segments more or less connate ; prothorax deeply emarginate in front, leaving the 
head exposed ; claws simple. 


To this section also belong the South-American genera Spheropalpus, Calopepla, 
_Calliaspis, and Spilophora, and the Eastern genera Epistictia, Megapyga, and Prioptera. 


DELOCRANTA. 


 Delocrania, Guérin, Mag. Zool. 1844, Ins. t. 181. p. 1; Boheman, Monogr. Cassid. i. p. 4, t. 1. 
figg. A, 1-5. 


_ This remarkable genus contains three or four closely allied species, all peculiar to 
Tropical America; one only, D. cossyphoides, Guér., has been described. It has the 


first and second ventral segments connate, the suture between them being almost 
obliterated in the middle. 


1..Delocrania panamensis, (Tab. V. fig. 1.) 

Oblong; subparallel, dull ferruginous, the dilated margins of the prothorax and elytra flavo-testaceous ; the 
antenne ferruginous, with the five or six outer joints (the tip of the eleventh excepted) infuscate or 
piceous:” Head with a few rather coarse punctures behind, canaliculate in the middle in front. Pro- 
thorax” moderately coarsely, irregularly, and closely punctured on the disc; the margins somewhat thickly 
covered with transverse or oblique foveew, each formed by two confluent punctures. Elytra scarcely 
wider than the prothorax, subparallel in their basal half; the disc coarsely and closely seriate-punctate, 

the suture and the fifth interstice costate; the margins with four rows of moderately coarse impressions, 
- those of the innermost row (the ninth from the suture) coarser and deeper than the others, the interspaces 
feebly transversely wrinkled ; beneath shining, very sparsely, minutely punctured. 

Length ‘5, breadth 23 millim. 


* By G. C. Caampron. 
BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Coleopt., Vol. VI. Pt. 2, November 1893. ‘yr 


126 PHYTOPHAGA. 


Hab. Panama, Bugaba (Champion). 


Three examples, found in the forest-region of the “tierra caliente” of Chiriqui. 
These differ from the Amazonian specimen of D. cossyphoides, Guér., in the British 
Museum, determined by Boheman, and from a second from the same locality in 
the Baly collection, in having an additional row of impressions on the expanded 
margins of the elytra, the innermost (the ninth from the suture) being also much less 
coarse. D. panamensis is perhaps an extreme form of the rare D. cossyphoides, but in 
any case it is advisable to name it. To avoid future confusion, the description of an, 
allied South-American species is added below *. 


HIMATIDIUM. 
Imatidium, Fabricius, Syst. Eleuth. i. p. 345 (1801). 
Himatidium, Miiger, Mag. iii. p. 181 (1804) ; Boheman, Monogr. Cassid. i. p. 63. 

A Tropical-American genus containing numerous described species, four only of 
which inhabit Central America. Chapuis has noted an important character in this 
genus, viz. the more or less connate first and second segments of the abdomen, this 
peculiarity being common to the Hispide; Himatidium, in fact, forms one of the 
connecting-links between the families Cassidide and Hispide. 4H. limbatelium, Boh., 
from Mexico, was transferred by Baly to the genus Demotispa, see anted, p. 28. 


1. Himatidium impurum. (Tab. V. figg. 2, 3, 4, vars.) 
Himatidium impurum, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. i. p. 68’, and iv. p. 830°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. ix. 
.12°. 
Himatidiun foveicolle, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iv. p. 30%. 
Hab. Muxico (coll. Baly), Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith); Guaremata (coll. Baly 4), 
San Juan in Vera Paz (Champion) ; Nicaracua, San Juan (Sallé), Chontales (Janson) ; 
PanaMA, Bugaba (Champion).—Braziu ! 23, 


— 


* Delocrania latipennis. 


Obscure ferruginous, the outer portion of the disc of the elytra darker ; the margins of the prothorax dilute 
ferruginous, becoming flavous in front; the margins of the elytra dilute flavo-testaceous, ferruginous at 
the extreme base ; the antenne obscure ferruginous. Head with a few rather coarse punctures behind, 
depressed and canaliculate in front. Prothorax densely and rather coarsely punctured on the disc; the 
margins thickly covered with irregular fovex, each formed by two confluent punctures. Elytra 
considerably wider than the prothorax, subparallel, separately rounded at the apex; the disc coarsely 
and closely seriate-punctate, the suture and the fifth interstice, and the third interstice at the base, 
costate; the margins concave towards the base, with four rows of impressions—those of the innermost 
row (the ninth from the suture) exceedingly coarse and deep, and somewhat distant from each other, 
those of the three outer rows rather irregular, small, shallow, and closely packed, and separated from the 
inner row by a distinct space in which traces of another row of small impressions is visible,—the inter; 
spaces feebly transversely wrinkled.—Length 54 millim. 


Hab. Eicvavor (coll. Baly). One example. 


HIMATIDIUM. 127 


A very variable insect as regards the maculation of the elytra, and, to some extent, 
in the intensity of the punctuation of the prothorax. The different forms may be 
particularized thus :— 


a. The elytra with numerous black markings on the dorsum—a small spot close to the suture 
below the scutellum (sometimes confluent with the one on the opposite elytron), two spots 
or oblique streaks (of variable size) on the disc close to the base, a rounded lateral patch 
before the middle, and a broad post-median fascia, the latter with an angular projection 
near the middle of the disc in front, and often confluent externally with the lateral spot, 
—and a more or less distinct ante-apical pale yellow fascia ; the black markings in some 
specimens largely extended, forming on the outer part of the dorsum a broad longitudinal 
stripe from the post-median fascia forwards, and enclosing two yellow spots. (Fig. 2.)— 
Hab. Panama, Bugaba. Many examples. 

8. The black markings much reduced in extent, consisting of five oblong or oblique spots on 
each elytron, and a common oblong sutural patch a little beyond the middle. (Fig. 3.)— 
Hab. Panama, Bugaba. One example. 

y. The elytra with a small or indistinct black spot near the suture below the scutellum and an 

. oblong larger one between the sixth) and ninth rows of punctures at about one-third 
from the base. [H. impurum, Boh., including his var. a. (Fig. 4.)]|—Hab. Mexico; 
Guatremata; Nicaracua; Brazit. Five examples seen. 

5. The elytraimmaculate ; the prothorax almost impunctate at the sides and anteriorly. (H. fovei- 

colle, Boh.)—Hab. Guatremata. One example. 


In some of the specimens of the form 6 the scattered punctures on the prothorax 
are coarser and more numerous, extending nearer to the anterior angles. The antenne 
are. sometimes entirely testaceous. The prothorax is deeply transversely excavate on 
either side of the disc behind; and it is strongly plicate near the base, from the median 
lobe to the lateral margin, the base of the elytra overlapping that of the prothorax, a 
character not mentioned by Boheman. Boheman? gives “ Mexico (Sal/é)” as the 
locality for H. impurum, var. a: Sallé’s specimen, marked ‘type,’ is labelled “San 
Juan, Nicaragua.” In the form 8 the dark post-median fascia is represented by a 
distinctly visible brownish stain. The form a was found in plenty by myself in the 
forest region of the “ tierra caliente” of Chiriqui, upon the broad leaves of Heliconiie. 


2. Himatidium thoracicum. 

Imatidium thoracicum, Fabr. Syst. Eleuth. i. p. 3467. 

Himatidium thoracicum, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. i. p. 707, and iv. p. 81°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 138°; Wag. Mittheil. Miinch. ent. Ver. i. p. 51°. 

Cassida albicollis, Oliv. Ent. vi. no. 97, p. 974, t. 6. fig. 105°. 

Imatidium albicolle, Latr. in Humb. et Bonpl. Obs. Zool. i. p. 143”. 


Hab. Panama, Bugaba (Champion).—CotomsBia??4, Muzo®, Rio Magdalena®; 
Guiana, Cayenne?34; Ecuapor; Amazons, Pardé 4; Braziu 234, 
rr 2 


128 PHYTOPHAGA. 


Two specimens of this species have been found in the State of Panama. The pro- 
thorax is quite smooth and unimpressed ; the antenne are short, with the third joint 
not much longer than the fourth. 


3. Himatidium rufomarginatum. (Tab. V. fig. 5.) 
Himatidium rufomarginatum, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. i. p. 75*, and iv. p. 31%. 


Hab. Mexico! 2, 
The type from the Stockholm Museum is figured. 


4, Himatidium rufiventre. (Tab. V. fig. 6.) 
Himatidium rufiventre, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. i. p. 781, and iv. p. 31°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 1x. 
p. 13°. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2500 feet (Champion).—BraziL*~. 


One specimen from Chiriqui, agreeing perfectly with others from Brazil. 


CALYPTOCEPHALA. chev: 27 


Calyptocephala, Erichson, Archiv fir Naturg. xiii. p. 151 (1847); Boheman, Monogr. Cassid. i. 
p. 100. 

Eight species of this genus have been described *, all Tropical American, ranging, 

like those of Himatidium, from Southern Mexico to Brazil. In Calyptocephala the 


first and second ventral segments are connate, and the mentum is carinate down the 
middle. 


1. Calyptocephala brevicornis. (Tab. V. fig. 7.) 
Calyptocephala brevicornis, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. i. p. 103+, and iv. p. 447; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. 
Mus. ix. p. 17; Wag. Mittheil. Minch. ent. Ver. i. p. 51‘. 

Hab. Mexico, Atoyac in Vera Cruz (H. H. Smith); Guatemata, Panzos (Conradt), 
Panima in Vera Paz (Champion); Nicaracua, Chontales (Belt, Janson) ; Panama, 
Volcan de Chiriqui, Caldera (Champion).—Co.omB1a, Ocafia*; VENEZUELA ?; AMAZONS, 
Para ?, Ega?; Brazi}2. 


Central-American specimens agree with one from Brazil, determined by Boheman, 
in the Baly collection. The species varies considerably in size. 


2. Calyptocephala marginipennis. (Tab. V. fig. 8.) 


Calyptocephala marginipennis, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. i. p. 105*, and iv. p. 467; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. 
Mus. ix. p. 18°. 


Hab. Mexico !~8, Cordova (Sallé), Jalapa, Misantla (Hége). 


* C. procerula, Boh., from Peru, the type of which is before me, doubtfully belongs to the same genus ; it 
has the third joint of the antenne very little longer than the second. 


CALYPTOCEPHALA. 129 


Var, The elytra more broadly, especially posteriorly, bordered with ceruleous, the outer limb sometimes ferru- 
ginous ; the sides of the prothorax also broadly bordered with czruleous. 


Hab. Guatemata, Cubilguitz, Chacoj, La Tinta, Teleman, and Panima, all in Vera 
Paz (Champion), Panzos (Conradt) ; Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt, Janson). 


The type of this species has the thorax entirely testaceous, the elytra bordered with 
-ceruleous. The variety is coloured like C. gersteckeri, Boh., from Bolivia; but it 
differs from that insect, to judge from the description, in the more coarsely punctured 
margins of the elytra. In C. marginipennis the elytral margins are very coarsely, 
‘closely, and irregularly punctured, the punctures very much coarser than in C. brevi- 
corms ; of this no mention is made by Boheman?. The ceruleous border does not 
always extend to the lateral and apical margins of the elytra, these parts being some- 
times ferruginous, both in the type and in the variety. The tarsi are sometimes stained 
with piceous. The antenne are entirely black. 


3. Calyptocephala discoidea. (Tab. V. fig. 9.) 


Subovate, rather convex; cxruleous, the elytra with the entire disc from the base to about one-third from the 
apex flavo-testaceous or stramineous ; the scutellum ceeruleous, ferruginous, or testaceous ; the antenne 
black or piceous, the basal one or two joints sometimes rufo-testaceous; the under surface and legs 

- entirely flavo-testaceous. Head smooth, depressed and canaliculate in the middle in front; antenney 
filiform, rather slender, moderately long. Prothorax short, moderately dilated at the sides, widest at the 
middle, the sides rounded in front and behind, the lateral margins not reflexed; the anterior lateral 
portions dec livous, not projecting beyond the median portion (as viewed from above), and somewhat oblique ; 
the base obliquely subtruncate on either side and with a broad median lobe; the disc convex, smooth, some- 


times with an irregular depression in the middle at the base, or with a fovea on either side behind; the 


margins flat, concave towards the disc, with a few irregularly scattered, moderately coarse, punctures. 

Scutellum smooth. Elytra about four times the length of, and one half broader than, the prothorax, deeply 

emarginate at the base, rapidly narrowing from about the basal third, the humeri rounded and prominent, 

the apices conjointly rounded ; the disc with regular rows of moderately coarse punctures, which become 

very fine towards the apex, the interstices smooth; the margins broadly expanded, very coarsely, irregularly, 

and somewhat closely punctured, the punctures coarser than those of the strie. Beneath shining, smooth. 
‘Length 5-54, breadth 4 millim. 


Hab. Panama, Bugaba (Champion). 


Many specimens. Allied to C. marginipennis, but differing from it in having the 
prothorax entirely ceruleous, shorter, more declivous in front (thus appearing less 
emarginate), and depressed on either side of the disc, the lateral margins not at all 
reflexed ; the elytra more rounded at the shoulders. The margins of the elytra are 
coarsely punctured in both species. 


Section II. Antenne with the joints less closely articulated ; first and second 
ventral segments connate or freely articulated. . 
1. Prothorax emarginate or truncate in front, the head more or less C “pe 
prominent, usually well exposed. 
a. Claws simple. — ~~ (rs \ 185 
To group 1 of this section also belong the South-American genera Canistra and 
Pecilaspis, the Antillean genus Elytrogona, and the Eastern genus Hoplionota. 


jot) 


130 PHYTOPHAGA. 


PORPHYRASPIS. 
Porphyraspis, Hope, Col. Man. iii. p. 154 (1840) ; Boheman, Monogr. Cassid. 1. p. 89: 

Twenty species of this peculiar genus have been described, all but one from Tropical 
South America or the Antilles, the latter, P. cyanea, Say (= erythrocera, Germ.), 
being from the Southern States of North America. No representative of the genus 
has been discovered as yet in Mexico. The sculpture of the elytra in some of the 
species is very like that of Chlamys, and it is difficult to describe in an intelligible 
manner. ‘Three species of Porphyraspis are now recorded from within our limits, two 
from the State of Panama and one from Guatemala. 


a. Llytra feebly and regularly costate on the disc. 


1. Porphyraspis circumdata. (Tab. V. fig. 10.) 
Porphyraspis circumdata, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. i. p. 94°, and iv. p. 88°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 16°. 


Hab. Panama, Bugaba, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion).—Co.omta !-°. 


Numerous examples. 


b. Elytra with sharply raised, irregular, transversely connected 
coste on the dise. 


2. Porphyraspis flexuosa. (Tab. V. fig. 11.) 


‘Rotundate, short, very convex, obscure sanguineous, shining, the anterior angles of the prothorax yellowish ; 
the antenne, legs, and under surface testaceous. Head almost smooth, canaliculate in the middle in 
front; antenne short, only extending a little beyond the humeri, rather stout, considerably thickened 
towards the tip. Prothorax short, broadly and deeply emarginate in front, and moderately dilated at 
the sides; the sides rounded, abruptly and subarcuately converging anteriorly; the anterior angles 
rather sharp ; the disc moderately convex, strongly transversely depressed before the middle, obliquely 
grooved on either side behind, and with an interrupted median channel, sparsely, irregularly, rather 
coarsely punctured in front and on either side at the base; the lateral portions deeply excavate, 
exceedingly coarsely punctured. Scutellum almost smooth. Elytra very much wider than the prothorax, 
short, rounded at the sides, widest at the middle, deeply emarginate in front, obtuse behind, the humeri 
prominent and somewhat dentiform ; the disc gibbous, with irregular close series of coarse, deep, partly 
confluent impressions, aud a smooth, prominent humeral callus, between which and the suture are two 
sharply raised carinse, these extending downwards nearly to the apex and here and there connected with 
each other, and with the sharply raised suture before the middle, by oblique or transverse rami, the 
other interspaces more or less transversely plicate; the margins moderately expanded, with a double 
series of exceedingly coarse rounded fovex, the interspaces irregularly transversely plicate. Beneath 
shining, almost smooth. 


Length 33, breadth 33 millim. 
Hab. Panama, Bugaba (Champion).—Cotomata, Santa Marta (Mus. Brit.). 
One specimen from each locality. A small species allied to P. cyclica, Boh., from 


Guiana, and P. reticulata, Wag., from S. America. It is much smaller than P. cyclica, 
and has the disc of the prothorax more uneven and the carine on the elytra more 


ee 


Boh., &c. 


PORPHYRASPIS.—TAUROMA. 131 


sharply raised. So far as it goes, the imperfect description of P. reticulata agrees 
very nearly with P. flexuosa; but there are discrepancies in several details. The very 
sharply raised carine form two zigzag series on the disc of each elytron, these being 
here and there connected with each other and with the suture before the middle by 
oblique rami. Our figure and description are taken from the Bugaba specimen. 


3. Porphyraspis marginata. (Tab. V. fig. 12.) 


Rotundate, short, very convex, pitchy-black, very shining, the margins of the prothorax and elytra, narrowly, 
the front of the head, the antenne, legs, and under surface, flavo- or rufo-testaceous. Head almost 
smooth, finely canaliculate in front; antenne short, only extending a little beyond the humeri, 
considerably thickened towards the tip. Prothorax short, broadly and deeply emarginate in front, and 
moderately dilated at the sides; the sides rounded, crenulate and somewhat obliquely converging 
anteriorly ; the anterior angles dentiform ; the disc convex, smooth behind, rather coarsely punctured in 
front; the lateral portions deeply excavate, and exceedingly coarsely punctured. Scutellum almost 
smooth. Elytra very much wider than the prothorax, short, rounded at the sides, widest at the middle, 
deeply emarginate in front, obtuse behind, the humeri prominent and somewhat dentiform; the disc 
gibbous, with irregular series of coarse, deep, partly confluent impressions, and a prominent, smooth, 
humeral callus, the suture sharply raised, a sharp carina extending obliquely outwards from it before the 
middle, this being connected anteriorly with a carina extending forwards to the base midway between 
the humeral callus and the suture, and posteriorly with a carina extending along the second interstice to 
the apex, the other interspaces irregularly transversely plicate; the margins moderately expanded, with 
series of very coarse punctures, the interspaces transversely plicate. Beneath shining, almost smooth. 

Length 33-33, breadth 3 millim. 


Hab. Guatemata, Panzos and Sabo in Vera Paz, Cerro Zunil (Champion), Coban 
(Conradt). 


Six examples. In having the prothorax and elytra margined with flavo-testaceous, 
this small species resembles P. rugosa, Boh., from Brazil; but it differs from that 
insect in the sculpture of the prothorax and elytra, and in its smaller size. The 
sculpture of the elytra somewhat resembles that of P. sanguinea (Fabr.), P. coccinea, 


TAUROMA. 
Tauroma, Hope, Ann. Nat. Hist. iii. p. 97, t. 4. fig. 4 (1839) ; Boheman, Monogr. Cassid. p. 113. 
Tauroma, subg. Omocera, Chapuis, Gen. Col. xi. p. 373. 

A Tropical-American genus containing numerous species, two only of which belong 
to the Central-American fauna. According to Chapuis’s arrangement, both these 
belong to his subgenus Omocera, Tauroma proper belonging to the South-American 
continent. 


1. Tauroma casta. (Tab. V. figg. 13, 14.) 
Tauroma casta, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iv. p. 54°. 
Tauroma ceruleopunctata, Boh. loc. cit. p. 56’. 


Hab. Guatemata (Scherzer, in coll. Baly); Nicaracua (Sallé?), Chontales (Belt, 


132 PHYTOPHAGA. 


Janson) ; Costa Rica 4 (coll. Baly, Rogers); Panama, Chiriqui (Ribbe, Trétsch), Volcan 
de Chiriqui 2500 feet (Champion). | 


Var. The upper surface dull bronze-black, with a greenish or bluish lustre; the elytra moré ‘sparsely. 
punctured, the interspaces sometimes irregularly raised. 


Hab. Nicaragua, Chontales (Janson); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 


With a long series of specimens it is impossible to separate 7. cwruleopunctata from 
T. casta, the types of which are before me. Typical 7. cw@ruleopunctata have the 
elytra more sparsely punctured and the interspaces less coriaceous, but intermediate 
forms occur. The colour is variable, as is also the length of the humeral process of 
the elytra. Of the variety two specimens only have been seen. T. cewruleopunctata is 
doubtfully recorded by Boheman ? as from New Orleans, which is evidently a mistake ; 
the specimen in the Baly collection named by him? is from Guatemala. Fig. 13 is 
taken from the type of 7. casta, fig. 14 from that of 7. ceruleopunctata. 


2. Tauroma azureicornis. (Tab. V. fig. 15.) 
Omocerus azureicornis, Chevr. Col. Mex., Cent. ii. fasc. 5, no. 119 (1835) *. 
Tauroma azureicornis, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. i. p. 1207, and iv. p. 58°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 20%. 
Hab. Mexico}, Playa Vicente, Santecomapan (Sal/é), Minatitlan (Hoge), Teapa in 
Tabasco (coll. Baly); Guaremata, Panzos (Conradt); Nicaragua, Chontales (coll. 
Baly); Costa Rica, Caché (Rogers). 


Var. The upper surface dull brassy-cupreous, the punctures golden-green at the bottom. 
Hab. Mexico, Minatitlan (Hoge). One specimen. 


This insect is much more shining than 7. casta, and it has the prothorax as well as 
the elytra coarsely punctured, the punctures on the elytra much more numerous. The 
single specimen from Costa Rica has the humeral process more elongate, and the 
suture more raised below the base. The locality quoted by Chevrolat ! is ‘ Toulepeck.” 


DESMONOTA. 


Desmonota, Hope, Ann. Nat. Hist. iii. p. 97, t. 4. figg. 5 (1839); Boheman, Monogr. Cassid. ‘i. 
p. 137. 
Tauroma, subg. Desmonota, Chapuis, Gen. Col. xi. p. 374. 


One species only of this genus, which contains some familiar and abundant Brazilian 
insects, is known to me as yet from within our limits. Desmonota is sunk by Chapuis 
as a subgenus of Zauroma. It is exclusively confined to Tropical America, just 
entering our southern limits. 


Vv 


DESMONOTA.—DOLICHOTOMA. 133 


1. Desmonota multicava. 
Cassida multicava, Latr. in Humb. et Bonpl. Obs. Zool. i. p. 210, t. 22. figg. 8, 9°. 
Polychalca multicava, Erichs. Archiv fiir Naturg. xiii. p. 151”. 
Desmonota multicava, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. i. p. 151°, and iv. p. 64‘; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. ix. 
p. 24°; Wag. Mittheil. Minch. ent. Ver. i. p. 52°. 
Hab. Panama, Bugaba, David (Champion), Chiriqui (Ridde), Panama city (Conradt, 
J. J. Walker).—Cotompia 3-§; Vennzveta 4°; Peru 1245, 


Upwards of a dozen examples of this species have been received from the State of 
Panama. — 


DOLICHOTOMA. 
Dolichotoma, Hope, Ann. Nat. Hist. iii. p. 95, t. 4. fig. 2 (1839) ; Boheman, Monogr. Cassid. i. 
p. 176. 
_ A Tropical-American genus containing some of the finest species of the Family 
Cassidide. The males of all the species of Dolichotoma known to me have the 
antenne much longer than in the females, the apical joint with numerous very long 
projecting hairs at the tip beneath, the preceding four joints also with a few shorter 
hairs at the same place. The hairy apical joint is mentioned by Boheman, though he 


was not aware that it was a sexual character; it has been overlooked by Chapuis and 


Baly. Dolichotoma is chiefly distinguished from Canistra, a genus not represented 
within our limits, by having the joints 1-6 (instead of 1-5) of the antenne short, 
shining, and subglabrous, the other joints being elongate, opaque, and very finely, 
densely pubescent. 


1. Dolichotoma bisbiplagiata. (Tab. V. figg. 16, ¢; 16a, antenna, ¢ .) 
Dolichotoma bisbiplagiata, Boh. Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. ix. p. 81°; Monogr. Cassid. iv. p. 807. 
Hab, GuatemMata (Deby, in Mus. Brit.17), Cubilguitz in Vera Paz (Champion), 
Panzos in Vera Paz (Champion, Conradt). 


Apparently confined to the forest-region of the Atlantic slope of Guatemala, and to 
the “ tierra caliente.” 


2. Dolichotoma distincta. (Tab. V. fig. 17, 3.) 
Dolichotoma distincta, Baly, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1869, p. 83". 
Dolichotoma princeps, Boh. Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. ix. p. 31 (part.) *. 
Hab. Guatemaa (Scherzer, in Mus. Brit.) ; Nicaragua (coll. Baly1, Sallé), Chon- 
tales (elt, Janson) ; Costa Rica (Sallé, Van Patten). 


This insect appears to be not uncommon in Nicaragua and Costa Rica. The colour 
of the upper surface varies from greenish-eneous to bluish-black or black. The 
margins of the elytra are much more broadly expanded than in the allied D. princeps 
and D. biplagiata, Boh., and they have a large rounded sanguineous patch a little 

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134 PHYTOPHAGA. 


before the middle. D. distincta is probably a variety of the preceding with the 
discal spot on each elytron obliterated. The Guatemalan specimen in the British 
Museum determined as D. princeps by Boheman? belongs here; there is perhaps 
some mistake about this locality, as all the Guatemalan specimens I have seen of this 
genus belong to the preceding, D. bisbiplagiata. 


8. Dolichotoma conspersipennis. (Tab. V. fig. 18, 3.) 
Dolichotoma conspersipennis, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iv. p. 74°. 
Hab. Guatemata (Mus. Brit.); Costa Rica! (Mus. Brit.; coll. Baly); Panama, 
Chiriqui (bbe), Bugaba, Volcan de Chiriqui, Tolé (Champion). 


The type of this species ( ¢ ) is contained in the Baly collection. D. conspersipennis 
is closely allied to the variable D. variegata (Fabr.), from Cayenne. Panama specimens 
are much smaller than the type, and they have the elytra more rugosely punctured. 
The two transverse markings in the expanded margins of the elytra are much smaller 
and narrower than in D. variegata, and they are usually disconnected and distant from 
the similarly coloured exterior limb; the anterior one, as well as several of the spots 
on the disc, is often entirely obsolete. The colour of the prothorax and of the 
markings of the elytra varies from greenish-eneous to black; the prothorax often has 
an oblong sanguineous spot on either side of the disc behind. The type from the 
Baly collection is figured. 


4, Dolichotoma salvini. (Tab. V. figg. 19, 3; 20, 2.) 
Dolichotoma salvinii, Baly, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 8rd ser. ii. p. 2417. 


Hab. Panama}, Lion Hill (1/‘Leannan).—Cotompta. 


T have seen five specimens of this species from the Isthmus of Panama. They vary 
a good deal as regards the distribution of the eneous colour on the elytra, the disc 
being sometimes wholly suffused. The broadly expanded margins are marked with 
from 6-8 irregular spots, the anterior ones being strongly transverse and larger than 
the others, all distant from the similarly-coloured exterior limb. A single specimen 
from Colombia in the Baly collection no doubt belongs to a variety of the same 
species; it has the elytra entirely greenish-zeneous, with the exception of a large 
sanguineous patch on the expanded margin before the middle, this patch being marked 
with three irregular transverse sneous fascie. Another specimen in the same 
collection is intermediate between this and the var. B of Baly. 


5. Dolichotoma anomala. 
Dolichotoma anomala, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iv. p. 87 '. 


‘“‘Subrotundata, modice convexa, subtus nigra, nitida; prothorace obscure viridi-cerulescente, opaco, vix 
punctato, medio breviter, tenuiter canaliculato; elytris flavis, antice plaga magna, subtiliter, remote, 
seriatim punctata, postice in singulo emarginata, sutura limboque viridi-cerulescentibus, dorso postico 


DOLICHOTOMA.—MESOMPHALIA. 135 


reticulo tenui, parum elevato, areolas minores, leviter impressas, ad suturam seriatas, fundo puncto 


minuto notatas includente instructis, ad scutellum leviter retusis et gibbosis.—Long. 143, lat. 122 millim.” 


Hab. Costa Rica * (coll. Dohrn +). 


Unknown to me. 
b. Claws appendiculate. 


CALASPIDEA. 
Calaspidea, Hope, Col. Man. iii. p. 183, t. 3. fig. 1 (1840) ; Boheman, Monogr. Cassid. 1. p. 208. 


The northern limit for this Tropical-American genus, which contains some of the 
giants of the Family, is probably in Costa Rica. The locality for C. alurna requires 
corroboration. 


1. Calaspidea columbina, (Tab. V. fig. 21.) 
Calaspidea columbina, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. i. p. 212", and iv. p. 91°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. ix. 
p. 85°; Wag. Mittheil. Miinch. ent. Ver. 1. p. 53%. 
Hab. Costa Rica (Pittier, in Mus. Brit.); Panama, Chiriqui (2idbe), Bugaba, 
Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion).—Cotomaia !~4, 


Not uncommon in Chiriqui. 


2. Calaspidea alurna. 
Cassida (Calaspidea) alurna, Westw. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. viii. p. 204 (1842) *. 


Hab. * Mexico (coll. Melly*); ? Panama. 


This species was not identified by Boheman. In the Baly collection there is a 
specimen labelled with this name, and marked as from Panama, agreeing fairly well 
with the description, so far as it goes, except that the spots on the broad fulvous 
marginal vitta of the elytra are more numerous (Westwood gives 5 or 6). The locality 
“Mexico,” like that for Alurna cassideus +, a species of Hispide described by West- 
wood on the same page, is certainly a mistake, and it is exceedingly probable that 
both insects are from Brazil. The locality of Baly’s specimen is equally doubtful. 
C. alurna is evidently a very close ally of the Brazilian C. imperialis, Boh. 


MESOMPHALIA. 
Mesomphalia, Hope, Aun. Nat. Hist. iii. p. 94, t. 4. fig. 1 (1840) ; Boheman, Monogr. Cassid. 1. 
p. 218. . 

About 250 species of this genus have been described, all American, ranging from 
Mexico to the Argentine Republic, but especially numerous in the warmer parts of 
the southern continent. When larger series of some of the southern forms are 
collected, it is certain that many of them will have to be sunk as varieties. Of the 


* The locality is given as “ Bahia” in the Munich Catalogue. . t See anted, p. 6. 
- ss 2 


136 PHYTOPHAGA. 


Mexican species, I have been compelled to sink several of those described by Boheman, 
our extensive series clearly showing the variable nature of some of them. Nineteen 
only are now recorded from within our limits; they may be identified by the following 


‘Table :— 


Colour zneous, ceruleous, or green. 
Elytra transversely gibbous below the base, each with three sanguineous 
spots which are sometimes coalescent . | 
Elytra not or feebly gibbous below the base. 
Anterior margin of the prothorax concolorous with the other part. 
Each elytron with three red or yellow spots. 
Species very large; elytra uniformly punctured on the disc 
Species smaller; elytra unequally punctured woe 
Each elytron with two transversely placed red or yellow spots, some- 
times coalescent, the inner one sometimes obsolete (M. lebasi, 
var. 6); surface distinctly punctured. 
Humeri rounded: species moderately large . 
Humeri subangular : 
Each elytron - with a single sublateral reddish spot ; 
smooth . . . . . 
Anterior margin of the prothorax flavo-testaceous or falvous. 
Each elytron with three large yellow spots, the posterior two coalescent. 


species smaller . se ee 
surface almost 


Each elytron with two large obliquely placed yellow spots . . 
Each elytron with two large transversely placed yellow spots, some- 
times coalescent or dotted with zeneous : species large ; male cordate, 
female ovate a 
Each elytron largely marked with sanguineous, the sanguineous colour 
sometimes reduced to three spots: species small; male rotundate, 
female ovate 
Colour black; the elytra with a broad flavous black-spotted lateral vitta ; ‘the 
upper surface cinereo-pubescent: species very large . . 
Colour stramineous, testaceous, or ferruginous. 
Prothorax arcuate-emarginate in front. 
Elytra feebly gibbous below the base. 
Each elytron with about eight eneous or ceruleous spots (obsolete in 
M. isthmica, var. 8); the prothorax sometimes with a narrow median 
vitta: species small; male rotundate, female ovate. 
Elytral punctuation coarse; the prothorax with the sides rounded 
behind . 
Elytral punctuation finer ; 
straight behind . ce ee ee . 
Each elytron with two broad neous vitte, confluent posteriorly ; the 
prothorax with broad median vitta, and a spot on either side of 
it, eneous . 


the prothorax with the sides almost 


punicea, Boh., and — 
[vars. 


illustris, Chevr. — 
tristigma, Boh. — 


[ vars. 
lebasi, Boh., and - 
guadrinotata, Boh. 


costaricensis,n.sp. 


xanthospila, n. sp. 
quadriguttata, 
[n. sp. 


salvini, Baly. 


pictilis, Boh., and 
[ vars. 


mellyi, Boh. 


ceruleonotata, 
[ Boh. 


isthmica, 0. sp., 
[and vars. 


eneovitiata, n. sp. 


/ 


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Elytra regularly convex; each with two broad vitte, confluent poste- 
riorly, and the sutural and lateral margins broadly, black: species 
moderately large; male and female rotundate . . . . . . . . quadrivittata, 
Prothorax very feebly emarginate in front; elytra regularly convex. [n. sp. 
Elytra moderately broadly margined : species ovate or oblong. . 
The prothorax with a small median spot, and the elytra with a {shaped 


mark on the outer part of the disc, black . . . . exclamationis, 
The prothorax with a small median black spot, the elytra without a [LTinn. 
black mark on the outer part of the dise . . . . . . . . « evanida, Boh. 


Elytra more broadly margined : male rotundate, female ovate. 
_ The prothorax with a narrow median vitta and the lateral margins 
posteriorly black. 
The elytra with the suture throughout, an uninterrupted line on 
the outer part of the disc, and the exterior limb at the base, 


black . 2. w/w wee eee . . . . . nigrolineata,n.sp. 
The elytra with the suture for a short distance below the base, 
and an interrupted line on the outer part of the disc, black . . interrupta, n. sp. 


1. Mesomphalia punicea. (Tab. V. figg. 23,3, 24,9; 25, var. chevrolati, 3 ; 
26, var. elegans, ? .) 
Cyrtonota punicea, Chevr., Dej. Cat. 3rd edit. p. 393°. 
Mesomphalia punicea, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. i. p. 2877, and iv. p. 184°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 49 *. 


Mesomphalia chevrolati, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. i. p. 285 °, and iv. p. 184°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 


ix. p. 497. | 
Cassida purpureomaculata, Sturm, in litt.* 


Hab. Mexico !~" (Sallé, ex coll. Sturm), Santecomapan, Vera Cruz (Sallé), Cordova 


| (Sallé, Hoge), Misantla (Hoge, F. D. G.), Atoyac in Vera Cruz, Frontera and Teapa in 


Tabasco (H. H. Smith); Brrrish Honpuras, Belize, R. Sarstoon, R. Hondo (Blancaneauz); 
GuATEMALA, Yzabal (Sal/é), Cubilguitz, Lanquin, Cahabon, Chacoj, Teleman, Panzos, San 


Juan, and Senahu, all in Vera Paz ( Champion) ; Honpuras ? (Dyson *). 


Var. The elytral spots small, the lateral one distant from the shoulder; the punctuation of the elytra finer. 
(Tab. V. fig. 26, 2.) 
Mesomphalia elegans, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. i. p. 284°, and iv. p. 184°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 49". 
Hab. Mexico 9-4, Tepansacualco in Oaxaca (Sallé), Acapulco and Tapachula ([ége) ; 
GuatEMa.a (Sallé), El Reposo, Zapote (Champion); Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt, Janson). 


M. punicea, in its typical form, is an abundant insect in the forest-region of the 
Atlantic slope. MW. chevrolati and M. elegans, Boh., the types of which are before me 
(male of the former, and female of the latter), are varieties of the same species; the 
first-enamed has the disc of the elytra more coarsely punctured than usual, and the 


138 PHYTOPHAGA, 


posterior spot on each elytron reduced in size; the second has the elytra more finely 
punctured, and all the spots very small. MV. elegans is confined to the Pacific slope of 
Mexico and Guatemala, extending southwards to Nicaragua. The allied I. tristigma, 
Boh., varies in a similar way. J. chevrolati is included in Henshaw’s ‘List of the 
Coleoptera of America north of Mexico,’ p. 14, probably in mistake, as it does not 
appear to extend north of the Mexican State of Vera Cruz. A remarkable peculiarity 
about these species is, that the red markings of the elytra are always accompanied by 
a very much coarser system of punctuation, such not being the case in MV. illustris, 
M. lebasi, &c. Boheman® mentions a variety with the posterior spot on each elytron 
obsolete ; we have not received a specimen of it. We figure a pair of M/. punicea; also 
the type (3) of M. chevrolati, and the type (2?) of M. elegans, from the Stockholm 


Museum. 


2. Mesomphalia illustris. (Tab. V. fig. 22, 2.) 


Cassida illustris, Chevr. Col. Mex., Cent. i. fase. 3, no. 81’. 
Mesomphalha illustris, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. 1. p. 820’, and iv. p. 158°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 


ix. p. 57%. 

Hab. Mexico? +, Tuspan (Chevrolat}?), Cordova (Hége, Sallé), Toxpam, Chiapas 
(Sallé), Atoyac in Vera Cruz, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith); British Honpvuras 
_(Blancaneaux); GuatEmata‘, Coban, Purula, Sabo, and San Juan in Vera Paz, Zapote 
(Champion), Tactic and Tucuru (Conradt); Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt, Janson). 


A not uncommon species in Central America. I have not seen a specimen of the var. a 
described by Boheman :—*“ maculis elytrorum duabus interioribus confluentibus.” 


8. Mesomphalia tristigma. (Tab. V. figg. 27, ¢; 28, 2, var.) 
Mesomphalia tristigma, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. i. p. 286", and iv. p. 1847; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 49°. 

Hab. Mexico? °, Orizaba!, San Andres Tuxtla, Vera Cruz, Oaxaca (Sallé), Cordova 
(Sallé, Hoge), Misantla (F. D. G.), Atoyac in Vera Cruz (H. H. Smith), Teapa in Tabasco 
(Hoge, H. H. Smith), Tapachula in Chiapas (Hége); Britisn Howpuras, R. Hondo, 
R. Sarstoon (Blancaneaux); Guatemata, Coatepeque, Las Mercedes, San Isidro (Cham- 
pion); Honpuras? (Dyson *®) ; Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt, Janson). 


_A common insect in the Mexican States of Vera Cruz and Tabasco. In Guatemala 
it has only been found on the Pacific slope. As in UV. punicea, the spots on the elytra 
vary greatly in size, frequently becoming coalescent. In one specimen from Tabasco 
they are exceedingly small, there being two on one elytron and three on the other. 
M. tristigma may be easily known in all its varieties from MU. punicea by its less gibbous 
elytra, more angular humeri, and more shining upper surface; the males are also more 
rounded, and the females more parallel, in shape. The Nicaraguan specimens have the 


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elytra (the spots excepted) more finely punctured and a little less shining; but they are 
connected with the others by intermediate forms. 


4. Mesomphalia lebasi. (Tab. VI. figg. 1, ¢; 2, var. primaria, 2 ; 8, var. 8, 2 .) 
Cyrtonota lebasii, De}. Cat. 3rd edit. p. 369°. 
Mesomphalia lebasii, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. i. p. 2902, and iv. p. 184°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. ix. 
p. 50%. . 
Mesomphalia primaria, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. i. p. 289°, and iv. p. 184°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 497. 
This insect is abundant in Mexico and Central America, extending southwards into 
the northern part of the South-American continent. Several well-marked forms occur, — 
all connected by intermediate gradations :— 


a. The elytra each with two transverse or rounded spots placed transversely before the middle; the spots 
subequal in size, or the inner spot smaller than the outer one. (WM. lebasi, Boh.) 

Hab. Mexico5—’, Jalapa and Misantla (Hoge); Guatemata, Cubilguitz, San Juan, 
Purula and Sabo in Vera Paz (Champion) ; Nicaraaua, Chontales (Belt, Janson) ; Costa 
Rica (Sallé, Van Patten), Caché (Rogers) ; Panama, Chiriqui (Ribbe), Bugaba, Volcan 
de Chiriqui, Caldera, David, Tolé (Champion).—Cotomsia 24, Carthagena 1. 


B. The elytral spots larger; the inner spot oblong and often much larger than the outer one, the latter trans- 
verse. (M. primaria, Boh.) (Fig. 2.) 
Hab. Mexico, Santecomapan, Toxpam (Sallé), Cordova (Sallé, Hoge), Misantla (Hoge) ; 
GuaTEMALA, Cubilguitz in Vera Paz. 


y- The elytral spots coalescent on each elytron. 
Hab. Mexico, Cordova and Misantla (Hége). 


3. The inner spot on each elytron obsolete, the other usually small or minute. (WM. lebasi, Boh., var.a: Guate- 
mala.) (Fig. 3.) 
Hab. Guatemata °, El Tumbador, Cerro Zunil, Panajachel, Zapote, Duefias, Escuintla, 
Guatemala city, San Gerénimo (Champion); Nicaragua, Chontales (Janson). 


The form « (I. lebasi) is more southern in its distribution than the form 6 (JL. pri- 
maria). The form 8 is peculiar to Guatemala and Nicaragua; in Guatemala it is 
confined to the central plateau and the Pacific slope. The forms 6 and y are confined 
to the Atlantic slope, and in Mexico and Guatemala the form @ has a similar distri- 
bution, the first two being almost peculiar to the Mexican State of Vera Cruz. 
These three forms all occur at Misantla. From Jalapa we have received a specimen of 
the form « with the inner spot almost obliterated on one elytron. The form y closely 
resembles some of the varieties of Wf. salvini, from which it may be known by the 
anterior margin of the prothorax not being bordered with testaceous. We figure a 


J 


140 PHYTOPHAGA. 


male of the typical form from Chiriqui, a female of the var. primaria from Cordova, 
and a female of the var. 8 from Cerro Zunil. 


5, Mesomphalia quadrinotata. 
Mesomphalia quadrinotata, Boh. Monogy. Cassid. iv. p. 185°. 


“ Rotundata, modice convexa, cxrulea, nitida; antennarum articulis 2-4 testaceis; prothorace subtiliter, sat 
crebre punctulato, ultra medium oblique ampliato, dein rotundato et basin versus angustato ; elytris sat 
crebre, evidenter punctatis, singulo mox ante medium maculis duabus, transversim positis, luteis, interiore 
ovata, exteriore rotundata, nonnihil majore.—Long. 83, lat. 7 millim.” 


Hab. Costa Rica (Wagner, in Mus. Berol.). 


I have not seen a specimen of this species. Boheman! states that J. guadrinotata 
resembles I. lebasi at first sight ; but is smaller, rounder, and more shining, the elytra 
somewhat coarsely punctured, with the marginal spot larger and nearer to the exterior 
limb, and the humeri subangular. | 


6. Mesomphalia costaricensis. (Tab. VI. fig. 4.) 


Broadly cordate, moderately convex; greenish sneous, ceruleous, or black; the elytra each with a large 
rounded sanguineous or fulvous spot on the expanded margin before the middle, extending to the outer limit 
of the dorsum but not to the lateral margin, and sometimes a minute similarly coloured spot midway 
between this and the suture; the antenne black; the under surface and legs ceruleous or greenish- 
seneous, shining, the former somewhat thickly, the latter sparsely, pubescent; the prothorax and elytra 
(the suture excepted) opaque, almost smooth (minute scattered punctures are visible under a strong lens), 
and clothed with very short, scattered semi-erect whitish hairs. Head deeply canaliculate ; antenne 
rather elongate, extending to far beyond the base of the prothorax, the four basal joints shining, the 
others opaque. Prothorax twice as broad as long, feebly arcuate-emarginate in front, widest a little 
behind the middle, the sides thence to the apex rapidly, obliquely converging, straight or slightly 
converging behind, the base strongly sinuate on either side, and thence to the hind angles nearly straight, 
the latter subrectangular, the median lobe obtuse and moderately produced; the disc with a smooth, faint 
median line, the lateral portions concave, the apical and lateral margins slightly reflexed. Scutellum 
smooth, moderately large. Elytra about three times the length of, and one half wider than, the prothorax, 
broadly cordate, conjointly rounded at the apex, somewhat obliquely converging behind in the male; the 
disc feebly and regularly convex, the suture smooth and shining, and a little raised throughout; the 
margins very broadly expanded, broadly rounded at the shoulders. Beneath sparsely, finely punctured, 
the ventral segments also transversely aciculate. 

Length 114-123, breadth 103-113 millim. 


Hab. Costa Rica (Van Patten), Volcan de Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet, Rio Sucio (Rogers), 


Fifteen specimens. This insect has somewhat the facies of an Omaspides. It may 
easily be known from the similarly coloured two-spotted variety of M. lebasi by the 
almost smooth, very dull upper surface, and by the more concave margins of the pro- 
thorax. ‘The males are a little shorter than the females, the shoulders being broadly 
rounded in both sexes. 


.7 Mesomphalia xanthospila. (Tab. VI. fig. 5, ¢.) 


3. Subcordate, broad, moderately convex; greenish-eneous, the anterior margins of the prothorax (except in 
the middle) fulvous; the elytra each with a broad F-shaped mark on the middle of the disc at the base, 


MESOMPHALIA. _ | 141 


and a very large subtriangular patch on the disc a little beyond the middle, the latter connected externally 
with an equally large slightly curved antemedian lateral patch, these markings not reaching the sutural 
or lateral margins, yellow; antenne and legs black, the joints 1-3 of the antenne narrowly fulvous at 
the tip: beneath black, shining. Head rugosely punctured, opaque, deeply canaliculate; antennse with 
the four basal joints shining, the others opaque. Prothorax subopaque, twice as broad as long, deeply 
arcuate-emarginate in front, the sides rapidly arcuately converging from the base, somewhat obliquely so 

. towards the anterior angles, the base subtruncate on either side, the median lobe obtuse and moderately 
produced, the disc with a fine, smooth median line, the surface sparsely, very minutely punctured. 
Scutellum smooth. Elytra more than three times the length of, and one half wider than, the prothorax, 
broadly subcordate, conjointly rounded at the apex; the disc moderately shining, regularly convex, thickly, 
finely punctured, the suture a little raised posteriorly, smooth; the margins very broadly expanded 
anteriorly, more narrowly so posteriorly, somewhat obliquely rounded at the shoulders, the median patch 
shining, more closely punctured than the disc, the other part opaque, minutely punctured, the exterior 
limb slightly thickened and reflexed. Beneath subglabrous, almost smooth, shining. 

Length 12, breadth 10 millim. 


Hab. Guatemaa, San Juan in Vera Paz (Champion). 


One example. Exceedingly close to UV. salvini, but with very different elytral 
markings, the disc of the elytra a little more uniformly punctured. 


8. Mesomphalia quadriguttata. (Tab. VI. fig. 6,9.) 


Q. Broad ovate, moderately convex; greenish-sneous, the anterior margins of the prothorax (except in the 
middle) fulvous; the elytra each with a large, oval, oblique patch on the disc at the base, and a very 
broad oblique patch a little before the middle, extending from the middle of the disc almost to the 
lateral margin, yellow; the antenne black, joints 2-4 testaceous beneath ; legs and under surface bluish- 
black, the pro- and epipleurse (the median spot excepted) ceruleous. Head opaque, rugulosely punctured, 
deeply canaliculate; antenne with the four basal joints shining, the others opaque. Prothorax opaque, 
twice as broad as long, rather deeply arcuate-emarginate in front, the sides rapidly arcuately converging 
from the base, the base subtruncate on either side, the median lobe obtuse and somewhat broadly produced, 
the disc with a smooth, fine, impressed median line, becoming deeper behind, the surface with very 
minute, shallow, scattered punctures. Scutellum smooth. LElytra about three and a half times the 
length of, and at the base not wider than, the prothorax, broad oval, conjointly rounded at the apex; the 
disc moderately shining to beyond the middle, opaque at the apex, regularly convex, thickly, finely 
punctured, the punctures a little coarser and more irregular on the light-coloured parts, the suture 
smooth, not raised posteriorly; the margins moderately expanded, deflexed, obliquely converging — 
anteriorly, widest at about one-fourth from the base, punctured like the disc, opaque, the median — 
patch slightly shining, the exterior limb scarcely thickened. Beneath shining, very sparsely pubescent, 
almost smooth. 

Length 10, breadth 8 millim. 


Hab. Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt). 


One example. Closely allied to Mf. salvint and WM. xanthospila, but with different 
elytral markings; the elytra (2) much less broadly expanded at the sides, at the base 
not wider than the base of the prothorax, the margins punctured like the disc. 


oA _' 9, Mesomphalia salvini. (Tab. VI. figg. 7, 3; 8,2, var.) 
Mesomphalia salviniit, Baly, Traus. Ent. Soc. Lond. 8rd ser. ii. p. 242°. 
Hab. Nicaragua (Sallé), Chontales (Belt, Janson); Costa Rica (Van Patten) 
Panama}, Lion Hill (4/‘Leannan).—Corompia (coll. Baly). 
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142 PHYTOPHAGA. 


I have seen altogether sixteen specimens of this species. The very large, transverse, 
more or less emarginate, flavous patch on each elytron is sometimes partly, or entirely 
(as in one specimen from Costa Rica), divided in the middle; it is sometimes marked 
with one or more small zneous spots (there are three in the type), but these disappear 
altogether in some examples. The anterior margin of the prothorax is narrowly 
fulvous on either side, a character separating UV. salvinit from many of the allied forms. 
We figure the type of the male from Panama, and a variety of the female from 
Costa Rica. 


10. Mesomphalia pictilis. (Tab. VI. figg. 9, ¢; 10, 11,2, vars.) 
Mesomphalia pictilis, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. i. p. 8771, and iv. p. 176°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 64°, 


Hab. Mexico 1-? (coll. Baly; Mus. Brit.), Vera Cruz (Sallé).—Cotomsta 1~*. 


I have seen five specimens of the typical form of this species, all from Mexico—two 
males in the Sallé collection, a female in the Baly collection, and a pair in the 
British Museum. The description of Boheman! was taken from the male sex only ; 
the female is ovate, and much more elongate, with less expanded elytral margins, the 
male being rotundate, with the margins of the elytra broadly expanded, and abruptly 
and obliquely converging at the base. The following seem to be nothing more than 
varieties of the same species, though they all have the elytra much more finely 
punctured :— 

a. ¢&. The elytra more finely punctured than in the type; similarly marked, 7. ¢. with a very large irregular 
sanguineous patch on the disc, extending on to the broadly expanded margins before and behind the 


middle, and enclosing five eneous spots on the disc, placed longitudinally 3, 2, the anterior one of the 
inner row oblique and larger than the others; the suture eneous throughout. 


Hab. Costa Rica (Van Patten). One specimen. 


- B. Q. The elytra punctured as in a; the markings still larger, occupying the greater part of the surface, leaving 
only the suture, a common X-shaped mark before the middle, two small obliquely-placed spots on the disc 
beyond the middle, three lateral patches, and the exterior limb, eneous. (Fig. 10.) 


Hab. Panama, Bugaba (Champion). One specimen. 


y- 2. The elytra punctured as ina; each with two rufous spots placed transversely before the middle—the 
_inner one on the middle of the disc, subtriangular or oblique, and in some specimens extending angularly 
forwards, the outer one rounded externally, partly on the expanded margin,—and a similarly-coloured 
slightly oblique spot on the outer part of the disc towards the apex, and sometimes with a small rufous 
streak midway between the two discal spots. (Fig. 11.) 


Hab. Nicaraeva, Chontales (Janson) ; Panama, Bugaba, Volcan de Chiriqui ( Cham- 
pion). Five specimens. . 


The var. y looks perfectly distinct, at first sight, but the difference is more apparent 
than real. The red markings, as in Mf. punicea and WM. tristigma, are accompanied by 


Y/Y 


MESOMPHALIA. 143 


a coarser system of punctuation, and when they are reduced to small spots the punc- 
tuation is much finer. A precisely similar variation is to be found between the 
extreme forms of MV. tristigma. 

We figure a typical male from Vera Cruz; also a female of the var. 3, and a female 


of the var. y, both from Bugaba. 


11. Mesomphalia mellyi. 

Mesomphalia meilyi, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. i. p. 83141, and iv. p. 1517; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. ix. 
p. 56°. 

“ Subrotundata, minus convexa, nigra, opaca, pube cinerea parce adspersa; prothorace inequali, subtiliter, 
subremote punctulato, medio tenuiter canaliculato ; elytris dorso foveis magnis, sat crebris, fundo levibus, 
interstitiis angustis, elevatis, nitidis, punctulatis ; singulo elytro vitta lata, laterali, flava, nigro-maculata, 
introrsum sinuata.—Long. 21, lat. 18 millim.” 


Hab. Mexico (coll. Melly '-*). 


Unknown to me. The locality requires confirmation. 


12. Mesomphalia czruleonotata. | 
Mesomphalia ceruleonotata, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. i. p. 876*, and iv. p. 176°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. 
Mus. ix. p. 64°. 


“ Rotundata (¢) aut ovata(@), convexa, testacea, subopaca; prothorace subtilissime, crebre punctulato, 
medio linea brevi, longitudinali, cwrulea, lateribus late, sensim rotundato-ampliato ; elytris profunde sat 
crebre punctatis, sutura antice, singulo maculis octo minoribus, inequalibus, viridi-ceruleis; margine 
modice explanato, deflexo.—Long. ¢ 74, lat. 62; long. ? 9, lat. 7 millim.” 


Hab. Mexico (Chevrolat 1—*). 


The only specimen (2?) I have seen of this species is contained in the British 
Museum. 


13. Mesomphalia isthmica. (Tab. VI. figg. 12, ¢,13, 9; 14, 2, var.) 


Rotundate (¢), or ovate (@), rather convex, moderately shining ; testaceous or ferruginous, the prothorax 
sometimes with a narrow neous median vitta extending from the base to the apex; the scutellum 
seneous; the elytra each with from 7 to 9 irregular spots—three placed longitudinally on the disc, equi- 
distant, the anterior one oblique, four on the outer part of the disc, the anterior one occupying the 
humeral callus and sometimes divided into two, the posterior one sometimes obsolete, and one, the largest, 
on the expanded margin about the middle,—and the suture anteriorly, to a greater or less extent, wneous 
or ceruleous ; the antenne black, the four basal joints testaceous beneath; the legs and under surface 
black. Head deeply canaliculate, rugulosely punctured; antenne rather stout, extending a little beyond 
the base of the prothorax, the four basal joints shining, the others opaque. Prothorax twice as broad as 
long, deeply arcuate-emarginate in front, the sides straight or very slightly rounded behind, rapidly and 
obliquely converging from the middle to the apex, the base subtruncate on either side, the median lobe 
obtuse and moderately produced; the disc sparsely, very finely punctate, and with a fine, impressed 
median line (which is sometimes more deeply impressed at the base and apex); the margins dull, almost 
smooth, in some specimens foveate about the middle. Scutellum smooth. Elytra short and strongly 
rounded at the sides (¢), longer and more ovate ( @ ), a little wider than the prothorax at the base, in the 
widest part (¢ ) about one half wider than it, conjointly rounded at the apex ; the disc moderately gibbous 
pefore the middle; the margins ( ¢) broadly, ( 2 ) moderately expanded, deflexed, obliquely converging in 


tt 2 


144 | PHYTOPHAGA. 


front; the entire surface (the suture excepted) thickly, moderately coursely, almost uniformly punctured. 
Beneath subglabrous, almost smooth. 


Length, 3, 74, breadth 64 millim.; 9, length 94, breadth 73 millim. 
Hab. Costa Rica (Van Patten). 
Four examples, two of each sex. 


a. The elytra marked as in the type; the under surface obscure ferruginous; the basal joints of the antenna 
above and beneath and the legs testaceous. 


Hab. Panama, Bugaba (Champion). ‘Two male specimens. 


B. The elytra immaculate, flavo-testaceous, testaceous, or ferruginous, the suture usually more or less infuscate 


anteriorly ; the prothorax sometimes with a narrow median vitta; the under surface and legs varying in ~ 


colour from black to testaceous. (Fig. 14.) . 
Length, ¢, 7-74, breadth 6--64 millim.; 2, length 84-93, breadth 63-73 millim. 


Hab. Costa Rica (Rogers, Van Patten); Panama, Bugaba, Volcan de Chiriqui | 


(Champion), Panama city (Conradt). Twelve examples, including both sexes. 


. This insect is very closely allied to M. cewruleonotata, and it is perhaps not really 
distinct from that species (of which I have only seen a single example); but the 
punctuation of the elytra is very much finer, and the prothorax has the sides straighter 
behind. The spotted and the immaculate forms have been received from the same 
localities, and I do not hesitate to put them together; the latter closely resembles 
M. suturalis, Boh., from Cayenne, but it has the elytra more uniformly punctured. 
The colour of the under surface and legs is variable. MU. varians, Boh., from Cayenne 
&c., is an allied form, specimens of which occur with the elytral spots almost obliterated. 
We figure a pair of the typical form from Costa Rica, and a male of the unspotted 
variety from Bugaba. 


14. Mesomphalia zneovittata. (Tab. VI. fig. 15, ¢ .) 


3. Rotundate, moderately convex, slightly shining; the head and prothorax testaceous, the latter with a 
broad median vitta extending from the base to the apex and narrowing anteriorly, and an oblong patch 
midway between this and the lateral margin, eneous, the margins a little more dilute and dotted with 
fuscous ; the scutellum eneous; the elytra flavo-testaceous, each with two broad eneous vittew, which 
become confluent posteriorly—the inner one constricted before the middle and not reaching the base, the 
outer one sinuous, occupying a considerable portion of the expanded margin, and extending over the 
humeral callus to the base,—and the suture nearly to the apex—broadly anteriorly, narrowly behind— 
seneous ; the antenne black, with the three basal joints, and the fourth and fifth beneath, testaceous ; 
the legs testaceous; the underside black. Head deeply canaliculate, rugulosely punctured; antenne 
rather stout, extending a little beyond the base of the prothorax, the four basal joints shining, the others 
opaque. Prothorax twice as broad as long, rather feebly arcuate-emarginate in front, the sides rapidly 
arcuately converging from the base, obliquely so anteriorly, the base truncate on either side, the median 
lobe obtuse and moderately produced ; the dise sparsely, very finely punctate, depressed in the middle 
behind, and with a very fine median line, which is deeply impressed at the base; the margins dull, 
almost smooth, rather concave, deeply foveate behind the middle. Scutellum smooth, moderately large. 
Elytra more than three times the length of, and in the widest part about one half broader than, the 
prothorax, at the base scarcely broader than it, conjointly rounded at the apex; the disc moderately 
gibbous before the middle; the margins broadly expanded, deflexed, rounded and widest before the 


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_ middle, obliquely, abruptly converging in front; the entire surface (the suture excepted) thickly, rather 
coarsely, almost uniformly punctured. Beneath subglabrous, almost smooth. 
Length 73, breadth 64 millim. 


Hab. Nicaragua, Chontales (Janson). 


One specimen. Closely allied to WM. cwruleonotata and M. isthmica, but differently 
coloured and with the prothorax less deeply emarginate in front. The type is cou- | 
tained in the collection of Mr. O. E. Janson. 


15. Mesomphalia quadrivittata, (Tab. VI. fig. 16, 3.) 


Rotundate (¢), more ovate, and a little less obtuse behind (?), convex, slightly shining; the head and 
prothorax testaceous or rufo-testaceous, the latter with the basal edge very narrowly black ; the scutellum 
black ; the elytra flavous or flavo-testaceous, with two broad vitte on the disc, extending from the base 

_ nearly to the apex and becoming coalescent behind, and the suture and lateral margins rather broadly, 
black; the antenne black, with the four basal joints more or less testaceous; the femora and tibix 
testaceous, sometimes in great part piceous, the tarsi black; the under surface (the margins of the 
epipleurz excepted) testaceous, the breast and abdomen sometimes largely piceous. Head deeply grooved 
in the middle; antenne extending to a little beyond the base of the prothorax, the four basal joints 
shining and almost smooth, the others densely punctured and opaque. Prothorax twice as broad as long, 
broadly and rather deeply arcuate-emarginate in front, the sides rapidly, arcuately converging from the 
base, obliquely so in front, the base strongly sinuate on either side, the hind angles rather obtuse, the 
median lobe broad and obtuse, moderately produced; the disc somewhat convex, a little flattened in front, 
with a fine, interrupted median groove; the margins moderately concave; the entire surface sparsely, 
finely punctured, the punctures coarser at the sides. Scutellum moderately large, smooth. Elytra (3) 
one-half broader than, and about three and a half times as long as, the prothorax, conjointly rounded at 
the apex, slightly longer, and with the sutural angles a little sharper in the female, rounded at the sides 
in both sexes, the base strongly bisinuate, the humeri rounded, rather prominent in front; the disc 
regularly rounded ; the margins broadly expanded (¢), moderately expanded and somewhat deflexed 
(@), the exterior limb narrowly reflexed, strongly so at the base; the entire surface thickly, rather 
coarsely punctate. Beneath glabrous, almost smooth, the epipleure punctured as above. Claws obtusely 
appendiculate. 


Length, ¢ 9, 94-11, breadth 83-9 millim. 


Hab. Nicaragua, Rio San Juan (Janson); Costa Rica (Gadd). 


Three specimens, all contained in Mr. O. E. Janson’s collection. This species has 
much the facies of a Pecilaspis, resembling Mf. pecilaspoides, Baly, in shape, but it 
differs from that genus in its more deeply emarginate prothorax, the antenne with the 
four basal joints only smooth, &c.; the non-produced hind angles of the prothorax 
separate it from Chelymorpha. M. quadrivittata is not closely allied to any species 
known to me. ‘The Costa Rican specimen is figured. | 


16. Mesomphalia exclamationis. 
Cassida exclamationis, Linn. Syst. Nat. 12th edit. i. 2, p.577*; Fabr. Syst. Eleuth. i. p. 406’ ; 
Herbst, Kafer, viii. p. 258, t. 181. fig. 8°; Oliv. Ent. vi. no. 97, p. 947, t. 1. fig. 16°. 
Mesomphalia exclamationis, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. i. p. 379°, and iv. p. 176°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. 
Mus. ix. p. 647. 


Hab. Mexico, San Blas (Forrer), Acapulco (Hége), San Andres Tuxtla, El Camaron 


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146 PHYTOPHAGA. 


(Sadlé), Temax in North Yucatan (Gaumer); GuaremaLa, Cerro Zunil, Zapote (Cham- 
pion); Nicaracua, Chontales (Janson).— Sours Amurica?, Guiana‘’, Trinidad, 
Brazil 7; Awntitius 4, Martinique 7. 


Not hitherto recorded from Mexico or Central America. 


17. Mesomphalia evanida. 
Mesomphalia evanida, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. i. p. 881°, and iv. p. 177 2, Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 65°. . 
Hab. Muxico (Truqui, in Mus. Brit.) —Co.omsia !~°. 


There are two specimens of this species in the British Museum labelled as from 
Mexico. MM. evanida is exceedingly closely allied to M. exclamationts, and it is 
probably nothing more than a variety of that insect. 


18. Mesomphalia nigrolineata. (Tab. VI. fig. 17, 3.) 


Rotundate (3), broad ovate (? ), moderately convex, shining, flavo-testaceous or stramineous; the prothorax 
with a narrow median vitta extending from the base to the apex, and the lateral margins from a little 
before the middle to the base, black ; the scutellum black; the elytra with the suture from the base to 
the apex narrowly, a narrow stripe on the outer part of the disc extending from the base nearly to the 
apex (bent inwards and a little widened at the base), and the exterior limb to beyond the middle ( ¢), or 
to about one-third from the base (@ ), very narrowly, black; the antenne black, the four basal joints 
testaceous, 2-4 infuscate above; the under surface and legs pale testaceous, the tibiz on their outer edge 
and the tarsi black. Head deeply canaliculate, not visible from above; antenne rather slender, the four 
basal joints shining, the others densely punctured and opaque. Prothorax twice as broad as long, very 
feebly emarginate in front (the apex subtruncate, if viewed from above), the sides slightly rounded in 
their basal third and thence rapidly and obliquely converging to the apex, the anterior angles obliterated, 
the base feebly sinuate on either side, subtruncate outwardly, the hind angles rather sharp, the median 
lobe obtuse and moderately produced, the disc transversely depressed in the middle behind and with a 
faint median groove, the margins concave, the apex raised; the surface almost smooth, the sides only 
with distinct punctures. Scutellum smooth. Elytra about one-half broader than the prothorax, at the 
base not much wider than it, conjointly rounded at the apex, the base moderately sinuate, the humeri 
rounded and not prominent; the disc regularly convex ; the margins broadly expanded in the g, mode- 
rately expanded in the 9, deflexed, broadly rounded anteriorly; the entire surface thickly, finely 
punctate. Beneath smooth, glabrous. Claws appendiculate. 

Length, 3,9, breadth 8 millim.; @, length 123, breadth 92 millim. 


Hab. Costa Rica (coll. Janson); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 4000 feet (Champion). 


One specimen from each locality; the male, from Costa Rica, is figured. This species 
approaches I. albida, M. exclamationis, &c.; but it has the margins of the elytra more 
broadly expanded, especially in the male. 


19. Mesomphalia interrupta. (Tab. VI. fig. 18, 2.) 


Rotundate ( ¢), rather broad ovate ( 2 ), moderately convex, shining, dilute stramineous; the prothorax with 
a median vitta extending from the base to the apex, usually a little widened in front, and the lateral 
margins narrowly from about the middle to the base, black; the scutellum black; the elytra with the 
suture for a short distance immediately below the base, narrowly, a short slightly curved, oblique streak 
on the humeral callus (extending to the base), and a fine longitudinal streak of variable length on the 


MESOMPHALIA.—CHELYMORPHA. 147 


outer part of the disc (in a line with the end of the humeral mark and sometimes extending to about one- 
third from the apex), black; antenne black, the five basal joints pale testaceous, 2-5 more or less stained 
with piceous above ; the under surface and legs pale testaceous, the tibice on their outer edge and the 
tarsi black. Head, antenne, prothorax, scutellum, and elytra as in M. nigrolineata, the prothorax with 
very minute scattered punctures at the sides, the apex as viewed from above truncate. 

Length, 3, 83-9, breadth 7 3-83 millim.; 2, length 93-103, breadth 8-82 millim. 


Hab. Costa Rica, Caché (Rogers). 


Three males and two females. Closely allied to, and probably only a variety of, 
M. nigrolineata, from which it differs in having the suture black for a short distance 
below the scutellum only (the black not quite reaching the base), the fine black streak 
on the outer part of the disc of each elytron abbreviated and interrupted, and the 
elytral margins not bordered with black. 


CHELYMORPHA. 
Chelymorpha (Chevrolat), Dej. Cat. 3rd edit. p. 393 (1837); Boheman, Monogr. Cassid. ii. p. 1 
(1854) (partim). 
Cyphomorpha, Hope, Col. Man. iii. p. 160 (1840). 


This genus is readily recognizable by the base of the prothorax being so deeply 
emarginate on either side externally as to make the hind angles, which are acute or 
sharp, appear as if they were produced behind, the prothorax being also emarginate to 
a greater or less extent in front. Amongst other characters given by Boheman are 
“the prosternum deeply, longitudinally canaliculate,” and “the claws unidentate at 
the base beneath.” ‘Three of his species, C. punctipennis, C. apiata, and C. obducta, 
all from §. America, do not possess these peculiarities, nor have they the prothorax 
emarginate in front; and I propose to separate them under the name Cistudinella, 
including in the same genus an allied species from the State of Panama, which is dealt 
with below. Upwards of one hundred species of Chelymorpha have been described, 
all American, ranging from the United States to Patagonia and occurring also in the 
Antilles ; twenty-four are here recorded from within our limits as against two from the 
United States. The genus is one of the most characteristic of the Central-American 
Cassidide ; C. yuvenca and its allies bear a remarkable resemblance to some of the 
species of Epilachna of the family Coccinellide inhabiting the same region. The 
following Table is added to assist in the identification of the Central-American species, 
but it must be remembered that some of them are very variable in colour. 


Elytra strongly gibbous anteriorly, the suture usually more or less raised below 
the base, so as to form a hump; upper surface thickly pubescent. 


_ Species large, very coarsely punctured above. . . . . . . . . . . Aépfneri, Boh. 
Species smaller, more finely punctured above. 
Elytra with several distinct spots, including a common sutural one. . . v pubescens, Boh., 


. . _[gressoria, Boh. 
Elytra immaculate or nearlyso . . . . . . . . . . . ).)  «Sericea, Boh. 


duel > wit iw DS NM G7 
Donn, Chempion oe G05 
bis Chewy: & Tee i 


148 PHYTOPHAGA. 


Elytra moderately or feebly gibbous anteriorly, the suture not raised below the 
base into a hump. 


Upper surface pubescent ; elytra spotted . . . . . + + + + + + + ¥eomata, Boh., and 
Upper surface glabrous. i [vars. 
Elytra rufo-testaceous, immaculate ; 5 prothorax black (except at the 
apex) . . ... . . foe ee ew ee e) rUfipennis, Boh. 
Elytra rufo-testaceous, each with two broad yellow vittee and numerous 
irregular rows of small black spots. . . . . ee «6 Malternans, Boh. 
Elytra flavo-testaceous, each with two very broad black vittz, the inner 
one not obliquely truncate anteriorly. . . . . . . . . + . véittata, n. sp. 
Elytra testaceous, each with two moderately broad black vittz, the inner 
one obliquely truncate anteriorly . . . . . . . Mmilitaris, Boh. 


Elytra rufo-testaceous, each with eight small greenish-blue spots, 2, 3,1,2. calva, Boh.* 
Elytra regularly convex, not at all gibbous anteriorly. 
Upper surface pubescent. 
Species moderately convex ; rufo-testaceous, the elytra spotted. 


Prothorax rugosely punctured . . 2... we eee eee regicollis, n. sp. 
Prothorax very finely punctured . . . . woe ee ew ee). veatenulata, Boh. 
Species strongly convex (resembling Epilackna) ; ; elytra black, with ex- 
ceedingly large yellow spots or patches . . . . . . + « « »¥ fuvenca, Boh., 
Upper surface glabrous. [crux-nigra, Boh. 
Species moderately convex; ¢ subrotundate or ovate, 2 ovate or 
oblong. 


Size large; upper surface rufo-testaceous or testaceous, with black spots 
or markings. 
Elytra with small spots, 2, 3, 2, or 2,3, 1, and a common sutural one, 


- the median three not forming a fascia . . . . . . . . .  mewicana, n. sp. 
Elytra usually with a well-defined median fascia and some spots and 
lines, enclosing exceedingly large yellow patches . . . . . biannularis, Boh., 
Size smaller; upper surface rufo-testaceous or testaceous, with black [and vars. 
spots. 


Elytra with large or moderately large black spots. 
Elytral punctuation rather fine; usually two spots on the disc 
beyond the middle + (at most six on each elytron) . . . . 14-punctata, Boh., 
Elytral punctuation coarse; one spot only on the disc beyond the [and vars. 
middle (five in alloneach elytron) . . . . . . «. . . 18-maculata, Boh. 
Elytra with smaller and fewer spots; one at most on the disc beyond 
the middle ¢ (usually five on each elytron) . . . . . . . “12-signata, Boh. 
Species more convex (resembling Epilachna) ; size large. 
Upper surface black. 
Prothorax and elytra with large rufo-testaceous or yellow spots. 


* Boheman compares this species with C. pubescens ; it is perhaps incorrectly placed here. 
+ Sometimes obsolete. 


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CHELYMORPHA. 149 


Elytral spots subequal in size . . . v guttifera, Boh. 
Elytral spots unequal, the apical one exceedingly large or S-shaped. flavomaculata, u. sp. 
Prothorax black (except at the apex). 


Elytra with large yellow spots . . . 10-stillata, Bok. 
Elytra with very large yellow patches, separated by narrow 7 black 
spaces . . 1. 1 we ee ee ee ewe ee. Cptlachnoides, 1. Sp. 


Upper surface rufo-testaceous, the margins of the prothorax and elytra 
narrowly black . . . 2. . 2... eee ee ee  ) Obliterata, n. sp. 


1. Chelymorpha hopfneri. (Tab. VI. fig. 19, 2.) 
Chelymorpha hiépfneri, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. ii. p. 2’, and iv. p. 194°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 73°. 
Hab. Mexico !~?, Puebla (Sallé), Matamoros Izucar, Cuernavaca (Hége). 


Apparently a scarce insect, and confined to a limited district in Mexico. C. hopfneri 
is larger, broader, and more coarsely punctured than the allied C. pudescens and C. gres- 
soria; it closely resembles the var. 8 of C. gressoria. 


2. Chelymorpha pubescens. (Tab. VI. fig. 20, 2.) 
Chelymorpha pubescens, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. ii. p. 5', and iv. p. 195°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 73°. 
_ Hab. Mexico1—*, Ventanas in Durango (forrer), Tierra Colorada and Rincon in 
Guerrero (H. H. Smith), Matamoros Izucar (Hége), Playa Vicente, Orizaba, Vera Cruz 
(Sallé), Cordova (Sallé, Hoge), Teapa (Hoge, H. H. Smith), Tapachula in Chiapas 
(Hége), Temax in North Yucatan (Gaumer); British Honpuras, Rio Hondo (Blanca- 
neaux); GUaTEMALA, Cahabon, Chiacam, and Chacoj in Vera Paz, El Tumbador, 
Coatepeque, Paraiso, El Reposo, Volcan de Atitlan, Pantaleon, Mirandilla, Zapote 
(Champion). 


A common insect in Mexico and Guatemala. <A variety occurs with the median 
discoidal spot small or obsolete, and the other spots much reduced in size. In the 
typical form the elytra have an oblong black mark midway between the humeral spot 
and the suture; but this patch is sometimes represented by one or two rounded spots. 
The lateral margins of the prothorax show no tendency to become black. Specimens 
from Matamoros Izucar, Teapa, and Temax have the elytra less gibbous than in typical 
C. gressoria, those from Cordova, Tapachula, and Zapote being almost intermediate. 
We figure a female specimen from Cordova, determined by Boheman himself. 


3, Chelymorpha gressoria. (Tab. VI. fig. 21, 3.) 


Chelymorpha gressoria, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iv. p. 194°. 


Hab. Mexico, Juquila (Sallé1), Cordova, Tapachula (Hége) ; GuatemaLa, El Tum- 
BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Coleopt., Vol. VI. Pt. 2, November 1898. uu 


150 PHYTOPHAGA. 


bador, Coatepeque, El Reposo, Las Mercedes, Zapote, Capetillo (Champion); Panama, 
Bugaba, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 


Var. a. The prothorax usually with the sides, the base and apex in the middle, and two transversely placed 
spots on the disc, black; the elytra with a common, ovate, rather large spot on the suture below the base, 
a small spot on the humeral callus, and sometimes one or two other small spots on the disc or margin, 

_ black, the exterior limb also more or less infuscate or black ; the legs entirely black. 


Hab. Costa Rica (Van Patten), Caché (Rogers); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 
(Champion). 


Var. 3. The sides and apex, and sometimes also the base, of the prothorax and the exterior limb of the elytra 
rufo-testaceous ; the legs partly or entirely black. 

Hab. Mexico, Tapachula (Hoge); Guatemaua, El Reposo, San Gerénimo, El Jicaro 
(Champion); Nicaragua, Chontales (Janson, Belt); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui, David 
(Champion). 

It is with some hesitation that I retain C. gressoria as distinct from C. pubescens ; 
but as the elytra appear to be more gibbous, and the insect is constant in some localities, 
though occurring with C. pubescens in others, it is perhaps advisable to keep them 
separate. The sutural callosity of the elytra is larger and more rounded than in 
C. pubescens, and the spots between the humeral callus and the suture show no tendency 
to become confluent, so as to form an oblong patch. ‘The prothorax, the anterior 
margin and a small oblong spot on the disc excepted, and the legs are sometimes 
black.. The colour of the prothorax is very variable. C. gressoria has been collected — 
rather abundantly at Las Mercedes in Guatemala, and at various places in Chiriqui, 
unaccompanied by C. pudescens, which apparently does not extend south of Guate- 
mala. We figure one of Boheman’s types from Juquila, a male. | 


4, Chelymorpha sericea. (Tab. VI. fig. 22, 3.) 
Chelymorpha sericea, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iv. p. 195°. 


Hab. GuatEma.a (coll. Baly!); Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt); Costa Rica (Sallé). 


I have seen only four specimens of this species, including the types in the Baly 
collection. ‘Three of these belong to the variety with immaculate elytra. We figure 
Boheman’s type. | 


5. Chelymorpha comata. (Tab. V1. figg. 23, 9; 24, 25, 3, vars.) 
Chelymorpha comata, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. ii. p. 4’, and iv. p. 194?; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. ix. 
p- 73°. . 
Chelymorpha 17-notata, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iv. p. 202+. 
Chelymorpha 18-punctata, Sturm in litt.’ 


Hab. Mexico !~* (Sallé, ex coll. Sturm), Playa Vicente, Tuxtla, Cordova, Vera Cruz 4 


CHELYMORPHA. 151 


(Sallé), Misantla (Hoge, F. D. G.), Jalapa, Teapa in Tabasco (Hoge), Atoyac in Vera 
Cruz (H. H. Smith); British Honpuras, Rio Hondo, Belize (Blancaneaux) ; GUATE- 
MALA, Chiacam in Vera Paz (Champion). 

Var. The second discoidal spot and the two outer median ones coalescent, so as to form an irregular fascia on 


each elytron; the first and second discoidal spots often united with the sutural one, forming a common 
X -shaped patch. (Fig. 25.) 


Chelymorpha smithi, Boh. Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. ix. p. 77°; Monogr. Cassid. iv. p. 200. 


Hab. Mexico, Teapa in Tabasco (Sallé’, Hoge, H. H. Smith); British Honpuras, 
Rio Hondo (Blancaneaux); Guaremaua, Panzos in Vera Paz (Conradt), Chiacam in 
Vera Paz (Champion); Honpuras (Dyson, in mus. Brit.®"). 


_ This species is confined to the Atlantic slope. With the type of C. 17-notata, Boh., 
before me, Iam unable to separate it from C. comata, even as a variety; it merely 
differs from C. comata in having the elytral spots larger, the common sutural patch 
sometimes continued downwards and coalescent on either side with the second discoidal 
spot. C. smithi is a local variety, not uncommon in Tabasco, where also the var. 17- 
notata. occurs ; these two forms were also collected together at Rio Hondo and Chiacam. 
Boheman? compares C. smithi with C. catenulata; the latter, however, has the elytra 
much flatter, not at all gibbous below the base. We figure a variety (2) from Vera 
Cruz; one of Boheman’s types (¢ ) of C. 17-notata, from Playa Vicente, and one (¢ ) 
of his C. smithi from Teapa. 


6. Chelymorpha rufipennis. (Tab. VII. fig. 1, 2.) 
Chelymorpha rufipennis, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. ii. p. 77", and iv. p. 216°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 83°. 

Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Ribde), David, Tolé (Champion), Matachin (Thiéme).— 
CoLomBIA; VENEZUELA2?; Brazin1~. 


_ A species readily recognizable by its rufo-testaceous or rufous elytra and black pro- 
thorax, the latter with the anterior margin, and sometimes a narrow streak on the 


disc, rufo-testaceous. 


7. Chelymorpha alternans. (Tab. VII. fig. 2, ¢.) 
Chelymorpha alternans, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. ii. p. 33", and iv. p. 200°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 76°. 
_ Hab. Costa Rica, Caché (Rogers); Panama, Bugaba, Volcan de Chiriqui, Tolé 
(Champion).—Cotomsia 1~* ; Amazons, Paré? 3, Santarem ? *. 


Not uncommon in Chiriqui. All our specimens, and also those named by Boheman 
in the National Collection, have a small black spot on either side of the disc of the 
prothorax about the middle. Some examples have a oroad indeterminate  flavous 

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152 PHYTOPHAGA. 


median vitta on the prothorax; the two flavous vittee on each elytron are sometimes 
indistinct from discoloration. C. bullata, Boh., from Brazil, appears to be a closely 
allied species, but has more gibbous elytra. 


8. Chelymorpha vittata. (Tab. VII. fig. 3, ¢.) 

2. Ovate, rather broad, somewhat gibbous, slightly shining, glabrous; the head, prothorax, and scutellum 
testaceous, the prothorax with a very large subtriangular black patch on either side of the disc; the 
elytra flavo-testaceous, each with two very broad black vitte extending almost from the base to near the 
apex—one near the suture, narrowed and a little abbreviated posteriorly, the other on the outer part of 
the disc, narrowed anteriorly and posteriorly, and extending behind the other to near the suture; the 
antenne and legs rufo-testaceous, the apical four joints of the antenne infuscate; the under surface 
black, the prosternum rufo-testaceous. Head canaliculate between the eyes, the lower part with scattered 
rather coarse punctures ; antenne about reaching the base of the prothorax, the five basal joints shining 
and almost smooth. Prothorax more than twice as broad as long, deeply arcuate-emarginate in front, 
the sides a little rounded behind, obliquely and more rapidly converging from the middle forwards, the 
base bisinuate on either side, the median lobe broad and obtuse, the hind angles a little produced behind ; 
the disc with a fine median groove not extending to the apex, sparsely, very finely punctate ; the margins 
moderately expanded, almost smooth, the outer edge slightly reflexed. Scutellum smooth. Elytra 
somewhat gibbous anteriorly, about four times as long as, and at the base a little wider than, the prothorax, 
widest at one-third from the base, the sides thence to the humeri obliquely converging, the humeri obtuse 
and embraced by the hind angles of the prothorax, the apices conjointly rounded ; the dise very convex 

‘anteriorly, rather abruptly declivous from about the basal third; the margins moderately expanded and 
deflexed ; the entire surface, the sutural region excepted, coarsely, thickly punctate. Beneath glabrous, 
smooth, the metapleure rugose; the prosternum very deeply sulcate for its entire length. Claws 
appendiculate. 

Length 10, breadth 7 millim. 


Hab. Nicaracua, Chontales (Janson). 


One specimen, contained in Mr. O. KE. Janson’s collection. Allied to C. alternans, 
C. rufipennis, &c., but easily separable from these by the very broad black vitte of the 
elytra. C. vittata agrees very nearly with the description of C. militaris, Boh. ; but it 
has much broader and differently formed elytral vitte, the elytra themselves more 
coarsely punctured, and, apparently, the hind angles of the prothorax less acuminate. 
The vitte in C. vittata are nearly twice as broad as the intervening spaces of the ground- 
colour. 


9. Chelymorpha militaris. 
Chelymorpha militaris, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iv. p. 204’. 


‘‘Ovata, convexa, testacea, nitida; antennis extrorsum corporeque subtus nigris ; prothorace sat crebre, sub- 
tiliter punctulato, utrinque macula magna, subtriangulari, nigra ornato, dorso postico longitudinaliter, 
tenuiter canaliculato; elytris sat profunde, minus crebre punctatis, singulo vittis duabus sat latis, nigris 
ornato.—Long. 10, lat. 7} miilim.” 


Hab. Cenrrat America (Mus. Berol.1), 


Unknown to me. C. militaris is compared by Boheman with, and placed next to, 
the North-American C. argus (Herbst). ‘The elytral vitte are described as “sat latis, 


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parallelis, nigris, utrinque nonnihil abbreviatis, una prope suturam antice introrsum 

oblique truncata, apicem versus attenuata, altera in disco exteriore, antice minus 
? b) + 

postice magis attenuata.” | 


10. Chelymorpha calva. 
Chelymorpha calva, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. ii. p. 30’, and iv. p. 2007; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 76°. 


‘“s Subrotundata, convexa, rufo-testacea, parum nitida, glabra; prothorace obsolete, subremote punctulato, 
immaculato ; elytris sat profunde, crebre, vage punctatis, singulo maculis 8 parvis, viridi-cerulescentibus. 
—Long. 8, lat. 7 millim.” 


Hab. Mexico (Mus. Paris 1-%), 


I have not seen a Chelymorpha agreeing with the description of this species. The 
spots on each elytron are arranged 2, 3, 1, 2. 


i 


11. Chelymorpha rugicollis, (Tab. VII. fig. 4, ¢.) 

Q. Oblong ovate, moderately convex, slightly shining, somewhat thickly pubescent; rufo-testaceous, the eyes, 
six spots on the prothorax—four, equidistant, in a transverse line across the middle (the two on the disc 
larger than the others), and two on the disc at the base, the latter small and faint,—and the scutellum, 
black; the elytra each with seven large rounded spots—three placed one behind the other on the disc. 
towards the suture (the first at the base, the second just behind and almost confluent with it, the third 
about the middle, the latter larger than the others and nearer the suture), three on the outer part of the 
disc (the first on the humeral callus, the second a little before the middle, and the third not far from the 
apex, the latter the largest), and one on the margin a little beyond the middle,—and a common, large, 
-oblong patch on the suture below the base, black; the antenne (joints 8-11 broken off) and legs rufo- 
testaceous ; the under surface black, the ventral segments 3-5 each with a reddish transverse mark at 
the sides. Head rugosely punctured and canaliculate between the eyes, the lower part with coarse, 
separate punctures ; (antenne mutilated). Prothorax nearly twice as broad as long, moderately convex, 
broadly arcuate-emarginate in front, the sides rapidly converging from the base forwards—a little rounded 
behind, obliquely converging in front,—the base deeply bisinuate on either side, the median lobe strongly, 
subtriangularly produced, the hind angles sharply produced behind ; the disc with an abbreviated distinct 
median groove; the apical and lateral margins strongly thickened and reflexed, concave within; the 
entire surface coarsely, confluently punctured. Elytra regularly and moderately convex, about three 
times as long as the prothorax, and at the base a little wider than it, widest at the middle, the sides 
thence to the base sinuously converging, very obtuse behind, the humeri obtuse and embraced by the hind 
angles of the prothorax ; the margins narrowly expanded, with the outer edge thickened and slightly 
reflexed; the surface coarsely, thickly punctate, the spots smoother. Beneath very sparsely, tinely 
punctate, sparsely pubescent ; prosternum very deeply sulcate, Claws appendiculate. 

Length 11, breadth 73 millim. 


Hab. Mexico, Michoacan (Sal/é). 


One example. This very distinct species resembles C. comata, Boh., but is in reality 
more nearly allied to the North-American C. argus (Herbst). The elytra are not at all 
gibbous below the base, this character separating it at once from C. comata and its 
allies. The pubescent, duller surface, coarser punctuation, &c., distinguish it from 
C. argus, C. mexicana, &c. The prothorax is coarsely, confluently punctured. 


154 PHYTOPHAGA. 


12. Chelymorpha catenulata. (Tab. VII. figg. 5, ¢; 6,7, 2, vars.) 

Chelymorpha catenulata, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. ii. p. 85", and iv. p. 200°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 77°. 

Chelymorpha 11-maculata, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. ii. p. 87*, and iv. p. 208°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. 
Mus. ix. p. 77°. 

Chelymorpha 8-maculata, Sturm in litt.’ 

Hab. Mexico 1-* (Sallé, ex coll. Sturm), Cuernavaca (Sallé, Hoge, H. H. Smith), 
Tepetlapa (H. H. Smith), Matamoros Izucar, Chilpancingo, Misantla (Hoye), Playa 
Vicente (Sallé), Oaxaca (Hoge) ; GuateMaLa, Cerro Zunil, Volcan de Atitlan, Pantaleon, 
Duefias, Capetillo (Champion); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion).—Braziu?. 


Var. a. The elytra with the suture and the exterior limb rather broadly black; the spots large, the inner 
discoidal spot extending to the suture, the outer one to the margin. (Fig. 7.) ~ 


Hab. Guatemaua, Capetillo (Champion). One specimen. 


Var. 3. The elytra entirely black. 

Chelymorpha 11-maculata, Boh., var. c, Monogr. Cassid. iv. p. 203°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. ix. 
p. 77°. 

Chelymorpha omissa, Dohrn, Stett. ent. Zeit. 1880, p. 155 ™°. 

Hab. Mexico ® 9, Ventanas in Durango (Forrer); GuatemMaLa!, Capetillo (Cham- 
pion, Rodriguez), Duenas (Champion). 

I have examined the types of C. catenulata and C. 11l-maculata, and they only 
differ in colour and size. The species isa very variable one, as noticed by Boheman, 
and the elytra are sometimes entirely black. C. omissa was based upon abraded 
specimens of this dark form. C. catenulata may chiefly be known by its moderately 
convex shape (¢ subrotundate, 9 ovate) and pubescent surface, the elytra and the 
sides of the prothorax rather coarsely punctured. Specimens occur with the spots 
small, sometimes with only three on each elytron; those from Western Mexico are 
much larger than the others. We figure a male of one of Boheman’s types of 
C. catenulata (fig. 5), from Playa Vicente, a female of his C. 11-maculata (from the 
Stockholm Museum) (fig. 6), and a female of the variety a from Capetillo (fig. 7). 


13. Chelymorpha juvenca. (Tab. VII. fig. 8, 2.) 
Chelymorpha juvenca, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. ii. p. 84+, and iv. p. 2187; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 84°, . 
Hab. Mexico }~%, Cordova, San Andres Tuxtla (Sal/é), Misantla, Oaxaca (Hdége). 


Apparently peculiar to the eastern and southern parts of Mexico. Six varieties of 
this variable species are described by Boheman. C. juvenca, especially in the male 
sex, has very much the facies of an Hpilachna, of the family Coccinellide ; it may be 
known by its very pubescent upper surface and convex shape—subrotundate in the 
male, ovate in the female. 


_ CHELYMORPHA. 155 


14. Chelymorpha crux-nigra. 
Chelymorpha crux-nigra, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iv. p. 218. 


Hab. Mexico (coll. Chevrolat 1). 


We have not received a specimen of this insect; but there is an example of it, 
doubtless the type, marked “ex Chevrolat,” in the Hamlet Clark collection of Cassidide, 
now in the National Museum. It is probably a variety of CO. juvenca. The elytra are 
sanguineous, with the suture, the exterior margin, and a median fascia black. 


15. Chelymorpha mexicana. (Tab. VII. fig. 9, 2.) 


Subovate (3), oblong ovate (2), moderately convex, glabrous, shining; rufo-testaceous or testaceous, the 
head, two small dots on the disc of the prothorax (often obsolete), and the scutellum, black; the elytra 
each with six or seven spots, and sometimes a narrow streak below the shoulder, and a common sub- 
quadrate or oval mark on the suture some little distance below the base, black, the spots placed thus— 
two a little below the base (one on the humeral callus, the other lower down and midway between it and 
the sutural mark), three in a transverse row about the middle (the inner one transverse, near the suture, 
the outer one on the margin and in front of the other two), one, usually small, on the disc midway 
between the inner one of these and the apex, and sometimes one close to the margin behind this; the 
antenne, legs, and under surface black, the antenne with joints 1-5 more or less rufo-testaceous beneath. 
Head coarsely, rugosely punctured and sharply canaliculate between the eyes, the groove limited on 
either side by a smooth cariniform elevation, the lower part with coarse separate punctures; antenne 
rather stout, scarcely reaching to the base of the prothorax, the five basal joints shining and almost 
smooth. Prothorax convex, twice as broad as long, broadly arcuate-emarginate in front, the sides rounded 
almost from the base (more strongly so in the male) and rapidly converging from the middle forwards, 
the base deeply emarginate on either side externally, the median lobe broad and obtuse, the hind angles 
sharp and produced behind; the disc with an interrupted median groove, sparsely, very finely punctate ; 
the margins moderately expanded, deflexed, coarsely, confluently punctate, the outer edge not thickened. 
Scutellum transversely triangular, smooth. Elytra moderately convex, somewhat flattened on the disc 
anteriorly, in the ¢ about three, in the @ fully three and a half, times as long as the prothorax, at the 
base not wider than it, slightly dilated at the middle, the sides obliquely converging thence to the base 
‘in the ¢, gradually converging in the 9, the humeri obtuse and embraced by the hind angles of the 
prothorax, the apices conjointly rounded ; the margins moderately expanded and strongly deflexed; the 
entire surface closely, finely punctate, the punctures on the margins closer and finer than those on the 
disc. Beneath glabrous, smooth, the metapleure coarsely rugose; prosternum shallowly sulcate poste- 
riorly. Claws appendiculate. 

Length, § 9, 9-114, breadth 6-73 millim. 


_ Hab. Mexico, Guanajuato (Sallé), San Juan del Rio (Hoge). + 


| . Numerous examples. Closely allied to C. biannularis, but evidently distinct from 
that variable insect. The elytral spots are small and show no tendency to coalesce, 
the external one of the posterior two being often obsolete. 


16. Chelymorpha biannularis. (Tab. VII. tigg. 10,3; 11, ¢, var.) 
Chelymorpha biannularis, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. ii. p. 66 ', andiv. p. 215°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 82°. 
Chelymorpha fasciata, Boh. Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus, ix. p. 77+; Monogr. Cassid. iv. p. 203°. 
Chelymorpha 10-punctata, Sturm in litt.° 


Hab. Mexico !~ (Sallé, ex coll. Sturm), Ventanas in Durango, Mazatlan, Tacambaro 


156 PHYTOPHAGA. | 


(Hége), Puebla, Duraznal, Michoacan (Sallé), Atlixco (Sallé, Hoge), Chilpancingo 
(Hoge, H. H. Smith), Amula (H. H. Smith), Cuernavaca (Sallé, Hoge, H. H. Smith), 
Oaxaca (Sallé, Hoge). : 


Common in the central and western parts of Mexico. Six varieties of this species 
are described by Boheman, and to these may also be added C. fasciata, the type of 
which is contained in the British Museum. We have received two specimens of the 
variety fasciata from Michoacan ; it differs from typical C. diannularis in having the 
median fascia well defined, and disconnected from the posterior markings. We figure 
two male examples, one of which (fig. 11) represents the var. fasciata. 


\/ 17. Chelymorpha 14-punctata. (Tab. VII. figg. 12, 13, 2; 14, 3, var.) 
Chelymorpha 14-punctata, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. ii. p. 40°, and iv. p. 206°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 78°. 


__ Chelymorpha 16-stillata, Boh. Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. ix. p. 78°; Monogr. Cassid. iv. p. 206 °. 


_ Hab. Mexico! (Mus. Brit.4°; coll. Baly), Puebla, Atlixco (Sallé), Matamoros 
Noe ‘Izucar, Acapulco (Hége), Puente de Ixtla in Morelos (H. H. Smith). 


Var. The elytral spots smaller, the posterior two obsolete. (Fig. 14.) 
Chelymorpha conjugata, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. 11. p. 43 °, and iv. p. 2077; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 78°, 
Hab. Mexico °~8 (coll. Baly), Matamoros Izucar (Hége). 


Most of the specimens I have seen of this species are from the Mexican State of 
Puebla. I have examined the type of C. 16-std//ata in the British Museum, and also 
a specimen of C. conjugata (3) named by Boheman himself in the same collection: 
the former * is inseparable from C. 14-punctata; the latter is a variety of the same 
species with the two posterior spots obliterated, and has been received with the typical 
form from Matamoros Izucar. The elytra have each six rather large black spots, 
arranged 2, 2, 2, the posterior two very obliquely placed, each pair showing a tendency 
to become coalescent, and the suture is sometimes black at the base; the prothorax 
has two large black spots placed transversely on the disc. We figure a typical 
example (female) from Puebla (fig. 12); a female, from Acapulco, agreeing with the 
type of C. 16-stil/ata in the British Museum (fig. 13); and a male, from Matamoros 
Izucar, agreeing with a specimen named as C. conjugata by Boheman in the same 
collection (fig. 14). 


18. Chelymorpha 13-maculata. (Tab. VII. fig. 15, 2.) 


Chelymorpha 13-maculata, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. ii. p. 42', and iv. p. 207?; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. 
Mus. ix. p. 78°. 


Hab. Mexico 1-3, 


* This has six spots on each elytron, as in typical C. 14-punctata ; Boheman gives seven. 


CHELYMORPHA. 157 


@o 


We have not received a specimen of this species, which is a close ally of C. 12-signata, 
differing from it in its rufo-testaceous colour, more convex shape, and more coarsely 
punctured elytra, each elytron with five large rounded spots, arranged 2, 2, 1. 
Boheman’s type from the Stockholm Museum is figured. 


; 19. Chelymorpha 12-signata. (Tab. VII. fig. 16, 2.) 
~~ Chelymorpha 12-signata, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. ii. p. 411, and iv. p. 2077; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 78°. 
Hab. Mexico! , Atlixco (Sallé), Cerro de Plumas, Acapulco, Tapachula (Hoge), 
Oaxaca (Sallé, Hoge). 


Not uncommon in Oaxaca and at Tapachula. Smaller and more convex than 
C. 14-punctata ; the elytra a little more coarsely punctured, and with smaller and 
fewer spots (at most five on each elytron). In the typical form there are five spots on 
each elytron, arranged 2, 2, 1; but one or more of these are absent in some specimens. 
In one example from Oaxaca only the humeral spot is present, and in another from the 
same locality the five spots are larger than usual. Some of the varieties are scarcely 
separable from the var. conjugata of C. 14-punctata. I have examined one of Bohe- 
man’s types, a female, which is here figured. 


Va 20. Chelymorpha guttifera. (Tab. VII. fig. 17.) 
Chelymorpha guttifera, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. ii. p. 86", and iv. p. 2197; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 84°, 
Hab. Guatemata 1, Capetillo (Champion, Rodriguez), Zapote (Champion), Escuintla 
(Conradt). 


Not uncommon in Guatemala. A species readily recognizable by its glabrous shining 
surface, above and beneath black; the elytra each with five rather large spots, and the 
prothorax with a large oblong patch on either side of the disc, yellow or reddish-yellow. 


; 21. Chelymorpha flavomaculata. (Tab. VII. fig. 18.) 

Y Ovate, convex, glabrous, very shining ; black, the prothorax with an oblong rufo-testaceous patch on either 
side of the disc extending from the middle to the similarly coloured anterior margin; the elytra each with 
four large orange-yellow patches—one at the base, transverse, extending from the humeral callus nearly 
to the suture, one on the disc before the middle, equally large, rounded or transverse, one below the 
shoulder, obovate (half on the disc and half on the margin), and one some distance beyond the middle, 
subtriangular, extending across the disc nearly to the suture and downwards nearly to the apex, the latter 
slightly excised on its outer edge and with a black spot in the centre, or so deeply excised as to form a 
>-shaped mark; the antenne, legs, and under surface black, the antenne with the five basal joints 
testaceous beneath. Head rugose and deeply canaliculate between the eyes, the lower part with a few 
scattered punctures; antenne about reaching the base of the prothorax, the five basal joints smooth and 
shining. Prothorax convex, twice as broad as long, deeply arcuate-emarginate in front, the sides 
arcuately converging from the base, the base deeply emarginate on either side externally, the median lobe 
broad and obtuse, the hind angles produced behind; the disc with an abbreviated median groove, sparsely, 
finely punctate; the margins moderately expanded, rather coarsely, confluently punctate, the outer edge 


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158 PHYTOPHAGA. 


very narrowly reflexed. Scutellum smooth. Elytra three and a half times as long as, and much broader 
than, the prothorax, moderately rounded at the sides, convex, with the sides of the disc rather abruptly 
declivous and the humeral callus prominent, the humeri rounded; the margins moderately expanded, 
deflexed ; the entire surface thickly, rather coarsely punctate. Beneath sparsely pubescent; prosternum - 
deeply sulcate posteriorly. Claws appendiculate. 

Length 94-11, breadth 7-84 millim. 


Hab. Nicaracua, Chontales (Belt, Janson). 


Three examples, apparently all females, two with the anteapical patch divided so as 
to form a large >-shaped mark on each elytron. This is a species with the elytra 
marked very nearly as in one of the varieties of the Mexican C. juvenca, Boh., from 
which its glabrous, very shining upper surface distinguishes it at a glance. The insect 
is nearest allied to C. 10-stillata, Boh. 


22, Chelymorpha decem-stillata, (Tab. VII. fig. 19.) 
Chelymorpha decemstillata, Boh. Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. ix. p. 82*; Monogr. Cassid. iv. p. 215 2, 


Hab. Muxico } 2, Cerro de Plumas (fHége). 


We have received three specimens of this species. Very like C. guttifera, but with 
the prothorax black, the apical margin excepted. The elytra are more coarsely and a 
little more closely punctured; the spots larger, the median one on the disc especially. 


23. Chelymorpha epilachnoides. (Tab. VII. fig. 20, ¢ .) 


Q. Ovate, convex, glabrous, moderately shining, black, the prothorax with the apex more or less testaceous 
on either side, and sometimes with a rufo-testaceous spot on either side of the disc a little before the 
middle; the elytra each with four very large flavo-testaceous patches, together occupying more than half 
of the entire surface—one at the base extending nearly to the suture, subquadrate, a similar mark behind 
it extending nearly to the middle, the two confluent in one example, an obovate patch below the shoulder 
(half on the disc and half on the margin), and an exceedingly large subtriangular patch beyond the 
middle, the latter slightly excised on its outer edge and with a small black spot in the centre ; the antenne, 
legs, and under surface black, the five basal joints of the antenne testaceous beneath. Head rugose and 
canaliculate between the eyes, the lower part with a few fine scattered punctures ; antenne extending to 
a little beyond the base of the prothorax, the five basal joints smooth and shining. Prothorax convex, 
twice as broad as long, deeply arcuate-emarginate in front, the sides very rapidly arcuately converging 
from the base, the base deeply emarginate on either side externally, the median lobe broad and obtuse, 
the hind angles sharp and produced behind; the disc with an interrupted median groove, sparsely, 
minutely punctate; the margins moderately expanded, somewhat rugulosely punctured, the outer edge 
very narrowly reflexed. Scutellum smooth. Elytra three and a half times as long as, and very much 
wider than, the prothorax, moderately rounded at the sides, convex, with the sides of the dise rather 
abruptly declivous, and the humeral callus prominent, the humeri rounded; the margins moderately 
expanded, deflexed ; the entire surface thickly, rather coarsely punctate. Beneath sparsely pubescent ; 
prosternum very deeply sulcate from between the coxe to the tip. Claws appendiculate. 

Length 124-13, breadth 9-94 millim. 


Hab. Mexico, Ventanas in Durango (Hoge). 
Two examples, closely agreeing with each other. Another species resembling one of 


the forms of the variable Mexican C. juvenca, Boh. ; but larger and glabrous above. This 
last-mentioned character brings C. epilachnoides near C. 10-stillata, C. guttifera, &c. 


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24, Chelymorpha obliterata. (Tab. VII. fig. 21, ¢.) 


Subrotundate ( ¢), ovate ( 2), convex, glabrous, shining ; rufo-testaceous or testaceous, the head, the prothorax 
with a median vitta behind (usually extending narrowly forwards to the apex) and sometimes the sides 
broadly from the middle to the base, and the scutellum, black; the elytra with the suture for a short 
distance below the scutellum, the entire exterior limb, a small spot on the humeral callus, and sometimes 
a similar spot in a line with it about the middle, in one example with two other very small spots 
placed one behind the other nearer the suture (the anterior one nearly in a line with the median spot, 
when present), black ; the antenne and legs, the exterior limb of the elytra rather broadly, and the under 
surface of the body black, the antenne with the four or five basal joints rufo-testaceous beneath. Head 
rugosely punctured and canaliculate between the eyes, the lower part with a few scattered punctures ; 
antenne about reaching the base of the prothorax, the five basal joints smooth and shining. Prothorax 
convex, twice as broad as long, arcuate-emarginate in front, the sides rounded from the base and rapidly 
converging from the middle forwards, the base deeply emarginate on either side externally, the median 
lobe broad and obtuse, the hind angles sharp and produced behind; the disc with an interrupted faint 
median groove, sparsely, minutely punctate; the margins moderately expanded, concave, coarsely, con- 
fluently punctured, the outer edge very narrowly reflexed. Scutellum smooth. Elytra regularly convex, 
in the ¢ about three, in the 2 more than four times as long as the prothorax, and wider than it at the 
base, rounded at the sides anteriorly, widest before the middle, the humeri rounded ; the margins rather 
broadly expanded and deflexed; the entire surface thickly, rather coarsely punctate. Beneath almost 
glabrous, smooth, the metapleure with scattered coarse punctures ; prosternum very deeply sulcate poste- 
riorly. Claws appendiculate. 

Length, ¢ 2, 9-102, breadth 7-8 millim. 


Hab. GuateMaLa, Tactic in Vera Paz (Conradt), San Gerénimo in Vera Paz 
(Champion). 

A pair from Tactic and a female from San Gerénimo. This insect closely. resembles 
Boheman’s var. ¢ of the Mexican C. yuvenca; but may easily be known from it by the 


entirely glabrous upper surface. It is more nearly allied to C. guttifera, C. epilach- 
noides, &c. The species is probably a variable one. 


SELENIS. 
Selenis, Hope, Ann. Nat. Hist. iii. p. 96, t. 4. fig. 3 (1839) ; Boheman, Monogr. Cassid. ii. p. 94. 


A Tropical-American genus containing four described species, one of which occurs 
within our limits, remarkable from having the humeral angles of the elytra acutely 
prolonged forwards in the male sex, the elytra themselves often perforated. 


1. Selenis sparsa, (Tab. VII. figg. 22,3; 23, 2.) 
Selenis sparsa, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. 11. p. 100*, and iv. p. 221°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. ix. 
p. 86°. , 

Hab. 1 Mexico!*; Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt, Janson); Costa Rica (Sallé) ; 
Panama, Bugaba, David, Tolé (Champion), Chiriqui (Aibde), Matachin (Thiéme).— 
Cortomsia 1~?; ¢ Bonivia!. 

Found in abundance by myself on low plants on the river-banks at David. The 
localities ‘‘ Mexico” and “ Bolivia” require confirmation ; both are probably given in 
mistake by Boheman 1, the second not being quoted by him in his subsequent works. 

XX 2 


160 PHYTOPHAGA. 


OMOPLATA. 
Omoplata, Hope, Col. Man. iii. p. 159 (1840); Boheman, Monogr. Cassid. 11. p. 101. 


A Tropical-American genus containing about forty-five described species. Of the 
four Omoplate already recorded from within our limits, the three from Mexico (the 
types of which I have not seen) almost certainly belong to Physonota; one of these 
latter, O. calcarata, was, I have no doubt, subsequently redescribed by Boheman under 
Physonota, and it is here placed under that.genus. Two species of Omoplata, however, 
occur in the southern parts of our region, one, 0. quadristillata, Boh., being very like» 
Mesomphatia lebasi, Boh., an insect inhabiting the same districts, the other, O. tersa, 
Boh., ranging from Brazil to the State of Panama. 


1. Omoplata tersa. (Tab. VIL. fig. 24, 3.) 
Omoplata tersa, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. ii. p. 106", and iv. p. 2227; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. ix. 
p- 87°. 
Hab. Panama, Bugaba (Champion).—Braziu 1~°. 


Five specimens from the State of Panama, agreeing with others from Brazil, and 
also with Boheman’s description. 


2. Omoplata quadristillata. (Tab. VII. fig. 25, ¢.) 
Omoplata quadristillata, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iv. p. 226°. 


Hab. Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt, Janson); Costa Rica (Wagner, in Mus. Berol.' ; 
Van Patten). : 


I have seen six specimens of this species. Boheman described a female; the male 
has, as usual, sharper and more prominent humeri. A male from Chontales is figured. 


8. Omoplata albiventris. 
Omoplata albiventris, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. ii. p. 186", and iv. p. 225°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 90°. . 


“¢ Subrotundata, minus convexa, subnitida, flavo-testacea ; abdomine pallide flavo; prothorace supra sat crebre 
punctulato, medio lineola brevi, obsoleta, brunnea notato, lateribus postice utrinque citius rotundato ; 
elytris confertim, parum profunde punctatis, pone medium macula parva, obsoleta, dilute fusca; margine 
hyalino; humeris parum prominulis, antice subtruncatis.—Long. 10, lat. 9 millim.” 


Hab. Mexico 1-3, 


Boheman ! compares this species with his “ 0. maculiventris”: the only species of 
Cassididee described by him under this specific name is a Mexican Physonota. Apart 
from other characters, the genus Omoplata may be known from Physonota by the 
appendiculate claws. 


4, Omoplata maculicollis. 


Omoplata maculicollis, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. ii. p. 1387+, and iv. p. 2257; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 90°. 


OMOPLATA.—BATONOTA. 161 


‘< Subtriangularis, convexa, nitida, supra dilute, sordide testacea, subtus nigra; antennis basi et extrorsum 
verticeque transversim, nigris; prothorace subtiliter, crebre ptinctulato, medio linea abbreviata, macula 
parva transversa utrinque, arcu postico scutelloque nigris; elytris remote, inequaliter punctulatis ; 
humeris antrorsum modice prominulis, leviter rotundatis; tibiis apice extus obtuse calcaratis.—Long. 12, 
lat. 10 millim.” 


Hab. Mexico 1-3, 


Unknown to me. Boheman! states that this species is similar in size and form to 
the South-American O. marginata (Linn.) (¢), the type of the genus ; but he gives 
the hind angles of the prothorax as rounded and the apex rotundate, characters quite 
foreign to Omoplata. To judge from the description, O. maculicollis appears to be a 
near ally of Physonota calcarata, Boh. 


OMASPIDES. 


Omaspides (Chevrolat), Dej. Cat. 3rd edit. p. 395 (1837); Hope, Col. Man. iii. p. 158 (1840) ; 
Boheman, Monogr. Cassid. ii. p. 144. 


A genus of similar distribution to Omoplata, but with fewer species, twelve only having 
been described. One of these is from the State of Panama. 


1. Omaspides bistriata. (Tab. VIII. fig. 1.) 
Omaspides bistriata, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iv. p. 2287. 


Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Zrétsch), Veragua (coll. Baly +). 
The type is figured. , 


2. Prothorax more or less rounded and projecting beyond the head in front 
(emarginate in some species of Batonota and Hybosa). 
To this group also belong the Eastern genera Basipta, Aspidomorpha, and Laccoptera, 
and the Antillean genus Asteriza. 
\ 


a. Claws simple or angularly dilated at the base. de ip B22 \ 


BATONOTA. 
Batonota, Hope, Aun. Nat. Hist. iii. p. 98, t. 4. fig. 6 (1839) ; Boheman, Monogr. Cassid. ii. p. 153. 


Forty-five species of this remarkable genus have been described, all American, 
ranging from the Mexican State of Durango to the Argentine Republic. 


i. Elytra with a very long, erect, obtuse spine before the middle. 
1. Batonota aurita. (Tab. VIII. figg. 2; 2a, profile; 26, antenna.) 
Batonota aurita, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iv. p. 237°. 
Hab. Mexico, Ventanas in Durango, Acapulco (Hége), Rio Papagaio in Guerrero 
(H. H. Smith), Puebla (Sallé) ; Nicaragua, Chontales (Janson); Costa Rica (Wagner, 
in Mus. Berol.). 


162 PHYTOPHAGA. 


Apparently not uncommon in Western Mexico. The prothorax is deeply foveate on 
either side of the middle at the base, a character not mentioned by Boheman; some 
specimens have a brownish 4-shaped mark on either side of the disc, the two marks 
often connected in front, but this may be partly due to discoloration. A specimen 


from Ventanas is figured. 


2. Batonota yucatana. (Tab. VIII. figg. 3; 34, profile.) 

Obtusely triangular, the prothorax shining, the elytra subopaque; castaneous or yellowish castaneous ; the 
antenn piceous, with the five basal joints testaceous; the legs and the body beneath testaceous or rufo- 
testaceous, the tibise sometimes stained with piceous above. Head canaliculate and punctured between 
the eyes; antenne rather short and slender, not extending beyond the humeri, joints 1-5 almost smooth, 
shining, 2 and 3 very short, subequal, 4 and 5 twice as long as 3, equal, 6-11 densely punctured and 
opaque, 6 barely the length of 4 and 5 united, 6-10 subequal in length, 11 longer than 10. Prothorax 
strongly transverse, feebly arcuate-emarginate in front (truncate if viewed from above), the sides very 
rapidly and abruptly converging from the base, a little rounded behind, the base deeply emarginate on 
either side of the broad emarginate median lobe and thence to the hind angles very obliquely truncate ; 
the disc transversely convex, hollowed on either side in front (appearing longitudinally raised in the middle 
at the apex), and with a shallow fovea on either side of the median lobe at the base; the margins feebly 
expanded, the exterior edge slightly reflexed ; the entire surface very sparsely, finely punctate. Scutellum 
flat, almost smooth. Elytra at the base one and a half times the width of the prothorax, obtusely triangular, 
bluntly rounded at the apex, narrowing from the base, the sides sinuate behind the humeri; armed with 
a very long, erect, compressed, obtuse spine before the middle; the disc very coarsely, subseriately 
punctured, the punctures not very closely placed, and with indications of two or three irregular coste, 
the interstices with very minute scattered punctures; the margins narrowly expanded, with a series of 
very coarse, deep, transverse foveee extending from the middle to the apex, almost smooth in front; the 
humeri moderately prominent, rounded exteriorly and in front, and with an oblique carina extending 
inwards to the humeral callus. Beneath very shining, almost smooth, the apex of each ventral segment 
sparsely punctured and pubescent; prosternum flat and almost unimpressed behind, more or less foveate 
in the middle in front. 

Length 64-74, breadth 54-6 millim. 


Hab. Mexico, Temax in North Yucatan (Gawmer). 


Numerous examples. This small species is allied to B. aurita, Boh.; but it is much 
smaller and darker than that insect, the prothorax is more transverse, and the coarse 
punctures on the elytra are not nearly so numerous, the interstices flatter and sub- 
opaque. ‘The punctures on the elytral interstices are only visible under a strong lens. 


ii, Elytra with a compressed, acute or triangular, transverse elevation before the middle. 
3. Batonota nodosa. (Tab. VIII. figg. 4; 4, profile.) 
Batonota nodosa, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. 11. p. 160*, and iv. p. 2377; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. ix. 
p. 94°. 
Hab. Panama, David, Caldera, Tolé (Champion).—Conomsia 1-3, 
Not uncommon in Chiriqui, where it has been found on the calabash-tree, Crescentia 


cujete. I have compared our specimens with one from Colombia in the British 
Museum, named by Boheman himself. 


BATONOTA. 163 


4, Batonota insidiosa. (Tab. VIII. figg. 5; 5a, profile.) 
Batonota insidiosa, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. ii. p. 1741, and iv. p. 2417; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p.96°. 
Hab. Guatemata? (Mus. Brit® & coll. Baly); Panama, Bugaba (Champion).— 
Cotomsia !~3; Braziu 2. 


I have seen a dozen specimens of this species, including those from Guatemala, in 
the British Museum, named by Boheman?. The prothorax in southern specimens is 
sometimes entirely rufo-testaceous. B. insidiosa resembles B. nodosa; but it is 
considerably larger, the elytral elevation is not so prominent, the exterior limb is 
blackish-zeneous, and the prothorax is usually black, the anterior margin excepted. 
The five Panama examples have the elytral elevation a little stronger and more acute 


than in those from Guatemala. 


5. Batonota sexplagiata, (Tab. VIII. figg. 6; 6a, profile.) 
Batonota sexplagiata, Wag. Mittheil. Miinch. ent. Ver. v. pp. 44, 47°. 


_ Hab. Guaremaa, El Reposo, Zapote ( Champion) ; Nicaracua, Rio Tipetape !. 


Three specimens of a Batonota from the Pacific slope of Guatemala agree with 
‘Wagener’s description ! of B. seaplagiata, except that they have the ground-colour of 
the elytra green (instead of black), and the head, underside, and legs entirely black. 
The anterior edge of the broadly expanded margin of the elytra is straight to the 
humeral angle, this part being distinctly concave in the closely allied B. rufo-ornata. 


6. Batonota rufo-ornata. (Tab. VIII. figg. 7; 7 4, profile.) 
Batonota rufo-ornata, Baly, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1869, p. 86’. 
Baionota jansoni, Baly, op. cit. 1872, p. 71°. 
Hab. Nicaracua }, Chontales (Janson 2, Belt). 
By mistake, Baly described this species twice. I have seen ten specimens of it, 
varying only in the ground-colour of the elytra, from greenish-eneous to bluish-black 


or black. The type is figured. 


7. Batonota godmani. (Tab. VIII. figg. 9; 9a, profile.) 
Batonota godmanii, Baly, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 8rd ser. ii, p. 242 (1864) 


Hab. Panama}, Lion Hill (Leannan). 


1 


Three examples of this species are contained in the Baly collection, one of which is 


figured. 


164 _ PHYTOPHAGA. 


iii. Elytra with a compressed, obtuse, transverse elevation before the middle. 


8. Batonota eremita. 
Batonota eremita, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iv. p.'240°. 


Hab. Costa Rica (coll. Dohrn 1). 


Apparently exceedingly close to, and perhaps not distinct from, B. insidiosa, from 
which it seems to differ in having the elytra marked with smaller and more numerous. 
spots, and the elevation obtuse (instead of subacuminate, as in B. insidiosa). 


9. Batonota biplagiata. (Tab. VIII figg. 10; 104, profile; 10, antenna.) 


Subtriangular, broad ; the upper surface opaque, clothed with a very short, fine, scattered, ashy pubescence ;: 
the head, antennz, prothorax, scutellum, legs, and the body beneath black; the elytra green or bluish- 
green, each with a very large dilute sanguineous or rufo-testaceous patch occupying fully half the entire 
surface—extending from the base to far beyond the middle and almost surrounding the ante-median 
elevation, and laterally (from a little behind the humeral carina to beyond the middle) to very near the 
outer margin. Head sparsely punctured and canaliculate between the eyes; antenne extending to far 
beyond the humeri, joints 1-5 almost smooth, shining, 2 and 3 very short, equal, 4 and 5 longer, 5 longer 
than 4, 6-11 densely punctured and opaque, 6 elongate, as long as 3-5 united, 6-10 equal in length, 
11 much longer than 10. Prothorax strongly transverse, broadly and feebly arcuate-emarginate in front, 
the sides rapidly arcuately converging from the base, the base deeply emarginate on either side of the 
broad slightly emarginate or truncate median lobe and thence to the hind angles very obliquely truncate ;. 
the disc obsoletely longitudinally carinate in the middle in front; the margins concave, moderately 
expanded ; the entire surface thickly, very minutely punctate. Scutellum foveate in the middle. Elytra 
at the base nearly twice as wide as the prothorax, subtriangular, conjointly rounded at the apex, narrowing 
from the base, with a strongly compressed, transverse, obtuse elevation before the middle ; the disc coarsely,. 
closely, subseriately punctured, and with two irregular carine near the suture and one about the middle, 
the punctures on the apical portion much finer and shallower ; the margins very broadly expanded, thickly, 
finely, confusedly punctured, and separated from the disc by a row of very coarse, deep impressions; the 
humeri prominent but obtuse, reflexed and slightly oblique in front, and with an oblique carina extending 
inwards to the prominent humeral callus. Beneath shining, sparsely pubescent, the apex of each ventral 
segment fringed with longer hairs; prosternum very deeply sulcate. 

Length 14-143, breadth 13-134 millim. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 4000 feet (Champion). 


Two examples, from the western slope of the Volcano. Allied to B. rufo-ornata, 
B. sexplagiata, &c.; but with a more obtuse elytral elevation (not at all acuminate, if 
viewed from behind), the elytra each with a very large dilute sanguineous or rufo- 
testaceous patch occupying half the entire surface. 


CISTUDINELLA. 


Head deeply withdrawn beneath the prothorax ; the latter broadly rounded or truncate anteriorly, the base 
broadly arcuate-emarginate on either side and with an obtuse median lobe, the hind angles sharp and 
produced backwards, the anterior angles obliterated; the scutellum small, strongly transverse; the elytra 
forming almost a continuous outline with the prothorax ; prosternum trnncated in front, proudced and 
very broadly, triangularly dilated behind the coxe, and received by the deeply excavate V-shaped 


CISTUDINELLA.—PHYSONOTA. 165 


mesosternum, deeply grooved on either side posteriorly (but not down the middle); claws divaricate, 
simple; form elliptic or oval. 

This genus is proposed for the South-American Chelymorpha punctipennis, C. apiata, 
and C. obducta, Boh., and for the new species from Chiriqui described below*. In 
Chelymorpha the head is not so deeply inserted, it being usually prominent, the pro- 
sternal process is deeply sulcate down the middle, and the claws are appendiculate, 
2. é. angularly dilated on the lower side towards the base. 


1. Cistudinella foveolata. (Tab. VIII. fig. 8, 3.) 


2 oye Msgr boy 
Soa ai 3. Subelliptic, convex, rather broad, shining, testaceous, the expanded margins of the prothorax and elytra 
jure 


somewhat pellucid; the eyes and antenne black, the five basal joints of the latter testaceous; the body 
beneath black, the ventral segments broadly bordered with testaceous; the legs entirely testaceous. 
Antenne about reaching the base of the prothorax; joints 6-11 rather stout and compressed, 6-10 as 
broad as long, 11 acuminate, longer than 10. Prothorax twice as broad as long, very rapidly, arcuately 
converging from the base, rounded in front and projecting over the head, the base broadly arcuate- 
emarginate on either side, the median lobe produced, rounded at the tip, the hind angles sharp; the disc 
transversely depressed in the middle before the base; the margins broadly expanded, deeply transversely 
depressed in front and behind, reticulate; the surface smooth, the disc only with a few fine, scattered 
punctures at the base. Elytra about two and a half times as long as, and at the sides forming almost a 
continuous outline with, the prothorax, conjointly rounded at the apex; the dise transversely convex 
before the middle and then somewhat obliquely declivous to the apex, with coarse, deep, widely scattered, 
subserially arranged black punctures, the interspaces smooth and flat; the margins rather broadly 
expanded, smooth, reticulate; the humeri obtuse and embraced by the hind angles of the prothorax. 


Beneath shining, almost smooth. 
Length 7, breadth 53 millim. 


Hab. Panama, David in Chiriqui (Champion). 


One specimen. Closely allied to the Brazilian C. apiata, Boh., but differing from 
it in having the prothorax less dilated at the sides anteriorly (more rapidly converging 
from the base), and the elytral punctures much less numerous, the interspaces quite 
flat ; the general shape is also more elliptic. 


PHYSONOTA. 


Physonota, Chevrolat, Dej. Cat. 8rd edit. p. 898 (1837); Boheman, Monogr. Cassid. ii. p. 190 
(1854) (partim) ; Chapuis, Gen. Col. xi. p. 386. 

The name Physonota is here adopted solely for those species that have the claws 
simple, Boheman having also included under it, as noted by Chapuis, some South- 
American forms (P. fuscula, &c.) with the claws appendiculate. The metropolis of 
Physonota would appear to be in Mexico, though only one or two representatives occur 
north of our boundary; the species are all American, ranging from Canada to 
Chili. Many of the species of Physonota, and of the genera that follow, are, as is well 
known, brilliantly metallic golden in life. | 


* Other undescribed South-American species exist in collections. 


BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Coleopt., Vol. VI. Pt. 2, January 1894. Vy 


166 PHYTOPHAGA. 


Tibiz not dilated at the apex. 
Elytra gibbous. . . 2 2 1 1 ww ee ee ee ee ee we «Species 1-4. 
Elytra more or less convex. 
Elytra conjointly rounded at the apex. 
Prothorax immaculate or spotted, the elytra without distinct markings. 


Prothorax with three or more small black spots or streaks . . . . . Species 5-14. 
Prothorax immaculate. . . . » oe. « ss . . Species 15-17. 
Prothorax and elytra each with three broad black vittee Loe . . Species 18. 
Elytra less rounded behind, the apices sharper or attenuate (especially i in 19 ). | 
Prothorax with three or more small black spots or streaks . . . . . . Species 19-21. 
Prothorax immaculate, or, at most, with a short black median streak . . Species 22-25. 
Tibize obtusely dilated at the apex . . » oe ew ew we ee.) «Species 26. 
Tibize very broadly, subangularly dilated at the 2 apex. . . . . . . « . . Species 27. 


J 1, Physonota alutacea, (Tab. VIII. fig. 12, 2, var. cyrtodes.) 
Physonota alutacea, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. ii. p. 191+, and iv. p. 243°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 98°. 
Physonota cyrtodes, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. ii. p. 192*, and iv. p. 243°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 98°. 

Hab. Mexico! (ex coll. Sturm), Presidio de Mazatlan (Forrer), Guajuco in Nuevo 
Leon (Dr. Palmer), Monterey in Nuevo Leon, Ventanas in Durango, Cordova, Tapa- 
chula in Chiapas (Hége), Puebla, Matamoros Izucar, Yolos, Capulalpam, San Andres 
Tuxtla, Vera Cruz 3, Juquila (Sal/é), Amula, Chilpancingo, and Acapulco in Guerrero, 
Atoyac in Vera Cruz, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith), Jalapa (F. D. G.), Oaxaca 
(Sallé, Hoge), Campeche in Yucatan (Sallé), Temax in North Yucatan (Gawmer) ; 
British Honpuras, R. Hondo, R. Sarstoon (Blancaneaux); Guatemana® (Sallé, 
Scherzer ®), Cubilguitz, Tamahu, Chacoj, San Juan, Panzos, and San Gerénimo in 
Vera Paz, El Reposo, Volcan de Atitlan, Pantaleon, Zapote (Champion); Nicaragua, 

. Chontales (Belt, Janson) ; Costa Rica (Van Patten), San Francisco (Rogers); Panama, 
Volcan de Chiriqui, Caldera, Bugaba (Champion), Chiriqui (Ribbe).—CoLomsta 1 ; 
VENEZUELA °. 


This is one of the most abundant species of Cassidide within our limits, extending 
northwards into the Mexican States of Nuevo Leon and Durango. Two forms of this 
species occur, connected by intermediate gradations, one with the elytra sparsely and 
rather finely punctate (P. alutacea), the other with the elytra coarsely and more 
closely punctate (P. cyrtodes) ; the latter usually has the black spots on the prothorax 
and elytra larger and more distinct. A female specimen of the form cyrtodes, from 
Amula, is figured. 


2. Physonota nitidicollis. (Tab. VIII. fig. 13.) 
| Physonota nitidicollis, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. ii. p. 231°, and iv. p. 2537; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
VV ix. p. 103°. 


PHYSONOTA. 167 


Hab. Mexico’ (Sallé, ex coll. Sturm), Xucumanatlan, Omilteme, Amula, and 
Chilpancingo, all in Guerrero, Cuernavaca in Morelos (H. H. Smith). 


Sent in plenty by Mr. Smith from Western Mexico. Boheman’s type from the 
Stockholm Museum is figured. 


3. Physonota citrina. 
Physonota citrina, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. ii. p. 231°, and iv. p. 254°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 103 °. 
Hab. Mexico 1—8, Cordova (Sallé, Hége), Cerro de Plumas, Jalapa, Oaxaca (Hége), 
Orizaba (H. H. Smith & F. D. G.). 


Closely allied to P. nitidicollis, but much smaller, the prothorax immaculate, the 
elytra not darker at the suture and much less coarsely punctured. | 


4. Physonota cerea. (Tab. VIII. fig. 14.) 
Physonota cerea, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. ii. p. 232', and iv. p. 254°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 103°. 
Hab. Mexico, Peras in Oaxaca (Sallé), Oaxaca !-3 (coll. Baly). 


I have seen six examples of this species, all agreeing in the peculiar rugose sculpture 
of the prothorax, the ruge being transverse or oblique and more or less confluent ; the 
elytral sculpture resembles that of P. nitidicollis. 


5. Physonota gigantea, (Tab. VIII. fig. 11.) 
Physonota gigantea, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. ii. p. 199, t. 5. figg. D, 1-5", and iv. p. 247°; Cat. Col. 
Ins. Brit. Mus. ix. p. 99 °. 
Hab. Guatemata1-3, El Reposo (Champion); Honpuras (Mus. Brit.); Satvavor, 
Acajutla (Sallé); Nicaraava, Chontales (Janson).—Ecuaptr, Guayaquil; Cui}, 
Valparaiso !—? ; ANTILLES ®. 


This large species appears to be very widely distributed. The specimens I have 
seen of it labelled “ Chili” in the British Museum, and in the late Dr. Baly’s collection, 
do not differ from those from Central America. It is highly probable that the Chilian 
P. cumingi and P. spencei, Boh., are not distinct from P. gigantea. Two specimens of 
P. gigantea in the British Museum are labelled: “Came alive in timber from Honduras, 
1869.” An example from Acajutla is figured. 


6. Physonota perampla. (Tab. VIII. fig. 15.) 


Broad ovate, moderately convex, shining, dilute flavo-testaceous, the margins subhyaline, the eyes, mouth, and 
vertex black ; the prothorax with a short median streak before the base and six small spots—four placed 
transversely near the base (two on either side of the disc, the inner one somewhat C-shaped, the outer 


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one smaller and rounded), and one on either side of the disc about the middle (strongly transverse and 
almost in a line with the C-shaped basal one)—black or piceous; the elytra usually with an oblong 
piceous spot on the humeral callus; the antenne testaceous, joints 3-7 usually more or less infuscate 
above ; the legs testaceous, the femora largely marked with black (except on their lower side), the tibiw 
with a black line along their outer edge; the body beneath black, the sides broadly (a transverse patch 
on each ventral segment excepted), and also the prosternal process, testaceous. Head grooved between 
the eyes, thickly and somewhat coarsely punctured below; antenne rather stout, reaching to the base of 
the prothorax, joints 3 and 4 elongate, equal in length, 3 twice as long as 2, 5-10 slightly decreasing in 
length, stouter than 4, 11 much longer than 10, acuminate. Prothorax about twice as broad as long, 
bisinuate at the base, with the median lobe broad and rounded, the sides very abruptly and rather 
obliquely converging anteriorly, strongly rounded behind, the apex rounded; the lateral and apical 
margins very broadly expanded, reticulate, the lateral margins transversely hollowed before and behind 
the middle; the disc obsoletely canaliculate and transversely depressed before the base ; the surface very 
sparsely, minutely punctured, the punctures a little more distinct on the basal portion of the disc. 
Scutellum almost smooth. Elytra one half wider than, and three times as long as, the prothorax, a little 
longer in the female, narrowing from about the basal fourth, conjointly rounded at the apex, the humeri 
broadly rounded; the margins very broadly expanded, deeply hollowed below the base internally, 
reticulate ; the disc irregularly, rather closely, and somewhat coarsely punctured, and with an irregular 
row of deep fovee separating it from the margins, the latter more finely and more sparsely punctured. 
Beneath almost smooth. 
Length 194-213, breadth 16-17 millim. 


Hab. Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt, Janson); Costa Rica, Santa Clara (Orozco, in 
Mus. Brit.). 


I have seen six examples of this very large species, which is much larger and broader 
than P. gigantea, Boh. P. pellucida, Wag., from Demerara, about equals it in size; 
but it differs in several particulars from the insect here described. The two specimens 
in Mr. O. E. Janson’s collection are labelled with the name I have adopted. 


7. Physonota stigmatilis. (Tab. VIII. fig. 16.) 
Physonota stigmatilis, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. ii. p. 2047, and iv. p. 249°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 99°. 
Hab. Mxxico !~%, Cordova, Playa Vicente (Sallé), Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith); 
GuatemaLa, Volcan de Atitlan (Champion). | 


8. Physonota incrustata. 

Physonota incrustata, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. 11. p. 203°, and iv. p. 2497; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 99°. 

‘‘Subovata, modice convexa, supra dilute flavo-testacea, subtus nigra, testaceo-variegata ; antennis extrorsum 
nigris; prothorace levi, confertim nigro-maculato, margine late explanato, subremote punctulato; elytris 
mediocriter, vage punctatis, dorso fuscis, maculis albidis variegatis, subtus basi apiceque nigris ; pedibus 
testaceis, nigro-variegatis.—Long. 15, lat. 12 millim.” 


Hab. Mexico 1-°. 
Unknown to me. The specimen in the British Museum determined as P. incrustata 
by Boheman °, not the actual type, seems to be only a discoloured male specimen of 


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P. attenuata. The prothorax is described as having numerous irregularly confluent 
black markings; but these may be partly due to discoloration. 


9. Physonota picticollis. (Tab. VIII. fig. 17, 2.) 
Physonota picticollis, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. ii. p. 193’, and iv. p. 245°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 98°. 
Physonota impromta, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iv. p. 244°. 
Hab. Muxico!~4 (Mus. Brit.), Ventanas in Durango (Forrer, Hoge), Cerro de Plumas 
(Hége), Juquila (Sailé) ; Guatemata (Mus. Brit.), Coban (Conradt), Capetillo, Duefias 
(Champion). 


With the types of these two insects before me, I am quite unable to separate them 
as distinct species; P. impromta merely differs from P. picticollis in having an in- 
distinct spot on either side of the median lobe of the prothorax at the base (often 
obsolete), and the elytra a little more closely punctured. Boheman appears only to 
have seen female specimens ; the male has the elytra broader (at the base considerably 
wider than the prothorax) and shorter, with the humeri broadly rounded. We have 
received numerous examples of both sexes from Ventanas, in Western Mexico. 


10. Physonota ovalis. (Tab. VIII. fig. 18, var.) 
Physonota ovalis, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. ii. p. 195', and iv. p. 246°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 98°. 
Cassida brevilinea, Sturm, in litt. * 
Hab. Mexico !~4 (Sallé, ex coll. Sturm), Monterey in Nuevo Leon, Chihuahua city, 
Jalapa (Hége), Totosinapan (Sai/é). 


The specimens from Northern Mexico, and also the one from Jalapa, belong to the 
var. b of Boheman 1, which has two small spots on the prothorax on either side of the 
disc midway between the short median streak and the outer margin. The specimen 
from Totosinapan belongs to the var. a, which has only one spot on either side of the 
disc; and the example from Sturm’s collection agrees with the type, which has a short 
median streak only on the prothorax. The specimen figured represents one of Bohe- 
man’s types of the var. a. 


11. Physonota vitticollis, (Tab. VIII. fig. 19, var.) 
Physonota vitticollis, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. ii. p. 1947, and iv. p. 245°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 98°. 
Hab. Mexico!—%, Juquila (Sallé). 


Of this species I have only seen two specimens of the var. a described by Boheman ? ; 
one of these is shown on our Plate. The elytra have irregular rows of rather coarse 
blackish punctures on the disc, the margins coarsely, irregularly punctate. 


170 PHYTOPHAGA. 


12. Physonota separata. 
Physonota separata, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. ii. p. 2051, and iv. p. 2497; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. ix. 
p. 99°. . 
Cassida nigropunctata, Sturm, in litt.* 
Deloyala pallida, Sturm, in litt.’ 


Hab. Muxtco2—5(Chevrolat?; Sallé, ex coll. Sturm), Cordova ( Sallé), Cuernavaca (Hége). 


I have seen four specimens of this insect, including one, no doubt the type, from. the 
Chevrolat collection in the British Museum. P. separata only differs from P. vitticollis 
in having much fewer punctures on the disc of the elytra, these being widely separate 
one from another. 


13. Physonota turgida. (Tab. VIII. fig. 20.) 

Physonota turgida, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. ii. p. 1971, and iv. p. 246°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. ix. 
p-. 99%. 

Physonota bicolor, Sturm, in litt. 


Hab. Mexico 1-3 (Sallé, ex coll. Sturm), Oaxaca (Hége). 


There are two examples of this peculiar species in the Sallé collection, without 
nearer indication of locality. The type from the Stockholm Museum is figured. A 
rather narrow, oval species, with coarse, subserially arranged punctures on the elytra, 
the margins also coarsely punctured. The single specimen from Oaxaca is much 


smaller than the type, and has the dorsum of the elytra pitchy-brown, probably from 
discoloration. 


14. Physonota mexicana. (Tab. VIII. fig. 21.) 
Physonota mexicana, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. ii. p. 206", and iv. p. 249°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 100°. 
Hab. Mexico !~%, Guanajuato (Sallé), ‘Tula and Pachuca in Hidalgo (Hége). 


Sent in plenty by Hoge from the State of Hidalgo. P. mexicana is closely allied to _ 
P. ovata, Boh., but may easily be known from it by the blackish arcuate or >-shaped — 
mark on either side of the disc of the prothorax near the base, midway between which 
is a short oblong streak ; the elytra are rather coarsely, irregularly, seriate punctate, 
the margins also coarsely punctured. 


15. Physonota flavago. (Tab. VIII. fig. 22.) 
Physonota flavago, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. 11. p. 210’, and iv. p. 249%; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. ix. 
p- 100°. 


Hab. Mexico !~, Ciudad in Durango 8100 feet (Forrer). 
We figure the type from the Stockholm Museum. Very closely allied to P. picti- 


collis, Boh., but differing from it in the immaculate prothorax, and in having the 
elytra more coarsely and more closely punctured. ‘The two specimens (¢ ¢ ) received 


’ 


PHYSONOTA. 171 


from Ciudad in Durango are much smaller than the type figured, measuring only 
9 millim. (instead of 12) in length. 


16. Physonota ovata. 
Physonota ovata, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. ii. p: 219*, and iv. p. 250°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. ix. 
p- 101°. 
Hab. Mexico !~, Puebla, Parada, Peras, Oaxaca (Sallé), Xucumanatlan in Guerrero 
(H. H. Smith), Misantla (Hoge). | 
Very like P. humilis, but smaller and more ovate ; the elytra in the male broader 
and with more rounded humeri, the suture bordered with black beneath at the apex. 


17. Physonota citrinella. 
Physonota citrinella, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. ii. p. 219*, and iv. p. 2502; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
' ix. p. 1013. 


‘‘ Oblongo-ovata, modice convexa, subnitida, dilute citrina, marginibus albidis, diaphanis ; antennis extrorsum 
nigris; prothorace semicirculari, immaculato, extrorsum confertim reticulato; elytris crebre alutaceis, 
punctis sat profundis, remotis, hinc inde seriatis impressis; subtus margine macula basali suturaque 
apice, nigris.—Long. 10, lat. 7 millim.” 


Hab. Mzxico 1-8, 

This species is compared with P. ovata, and stated to be nearly one half larger 
than that insect. I am unable to identify it amongst the large number of Mexican 
Physonote before me. 


18. Physonota disjuncta. (Tab. VIII. fig. 23.) 

Cassida disjuncta, Chevr. Col. Mex., Cent. i. fase. iii. no. 82°. 

Physonota disjuncta, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. ii. p. 207’, and iv. p. 249°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 100%. 

Hab. Muxico !~* (Sallé, ex coll. Sturm), Ciudad in Durango 8100 feet, Milpas in 
Durango 5900 feet (Forrer), Omilteme in Guerrero 8000 feet, Cuernavaca in Morelos 
(H. H. Smith), Boca del Monte, Monte Verde, Jalapa (Hoge), Guanajuato, Juquila in 
Oaxaca (Sallé). 

A common Mexican species, easily known by the three black vitte on the prothorax 
and elytra. 

19. Physonota caudata. (Tab. VIII. fig. 24, 9.) 
Physonota caudata, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. ii. p. 222*, and iv. p. 251°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 101°. 
Hab. Muxico !~8, Orizaba (Sallé), Misantla, Jalapa, Paso de San Juan (Hdge). 


Not uncommon in the Mexican State of Vera Cruz. The females have longer and 


‘more caudate elytra than the males. 


20. Physonota attenuata. (Tab. VIII. fig. 25, 2 .) | 
Physonota attenuata, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. ii. p. 223 *, and iv. p. 251°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 


xi. p. 102°. 


172 PHYTOPHAGA. 


Hab. Mexico!-* (er coll. Sturm), Tampico in Tamaulipas (Richardson), Cordova 
(Hoge), Acapulco (J. J. Walker), Tehuantepec (Sailé). 


Sent in numbers by Hége from Cordova. This species is very like P. caudata; but 
it has the elytra more coarsely punctured, more obtuse at the apex in the male, the 
sides forming almost a continuous outline with the prothorax, the hind angles of the 
latter not so obtuse. One of Boheman’s types.( 2), kindly lent by the Berlin Museum, 
is figured. 


21. Physonota limoniata. (Tab. IX. fig. 5.) 
Physonota limoniata, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iv. p. 247°. 
Hab. Mexico, Ventanas in Durango (Hége), Omilteme in Guerrero (H. H. Smith), 
Mochitlan in Guerrero (Baron), Juquila (Sallé 1). 


A typical example from the Sallé collection is figured. P. limoniata is exceedingly 
like P. eucalypta, and only differs from it in having the prothorax marked with a short 
median streak and two small spots near the base, the latter sometimes with one or two 
additional marks behind them. 


22. Physonota humilis. (Tab. IX. fig. 4.) 


_Physonota humilis, Boh. Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. ix. p. 102*; Monogr. Cassid. iv. p. 251. 


Hab. Mextco12, Guanajuato, Peras, Juquila (Sallé). 


Specimens from Peras and Juquila, both in the State of Oaxaca, agree precisely with 
the type, which is here figured; those from Guanajuato are more or less immature. 
The short median streak on the disc of the prothorax behind is obliterated in four out 
of the eight specimens before me. 


23. Physonota ovipennis. (Tab. IX. fig. 6, ¢.) 


Ovate (3) or oblong ovate (2 ), rather convex, shining; dilute flavo-testaceous, the margins hyaline, the eyes 
and mouth black, the prothorax usually with a short fine blackish median streak before the base; the 
antenne black, joints 2-5 testaceous beneath ; beneath black, the prosternum, and sometimes the sides, 
narrowly, testaceous, the elytra with the base internally and the suture at the apex black; the legs 
testaceous. Antenne extending to a little beyond the base of the prothorax; the third joint elongate, 
much longer than the fourth. Prothorax about twice as broad as long, feebly bisinuate at the base, with 
the median lobe truncate or slightly emarginate, the sides very abruptly and obliquely converging 
anteriorly, strongly rounded behind, the apex rounded; the margins broadly expanded, concave, and 
reticulate; the surface smooth. Elytra subcordate (3) or ovate (2), considerably wider than the 
prothorax in both sexes, broader and shorter in the male than in the female, rounded at the sides and 
rapidly narrowing from a little below the base, the apices distinctly produced; the humeri broadly 
rounded in the male, obtuse in the female; the margins deflexed and reticulate, broadly expanded 
anteriorly, rather narrowly posteriorly ; the disc with widely scattered, very fine, subserially arranged 
punctures, the margins sparsely, irregularly punctate. Beneath smooth, the ventral segments with 
scattered fine punctures. 

Length 9-114, breadth 63-7 millim. 


Hab. Mexico, Chilpancingo and Omilteme in Guerrero (H. H. Smith), Mochitlan in 
Guerrero (Baron). 


PHYSONOTA. 1738 


Nine specimens. Closely allied to P. humilis, Boh., but of more ovate, more convex 
shape; the elytra in the male much wider than the prothorax, and in both sexes more 
rapidly narrowing posteriorly; the humeri are broadly rounded in the male. 


24. Physonota translucida. (Tab. IX. fig. 7,¢.) 
Physonota translucida, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. ii. p. 225", and iv. p. 252°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 102°, 
Physonota flaveola, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. ii. p. 226‘, and iv. p. 253°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 102°. 
Physonota plicata, Wag. Mittheil. Miinch. ent. Ver. i. p. 61’. 
Hab. Muxico1~ (Sallé, ex coll. Sturm; coll. Baly), Parada (Sallé), Amula in 
Guerrero (H. H. Smith). 


Apparently confined to Central and Western Mexico. As in P. attenuata, the 


females are more elongate and have more attenuate elytra than in the males. The 


specimens (¢ @ ) labelled P. ¢ranslucida and P. flaveola, Boh., in the Sallé collection, 
determined, I believe, by Boheman himself, certainly belong to one species. I have 
examined one of Boheman’s types (¢) of P. flaveola, kindly communicated by the 
authorities of the Berlin Museum. The prothorax (as in some of the allied species) 
usually has an oblique fold extending across the expanded margin from the obtuse hind 
angles to the disc, a character not mentioned by Boheman. 

A specimen from Parada, agreeing perfectly with one of Boheman’s types of P. flaveola 
in the Berlin Museum, is figured. 


25. Physonota eucalypta. (Tab. IX. fig. 8.) 
Physonota eucalypta, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iv. p. 252°. 

Hab. British Honpuras, R. Sarstoon (Blancaneaur); Guatemaa (Sallé), Chiacam, 
Senahu, Chacoj, Sabo, San Joaquin, and San Gerénimo in Vera Paz, Aceituno (Cham- 
pion), Coban (Conradt) ; Costa Rica?. | 


This is a large species closely resembling Platycycla deruta, Boh.; but it is narrower 
than that insect, and has the elytra less deeply emarginate at the base, the base of the 
prothorax not nearly so obliquely truncate at the sides. 


26. Physonota maculiventris. (Tab. IX. fig. 9, ¢ .) 
Physonota maculiventris, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. ii. p. 229*, and iv. 253°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 102°. | | 
Hab. Mexico! (coll. Baly), Cordova (Sallé), Oaxaca (Hége), Chiapas (Mus. Brit.). 


In this species the tibie are obtusely dilated at the apex, a peculiarity not mentioned 
by Boheman, though he gives a similar character for the Mexican Omoplata maculicollis. 


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174 PHYTOPHAGA. 


27. Physonota calcarata. (Tab. IX. fig. 10,3.) | 
Omoplata calcarata, Boh. » Monogr. Cassid. ii. p. 138°, and iv. P- 226°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 90°. 
Physonota calcarata, Boh. Monogr. C Cassid. ii. P. 227 *, and iv. p. 258°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 102°. 
Physonota spinipes, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. ii. p. 2287, and iv. p. 258°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus, 
ix. p. 102°, | | 
Hab. Mexico? 35& (coll. Sommer14; coll. Baly), Xucumanatlan in Guerrero (H. H. 
Smith), Yolos in Oaxaca (Sallé), Oaxaca ® 9 (Deppe, in Mus. Berol."). 


There can be little doubt that the above synonymy is correct. P. spinipes seems — 


» only to differ from P. calcarata in having the markings on the prothorax reduced in size 


—the median one in the form of a short vitta (instead of an anchor-shaped mark) and 
the lateral ones C-shaped. This is the only species of Cassidide known to me in 
which the tibie are very broadly subangularly dilated at the apex. 


PLATYCYCLA. 
Platycycla, Boheman, Monogr. Cassid. ii. p. 240 (1854). 


This genus contains but a single species, peculiar to Central America. It is closely 
allied to Physonota, especially to such species as P. ewcalypta, P. translucida, &c., but 
differs from it in the more slender, filiform antenne, joints 4-10 of which are relatively 
more elongate, and in its more circular shape; the elytra are also much more deeply 
emarginate at the base, and the prothorax is very obliquely truncate on either side 
behind. 


1. Platycycla deruta. 
Platycycla deruta, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. ii. p. 241, t. 5. figg. F, 1-5', and iv. p- 254°; Cat. Col. 
Ins. Brit. Mus. ix. p. 104°. 

Hab. Muxico1~%, San Andres Tuxtla and Playa Vicente, both in Vera Cruz (Sallé), 
Minatitlan in Vera ‘Cruz (Hoge), Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith); Guaremata, Coban, 
Chacoj, Teleman, and San Ger6nimo in Vera Paz (Champion), Panzos in Vera Paz 
(Conradt).. Pouvle Gf fn 2 Pas Saw ity 


This fine species is not uncommon on the Atlantic slope of Guatemala and Southern 
Mexico. 
EURYPEPLA. 
Eurypepla, Boheman, Monogr. Cassid. ii. p. 236 (1854). 


Three species are referred to this genus by Boheman, two from the Antilles and one 
from Yucatan. 


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1. Eurypepla brevilineata. (Tab. IX. fig. 11, ¢.) 
Eurypepla brevilineata, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. ii. p. 288", and iv. p. 2547; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 103°. 0 
Hab. Mexico, Campeche in Yucatan 1-3 (Sallé). 


We have received only a single (¢) specimen of this species, but I have seen 
several others. The humeri are less obtuse in the male than in the female, and they 
are slightly concave in front in the former sex. | 


CHERSINELLA. 


Antenne short, not reaching the base of the prothorax; joints 3 and 4 elongate, slender, 3 nearly twice as 
long as 2 and slightly longer than 4, 5 a little wider and shorter than 4, 6-11 thickened, much stouter 
than 5, 9 and 10 subtransverse, 11 nearly twice as long as 10, acuminate; 1-5 almost smooth and 
shining ; 6-11 densely punctured and opaque. Prothorax nearly twice as broad as long, broadly expanded 
laterally and in front; the apex rounded and extending far beyond the head; the base with a produced, 
rather broad, obtuse median lobe, and thence to the obtuse hind angles subtruncate. Scutellum trian- 
gular, small. Elytra in the male about two and a half times as long as, and very much wider than, the 
prothorax, narrower and longer in the female, convex, very obtuse at the apex, subtruncate on either side 
at the base; the margins broadly expanded and the humeri very oblique in the male, narrower and with 
the humeri obtuse in the female. Claws broadly angularly dilated on the lower side at the base. 


This genus is proposed for the Colombian Cassida heteropunctata, Boh., an insect 
that cannot possibly be retained in the genus Cassida. Chersinella closely approaches’ 
certain species of Physonota (such as P. picticollis, P. maculiventris, &c.) ; but it has 
the antenne differently formed and the claws appendiculate. The humeri are not at 
all produced in front, being oblique in the male and obtuse in the female. The 
antenne are short, and have the six outer joints thickened, the third and fourth 
elongate and slender. 

Boheman states that C. heteropunctata has the facies of a Chelymorpha; it differs 
from that genus, however, in the laterally subtruncate base of the prothorax and elytra, 
and in the short antenne. 


1. Chersinella heteropunctata. (Tab. IX. fig. 12, ¢, var.) 
Cassida heteropunctata, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. ii. p. 459", andiv. p. 343°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 


ix. p. 141°. 
Hab. Panama, Tolé (Champion).—Cotomsia 1. 
A single male specimen from Tolé, differing from the type and the two varieties 


described in having a long {-shaped mark on the disc of each elytron, instead of 
some scattered irregular spots; it is like the var. 4, but with the markings longitudinally 


confluent. 


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176 PHYTOPHAGA. 


ISCHYROSON YX. 
Ischyrosonyx, Chevrolat, Dej. Cat. 8rd edit. p. 394 (1837) ; Boheman, Monogr. Cassid. 11. p. 321. 


The six representatives of this genus described by Boheman are all from Tropical 
South America—three from Colombia, and three from Brazil; an example of one of the 
Colombian species was obtained in Nicaragua by the late Mr. T. Belt. Ischyrosonyx 

_ hospes, Dohrn, from the Transvaal, has pectinated claws, and it therefore cannot belong 
to this genus, in which the claws are simple. 


1. Ischyrosonyx nigrosignata. (Tab. IX. fig. 13.) 
Ischyrosonyx nigrosignata, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. ii. p. 327+, and iv. p. 283°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. 
Mus. ix. p. 116°. 


Hab. Nicaraeva, Chontales (Belt).—Cotomsia1~*. 


CASSIDA. 
Cassida, Linnzeus, Syst. Nat. 12th edit. i. 2, p. 547 (1767) ’; Boheman, Monogr. Cassid. ii. p. 329 
(part.)?; Chapuis, Gen. Col. xi. p. 388°. 

Boheman? placed a heterogeneous assemblage of species from all parts of the world 
under the name Cassida, including some (from the Old World) with pectinate claws, 
some with appendiculate claws, and some (the majority) with the claws simple ; those 
with the claws pectinate have been transferred to Aspidomorpha by Chapuis*: Three 
out of the four species here recorded from within our limits have the claws angularly 
dilated on the lower side at the base, but it is inadvisable to separate them from Cassida 
at present ; they bear much the same relation to Cassida as Chirida does to Coptocycla. 
Upwards of 250 species of Cassida have been described, about twenty only of which 
are from America (not more than seven of these inhabiting the United States), where 
the genus is replaced by Coptocycla and Ctenochira. 


* HKlytra more or less convex. 
a. Claws simple. 


1. Cassida mexicana. (Tab. IX. fig. 14.) 


Oblong ovate, convex, shining ; red or yellowish-red, the expanded margins of the prothorax and elytra dilute 
yellow, the scutellum more or less infuscate ; the elytra with the basal edge, the suture very narrowly, 
and three elongate streaks—one on the third interstice about the middle, the other two on the eighth 
interstice (one beyond, the other before the middle)—dilute black ; the antennse testaceous, with the five 
apical joints black; beneath black; legs pitchy-red or piceous. Antenne short, extending to a little 
beyond the base of the prothorax, joints 1-6 smooth and shining, 7-11 densely punctured and pubescent, 
3-5 subequal, each longer than 2, 6 shorter than 5 (not longer than 2), 7-11 considerably thickened, 

- 7-10 about as broad as long, 11 twice as long as 10, subacuminate. Prothorax nearly twice.as broad as. 
long, broadly dilated at the sides and in front, almost smooth. Scutellum large, triangular, acuminate 
behind, smooth. Elytra a little wider than, and about three times as long as, the prothorax, subparallel 
nearly to the middle, deeply sinuate-emarginate at the base; the disc with rows of rather coarse sub- 
approximate punctures extending to the apex and a deep sutural stria, the interstices smooth, almost flat ; 


CASSIDA. 177 


the margins rather narrowly expanded, becoming exceedingly narrow at the apex, smooth, the outer 
edge slightly reflexed; the humeri prominent but obtuse. Beneath smooth, shining, the metapleure 
rugosely punctured. Claws simple. 

Length 52-6, breadth 4 millim. 


Hab. Muxico, Ventanas in Durango, Mexico city (Hége). 


Two examples (probably both females). Closely allied to the North-American 
C. nigripes, Oliv., but smaller and narrower; the elytra not much wider than the 
prothorax, with the punctures coarser, the dilute blackish marks elongate (not rounded), 
aud the margins much narrower at the apex. 


cece At 


en call ae Tn ao 


, Cassida insculpta. 
Coptocycla insculpta, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iii. p. 340', and iv. p. 451 *; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus, 
ix. p. 184°. 


Hab. Mexico (Sallé), Yucatan 2? (Chevrolat +), Temax in North Yucatan (Gaumer). 


We have received two examples, one of which agrees perfectly with the type (now in 
the British Museum). C. insculpta is a close ally of the European C. odsoleta; the 
antenne are formed as in typical Casside. 


oN _7 b. Claws angularly dilated at the the base,/ 
3. ,. Cassida pallidula. (Tab. IX.-fig--16)~ 


Cassida pallidula, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. i. p. 457", and iv. p. 3427; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. ix. 
p. 141°. 
Cassida texana, Crotch, Proc. Acad. Phil. 1873, p. 78’. 
Hab. Norrn America, Texas*.—Mexico, Northern Sonora (Morrison), Juarez 
(Cockerell), Oaxaca? ? (Deppe, in Mus. Berol.'). 


This insect is a very close ally of C. insculpta, Boh., from which it differs in the 
less expanded margins of the elytra and more prominent humeri. The antenne are 
usually wholly testaceous, sometimes with one or more of the apical joints infuscate. 
Mr. Cockerell’s specimens were collected at Juarez, on the Rio Grande, opposite 


El Paso. 


** EKlytra tuberculate ; claws angularly dilated at the base. 


4, Cassida rugosa. (Tab. IX. tigg. 17; 17a, profile.) 
‘  Cassida rugosa, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. ii. p. 472%, and iv. p. 344°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. ix. 
\/ p. 142°. 
Hab. Mexico, Chilpancingo in Guerrero (H. H. Smith), Matamoros Izucar, Capu- 
lalpam, Yucatan 1~* (Sadlé), Temax in North Yucatan (Gawmer); GuateMaLa, San 
Gerénimo (Champion) ; Honpuras ? (Dyson *); Nicaragua, Chontales (Janson). 


Not uncommon in Mexico and Guatemala. The single specimen from Chontales has 


178 ) PHYTOPHAGA. 


the yellow transverse antemedian lateral patch on the elytra reduced to-a small spot, 
and in one of the San Gerénimo examples it is entirely obsolete. C. callosa, Boh., 
. from Texas, appears to be a very close ally of this species. | 


HYBOSA. 
Hybosa, Boheman, Monogr. Cassid. iii. p. 1 (1855). 
Kight species of this Tropical-American genus have been described, one only of which 
enters our region. Hyéosa is chiefly distinguished by the base of the prothorax being 
strongly bisinuate on either side, with a broadly produced obtuse median lobe. 


1. Hybosa mellicula. (Tab. IX. fig. 18, 2.) 
Hybosa mellicula, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iv. p. 366+; Dohrn, Stett. ent. Zeit. 1883, p. 106 - 
Hab. Mexico (coll. Baly); Guaremata, Panzos in Vera Paz (Conradt) ; NICARAGUA, 
Chontales (Janson).—Amazons 1 ?, 


_ The type in the Baly collection is a female; the male is rotundate, much less 
elongate. The four specimens before me from Central America include both sexes; 
the females agree perfectly with the type. 


CHARIDOTIS. 
Charidotis, Boheman, Monogr. Cassid. iti. p. 7 (1855) (part.). 


The species here referred to Charidotis agree in the following particulars :—Antenne 
short, not extending beyond the base of the prothorax ; joint 3 very short, much shorter 
than, and not nearly so stout as, 2; joints 4-6 each much longer than 3, 7-11 stout, 
8-10 not longer than broad. In the South-American C. miniata, placed by Boheman at 
the head of the genus, joints 4 and 5 are subequal, each twice as long as 3, the latter 
very short, and 6-11 are thickened. Boheman included various species under Coptocycla, 
such as C. fahrei, C. circumducta, C. zonata, &c., with an equally short third antennal 
joint; but these species have longer antenne, with the joints subfiliform or gradually 
thickening outwardly. Sixty species of Charidotis have been described, all Tropical- 
American, the genus ranging as far north as the Mexican State of Vera Cruz. Nine 
species only are known to me from within our limits, all of which appear to be very 
rare. As understood here, several species placed by Boheman under Charidotis belong 
to Coptocycla, e.g. C. circulifera &c. 


Prothorax and elytra not unicolorous. 
Margins of prothorax and elytra entirely yellow. 
Base of prothorax and disc of elytra sanguineous, the latter with 
large, transverse, smooth flavous callosities. . . - . « . pustulata, n. sp. 
Disc of prothorax and elytra castaneous, the latter with small, sub- 
serially arranged, smooth flavous callosities. . . . . . . . a@uroguttata, Boh. 


CHARIDOTIS. — 179 


Dise of prothorax. and elytra sanguineous, bordered with casta- 


meous . . . . we ee ee 6flavomarginata, n. sp. 
Disc of prothorax and elytra black, the elytra with a common, trans- . 
verse, reddish-yellow patch . . . . . erythrostigma, n. sp. 
Dise of prothorax and “iyi brownish- yellow, the elytra bordered 
. with castaneous. . . . . soe ee ew ee) YUCatanensis, N. sp. 
Margins of prothorax, and sometimes those of elytra at base and apex, 
yellow. 
Surface shining, black or bronze-black. 
Elytral interstices irregularly raised . . . . . . . . . «~~ frontalis, n. sp. 
Elytral interstices flat . 2. 2. 2... 1. 2. eee) ) 8eminulum, Boh. 
_ Surface opaque, blue-black. 2. 2. . 2. . 2. 1. we we) Curtula, Boh. 
Prothorax and elytra flavo-testaceous, immaculate. . . . . . . . . rotundata, Boh. 


1. Charidotis pustulata, (Tab. IX. fig. 19.) 


Short ovate, very convex, shining; dilute flavous, the expanded margins subhyaline, the prothorax with a 
narrow transverse patch at the base, widened at the middle, and the scutellum, sanguineous ; the elytra 
with the disc sanguineous, except a common transverse patch before the middle (widening posteriorly), a 
transverse fascia at about one-third from the apex (widening outwardly), and the sides, which are 
flavous; the antenne pale testaceous, the apical joint fuscous; the legs and underside testaceous. 
Antenne short, not extending beyond the base of the prothorax, joint 3 very short, much shorter than, 
and not nearly so stout as, 2, 4 considerably longer than 3, 5 and 6 equal, each longer than 4, 7-11 
stout, 8-10 as broad as long, 11 nearly twice as long as 10, acuminate. Prothorax broadly expanded 
at the sides and in front; the disc deeply obliquely grooved at the base on either side of the very 
broadly truncated median lobe, finely canaliculate in the middle behind; the surface smooth, the 
margins reticulate. Scutellum very large, smooth. LElytra a little wider than the prothorax at the base, 
deeply sinuate-emarginate in front, and with prominent subangular humeri; the disc very convex, 
bifoveate at the base, hollowed behind the prominent humeral callus, and abruptly declivous at the sides, 
with rows of very coarse deep punctures, interrupted by two large, transverse, smooth callosities-—one 
before the middle, with a ramus extending outwards, the other in the form of a fascia at one-third from 
the apex,—the outer portion also smooth, the interstices narrow, smooth, and irregularly raised ; the 
margins rather broadly expanded, becoming very narrow at the apex, smooth and reticulate, separated 
from the disc by a row of distantly placed fovee. 


Length 42-5, breadth 4 millim. 

Hab. British Honpuras, Belize (Blancaneaur); GuatEMaLa, San Juan in Vera Paz 
(Champion). 

Four specimens. Allied to C. cinctella, Boh., from Brazil, but with much larger 
flavous callosities on the elytra, the posterior one forming a transverse fascia, the outer 
portion of the disc smooth. 


2. Charidotis auroguttata. (Tab. IX. fig. 20.) 
Charidotis auroguttata, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iii. p. 40', and iv. p. 379°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 


ix. p. 152°. 
- Hab. British Honpvuras, Belize (Blancaneaux) ; GUATEMALA, San Juan in Vera Paz 
(Champion).—BRazIL 1-3; Borrvia !~3, 


180 PHYTOPHAGA. 


This insect has not hitherto been recorded from north of Brazil. In life, the 
numerous raised callosities on the elytra are of a brilliant metallic golden or golden- 
green, in contrast to the blackish or castaneous colour. of the dorsum. We have 
received four specimens from within our limits. 


3. Charidotis flavomarginata. (Tab. IX. fig. 21.) 


Broadly elliptic, very convex, shining, sanguineous; the prothorax and elytra bordered with piceous along 
the outer part of the disc, their expanded margins dilute flavous and subhyaliue ; the antenne, legs, and 
under surface (the inner half of the epipleura excepted) testaceous. Antenne short, not extending beyond 
the base of the prothorax, joint 3 very short, much shorter than, and not nearly so stout as, 2, 4 very 
little longer than 3, 5 and 6 subequal, longer than 4, 7-11 stout, 8-10 as broad as long, 11 twice as 
long as 10, acuminate. Prothorax broadly dilated at the sides and in front; the disc deeply, obliquely 
grooved at the base on either side of the very broadly truncated median lobe, and with some scattered 
distinct punctures at the sides behind. Scutellum very large, smooth. Elytra about two and one third 
times as long as, and at the sides forming a continuous outline with, the prothorax, deeply sinuate-_ 
emarginate at the base, and with prominent subangular humeri; the disc very convex, bifoveate at the 
base, hollowed behind the prominent humeral callus, and rather abruptly declivous behind and at the 
sides; with rows of moderately coarse, not very closely placed punctures (which become finer towards the 
suture) extending to the apex, the interstices smooth and almost flat; the margins only moderately 


expanded, becoming very narrow at the apex, smooth, and reticulate, separated from the disc by a row of 
very deep fovee. 


Length 44-44, breadth 34 millim. 
Hab. GuateMALA, Chacoj and La Tinta in Vera Paz (Champion). 


Three examples, all from the lower part of the Polochic Valley. This small species 
is perhaps nearest allied to C. erythrostigma. It has the fourth joint of the antenne 
very little longer than the third, it being shorter than in most of the allied forms. 


4. Charidotis erythrostigma, (Tab. IX. fig. 23.) 


Broadly elliptic, very convex, shining, black, the expanded margins of the prothorax and elytra dilute flavous 
and hyaline; the elytra with a common transverse yellowish-red patch before the middle—narrowing 
outwardly and reaching to the fifth interstice, and extending along the suture to the base; the legs and 
antenne flavo-testaceous ; the underside black, the ventral segments flavo-testaceous. Antenne short, 
not extending beyond the base of the prothorax, joint 3 very short, much shorter than, and not nearly so 
stout as, 2, 4-6 subequal, each much longer than 3, 7-11 stout, 8-10 as broad as long, 11 twice as long 
as 10, acuminate. Prothorax broadly dilated and reticulate at the sides and in front; the disc deeply 
obliquely grooved at the base on either side of the very broadly truncated median lobe and with some 
scattered distinct punctures at the sides behind. Scutellum very large, almost smooth. Elytra about two 
and a half times the length of, and at the sides forming a continuous outline with, the prothorax, deeply 
sinuate-emarginate at the base, and with prominent subangular humeri; the disc very convex, bifoveate 
at the base, hollowed behind the prominent humeral callus, and somewhat abruptly declivous towards 
the apex and at the sides, with rows of closely placed, deep, rather coarse punctures extending to the apex , 
the interstices smooth ; the margins only moderately expanded, becoming very narrow at the apex, smooth, 
and reticulate, separated from the disc by a row of very deep foves. 

Length 5, breadth 4 millim. 


Hab. Mexico, Cerro de Plumas (/ége). 
One example only of this very distinct species has been received. It is allied to the 


Brazilian C. rubrocincta and C. circumscripta, Boh., from both of which it differs in 
the common transverse yellowish-red patch on the elytra, and in having the punctures 


CHARIDOTIS. 181 


of the elytral series much more numerous. C. cognata, Boh., from Cayenne, has a very 
much larger dorsal patch and the margins very broadly expanded. 


5. Charidotis yucatanensis. (Tab. IX. fig. 22.) 

Subrotundate, very convex, shining, brownish-yellow, the elytra rather broadly bordered with castaneous 
along the outer part of the disc, their expanded margins and also those of the prothorax dilute sordid- 
yellow; the antennz, legs, and under surface testaceous. Antenne, prothorax, and scutellum as in 
C. erythrostigma. Elytra about two and a half times as long as, and at the sides forming a continuous 
outline with, the prothorax, deeply sinuate-emarginate at the base, and with prominent subacute humeri ; 
the disc very convex, hollowed behind the humeral callus, and somewhat abruptly declivous behind and 
at the sides, with rows of coarse, deep, not very closely placed brownish punctures extending from the 
base to the apex, the interstices smooth and rather uneven ; the margins moderately expanded, becoming 
very narrow at the apex, smooth and reticulate, separated from the disc by a row of deep fover. 

Length 5, breadth 4 millim. 


Hab. Mexico, Temax in North Yucatan (Gaumer). 


One example. Allied to C. erythrostigma, but with the elytra coarsely striate- 
punctate and the margins a little more expanded ; the coloration is also very different, 
resembling that of various species of Coptocycla and Ctenochira. 


6. Charidotis frontalis. (Tab. IX. fig. 24.) 

Subrotundate, very convex, shining, bronze-black, the expanded anterior and lateral margins of the pr rothorax 
flavous and subhyaline; the antenne and legs testaceous ; beneath black, the metasternum castaneous, 
the ventral segments flavo-testaceous. Antenne short, not extending beyond the base of the prothorax, 
joint 3 very short, much shorter than, and not nearly so stout as, 2, 4-6 subequal in length, each nearly 
twice as long as 3, 7-11 stout, 9 and 10 as broad as long, 11 twice as long as 10 and acuminate. 
Prothorax broadly expanded at the sides and in front; the disc deeply, obliquely grooved at the base on 
either side of the very broadly truncated median lobe, finely canaliculate in the middle behind, and with 
fine scattered punctures, which extend on to the _expanded margin, the margins reticulate. Scutellum 
very large, almost smooth. Elytra about two and one third times as long as, and at the sides forming 
a continuous outline with, the prothorax, deeply sinuate-emarginate at the base, and with moderately 
prominent subangular humeri; the disc very convex, deeply bifoveate at the base, and abruptly declivous 
behind and at the sides, with interrupted rows of coarse deep punctures extending to the apex, the inter- 
stices smooth, the first to the sixth here and there strongly raised and transversely or obliquely connected 
with each other, the humeral callus prominent; the margins feebly expanded, becoming obsolete at the 


apex, smooth, separated from the disc by a row of deep fovee. 
Length 44, breadth 33 millim. 
Hab. Mexico, Temax in North Yucatan (Gawmer). 
One specimen. A close ally of C. seminulum and C. furva, Boh., but easily distin- 
guishable from either of these species by the irregularly, convexly raised interstices, the 
much coarser punctuation, the less expanded margins, and the brassy lustre of the elytra. 


7. Charidotis seminulum. (Tab. IX. figg. 25, var. ; 25a, antenna.) 
Charidotis seminulum, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iii. p. 27*, and iv. p. 376°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 


ix. p. 150°. 
Hab. MExico ( Chevrolat 1-3) ; GuaTEMALA, Sabo in Vera Paz (Champion). 
Var. The margins of the elytra at the base and apex narrowly flavous. 


Hab. Guatemata, San Gerdnimo (Champion). 
BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Coleopt., Vol. VI. Pt. 2, April 1894. 2 aa 


“182 PHYTOPHAGA. 


There is a Mexican specimen of this species in the British Museum from the 
Chevrolat collection, no doubt the type, and another in the Baly collection. We 
also have two of it from Guatemala—one with the elytra entirely black, the other with 
the elytral margins narrowly bordered with yellow at the base and apex. Boheman | 
describes the elytra as black, with the shoulders narrowly margined with yellow. The 
South-American C. furva, Boh., is a closely allied form. 


8. Charidotis curtula. (Tab. IX. fig. 26.) 
Charidotis curtula, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iv. p. 376’. 


Hab. Muxtco (Sallé1). 


A very distinct species, easily known by its opaque, bluish-black upper surface, the 
prothorax with the anterior margin flavous and hyaline. | 


9. Charidotis rotundata. 
Charidotis rotundata, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iii. p. 53*, and iv. p. 382”; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 153°. . 
Hab. t Mexico? 3 (Deppe, in mus. Berol. +).—Braziu}. 


Boheman in his subsequent publications? * omits the locality “ Brazil” altogether ; 
it is, however, more likely to be correct than ‘ Mexico,” as the allied forms are all 


Brazilian. 
COPTOCYCLA. 
Coptocycla, Sect. I., Boheman, Monogr. Cassid. iii. p. 90 (1855), and iv. p. 390; Chapuis, Gen. Col. 
xi. p. 890. 


Psalidonota, Boheman, Monogr. Cassid. iii. p. 81. 
Chirida, Chapuis, Gen. Col. xi. p. 405 (1875). 

No less than 376 species were included under Coptocycla, Sect. 1., by Boheman; the 
remainder (93), belonging to his Section II., have the four hinder claws pectinate, and 
these have been separated by Chapuis under the generic name Ctenochira. Of the 376 
species of Sect. I. it is probable that a very large number of the American species belong 
to Chirida, though two only (C. cruciata, Linn., and C. elatior, Boh., both from Tropical 
South America) were referred to it by Chapuis. Those species with the claws angu- 
larly dilated at the base belong to Chirida, and those with the claws simple to 
Coptocycla. The name Chirida will probably have to be adopted eventually, but it is 
not advisable to use it at present, as some of the species placed in Cassida by Boheman 
also have the claws angularly dilated *. Next to the form of the claws, the relative 
length of the third joint of the antenne seems to afford a valuable character for 
grouping the large number of species of this genus, though it was not used by 
Boheman. 


* On p. 177 anted, the sect. “6” is misplaced; it should include Cassida insculpta. 


COPTOCYCLA. 183 


Coptocycla, after the exclusion of the species with pectinate claws, still includes many 
heterogeneous forms, some of which will have to be separated eventually. It is one of 
the most characteristic genera of Coleoptera in Tropical America, and includes a very 
large number of species, many of which are brilliantly metallic in life. Seventy-nine 
representatives are here recorded from within our limits, as against six from the United 
States, the species becoming more numerous southwards, where some of them may be 
said to swarm. The genus is very widely distributed, but has its headquarters in 
Tropical America. 

The metamorphoses of two of the Mexican species, C. opulenta and C. bifossulata 
(dubitabilis), Boh., have been fully described and figured by Dr. E. Dugés (Ann. Soc. Ent. 
Belg. 1887, pp. 143-146, t. 2. figg. 1-13). 

The annexed Table is added to assist in the identification of the Central-American 
species :— 


Claws simple. 
Antennz with the third joint elongate, almost or quite twice as long as the 
second (still longer in species 4 and 5). 
Elytra very feebly emarginate at the base; the humeri not prominent ; 
antennz comparatively short and stout. Species large, resembling 
Physonotain shape . . ..... - woe ew ee ee) 6+) 6 Species 1-8. 
Elytra more or less deeply sinuate-emarginate at the base. 
Humeri moderately prominent. 
Elytra gibbous, the margins translucent ; antennz elongate. Species 


large (= Psalidonota, Boh.) . . . . « ss + + + + + Species 4-7. 
Elytra convex (somewhat gibbous in C. orbiculata). 
The margins entirely translucent . . . . . . + + + + + + Species 8-18. 
The margins with two transverse dark fascie . . . . . + - . Species 19-21. 


The margins with a transverse dark fascia at the base only . . . Species 22-25. 
Humeri very prominent (still more so in 3). 
Elytra gibbous ; margins with a transverse dark fascia at the base. . Species 26. 
Elytra convex; margins entirely translucent . . . . . . « Species 27. 
Antenne with the third joint not or very little longer than the second. 
Elytra very feebly emarginate at the base; the humeri not prominent ; the 
margins very broadly expanded to the apex, entirely translucent . .« Species 28. 
Elytra more or less deeply sinuate-emarginate at the base (more feebly in 
species 41-43) ; the margins narrowing posteriorly. 
Antenne comparatively stout; elytral margins translucent . . . . . Species 29. 
Antenne slender. 
Elytra gibbous, very obtuse behind ; the margins with two broad curved 
dark fasciz, partly enclosing an oblong translucent space . . . Species 30. 
Elytra convex. 
The margins entirely translucent ; punctuation of disc fine or 
moderately fine . . . 2 2 6 2 6 © © # ee ee Species 31-40. 
Zaa 2 


184 PHYTOPHAGA. 


The margins with two transverse dark fasciz ; punctuation of disc 
coarse. . . : . . 
The margins with a transverse dark fascia beyond the middle only ; 
punctuation of disc coarse . oe es 
Antenne with the third joint shorter than the second ; elytra sinuate-emargi- 
nate at. the base, the margins hyaline. 
Antenne comparatively short 2. 2. 1. - ee ee ee ts . 
Antenne elongate re . 
Claws angularly dilated at the base; elytra sinuate- emarginate at the hase, with 
more or less prominent humeri (= Chirida, Chap.). 
Antenne with the third joint elongate, as long as the fourth. 
Elytra more or less gibbous. 
The disc tuberculate posteriorly. 
The margins with two transverse dark fascie. . . . + + > 
The margins with a transverse dark fascia at the base only 
The disc not tuberculate posteriorly. 
The margins with a large oblong translucent space . ot ee 
The margins with a transverse fascia at the base, translucent beyond . 
The margins with a short space before the middle translucent (some- 
times continued to the apex) | 
Elytra convex. 
The margins entirely translucent . . 
The margins with a large oblong translucent space . toe 
Antenne with the third joint not or very little longer than the second. 
Elytra gibbous. 
The margins with two transverse dark fascie (not reaching the exterior 
limb) ee wee ee ee 
The margins with a transverse dark fascia at the base only 
Elytra convex. 
The margins entirely translucent . 


The margins with a sinuous dark stripe extending from the base to the 
‘middle . 


The margins with a transverse , dark fascia at t the base, and a curved 


mark (sometimes obsolete) about the middle . oe 
The margins with a more or less distinct transverse fascia at the base, 
translucent beyond. . . 


1. Coptocycla tripartita. (Tab. IX. fig. 3, ¢.) 


Species 41. ‘ 
Species 42, 43. 


Species 44, 45. 
Species 46-48. 


Species 49, 50. 
Species 51. 


Species 52. 
Species 53. V 


Species 54. 


Species 55-63. 
Species 64, 65. 


Species 66. 
Species 67. 


Species 68-72. 


_ Species 73. 


Species 74. 


Species 75-79. 


¢. Short ovate, broad, moderately convex, glabrous, shining ; black, the expanded margins of the prothorax 
flavo-hyaline ; the elytra each with an exceedingly large, transverse, dilute flavous patch before the 
middle—deeply excised in the centre behind, and extending from near the suture almost to the outer 
margin, with a ramus on the disc extending to the base (leaving a common heart-shaped scutellar patch) ; 
the antenne black, with the joints 2-4 testaceous beneath; the legs and underside black. Antenne 
moderately stout, joints 1-4 smooth and shining, 3 more than twice as long as 2, and a little longer than 4, 
joints 5-11 thickened, densely punctured, and pubescent, 4-10 subequal in length. Prothorax twice as 
broad as long, very broadly expatided at the sides and in front, the base deeply sinuate on either side of 


COPTOCYCLA. 185 


the broad, truncate median lobe, the disc deeply foveate in the middle before the base, the surface smooth, 
the margins concave in front. Elytra wider than, and nearly three times as long as, the prothorax, 
rounded at the sides, very obtuse behind, and with rounded humeri; the disc moderately convex, hollowed 
behind the humeral callus, with fine, deep, very widely scattered punctures, some of which form a row 
near the suture, and a deep sutural stria; the margins very broadly expanded, becoming narrow at the 
apex, with a few scattered punctures, separated from the disc by a row of coarser, somewhat closely placed 
impressions. Beneath almost smooth; the prosternum not sulcate. Claws simple. 
Length 127, breadth 10} millim. 


Hab. Nicaraaua, Chontales (Janson). 


One specimen. This species is very closely allied to the Amazonian C. speculata, 
Boh., the type ( 2?) of which is contained in the Baly collection ; but differs from it in 
having the scattered punctures on the elytra finer and less numerous, and not black, 
those along the outer limit of the disc more closely placed. The elytra are very simi- 
larly coloured in the two species; the prothorax, however, has the broadly expanded 
margins flavous. C. difenestra, Boh., from Brazil, is another allied form. 


2. Coptocycla nigropunctata. (Tab. IX. fig. 2, 3, var.) 
Coptocycla nigropunctata, Wag. Mittheil. Miinch. ent. Ver. v. p. 51°. 


Hab. Cuntrat America!; Panama, Bugaba (Champion). 


A single specimen from Chiriqui no doubt represents a variety of this species. It 
has the elytra sanguineous, with the suture and base, the exterior limb very narrowly, 
and the apical fifth, black, the disc with widely scattered coarse black punctures, a few 
of which are present on the margins; the prothorax with the disc black, with an 
angular projection extending from it in the middle in front, and a transverse ramus at 


the sides. 


3. Coptocycla wagneri. (Tab. IX. fig. 1.) 
Coptocycla wagneri, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iv. p. 391°. 


Hab. Costa Rica }. 


The type of this species, which we figure, is contained in the Baly collection. This 
and the preceding species differ from typical Coptocycla in having the elytra less deeply 
emarginate at the base, with the humeri not prominent in front. 


4, Coptocycla leprosa. (Tab. X. figg. 1, 2; 14, profile.) 
Psalidanota leprosa, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iii. p. 86", and iv. p. 389°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. ix. 
p- 157°. 

Hab. Mexico 12 (Sallé, ex coll. Sturm), Ventanas in Durango, Huetamo in Michoacan, 
Iguala and Acapulco in Guerrero, Tapachula in Chiapds ({16ge), Mescala in Guerrero 
(Hl. H. Smith), Tuxtla (Sallé); Britisu Honpuras, R. Hondo (Blancaneaur); Guate- 
MALA, Panzos, Teleman, and San Juan in Vera Paz, Capetillo, Zapote, Pantaleon, Cerro 


186 PHYTOPHAGA. 


Zunil, El Reposo (Champion); Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt, Janson); Costa Rica 
(Rogers, Van Patten); Panama, Chiriqui (Ribbe), Bugaba, Volcan de Chiriqui, David, 
Taboga I. (Champion), Panama city (Walker). | 


A common insect in Central America, ranging from the Mexican State of Durango 
right down to Panama, and probably extending into the northern parts of South 
America. 0. leprosa is doubtfully recorded by Boheman ® as from Brazil. 

The rows of coarse punctures on the elytra are interrupted beyond the middle by an 
oblique, smooth, flavous space, which becomes much wider externally, and is much 
more raised in some specimens than in others. ‘The elytra have an abrupt, strongly 
raised, transverse elevation across the suture below the base, this and a spot on the 
humeral callus being usually sanguineous or dilute castaneous. ‘The antenne are very 
elongate and filiform, the third joint nearly three times as long as the second. 

We figure a specimen from Chontales, agreeing perfectly with the (somewhat 
discoloured) type. | 


5. Coptocycla dorsoplagiata, (Tab. X. figg. 5,3; 5a, profile; 5, antenna.) 
Rotundate, convex, dilute flavo-testaceous, shining; the elytra flavous, with the suture narrowly, a transverse 
spot at the summit of the post-basal elevation, the punctures on a broad space between it and the apex 
of the disc (widened anteriorly and posteriorly), and the fourth to the sixth rows of punctures to about 
one third from the base, castaneous or dilute castaneous; the antennee testaceous, with the apical three 
joints partly or entirely black; the legs and under surface testaceous. Antenne very elongate, slender, 
filiform, joints 8-10 elongate and subequal, 2 more than twice as long as 2. Prothorax subtrapezoidal, 
the base deeply sinuate on either side of broad median lobe and abruptly and obliquely truncated 
laterally, the apex rounded; broadly expanded, reticulate, and subhyaline in front and at the sides; the 
surface almost smooth, the disc obsoletely canaliculate. Elytra very much wider than, and about three 
times as long as, the prothorax, conjointly rounded at the apex in the female, more obtuse behind in the 
male, very deeply sinuate-emarginate at the base, with rounded prominent humeri; the disc convex, 
transversely gibbous below the base, and excavate on either side of the suture before this, with rows of 
very coarse deep punctures, which are interrupted before the middle by a S-shaped smooth elevation 
extending from the post-basal elevation outwards, the punctures themselves crowded upon a broad space 
between this and the apex and remote upon the rest of the surface, the interstices smooth and uneven; 
the margins exceedingly broadly expanded, becoming narrow at the apex, smooth, reticulate, and sub- 
hyaline, separated from the disc by a row of deep punctures, and transversely plicate internally a little 
before the middle. Claws simple. 
Length 10-104, breadth 93-104 millim. 


Hab. Mexico (Mus. Brit.); Guaremata, Chacoj in Vera Paz, Zapote (Champion) ; 
Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt); Costa Rica (Van Patten). 


Six examples. This species is allied to the Cuban C. dorsopunctata (Boh.) (and the 
Mexican specimen referred to that species by Boheman no doubt belongs here); but 
differs constantly from it in having the crowded castaneous punctures limited to a 
narrower space on the elytra, the sparsely punctured flavous lateral spaces being much 
more extended. It differs from C. leprosa in having the elytra less gibbous, and the 
rows of punctures not interrupted beyond the middle by a transverse, smooth, irregular 
fascia ; and from C. contempta by the less gibbous elytra and smooth margins. 


COPTOCYCLA. 187 


6. Coptocycla marmorata. (Tab. X. figg. 2, 9; 24, profile.) 

Subrotundate (3), broad oval (2), convex, dilute flavo-testaceous, shining; the elytra with the suture, the 
humeral callus, the punctures, and some scattered spots and markings castaneous or rufo-castaneous ; the 
legs and antenne testaceous or rufo-testaceous; the body beneath black, with the sides testaceous, the 
abdomen testaceous or rufo-testaceous, the segments broadly infuscate or black in the middle. Antenne 
elongate, slender, filiform, the apical five joints slightly thickened, joint 3 twice as long as 2, 3-11 sub- 
equal in length. Prothorax as in C. dorsoplagiata. Elytra very much wider than, and about three times 
as long as, the prothorax, conjointly rounded at the apex in both sexes, very deeply sinuate-emarginate 
at the base, with prominent obtuse humeri; the disc convex, feebly transversely gibbous below the base, 
and excavate on either side of the suture before this, with rows of very coarse deep punctures, which are 

' interrupted by a >-shaped smooth elevation extending from the post-basal elevation outwards and by 
various oblique or transverse raised spaces which here and there connect the interstices, the latter smooth 
and very uneven; the margins moderately expanded, becoming narrow at the apex, smooth, reticulate, 
and subhyaline, separated from the dise by a row of deep punctures, and transversely plicate internally a 
little before the middle. Claws simple. 

Length 9-93, breadth 8 millim. 


Hab. Mexico, Venta de Zopilote and Mescala, both in Guerrero (H. H. Smith). 


Three specimens. Allied to C. leprosa, but smaller; the elytra feebly gibbous, with 
less expanded margins, the interstices here and there connected by strongly raised 
oblique or transverse elevations; the body beneath partly black. 


7. Coptocycla rufonotata. 

Rotundate, convex, dilute flavo-testaceous, shining ; the elytra with a short streak on the humeral callus, the 
summit of the post-basal elevation, and the punctures rufo-castaneous; the antenna, legs, and under 
surface flavo-testaceous. Antenne and prothorax as in C. dorsoplagiata, the prothorax obsoletely canali- 

- culate at the base only. Elytra one half wider than, and three times as long as, the prothorax, conjointly 
_ rounded at the apex, very deeply sinuate-emarginate at the base, with prominent rounded humeri; the 
disc convex, feebly transversely gibbous below the base, and moderately excavate on either side of the 
suture before this, deeply foveate in the centre before the middle, and with rows of coarse deep punctures, 
which are interrupted (the sutural row excepted) by slightly raised smooth spaces extending outwards 
and downwards from the post-basal elevation, and by a broad, slightly raised, smooth, impunctate, post- 
median fascia, the latter widened externally and extending forwards to the ante-median marginal plica 
and posteriorly to the apex (enclosing a punctured ante-apical triangular space near the suture), the inter- 
_stices smooth ; the margins exceedingly broadly expanded, becoming narrower (though still wide) at the 
apex, smooth, reticulate, and subhyaline, separated from the dise by a row of rather fine punctures, and 
transversely plicate a little before the middle. Claws simple. 
Length 103, breadth 10 millim. 


Hab. Costa Rica (Gaéd, in coll. Janson). 


One specimen, evidently of the male sex. This insect resembles C. leprosa, from 
which it may be known by the elytra being feebly gibbous, more broadly margined 
at the apex, and with the rows of punctures interrupted posteriorly by a very 
large, smooth, slightly raised, impunctate space, the latter obliquely cut off in front 
and. enclosing a triangular punctured space on either side of the suture before the 


apex. 


188 : PHYTOPHAGA. 


\ y 8. Coptocycla orbiculata. (Tab. X. fig. 3.) 


Almost circular, very convex, shining, flavo-testaceous; the elytra with a very broad, indeterminate, dilute 
olivaceous annulus—extending round the outer part of the disc and reaching the suture at the base, 
—which is indistinctly bordered within and without with yellow, and encloses a common dilute 
ferruginous patch at the middle and a smaller one near the apex, these latter reticulated with flavous and 
narrowing outwardly, the anterior one with a small flavous spot in the centre, the suture narrowly ferru- 
ginous; the antennew and legs testaceous ; the under surface black, with the sides and the abdomen flavo- 
testaceous. Antenne rather short, comparatively stout, thickening outwardly, joints 3 and 4 equal in 
length, 3 nearly twice as long as 2. Prothorax subtriangular in shape, the base very feebly sinuate and 
oblique on either side of the median lobe; the disc smooth, transversely depressed in the middle at the 
base ; the margins broadly expanded laterally and in front, subhyaline, and reticulate. Elytra circular, 
forming almost a continuous outline with the prothorax and deeply emarginate at the base for its recep- 
tion, with rather sharp humeri; the disc very convex, somewhat gibbous anteriorly, with rows of widely 
separated, rather coarse, deep punctures, which become much finer at the base and almost obsolete beyond 
the middle (the sutural row excepted), the interstices smooth and flat; the margins greatly expanded, 
becoming narrower at the apex, smooth, reticulate, and subhyaline, separated from the disc by a row of 
deep fovere. Claws simple. 

Length 63, breadth 6 millim. 


Hab. Panama, Bugaba (Champion). 


One example only of this curious species has been obtained. It is perhaps nearest 
allied to C. placida, Boh., from Cayenne. The elytral markings are perhaps partly 
due to discoloration. The general outline is almost circular, resembling Platycycla, 
the elytra being deeply emarginate at the base for the reception of the prothorax. 


9. Coptocycla sordida. (Tab. X. figg. 4, 9; 4a, antenna.) 
V Coptocycla sordida, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iii. p. 326*, and iv. p. 447°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
- ix. p. 182°. 
ee Hab. Mexico! (Mus. Brit., ex Chevrolat); British Honpuras, R. Hondo (Blanca- 
neaur); GuateMALa (Scherzer, in coll. Baly), Panzos, Teleman, La Tinta, and Chacoj in 
Vera Paz (Champion). 


Apparently confined to the lower parts of the Atlantic slope. This species may be 
known by its convex, subrotundate shape ; the elytra very deeply emarginate at the base, 
with the sides forming almost a continuous outline with the prothorax; the antenne 
rather stout, and extending very little beyond the base of the prothorax, the third and 
fourth joints equal in length, each very much longer than the second. The females, 
as usual, are more elongate than the males. 
The type from the Stockholm Museum is figured. 


10, Coptocycla azteca. (Tab. IX. fig. 15, 2.) 


Short ovate (¢'), ovate ( 2 ), convex, shining, rufo-testaceous or testaceous, the expanded margins of the pro- 
thorax dilute yellow, the scutellum more or less infuscate, the elytra each with three large dilute fuscous 
spots—one, rounded, before the middle, on the fourth and fifth interstices, one, oblong, below the humeral 
callus, and one, oblique, between the seventh and ninth interstices near the apex ; the antenne testaceous, 


_COPTOCYCLA. . 189 


with the apical four joints piceous or black; beneath black, the sides of the ventral segments sometimes 
rufo-testaceous; the legs varying in colour from rufo-testaceous to nearly black. Antenne scarcely 
extending beyond the base of the prothorax, with joints 7-11 rather stout, 3 and 4 elongate, subequal, 
each nearly twice as long as 2, 5 and 6 each shorter than 4, 8-10 almost as broad as long. Prothorax 
nearly twice as broad as long, moderately expanded at the sides and in front, deeply sinuate at the base 
on either side of the broadly truncated median lobe, the latter unimpressed, the surface almost smooth. 
Elytra considerably wider than the prothorax, broader in the male than in the female, subparallel nearly 
to the middle, deeply sinuate-emarginate at the base; the disc with rows of rather fine subapproximate 
punctures extending tu the apex and a deep sutural stria, the interstices smooth, flat; the margins mode- 
rately expanded, becoming very narrow at the apex, deflexed, smooth, the outer edge scarcely thickened ; 
the humeri anteriorly prominent, but obtuse. Claws simple. 
Length 54-64, breadth 4-44 millim. 


Hab. Mexico, Puebla, Matamoros Izucar (Sallé). 


Two examples. C. azteca is intermediate as it were between C. trisignata, Boh., and 
its allies, and the North-American Cassida nigripes, Oliv. In the form of the antenne 
it agrees better with Coptocycla than with Cassida. It may be known from C. nigripes 
by its much smaller size, and by the expanded margins of the elytra being much 
narrower at the apex, more deflexed, and with the exterior edge scarcely thickened. 
The disc of the elytra is very faintly impressed between the anterior spots, but 
it cannot be described as foveate. The spots are Jarger than in C. trisignata and 
differently placed. 


11. Coptocycla annulus. 
Cassida annulus, Fabr. Spec. Ins. i. p. 109 (1781)'; Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. 4, p. 1637. 
Coptocycla annulus, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iii. p. 236°, and iv. p. 480‘; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 173°. | 
Cassida circularis, Oliv. Ent. vi. no. 97, p. 970, t. 6. £. 98°. 
Coptocycila circularis (Oliv.), Dej. Cat. 3rd edit. p. 3896". 
Coptocycla circulifera, De}. Cat. loc. cit.° 


Hab. Mexico, Playa Vicente, San Andres Tuxtla (Sal/é), Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. 
Smith); Guatemata4®, Panzos, Teleman, Senahu, and San Juan in Vera Paz, Zapote 
(Champion); Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt, Janson); Panama (Boucard), Bugaba, 
Volcan de Chiriqui, Caldera, David (Champion), Chiriqui (Ribbe).—CoLomBia **°; 
Guiana, Cayenne !-8; Ecuapor; Amazons, Pard°, Ega; Boxivia 4°. . 


A widely distributed and rather common Tropical-American insect. In this species 
the yellow annulus of the elytra is small, not reaching the middle, and followed by a 
similarly coloured curved fascia, the rest of the disc, the apex excepted, being black, 

the prothorax also with a black basal patch. The antenne are very elongate and 
slender, the third joint elongate, joints 6-11 piceous or black. | 


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190 PHYTOPHAGA. 


12. Coptocycla wesmaeli. (Tab. X. figg. 6; 7, var.; 8, var. puertlis.) 
Coptocycla wesmaeli, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iii. p. 2027, and iv. p. 421°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 169°. 
Hab. Mxxico}-, Cordova (Sallé), Atoyac (H. H. Smith), Misantla, Cerro de Plumas, 
Tapachula (Hége); GuatemaLa, Purula, Panima, and Chacoj in Vera Paz, Zapote 
(Champion). 


Var. a. The elytra with the disc almost to its outer limit black, stained with ferruginous before the apex, and 
sometimes indeterminately ferruginous towards the base. 


Coptocycla wesmaeli, var. a, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iv. p. 421°. 
Coptocycla scutigerula, Boh. loc. cit. p. 424°. 
Hab. Muxico+, Cordova (Sallé), Cerro de Plumas (Hége); Guaremaua (Scherzer, in 
coll. Baly ®). 
Var. 8. The elytra as in a, but with a small oblong spot on the suture a little below the base, and a common 
transverse lunate mark about the middle, yellow. (Fig. 7.) 


Hab. Mexico, Cerro de Plumas (Hége). 


Var. y. The elytra with the disc castaneous, with a transverse sutural patch before the middle, and the sides 
anteriorly, piceous. 


Coptocycla puerilis, var. b, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iv. p. 447 °. 
Hab. Mexico, Playa Vicente (Sallé °). 


Var. 3. The transverse patch at the base of the prothorax smaller than in the type, and emarginate on either 
side in front, sometimes obsolete; the black oblong annulus on the elytra almost obliterated, represented 
by aslender longitudinal streak on the outer part of the disc, which only extends to about the middle ; 
the ante-median sutural spot reduced in size, and sometimes divided at the suture. (Fig. 8.) 


Coptocycla puerilis, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iv. p. 447°. 
Hab. Mexico, Playa Vicente, Cordova, San Andres Tuxtla (Sallé), Atoyac in Vera 


Cruz (H. H. Smith), Cerro de Plumas, Tapachula (Hoge); Guatemaa (coll. Baly’), 
Panima in Vera Paz (Champion). 


Var. e. The elytra as in 6, but with the sutural spot obsolete. 


Coptocycla puerilis, var. a, Boh. loc. cit.* 


Hab. Guatemata (coll. Baly §). 


This variable species has been described under three different names by Boheman, 
C. wesmaeli ana C. scutigerula being separated from C. puerilis by more than one 
hundred species in his monograph. The types of all three forms are before me, and 
they certainly belong to one and the same species. C. wesmaeli, var. a, Boh., and C. scuti- 
gerula do not differ in any way from each other; C. puerilis has the black annulus in 
great part obliterated. Some specimens from Misantla and Tapachula are perfectly 
intermediate between C. wesmaeli and C. puerilis, the annulus being distinctly outlined, 
but faint, on the apical half of the elytra. The third joint of the antenne is elongate. 


COPTOCYCLA. 191 


Of the forty-nine specimens before me, thirty-two are typical wesmaeli, three belong to 
the var. a (scutigerula), one each to the vars, B, y, and e, and eleven to the var. 8 
(puerilis). We figure a typical wesmaeli from Zapote, the var. B from Cerro de Plumas, 
and the var. 6 (puerilis) from Cordova. 


13. Coptocycla ephippiata. (Tab. X. figg. 9; 10, var.) 
Coptocycla ephippiata, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iii. p. 214', and iv. p. 4257; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 170°. 
Hab. Muxico!~8, Oaxaca (Sallé); British Honpuras, R. Hondo (Blancaneauz) ; 
GuaTeMALA, Cerro Zunil, San Gerénimo (Champion). 


I have seen nine examples of this insect. The common dorsal patch on the elytra, 
which extends to a little beyond the middle, and is continued for some distance along 
the suture towards the apex, varies in colour from sanguineous or castaneous to black 
(or black, with a spot on the humeral callus, or the outer edge, sanguineous), and it is 
usually marked with a yellow or brownish oblique spot near the suture before the 
middle; in one specimen (fig. 10) from Cerro Zunil this mark is <-shaped, and nearly 
meets the one on the opposite elytron at the suture. The elytra are rather coarsely 
seriate-punctate, the punctures, as usual, becoming almost obsolete on the flavous apical 
portion ; the disc (as in C. amena &c.) is deeply foveate before the middle. The third 
joint of the antenne is much longer than the second. 


14. Coptocycla amena. (Tab. X. fig. 11.) 
Coptocycla amena, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iil. p. 189°, and iv. p. 4167; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 


ix. p. 168°. 

Hab. Mexico, Pinos Altos in Chihuahua (Buchan-Hepburn), Ventanas in Durango, 
Colima city, Cuernavaca in Morelos, Jalapa and Misantla in Vera Cruz, Tapachula in 
Chiapas (Hége), Chilpancingo in Guerrero (Hoge, H. H. Smith), Guanajuato, Juquila 
(Sallé); Guatemata!  (Sallé), San Gerénimo, Duenas, Capetillo, Guatemala city, 
Aceituno (Champion); Costa Rica (Van Patten); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 
(Champion). 

A common insect on the central plateau of Guatemala and Mexico; it ranges from 
: Northern Mexico right down to the State of Panama, but becomes rarer southwards. 
The narrow annulus is usually sanguineous or dilute castaneous; but in some specimens 
it is bordered externally with black and in others it is partly obliterated. In this and 
the following three species the elytra are deeply foveate on the disc before the middle, 
and the third joint of the antenne is much longer than the second. We figure a 


specimen from Aceituno. 


2bb 2 


: aon | 


192 . PHYTOPHAGA. 


15. Coptocycla opulenta. (Tab. X. fig. 12.) 
Coptocycla opulenta, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iii. p. 191', and iv. p. 416°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 168°. | 
Hab. Muxico 1-8, Cordova (Sallé), Misantla, Jalapa (Hége); GuaTemaLa, Cerro Zunil 
(Champion). 


This species is extremely closely allied to C. amena, Boh., from which it differs in 
the very much broader annulus of the elytra, with the enclosed flavous space more 
finely and more remotely seriate-punctate; it is also smaller. Boheman’s description 
must have been made from a light-coloured example: in most of the numerous 
specimens before me the annulus is bordered externally with black (not entirely 
sanguineous); and the sutural stripe (as in C. amena) is dilated below the base, 
forming a common ovate spot, which is sometimes partly or entirely black. The 
third joint of the antenne is elongate. A specimen from Misantla is figured. The 
metamorphoses of this species have been described and figured by Dr. E. Dugés (Ann. 
Soc. Ent. Belg. 1887, pp. 145, 146, t. 2. figg. 11-13), who states that it lives upon 
L[pomea murucoides *. 


16. Coptocycla tricolorata. (Tab. X. fig. 13.) 


Subrotundate, convex, dilute flavous, shining, the margins subhyaline ; the eyes black; the prothorax with a 

- rather narrow, transverse, black or sanguineous patch at the base; the scutellum sanguineous; the elytra 

- with a very broad annulus—sanguineous or castaneous, and bordered externally to a greater or less extent 

with black, sometimes almost entirely sanguineous—reaching to beyond the middle, obliquely truncate on 

either side behind, and extending some distance along the suture towards the apex, and enclosing a 

common rounded flavous patch, which is sometimes divided by a very narrow dilute sanguineous sutural 

stripe; the antennz flavous, with the apical joint slightly infuscate at the tip; the legs and under 

surface flavous. Antenne moderately long, slender, the apical five joints a little thickened, joint 8 much 

longer than 2. Prothorax about twice as broad as long, broadly expanded and reticulate at the sides and 

in front, smooth, the disc obsoletely canaliculate before the base and very faintly depressed on either side 

of the median lobe. Elytra nearly three times the length of the prothorax, and much wider than it, 

deeply sinuate-emarginate at the base, conjointly rounded at the apex, with prominent humeri; the disc 

convex, deeply foveate before the middle, and hollowed at the sides behind the humeral callus, with a deep 

sutural stria posteriorly, rather remotely seriate-punctate, the punctures fine towards the suture, coarse 

and deep at the sides, and almost obsolete on the flavous apical portion, the interstices smooth and flat; 

the margins very broadly expanded, becoming gradually narrower towards the apex, smooth and reticulate, 
separated from the disc by a row of closely placed fovese. Claws simple. 

Length 53-63, breadth 47-53 millim. 


Hab. British Honpuras, R. Hondo (Blancaneaus); Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt, 
Janson). 


‘Ten specimens. This insect is very closely allied to, and perhaps only a variety of, 
C. opulenta, Boh.; from which it differs in having the discoidal flavous patch on the 
elytra entirely yellow, or with the suture, at most (even in the darkest specimens), very 


* Cf. Biol. Centr.-Am., Botany, 11. p. 390, t. 61. 


COPTOCYCLA. 193 


narrowly edged with sanguineous, the punctures on the outer part of the disc coarser 
and more remote from each other. A specimen from Rio Hondo is figured. 


17. Coptocycla atalanta. (Tab. X. fig. 14.) 
Coptocycla atalanta, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iv. p. 416°. 
Hab. Mexico, San Andres Tuxtla and Playa Vicente, both in Vera Cruz (Sallé*), 
Misantla (Hoge), Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith); British Honpuras, R. Hondo 
(Blancaneaux) ; Guatema.a, Senahu in Vera Paz (Champion). 


Apparently confined to the Atlantic slope. This species again is closely allied to 
C. opulenta, Boh.; but it is smaller, with the annulus narrower (sanguineous, bordered 
externally with black), and the suture narrowly sanguineous nearly to the apex, the 
sutural stripe not ovately dilated below the base. ‘The third joint of the antenna is 
elongate. We figure a specimen from Misantla. 


18. Coptocycla extensa. (Tab. X. fig. 15, 9.) 
Coptocycla extensa, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iii. p. 261", and iv. p. 485°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 175°. 
Var. 8. The elytra with the disc.testaceous or flavo-testaceous. 
Hab. Mexico !~3 (coll. Oberthiir), Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith), Temax in North 
Yucatan (Gaumer), Yucatan (coll. Baly). 


Sent in plenty from Yucatan, about one-third of the specimens belonging to the 
var. a@ of Boheman—that is to say, with the disc of the elytra fusco-testaceous or 
castaneous, without distinct yellow markings. 


19. Coptocycla zetterstedti. (Tab. X. fig. 16, ¢.) 
Coptocycla zetterstedti, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iii. p. 803", and iv. p. 443°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 180°. . 
Hab. Mexico, Vera Cruz, Panistlahuaca (Sallé), Cordova (Sallé, Hoge), Acapulco, 
Misantla, Tapachula (Hoge). 


~ Not uncommon at Cordova and elsewhere in the Mexican State of Vera Cruz. The 


antenne are elongate and slender, the third joint nearly twice as long as the second. 
The single specimen (immature) received from Tapachula has the prothorax almost 
immaculate. Our figure is taken from a male example from Cordova. 


20. Coptocycla decussata. 
Coptocycla decussata, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iii. p. 8305', and iv. p. 443°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 180°. ° 
“ Subrotundata, modice convexa, flava, nitida; antennis articulis duobus ultimis nigro-fuscis; prothorace 
subtilissime, subremote punctulato, antice late rotundato, pone medium maculis tribus parvis, transverse 


194 . PHYTOPHAGA. 


positis, nigro-fuscis ; elytris sat crebre, mediocriter striato-punctatis, sutura vittaque dorso insequali, nigris, 
hac maculis nonnullis flavis, elevatis variegata, ramulum anticum et posticum concolorem in marginem 
emittente; humeris subprominulis, obtusis.—Long. 7, lat. 6 millim.” 


Hab. Mexico? 3 (Mus. Paris 1). 


We have not received an example of this insect. It is placed next to C. zetterstedte 
by Boheman. 


21. Coptocycla insubida. (Tab. X. fig. 17, 2.) 
Coptocycla insubida, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iii. p. 308+, and iv. p. 4447; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 180°. 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui, David (Champion).—Cotomsia!~? ; VENEZUELA. 


Found at David in company with C. signifera, from which it chiefly differs in having 


an additional ferruginous or black fascia extending across the elytral margins beyond 
the middle. 


22. Coptocycla sallzi. (Tab. X. fig. 18, 9 .) 
Coptocycla sallei, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iv. p. 444°. 


Hab. Muxico, San Andres Tuxtla, Playa Vicente (Sallé), Cordova (Sallé, Hoge), 
Misantla (Hége), Atoyac and Fortin in Vera Cruz (H. H. Smith), Teapa in Tabasco 
(Hoge, H. H. Smith); Guatemaua, San Isidro and Zapote (Champion). 


Closely resembling C. zetterstedti, and only differing from it in having the posterior 
fascia on the elytral margins obliterated. The third joint of the antenne is very 


elongate, fully twice as long as the second. A female specimen from Cordova is 
figured. 


23. Coptocycla signifera. (Tab. X. figg. 19, 2 ; 20, 2, var. trabeata; 21, 3, var. 
immunda.) 
Cassida cruciata (Linn.), var.?, Degeer, Mém. des Ins. iv. p. 187 (excl. fig.) (1775)*. 
Cassida signifer, Herbst, Kafer, viii. p. 318, t. 185. fig. 9 (1799) *. 
Coptocycla guttata, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iii. p. 314°, and iv. p. 445*; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus, 1x. 
p. 181°; Crotch, Proc. Acad. Phil. 1873, p. 78° (nec Oliv.). 
Coptocycla hamulata, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. ii. p. 316 ", and iv. p. 445°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 181°. 

Hab. Nortn America, Canada, Delaware, North Carolina, and New Orleans ¢4 5, 
Pennsylvania!, Atlantic region 6.—-Mexico, Misantla in Vera Cruz, Tapachula in 
Chiapas (Hége), Istapan, Playa Vicente, San Andres Tuxtla, Cordova (Sallé), Atoyac 
in Vera Cruz (H. H. Smith), Vera Cruz (Sailé, Hl. Hf. Smith), Teapa in Tabasco (Saldé, 
Hoge, H. H. Smith), Temax in North Yucatan (Gawmer), Yucatan*® (Chevrolat®); 
British Honpuras, R. Hondo (BLlancaneaux); GuaTEMaLa, Las Mercedes, Zapote, 


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Duefias (Champion); Honpuras (Dyson*); Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt, Janson) ; 
Costa Rica (Van Patten), Volcan de Irazu (Rogers); Panama, Bugaba, David (Cham- 
pton).—Sovuta America to Brazil; ANTILLES, Cuba 3-5, San Domingo 7°, Jamaica ¢ 5. 


Var. a. The elytra with almost the entire disc black, obscure castaneous, or castaneous, with a broad similarly 
coloured ramus extending across the margins to the humeri and a narrow stripe along the suture to the 
apex, the light markings sometimes faintly indicated ; the prothorax with a broad black or castaneous 
basal patch, which is rounded, emarginate, or truncate in front. (Fig. 20.) 

Cassida fuliginosa, Oliv. Ent. vi. p. 971. no. 97, t. 1. fig. 8". 

Coptocycla immunita, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iii. p. 318", and iv. p. 446; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 182%. 

Coptocycla trabeata, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iii. p. 319"*, and iv. p. 446"; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix, p. 1827°, 

Hab. Norra America!4—16—Mexico} 16 (Chevrolat 4), Yucatan 12 13 ( Pilate #4), Temax 
in North Yucatan (Gaumer); Guatemata, Las Mercedes and Zapote (Champion) ; 

Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt).—AnTILLES, Guadeloupe !° 


Var. 8. The elytra with an oblique sinuous castaneous stripe on the outer part of the disc, usually bordered 
with piceous below the humeral callus, extending broadly across the margins to the humeri, and with 
or without irregular rami extending inwards, the suture also narrowly bordered with castaneous or rufo- 
testaceous at the apex ; the markings on the prothorax faint or obsolete. (Fig. 21.) 


Coptocycla immunda, Beh. Monogr. Cassid. ili. p. 320", and iv. p. 447'°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 182”. 
Coptocycla lucidula, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iii. p. 821”, and iv. p. 4477; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 182”. 
Hab. Nortu AMeERIcA?°—?2,—MeExico 17-19, Gnanajuato, Playa Vicente (Sallé), Teapa 
(Sallé, H. H. Smith), Temax in North Yucatan (Gaumer); Guatemata, Duefias 
(Champion) ; Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 


ry 


This very variable and widely distributed species was incorrectly identified by Boheman 
with C. guttata (Oliv.) (=cruciata, Fabr., nec Linn.), as may be at once seen by a com- 


parison of his description with Olivier’s figures (Ent. vi. no. 97, t. 1. figg. 134, 6), 


C. guitata having the elytral margins subhyaline throughout. Olivier in his second 
description of C. guttata (Ent. vi. no. 97, p. 955), which is based upon more than one 
example, quotes C. cruciata, Fabr. (nec Linn.), as a synonym, and states that the insect 
is from Tropical America, and is contained in the Banksian cabinet. The specimens 
he mentions are still extant: one, from which his figures were no doubt taken, is the 
eastern C. serguttata (Boisd.), Boh., the other the Mexican C. eatensa, Boh.; the name 
guttata, Oliv., therefore, will have to be applied to C. sexguttata, Boisd. There can be 
no doubt that the description and figure of C. signifera, Herbst, apply to our insect, 
and I accordingly adopt that name for it. C. trabeata (of which I have seen a Mexican 
specimen from Chevrolat in the British Museum) and C. lucidula, Boh., have already 
been sunk as varieties of C. signifera, and Ihave no hesitation in adding C. hamulata, 


196 PHYTOPHAGA. 


C. immunita, and C. immunda, Boh., to the synonymy. Cassida fuliginosa, Oliv. (Ent. 
vi. no. 97, p. 971, t. 1. fig. 8), from Guadeloupe, doubtfully placed by Boheman as a 
synonym of the South-American Coptocycla cruciata (Linn.), belongs almost certainly to 
the dark variety of our species (=C. trabeata or C. immunita, Boh.). I have examined 
the type of C. immunda, Boh.: it is a pale form of C. signifera, and has been received 
with typical examples from Yucatan, Teapa, &c.; specimens of C. hamulata, Boh., from 
San Domingo scarcely differ from it. We figure a typical C. signifera from Teapa, also 
a specimen of the var. « (trabeata), from Temax, and of the var. 8 (timmunda), from 
Teapa. 


24. Coptocycla lecontei. (Tab. X. fig. 22, 2.) 
Coptocycla lecontei, Crotch, Proc. Acad. Phil. 1873, p. 79°. 

Hab. Norto America, Arizona 1.—Mextco, Villa Lerdo in Durango, Tupataro in 
Guanajuato, Yautepec in Morelos, Chilpancingo in Guerrero, Misantla (Hége), Ventanas 
in Durango (Forrer), Guanajuato, Istapan (Sallé), Tepetlapa in Guerrero (H. #. 
Smith). 


This is probably only a well-marked variety of C. signifera, Herbst (=guttata, Boh.) ; 
but as it is fairly constant on the central plateau of Mexico and in Arizona, where it 
appears to replace C. signifera, I retain it as distinct. C. lecontet chiefly differs from 
C. signifera in having the black markings on the disc of the elytra completely separated 
from the humeral patch by an oblique yellow stripe; it is also more elongate and 
larger, and has a sharply defined rounded black spot on the yellow discoidal markings 
near the base. Some specimens from Vera Cruz, Tapachula, and Nicaragua are almost 
intermediate between them; and in one from Zapote, Guatemala, the humeral patch 
is disconnected on one elytron and connected on the other. In typical C. signifera the 
yellow streak exterior to the humeral callus extends about halfway across the dark 
humeral ramus; but in some specimens of the vars. immunda and hamulata, Boh., the 
humeral patch is disconnected. Our figure is taken from a specimen from Tupataro, 
agreeing with one from -Arizona kindly communicated by Dr. Horn. | 


25. Coptocycla lugubrina. 

Coptocycla lugubrina, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iil. p. 817*, and iv. p. 446°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. 
Mus. ix. p. 181°. 

‘“‘ Subrotundata, modice convexa, supra atra, subnitida, subtus dilute flavo-testacea ; antennis articulis duobus 
ultimis nigris; prothorace obsoletissime punctulato, margine explanato, dilute flavo-hyalino; elytris 
inzequaliter, remote, dorso medio obsolete seriato-punctatis, antice haud retusis, ante medium disci 
unifoveolatis, disco medio longitudinaliter impressis ; margine pone humeros flavo-hyalino, reticulato.— 
Long. 6, lat. 5} millim.” 


Hab. Mexico (Mus. Berol.1~*). 
Apparently a close ally of C. signifera, var. trabeata. 


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26. Coptocycla gibbifera, (Tab. X. figg. 23, ¢; 23a, profile of ditto; 
24, 2, var.) 


3. Rounded-triangular, very broad, convex, shining, flavo-testaceous ; the prothorax with a transverse black, 
castaneous, or ferruginous patch of variable size on the basal part of the disc—excised on either side and 
produced in the middle in front, and with an interrupted testaceous median line, or divided down the 
middle, so as to form two sinuous stripes; the scutellum black with a testaceous line down the middle, 
or entirely testaceous; the elytra with the disc black, castaneons, or rufo-testaceous, and with a broad 
similarly-coloured ramus extending across the margins to the humeri, the suture anteriorly and some 
irregular markings and spots on the disc flavo-testaceous ; the antenn flavo-testaceous, with the apical 
Joint, and sometimes the tenth also, black ; the legs and under surface flavo-testaceous. Antenne very 
elongate and slender, filiform, joint 3 nearly twice as long as 2. Prothorax about twice as broad as long, 
with the base deeply sinuate on either side of the broad median lobe and obliquely truncate laterally ; 
the disc smooth, transversely depressed in the middle at the base; the margins very broadly expanded 
laterally and in front, subhyaline, and reticulate. Elytra nearly one-half wider than, and about three 
times as long as, the prothorax, very deeply sinuate-emarginate at the base, with the humeri rather 
sharp and greatly produced anteriorly, reaching to a little beyond the middle of the prothorax; the disc 
longitudinally convex, abruptly transversely gibbous below the base, with rows of coarse, subapproximate 
punctures, which towards the suture are placed in rather deep strie, the interstices smooth, flat at the 
sides, convex towards the suture, and here and there connected by transverse or oblique feebly raised 
spaces ; the margins very broadly expanded, gradually becoming narrower towards the apex, smooth and 
reticulate, subhyaline from a little below the base, broadly concave before the middle and obliquely 
excavate within the humeral angle. Claws simple. 

9. The antenne shorter ; the prothorax with the base more rounded towards the sides; the humeri more 
divergent and slightly sinuate externally. 

Var, The antenne and prothorax entirely flavo-testaceous ; the elytra flavo-testaceous, faintly variegated with 
darker markings, the basal ramus distinct but not reaching the humerus. 

Length 73-8, breadth 64-74 millim. 


Hab. Nicaracua, Chontales (Belt, Janson); Costa Rica, Irazu (Rogers); Panama, 
Bugaba, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 


Sixteen examples. Following Boheman’s arrangement, C. gibbifera should be 
placed next the Brazilian C. vigens, the only species of the genus described by him 
with gibbous elytra and strongly produced humeri. ‘The present species closely 
resembles C. asperata, Boh.; but it has the humeri more produced in front (especially 
in the male), the disc of the elytra smoother posteriorly, and the base of the prothorax 
more deeply sinuate on either side of the median lobe. C. gibbifera also approaches 
those species included in Psalidonota by Boheman. We figure a male from Bugaba, 
and a pallid female from Chontales. 


27. Coptocycla diana. 
Coptocycla diana, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iii. p. 366", and iv. p. 455°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. ix. 
p. 187°. 
‘“‘ Rotundata, modice convexa, nitida, supra lete castanea, margine toto flavo-hyalino, reticulato; subtus 
testacea; prothorace levi, basi plaga minore, transversa, antice late rotundata, nigro-tusca, postice 


dilutiore ; elytris mediocriter, crebre striato-punctatis, singulo in disco exteriore linea nigra, a basi ad 
medium extensa; margine late explanato; humeris antrorsum valde prominulis, acutis.—Long. 83, 


lat. 73 millim.” 
Hab. Mexico (Mus. Sommer 1-8), 
BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Coleopt., Vol. VI. Pt. 2, April 1894. 2c 


“ 


hele)” 
d Get ful 


noo 
tts 13, 4 


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198 PHYTOPHAGA. 


Unknown to me. C. diana is stated} to be very similar to C. wesmaeli in form, but 
differently coloured. 


28. Coptocycla circulata. (Tab. X. fig. 25.) 
Coptocycla circulata, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iii. p. 211, and iv. p.4257; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 170°. . 
Hab. Mexico, Cerro de Plumas (Hége).—Soutu America, Cayenne *~*. 


One example from Eastern Mexico, not differing from others from South America, 
This remarkable species will probably have to be removed from Coptocycla, the elytra 
being very feebly emarginate at the base, with the humeri subacute but not prominent, 
the margins very broadly expanded to the apex. The antenne are rather long and 
slender, with the third joint scarcely longer than the second. 


-.,9# 99. Coptocycla isthmica, (Tab. X. figg. 26,¢ ; 26a, antenna.) 


zp & Subrotundate (3), broad ovate ( 2), convex, flavo-testaceous, shining, the margins subhyaline ; the antenne 


testaceous, with joints 8-11, the tip of the eleventh excepted, piceous or black; beneath and the legs 
testaceous. Antenne subfiliform, rather stout, extending to a little beyond the base of the prothorax, 
joints 2 and 3 short, equal, 4 as long as 2 and 3 united, 5-7 subequal in length, each a little shorter than 
4, 8-10 equal in length, each a little shorter than 7, 11 elongate, acuminate. Prothorax twice as broad 
as long, broadly dilated and reticulate at the sides and in front, the disc finely canaliculate in the middle 
at the base, the surface smooth. Elytra about three times as long as the prothorax in the female, 
shorter in the male, and much wider than it, deeply sinuate-emarginate at the base, conjointly rounded 
at the apex in both sexes; the disc convex, with widely scattered, subserially arranged, moderately 
coarse punctures, which usually become finer towards the suture and almost obsolete towards the apex ; 
the margins broadly expanded, smooth, concave, separated from the disc by a row of deep fovex; the 
humeri prominent, a little more rounded in the female than in the male. Claws simple. 
Length 73-9, breadth 64-77 millim. 
Hab. Nicaracvua, Chontales (Belt, Janson); Panama, Bugaba, Volcan de Chiriqui 


(Champion). 


Nine examples. This insect is very like the Antillean C. subsignata, Boh.; but it is 
larger, and has the elytra immaculate and the third joint of the antenne not longer 
than the second. 


30. Coptocycla vitreata. 
Cassida vitreata, Perty, Del. Anim. Artic. Bras. p. 103. t. 20. f. 18°. 
Coptocycla vitreata, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. ii. p. 401’, and iv. p. 463°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 191‘. 

Deloyala vetusta, Dej. Cat. 3rd edit. p. 395 °. 

Hab. Mexico, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith); Guatemata, Panzos (Conradt), 
Chacoj and San Juan in Vera Paz, Zapote (Champion) ; Nicaragua, Chontales (Janson) ; 
Panama, Bugaba (Champion).—CotomBia ; Braziu}->; Perv. 


This very peculiar species is widely distributed in Tropical America, but apparently 


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COPTOCYCLA. 199 


scarce, single specimens only having been obtained at most of the localities quoted. 
The antenne are short, only extending to the base of the prothorax; the third joint 
is not longer than the second. The margins of the prothorax form almost a continuous 
outline with those of the elytra. 


31. Coptocycla atroannulus. (Tab. X. figg. 27, 9; 27a, antenna.) 


Subrotundate (3), broad ovate (2), moderately convex, flavous or flavo-testaceous, shining, the margins 
subhyaline ; the eyes black; the prothorax with a large black basal patch, rounded anteriorly and 
occupying fully half the disc; the scutellum varying in colour from flavo-testaceous to black ; the elytra 
with a broad black oblong annulus on the outer part of the disc, extending to near the apex, and enclosing 
a large, oval, flavo-testaceous or sanguineous patch; the antenne flavous, with the apical joint black at 
the tip ; heneath and the legs flavous or flavo-testaceous. Antenne moderately long, slender, the apical five 
joints a little thickened, joint 3 slightly longer than 2. Prothorax nearly twice as broad as long, broadly 
expanded and reticulate at the sides and in front, and very obliquely truncate on either side at the base, 
almost smooth, the disc obsoletely canaliculate and feebly depressed at the base on either side of the 
median lobe. Elytra very much broader than the prothorax, and nearly three times as long as it, 
conjointly rounded at the apex in both sexes, and very deeply emarginate at the base, with prominent 
humeri; the disc moderately convex, slightly hollowed at the sides behind the humeral callus, with a 
deep sutural stria posteriorly, seriate-punctate—the punctures fine and approximate towards the suture, 
rather coarse and subremote at the sides, and almost obsolete before the apex,—the interstices smooth 
and fiat; the margins very broadly expanded, becoming gradually narrower towards the apex, smooth 
and reticulate, separated from the disc by a row of moderately deep fover. Claws simple. 

Length 7-74, breadth 63-7 millim. 


Hab. British Honpuras, R. Sarstoon (Blancaneaur); GuatemaLa, Senahu in Vera 
Paz (Champion); Nicaracva, Chontales (Belt, Janson) ; Costa Rica (Van Patten) ; 
Panama, Bugaba (Champion). 


Eleven examples. This insect bears a deceptive resemblance to C. circumducta, 
Boh., but it may be at once distinguished from that species by the more elongate third 
joint of the antenne: (in C. circwmducta the third joint is shorter than the second); it 
is also smaller, with shorter antenne and a narrower annulus to the elytra, the latter 
not at all gibbous anteriorly, almost smooth at the apex, and not broadly subtruncate 
behind in the male. Numerous closely allied South-American species have been 
described by Boheman. We figure an example from Bugaba. 


32. Coptocycla cingulata. (Tab. XI. fig. 1.) 


Coptocycla cingulata, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iv. p. 414’. 


Hab. Mexico, Cordova (Sallé 1). 


The three specimens in the Sallé collection are all I have seen of this species. ‘The 
antenne are moderately long and subfiliform, with the second and third joints equal in 
length, the third nearly as stout as the second. © 


33. Coptocycla ambita. (Tab. XI. fig. 2.) 


Subrotundate, moderately convex, flavous, shining, the margins subhyaline; the eyes black; the prothorax 
with a rather large transverse black patch at the base, which is rounded anteriorly ; the scutellum black ; 


2 cc 2 


200 PHYTOPHAGA. 


the elytra with a very broad black oblong annulus on the outer part of the disc, extending to far beyond 
the middle, more or less obliquely truncate behind, and enclosing a moderately large, rounded, common 
flavous patch, which is sometimes divided at the suture by a narrow black line ; the antenne flavous, the 
apical joint infuscate at the tip; beneath and the legs flavous. Antenne moderately long, slender, the 
apical five joints a little thickened, joint 3 slightly longer than 2. Prothorax about twice as broad as 
long, broadly expanded and reticulate at the sides and in front ; the disc obsoletely canaliculate and with 
a few minute scattered punctures behind, very feebly depressed on either side of the median lobe at the 
base. Elytra about three times as long as the prothorax, and very much wider than it, very deeply 
emarginate at the base, and with prominent rather sharp humeri; the disc moderately convex, hollowed 
at the sides behind the humeral callus, and foveate before the middle, with an impressed sutural stria 
posteriorly, somewhat closely seriate-punctate—the punctures moderately fine towards the suture, coarse 
at the sides, and almost obsolete on the flavous apical portion,—the interstices smooth and flat; the 
margins broadly expanded, becoming gradually narrower towards the apex, smooth and reticulate, 
separated from the disc by a row of moderately deep fovee. Claws simple. 
Length 53-53, breadth 5 millim. 


Hab. Nicaraaua, Chontales (Belt, Janson) ; Costa Rica (Sailé). 


Seven specimens. Allied to C. myops, C. puella, &c., but larger, with a broad, 
entirely black annulus, which is less obliquely truncate behind, and the scutellum 
black. In one specimen the annulus is transversely truncate behind. 


34. Coptocycla balteata, (Tab. XI. fig. 3.) 

Rotundate, convex, shining; the prothorax with the disc black, the margins flavo-hyaline ; the scutellum 
flavous, narrowly bordered with fuscous; the elytra with a broad black annulus extending round the disc 
and nearly reaching the apex, the enclosed portion rufo-testaceous, with rows of fuscous dots showing 
through from the inner side, the margins flavo-hyaline; the legs and antenn# flavo-testaceous; the 
under surface black, the prothorax at the sides and the abdomen flavo-testaceous. Antenne moderately 
long, slender, the apical five joints a little thickened, joint 8 not longer than 2. Prothorax one-half 
broader than long, broadly expanded and reticulate at the sides and in front, feebly sinuate at the base 
on either side of the median lobe; the disc with a few rather deep punctures at the base towards the 
sides, and obliquely grooved on either side of the median lobe. Elytra much wider than, and about two 
and a half times as long as, the prothorax, deeply emarginate at the base, with moderately prominent 
rather obtuse humeri; the disc convex, shallowly foveate in the centre before the middle and bifoveate 
at the base, with rows of very fine punctures which become coarse towards the sides and almost obsolete 
towards the apex (the sutural row excepted), the interstices smooth and flat; the margins broadly 
expanded, becoming very narrow at the apex, smooth and reticulate, separated from the disc by a row of 
deep fovee. Claws simple. 

Length 44, breadth 3? millim. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 


One specimen. This species resembles C. atroannulus in colour, but it is only about 
half the size of that insect ; it also differs in having the prothorax grooved on either side 
of the median lobe at the base, the black annulus extending almost to the apex of the 
elytra, the disc of the prothorax entirely black, that of the elytra more distinctly 
foveate before the middle. The broad black annulus extending nearly to the apex, in 
connection with the small size and rotundate shape, separates C. balteata from the 
other allied species here enumerated. 


COPTOCYCLA. 201 


Broad ovate, moderately convex, dilute flavous, shining, the margins hyaline ; the eyes, and a narrow trans- 
verse patch (rounded anteriorly) at the base of the prothorax, black ; the scutellum black, sanguineous at 
the tip ; the elytra with a moderately broad, oblong black annulus on the outer part of the disc, extending to 
beyond the middle and rounded behind, bordered internally and externally with sanguineous, and enclosing 
a large, oval, common flavous patch; the antenne flavous, the apical joint intuscate at the tip; the legs 
and under surface flavous. Antenne moderately long, slender, the apical five joints a little thickened, 
joint 3 scarcely longer than 2. Prothorax twice as broad as long, broadly expanded and reticulate at 
the sides and in front, the disc canaliculate and with a few very minute scattered punctures behind. 
Elytra about three times as long as the prothorax, and much wider than it, deeply emarginate at the 
base, with prominent, rather sharp humeri; the disc moderately convex, hollowed at the sides behind the 
humeral callus and foveate before the middle, with a feebly impressed sutural stria posteriorly, somewhat 
closely seriate-punctate—the punctures fine towards the suture and coarse at the sides,—the flavous 
apical portion almost impunctate, the interstices smooth and flat; the margins broadly expanded, 
becoming gradually narrower towards the apex, smooth and reticulate, separated from the disc by a row 
of moderately deep fovere. Claws simple. 

Length 5}, breadth 43 millim. 


Hab. Costa Rica, Volcan de Irazu (Rogers). 


One specimen, probably of the female sex. Closely allied to C. ambita, but a little 
smaller and narrower ; the annulus narrower, and rounded at the apex, rather broadly 
bordered on the inner side with sanguineous, and with the outer edge and a spot on 
the humeral callus also sanguineous, and enclosing a large, oval, flavous patch. 


36. Coptocycla puella. (Tab. XI. fig. 5.) 
Coptocycla puella, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iii. p. 181", and iv. p. 4157; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 167°. 

Hab. Mexico, Teapa!?* (Sallé, Hoge, H. H. Smith); British Honpuras, Belize 
(Blancaneaur); Nicaraeua, Chontales (Belt, Janson); Costa Rica (Sallé); Panama, 
Bugaba, David (Champion). 

This species is not uncommon at Teapa. The antenne are rather short, extending 
to very little beyond the base of the prothorax ; the third joint is short and slender, 


not longer than the second. The South-American C. myops, Boh., is a very close ally 
of this insect. A specimen from Teapa is figured. 


37. Coptocycla bonvouloiri. (Tab. XI. fig. 6.) 
Coptocycla bonvouloiri, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iv. p. 417°. 
Hab.. Lowzr Cauirornia (Horn).—Mexico (Sallé1), Presidio de Mazatlan (Forrer), 
Puebla, Tuxtla (Sallé), Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith); Guatemata, San Isidro 
-Zapote, San Gerénimo (Champion). 


7 


In the single specimen from Presidio, apparently fully mature, the narrow annulus 
(common to the prothorax and elytra) is interrupted and indistinct, and ferruginous 
instead of black. The antenne are rather short, with the third joint slender and not 


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202 . PHYTOPHAGA. 


longer than the second. The elytra have three small fuscous or piceous spots—one 
just behind the scutellum and one on either side of the suture a little lower down; the 
suture itself is narrowly testaceous. An example from Teapa is figured. 


38. Coptocycla diophthalma. (Tab. XI. fig. 7.) . 
Subrotundate, convex, dilute flavous, shining, the margins subhyaline; the eyes black; the prothorax with a 
transverse blackish-brown patch at the base, which is excised on either side in front ; the scutellum 
blackish-brown ; the elytra with a very large, octagonal, blackish-brown patch on the disc—extending 
to considerably beyond the middle and outwardly to the humeral callus, abruptly narrowed behind, and 
truncate at the apex,—marked with a small oblong flavous spot on either side of the suture before the 
| middle, the suture testaceous throughout ; the antenne flavous, with the apical two joints Piceous ; the 
legs and under surface flavous. Antenne rather short and slender, thickening outwardly, extending very 
little beyond the base of the prothorax, joints 2 and 3 equal in length, 3 not nearly so stout as 2. Pro- 
thorax twice as broad as long, broadly expanded and reticulate at the sides and in front, smooth, the disc 
deeply, obliquely grooved at the base on either side of the broad median lobe, Elytra about two and a 
half times the length of the prothorax, and at the sides forming almost a continuous outline with it, 
moderately deeply emarginate at the base, conjointly rounded at the apex, with the humeri sharp and 
prominent; the disc convex, subremotely seriate-punctate, the punctures (those of the sutural row 
excepted) fine towards the suture, closer and much coarser at the sides, and almost obsolete on the flavous 
apical portion, the interstices quite flat, smooth; the margins broadly expanded, becoming very narrow 
at the apex, smooth and reticulate, separated from the disc by a row of distantly placed fovex, and deeply 
hollowed before the middle internally. Claws simple. 
Length 44, breadth 32 millim. 


Hab. Muxico, Acapulco (Hoége). 


One example only of this peculiarly-coloured small species has been received. It is 
allied to C. bonvouloiri, Boh., but has more distinctly and less remotely punctured 
elytra, and is also very differently coloured. The blackish-brown markings on the 
prothorax and elytra form a common octagonal patch, the elytra having the suture 
testaceous and a small yellow spot on either side of it before the middle. The punc- 
tures of the sutural row are deep and rather widely separated, and they extend to the 
apex. 


39. Coptocycla zona. 

Cassida zona, Fabr. Syst. Eleuth. i. p. 393°. 

Coptocycla zona, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iii. p. 160’, and iv. p. 406°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. ix. 
p. 165%. 

Cassida annulus, Oliv. Ent. vi. no. 97, p. 969, t. 1. fig. 14°; Herbst, Kafer, viii. p. 272, t. 183. 
fig. 3° (nec Fabr.). 

Cassida flavescens, Latr. in Humb. & Bonpl. Obs. Zool. ii. p. 35, t. 82. fig. 87. 


Hab. Nicaragua (Sallé); Costa Rica (Sallé); Panama, Bugaba, Volcan de Chiriqui, 
David (Champion).—Soutn America’, Cayenne 2-§, Venezuela 34, 


A common insect in Chiriqui. This species has the disc of the elytra olivaceous, 
with a common yellow annulus before the middle. The antenne are rather short, 
with the third joint slender and not longer than the second. 


COPTOCYCLA. 203. 


40. Coptocycla semiatrata. (Tab. XI. fig. &.) 
Coptocycla semiatrata, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iv. p. 428°. 
Hab. Mexico, Cordova (Sallé1), Atoyac in Vera Cruz, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. 
Smith); Guatemaua, Las Mercedes, Cerro Zunil (Champion). 


This insect is exceedingly like the similarly-coloured Ctenochira plicata (Boh.), 
but, apart from the non-pectinate claws, it may be distinguished by the smoother and 
less coarsely punctured elytra, the disc of the latter not deeply foveate on either side 
of the suture a little below the base. The third joint of the antenne is not longer 
than the second. A specimen from Teapa is figured. 


41. Coptocycla crucipennis. (Tab. XI. fig. 9.) 
Coptocycla crucipennis, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iii. p. 307", and iv. p. 4447; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 180°. 

Hab. Mexico1~%, San Andres Tuxtla, Playa Vicente (Sallé), Cordova, Misantla, 
Oaxaca, Tapachula (Hége), Atoyac, Teapa (H. H. Smith); British Honpuras, R. Hondo 
(Blancaneaux); GuaTEMALA, Yzabal (Sallé), Panima, Panzos, San Juan, Senahu, Tactic, 
and San Gerénimo in Vera Paz, Capetillo, Zapote (Champion); Honpuras (Sad/é) ; 
Nicaraaua, Granada (Sallé) ; Costa Rica (Rogers, Van Patten). 


Not uncommon in Mexico and Guatemala. The antenne usually have the apical 
joint infuscate or black, and sometimes the penultimate joint also; in some specimens, 
however, only the extreme tip of the apical joint is infuscate ; the third joint is short, 
‘very little longer than the second. The elytra are rather feebly emarginate at the 
base. A specimen from Misantla is figured. 


42. Coptocycla dohrni. (Tab. XI. fig. 10.) 
‘Coptocycla dohrni, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iii. p. 323+, and iv. p. 447°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. ix. 
p- 182°. 
Hab. Mexico 1-8, Matamoros Izucar, Orizaba, Vera Cruz (Sallé), Cordova (Sallé, 
Hége), Misantla, Jalapa (Hége), Atoyac in Vera Cruz (#. H. Smith). 


This insect only differs from C. crucipennis in having the anterior ramus of the broad 
C-shaped mark on the outer part of each elytron obliterated (not extending across the 
margins to the humeri, as in C. crucipennis), and. the other elytral markings reduced 
in size. One specimen from Cordova is almost intermediate. An example from Jalapa 


is figured. 


43. Coptocycla distorta. (Tab. XI. fig. 11.) 
Coptocycla distorta, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iii. p. 83247, and iv. p. 447°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit, Mus. 


ix, p. 182°. 
Hab. Mexico !-3, Yolotepec in Oaxaca (Sad/é). 


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We have received three specimens only of this species. CC. distorta closely resembles. 
C. dohrni, Boh., but differs from it in its smaller size, and in having the margins of the 
elytra rugulosely punctured. The elytra have a small transverse or oblong blackish 
spot on the suture before the middle. The antenne (which were mutilated in the 
specimen described by Boheman) have the apical joint, and the outer half of the 
preceding one, black ; the third joint is not longer than the second. 


44. Coptocycla biannulifera., (Tab. XI. figg. 12; 124, antenna.) 


Rotundate, convex, flavous, shining, the margins subhyaline; the eyes, and a narrow transverse patch at the 
base of the prothorax, black; the scutellum flavous ; the elytra with a narrow black stripe on the outer 
part of the disc, extending obliquely inwards a little beyond the middle and curved behind, and forming 
(with the mark at the base of the prothorax) an octagonal annulus, which is broadly bordered with dilute 
sanguineous within, and encloses a common flavous rounded patch ; the antenne testaceous, with the apical 
two joints slightly infuscate ; the legs and underside testaceous. Antenne short, scarcely extending beyond 
the base of the prothorax, slender, the apical five joints a little thickened, joint 3 shorter and thinner than 2, 
4 twice as long as 3. Prothorax nearly twice as broad as long, very broadly dilated and reticulate at the 
sides and in front, the disc feebly depressed at the base on either side of the broad median lobe, and with a 
few fine scattered punctures behind. Elytra about two and a half times as long as the prothorax, and at the 
sides forming almost a continuous outline with it, conjointly rounded at the apex, strongly bisinuate at the 
base, and with the humeri subacute and prominent in front; the disc convex, hollowed behind the humeral 
callus, with regular rows of fine, lightly impressed, rather remotely placed punctures, the interstices 
smooth and quite flat; the margins very broadly expanded, becoming narrow at the apex, smooth and 
reticulate, separated from the disc by a row of deep fovee. Claws simple. 

Length 73, breadth 63 millim. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 3000 feet (Champion). 


One example, probably of the male sex. Closely allied to Charidotis circulifera, 
Boh., the type of which is before me; but differing from it in the very much narrower 
black annulus (common to the prothorax and elytra), the shorter antenne, and the 
still finer seriate punctures of the elytra, the median lobe of the prothorax very faintly 
depressed on either side at the base (deeply, obliquely grooved in C. circulifera). 
Notwithstanding the short antenne, the species seems to me to be best placed in 
Coptocycla, near C. circumducta, C. incincta, &c. A closely-allied undescribed species 
from the Amazons is contained in the Baly collection. 


45. Coptocycla incincta. (Tab. XI. figg. 13; 134, antenna.) 
Coptocycla incincta, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iv. p. 422”. 


Hab. Panama, Bugaba (Champion).—Amazons, Ega!. 


One specimen from Chiriqui, differing from the type of C. incincta in the Baly 
collection in having the antenne slightly longer and almost entirely testaceous, the 
punctures on the elytra coarser, and the annulus a little broader. This is one of 
several extremely closely allied species (C. concentrica, C. cincticulus, C. consimilis, and 
C. signorett, Boh.), some of which appear to have been described from single specimens, 
differing chiefly inter se in the form of the antenne and in the elytral punctuation. 


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C. incincta has comparatively short, subfiliform antenne, with joint 3 shorter and 
thinner than 2, 4 fully twice as long as 3, 5-10 slightly decreasing in length. The 
deep punctures on the elytra are rather widely separated from each other, especially 
on the rounded black patch enclosed by the yellow annulus. 


46. Coptocycla circumducta. (Tab. XI. figg. 14; 144, antenna.) 
Coptocycla circumducta, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iii. p. 161’, and iv. p. 406’; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. 
Mus. ix. p. 165°. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion).—Braziu}, Rio Grande 2°. 


Three male examples from Chiriqui, agreeing with others from Brazil. No mention 
is made by Boheman of the sexual differences, the males having, as in some of the 
allied forms, the elytra very obtuse and almost separately rounded at the apex. The 
antenne are moderately elongate and subfiliform, with joint 3 much shorter and 
thinner than 2, 4 twice as long as 3, 5 nearly twice as long as 4, 6-10 subequal in 
length, 11 very elongate, black at the tip. 


47. Coptocycla aurofasciata. (Tab. XI. figg. 15,3; 16, var. fahrei, 2.) 
Cassida aurofasciata, Er. in Wiegm. Archiv f. Naturg. xii. 1, p. 155°. 
Coptocycla aurofasciata, Boh. Monogr. Cassid: iii. p. 224°, and iv. p. 429°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. 
Mus. ix. p. 171%. : 
Hab. Panama (Boucard), Bugaba (Champion).—Souta America, Cayenne? , 
Amazons, Brazil 2-4, Peru !~4. 


Var. a. The transverse fascia on the elytra broader; antennz with joints 2-10 infuscate beneath. 


Hab. Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt). 


Var. G3. The elytral fascia extending forwards along the first and second interstices to the base, leaving a large 
rounded patch on each elytron, and nearly the apical half, black ; antenne with joints 4-6 and 11 infuscate 


at the tip beneath. 
Coptocycla fahrei, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iii. p. 229°, and iv. p. 429°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. ix. 
p. 172°. | 
Hab. Mexico, T eapa (coll. Baly); GuateMaLa, Panzos in Vera Paz (Champion, 
Conradt); Honpuras >~*. 


C. fahrei, the type (2) of which we figure (fig. 16), is evidently only a variety of 
the widely distributed C. aurofasciata. The males, as in the closely-allied C. leprieurt, 
Boh., differ from the females in having the elytra broadly subtruncate at the apex. 
The antenne are elongate and subfiliform, with the third joint (as in C. leprieuri) 
distinctly shorter and thinner than the second, the fourth twice as long as the third, 
the fifth more than one-half longer than the fourth, joints 5-10 being elongate and 
subequal in length. 

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48. Coptocycla leprieuri. 
Coptocycla leprieuri, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iii. p. 2231, and iv. p. 429°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 171°. . 
Hab. Honvuras? (Dyson ?).—Vunezveta ; Guiana, Cayenne }~3; Ecuapor ; AMAZONS, 
Ega??; Prrv. | 


There is a single specimen of this species in the British Museum, labelled as from 
Honduras. 


49. Coptocycla clavata. 
Cassida clavata, Fabr. Ent. Syst., Suppl. p. 83 (1798)!; Herbst, Kafer, viii. p. 311, t. 185. fig. 757; 
Oliv. Ent. vi. p. 963. no. 97, t. 5. fig. 87°. 
Coptocycla clavata, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iii. p. 391‘, and iv. p. 461°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. ix. 
p- 189°; Crotch, Proc. Acad. Phil. 1873, p. 797. 
Hab. North America! *, Southern States’—Mexico, Guanajuato, Matamoros 
Izucar (Sallé), Acapulco (Hége), Cuernavaca in Morelos, Chilpancingo and Amula in 
Guerrero (1. H. Smith). 


This species is exceedingly closely allied to the following, C. testudinaria, Boh., and 
apparently replaces it in Western and Central Mexico. It differs from that insect in 
the less prominent elytral humeri (especially in the female), and in having the pro- 
thorax relatively broader and more expanded, with the disc (except at the base) opaque ; 
this last-mentioned character is apparently constant, though it is not mentioned by 
Boheman. The marginal fascie of the elytra vary in width in both species. The 
antenne are elongate and slender, thickening a little at the tip, the third and fourth 
joints elongate and equal, each very much longer than the second. 


50. Coptocycla testudinaria. (Tab. XI. figg. 17, 2; 17a, profile; 174, 
antenna.) 
Coptocycla testudinaria, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. i. p. 890°, and iv. p. 461°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. 

Mus. ix, p. 189°. . 

Hab. Mexico 1~%, Playa Vicente (Sallé), Cerro de Plumas, Misantla (Hége), Cordova 

(Sallé, Hoge), Vera Cruz, Teapa (Sallé, H. H. Smith), San Juan Bautista in Tabasco 
(Hége), Yucatan (coll. Baly); Guatemata, San Isidro, Capetillo, Duefias (Champion), 
Chimaltenango (Conradt); Costa Rica (Rogers, Van Patten); Panama, Bugaba, Volcan 
de Chiriqui (Champion).—CoLoMBIA ; VENEZUELA. 


Var. The elytra a little more rounded at the sides, with sharper humeri, and the smooth irregular callosities 
on the posterior part of the disc less raised. 


Hab. Guatemata, Panzos, Sabo, and Purula in Vera Paz (Champion), Coban (Conradt). 


A common insect in Eastern Mexico and Guatemala, extending southwards to 
Colombia and Venezuela. Some of the specimens from Costa Rica, and also those 


COPTOCYCLA. 207 


from Panama and southwards, have the marginal fascie of the elytra broader and more 
diffuse than usual, and the tubercular elevations on the posterior portion of the disc 
more strongly raised. ‘The variety is connected with the type by intermediate forms. 
C. ramosa, Boh., from Merida, is an allied form; but it differs from C. testudinaria 
and its allies in having much more feebly gibbous elytra. 

A specimen from Misantla is figured. 


51. Coptocycla asperata. 
Coptocycla asperata, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iii. p. 895*, and iv. p. 462°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 190°. 
Hab. Mexico 2? (Chevrolat!; Mus. Brit.); Guatemaa, Cubilguitz and Las Mercedes 
(Champion). 


I have only seen three examples of this insect, including one from Chevrolat (no 
doubt one of Boheman’s types) in the British Museum. C. asperata is perhaps only 
a variety of C. testudinaria with the posterior transverse patch on the elytral margins 
obliterated. . | 


52. Coptocycla tuberculata. (Tab. XI. fig. 18.) 

Cassida tuberculata, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 90 (1775)*; Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. 4, p. 16407; Herbst, 
Kafer, viii. p. 338°. 

Coptocycla tuberculata, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iii. p. 385°, and iv. p. 460°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. 


Mus. ix. p. 188°. 
Coptocycla nitida, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. i. p. 883", and iv. p. 460°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 


ix. p. 188°. 

Coptocyia lobata, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iii. p. 386"°, and iv. p. 460%; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 189”. . 

Deloyala acuticornis (Chevr.), Dej. Cat. 3rd edit. p. 396”. 

Deloyala impressa, Sturm, in litt. 

Hab. Muxico 4-18 (Sallé, ex coll. Sturm), Ventanas in Durango, Jalapa, Oaxaca, 
Tapachula (Hége), Acapulco and Tepetlapa in Guerrero (H. H. Smith), Vera Cruz, 
Panistlahuaca (Sallé); Guatemata (Sallé; coll. Baly), Panima, San Gerénimo, and 
Tocoy in Vera Paz, Las Mercedes, Cerro Zunil, Panajachel, Zapote, Capetillo (Cham- 
pion); Honpuras 1! (Dyson’®); Nicaraeva, Chontales (Belt, Janson); Costa Rica 


(Van Patten).— VENEZUELA ° ©. 


This is one of the most characteristic species of the family within our limits, and 
it has been found abundantly in some parts of Guatemala. C. nitida, Boh., was based 
upon a large pallid discoloured female example, and C. lobata, Boh., upon specimens 
with the pro- and metasternum and fifth ventral segment partly black. These 
characters are not of the slightest value when a large series of specimens is examined. 
C. tuberculata and C. lobata were collected together in large numbers by myself at 


2dd 2 


208 PHYTOPHAGA. 


Cerro Zunil, and also at other places in Guatemala, these specimens varying 
in the colour of the under surface—from entirely testaceous or rufo-testaceous 
(C. tuberculata) to rufo-testaceous with the prosternal process, the apical half of the 
metasternum (except at the sides), the basal half of the fifth ventral segment, and 
the base of the femora beneath black. The elytra (in dried examples) vary in 
colour from a dilute vermilion-red to flavo-testaceous; the margins have a large 
oblong flavo-hyaline space before the middle. Boheman’s specimens of all three 
forms have been examined, one of which (his tuberculata) is figured. The closely 
allied C. rubicunda, Boh., from Brazil, differs from the present species in having the 
elytral margins coarsely punctured at the base. The third joint of the antenne is 
elongate in both species. The Costa Rican specimens have the punctures on the 
elytra coarser than usual. The smallest examples measure 7 millim. only in length, 
the largest 10 millim. The locality “Sierra Leone” quoted by the older authors !~° is 
of course a mistake. 


53. Coptocycla ventricosa. (Tab. XI. fig. 19, ¢.) 
Coptocycla ventricosa, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. 11. p. 394’, and iv. p. 462”; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 190°. 

Hab. Mexico '~3 (Sallé, ex coll. Sturm), Playa Vicente, San Andres Tuxtla, Cordova 
(Sallé), Misantla (foge), Vera Cruz (Sallé, H. H. Smith), Atoyac in Vera Cruz (H. H. 
Smith), Teapa in Tabasco (Sallé, Hoge, H. H. Smith); British Honpuras, R. Hondo 
(Blancaneaux) ; GUATEMALA, Panzos in Vera Paz (Champion); Panama, Bugaba, Volcan 
de Chiriqui, David (Champion). 


This also is a common Central-American insect. It is perhaps only a variety of 
C. tuberculata, from which it differs in its rather smaller size, and in having the 
elytral margins subhyaline posteriorly (not stained with rufo-testaceous in their apical 
two-fifths, as in C. tuberculata). C. ventricosa has been collected in numbers at 
Teapa and Misantla, and it is quite constant in those localities; but some of the 
Chiriqui specimens are intermediate. 


54. Coptocycla egregia. (Tab. XI. figg. 20,2; 21,9, var.) 
Coptocycla egregia, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iii. p. 400’, and iv. p. 4627; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 190°. 
Hab. Mexico !~, Juquila in Oaxaca (Sallé), Oaxaca (Hoge). 


Var. a. The dark markings on the elytral margin not extending to the shoulder. 


Hab. Panama, David (Champion). One specimen. 


Var. 8. The dark markings on the elytral margin almost obliterated, a faint curved line limiting the 
triangular antemedian hyaline patch anteriorly alone visible, the margins thence to the apex subhyaline. 


Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). Two specimens. 


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Var. y. The dark markings on the elytral margin entirely obliterated, the antemedian hyaline space distinct. 
(Fig. 21.) 


Hab. Nicaracua, Chontales (Belt, Janson). Two specimens. 


‘We have received three examples of the typical form of this species, including one 
determined by Boheman himself, which we figure (fig. 20), as well as one of the 
varieties. The specimens from Nicaragua and the State of Panama I have no doubt 
belong to the same species, differing only in the partial or entire absence of the dark 
markings before and behind the antemedian hyaline space on the elytral margins. 
As in C. tuberculata, C. ventricosa, &c., the upper surface in dried specimens varies 
in colour from vermilion-red to flavo-testaceous. 


55. Coptocycla propinqua. (Tab. XI. fig. 22.) 
VU Coptocycla propingua, Dej. Cat. 3rd edit. p. 397*; Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iii. p. 289’, and iv. 
p- 440°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. ix. p. 178%. 
Hab. Nicaraeua, Chontales (Belt, Janson); Panama (Boucard), David, Volcan de 
Chiriqui, Taboga I. (Champion).—CotomBia 2+, Barranquilla, Cartagena !. 


A rather common insect in the low country of the State of Panama, extending 
northwards to Nicaragua. A small, convex species, subrotundate in shape; the elytra 
with the disc black, each with two yellow vitte—the inner one (on the third interstice) 
extending to the apex, the outer one (on the sixth interstice) confluent with the other 
posteriorly ; the antenne testaceous, with the outer four, five, or six joints black, the 
third elongate, as long as the fourth. 


56. Coptocycla judaica. 
yf Cassida judaica, Fabr. Spec. Ins. i. p. 109 (1781) *; Herbst, Kafer, viii. p. 280, t. 188. fig. 11k’; 
Oliv. Ent. vi. no. 97, p. 968, t. 6. fig. 96°. 
Coptocycla judaica, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iii. p. 293‘, and iv. p. 441°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 179°. 
Hab. Panama (Boucard), Bugaba, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion), Matachin 
(Thiéme).—CotomBia ; Gurana®, Cayenne 1? 45°; Ecuapor; Amazons, Santarem 56. 


Brazit 4—°, 


Apparently a common insect in Tropical America, extending as far north as 
Chiriqui. The elytra in this species have the disc variegated with black or castaneous, 
each of the punctures—which are fine and remote—being placed on a similarly- 
coloured dot, the suture being also narrowly castaneous. The third and fourth joints 
of the antenne are elongate and equal in length. 


y 57. Coptocycla subirrorata. (Tab. XI. fig. 23.) 
VY Coptocycla subirrorata, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iii, p. 259", and iv. p. 435 *; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. 
Mus. ix. p. 175°. 


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Hab. Panama, David and Caldera in Chiriqui (Champion).—CoLomsta *~°. 


Found in abundance by myself in the low country of Chiriqui. A small, convex 
species, subrotundate in shape; the elytra with the disc black or fusco-castaneous, 
with numerous, feebly raised, irregularly-shaped yellow spots, the margins broad and 
flavo-hyaline; the antenne elongate, the third and fourth joints long and subequal, 
the apical three infuscate or black. The coloration of the elytra resembles that of 
Charidotis auroguttata, but the elytral spots are more irregular in shape (not so 
rounded) and less raised. | 


58. Coptocycla bifossulata. 


Coptocycla bifossulata, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iii. p. 1851, and iv. p. 401°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. 
Mus. ix. p. 162°. 


Coptocycla dubitabilis, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iv. p. 401 *. 


_ Hab. Mexico }-? (Sallé*4), Mazatlan, Ventanas, Irapuato, Cuernavaca, Iguala, 
Misantla, Jalapa, Tapachula (Hége), Etla, Guanajuato, Matamoros Izucar, Vera Cruz, 
Panistlahuaca (Sal/é), Chilpancingo in Guerrero, Puente de Ixtla in Morelos (H. H. 
Smith), Cordova, Oaxaca (Sallé, Hoge), S.W. Yucatan; Guatemata (Sallé), Las 
Mercedes, Cerro Zunil, Duefias, Capetillo, San Gerdénimo (Champion). 


A common insect in Mexico and Guatemala. It varies in the colour of the 
underside, from entirely testaceous to black, with the margins of the abdomen 
narrowly testaceous, specimens from the same locality varying in this way. C. bifossu- 
lata (the type of which is before me) is described as having the underside testaceous, 
with a large patch on either side of the metasternum black; C. duditadilis as black, 
with the margins of the abdomen rather broadly testaceous. The different forms 
have been collected in company at Chilpancingo, Misantla, Cordova, Capetillo, &c., 
and they cannot be maintained as distinct. In a few specimens from various places 
in Mexico the punctures of the elytral series are very lightly impressed and much 
more widely separated than usual. C. b¢fossulata closely resembles the following 
species, C. trisignata, but it is larger, and has more expanded margins to the elytra 
and a deeper discoidal fovea. The dilute blackish spots are small or indistinct, 
in some specimens obsolete: two or three are sometimes visible on each elytron, as 
in the following species; Boheman only mentions! + the one in the fovea. The 
metamorphoses of this species have been described and figured by Dr. E. Dugés (Ann. 
Soc. Ent. Belg. 1887, pp. 143-145, t. 2. figg. 1-10), who gives the food-plant as 
Ipomea murucoides. 


59. Coptocycla trisignata. 


Cassida sexpunctata, Oliv. Encycl. Méth. v. p. 882'; Ent. vi. p. 961. no. 97, t. 8. fig. 42? (nec 
Fabr.). 


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Coptocycla trisignata, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iii. p. 138°, and iv. p. 402+; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 162°. 

Coptocycla bis-tripunctata, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iii. p. 141°, and iv. p. 4027; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. 
Mus. ix. p. 163° (nec Herbst). 

Hab. Mexico, Presidio (Forrer), Ciudad in Durango, Iguala, Huetamo, Cordova, 
Jalapa, Oaxaca, Tapachula (Hoge), Chilpancingo, Dos Arroyos, Venta de Peregrino, 
and Venta de Zopilote in Guerrero, Cuernavaca, Atoyac (H. H. Smith), San Andres 
Tuxtla, Playa Vicente, Vera Cruz, Juquila (Saddé), Misantla (Hoge, F. D. G.), Teapa 
in Tabasco (Sallé, H. H. Smith), Temax in North Yucatan (Gaumer), Yucatan (Mus. 
Holm. *® ); Brrvise Honpuras, R. Hondo (Blancaneaux); Guatemata (Sallé), 
San Juan, Panima, Chiacam, Chacoj, Teleman, and San Gerdénimo in Vera Paz, El 
Reposo, Cerro Zunil, Zapote, Capetillo (Champion); Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt, 
Janson); Costa Rica (Sallé); Panama, Bugaba, Volcan de Chiriqui, Caldera, David, 
LTaboga I. (Champion), Matachin (Thiéme).—Sovurn America to Guiana | 2 678 and 
Brazil ® 7 8, 


Var. The elytra with the posterior spot obsolete, the others often indistinct. 
Coptocycla bi-impressa, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iii. p- 140°, and iv. p. 402°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. 
Mus. ix. p. 162”. 
Hab. Mexico, Ventanas (Forrer), Acapulco, Jalapa, Cerro de Plumas (Hége), Playa 
Vicente, San Andres Tuxtla (Sallé), Cordova, Oaxaca (Sallé, Hoge), Alvarado 19 
(Chevrolat®), Atoyac, Teapa (Hf. H. Smith); Nicaragua (Sallé). 


A very abundant Tropical-American species, ranging from Northern Mexico to Brazil. 
With long series of specimens from the same localities, the colour of the underside 
proves (as in C. bifossulata) to be of no value as a specific character. In typical 
C. trisignata, of which we have received many specimens from Yucatan, the underside 
is entirely testaceous; in C. bis-tripunctata it is in great part black; in C. bi-impressa 
(described as having the underside flavescent) it is also in great part black in the 
majority of the large number of examples before me, both forms having occurred 
together at Jalapa and elsewhere. The three elytral spots, when present, are larger 
and more distinct than in C. difossulata or C. bicolor ; but they are sometimes obsolete 
or small, or the posterior one only (C. bi-impressa) may be obliterated. C. trisignata 
also varies greatly in size, the males, as usual, being shorter and more rotundate than 
the females. C. bis-tripunctata, Herbst, from Maryland, is doubtfully quoted as a 
synonym by Boheman; it is perhaps a variety of C. bicolor, Fabr. The Mexican 
specimens in the British Museum which were referred by Boheman to C. limpida * 
(a Brazilian insect) probably belong here; they appear to be small pallid males 
of the var. bi-impressa. The Brazilian C. sexpunctata, Fabr., is a very close ally of 
_C. trisignata. 


* Cat. Col. Ins. Brit, Mus. ix. p. 183. 


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60. Coptocycla bicolor. 

Cassida bicolor, Fabr. Ent. Syst., Suppl. p. 83 (1798) ’. 

Cassida aurichalcea, Fabr. Syst. Eleuth. i. p. 397 (1801)°; Oliv. Ent. vi. no. 97, p. 965, t. 5. 
fig. 89°. 

Coptocycla aurichalcea, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iii. p. 142‘, and iv. p. 402°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. 
Mus. ix. p. 163°; Crotch, Proc. Acad. Phil. 1873, p. 78’. 

Cassida aurisplendens, Mann. Bull. Mosc. 1848, 2, p. 307 °. 

Coptocycla aurisplendens, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iii. p. 349°, and iv. p. 452 °°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. 
Mus. ix. p. 185”. 

? Cassida marylandica, Herbst, Kifer, viii. p. 274. 


. Cassida bis-tripunctata, Herbst, loc. cit. p. 275 '*. 


Hab. Norta America ! 2 4-6, Middle, Southern, and Western States’, Carolina 3, 
Maryland !? 13, Florida > 6, California §-!!.—Mexico®-", Pinos Altos in Chihuahua 
(Buchan-Hepburn), Villa Lerdo in Durango, Jalapa, Misantla (Hége), Istapan, Guana- 
Juato, San Andres Tuxtla, Juquila, Yolos (Sadlé), Oaxaca (Sailé, Hoge), Xucumanatlan, 
Chilpancingo, and Tepetlapa in Guerrero, Cuernavaca, Teapa (H. H. Smith), Yucatan 


(Pilate, in coll. Oberthiir); GuateMaua, Capetillo, Duefias (Champion); Nicaracua, 
Chontales (Janson). 


This insect is less abundant than C. ¢ris‘gnata within our limits. In some specimens 
the elytra have three very faint dilute blackish spots on each elytron, these being 
obsolete in pale examples (aurisplendens). C. bicolor is smaller than C. trisignata and _ 
has less expanded elytral margins. Some of its varieties are indistinguishable from 
that species. 


61. Coptocycla succinea. 


. Coptocycla succinea, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iii. p. 850+, and iv. p. 4527; Col. Cat. Ins. Brit. Mus. 


ix. p. 185°. 


Hab. Mexico'*, Juquila (Sallé); Guaremata, Capetillo (Champion), Panzos 
(Conradt). 


We have received five specimens of this species. C. succinea, the type of which is 
before me, is exceedingly closely allied to the pallid form of C. bicolor (aurisplendens), 
and only differs from it in having the discoidal fovea of the elytra almost or quite 
obsolete. The Guatemalan specimens are much larger than the Mexican type. 


62. Coptocycla bivulnerata. (Tab. XI. fig. 24, 2.) 


Coptocycla bivulnerata, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iii. p. 143 ', and iv. p. 4037; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 163°. 


Hab. Mrxico!~*, Durango City, Jalapa (Hoye), Guanajuato, San Andres Tuxtla 


- (Sallé). 


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The numerous specimens here referred to this species were labelled with the MS. 
name C. lurida, Klug, in the Sallé collection. They agree very well with Boheman’s 
description. C. divulnerata may be known from all the allied forms by its oval (¢ ) 
or oblong (?) shape. The elytra are foveate on the disc before the middle, the fovea, 
and a slender line on the outer part of the disc—in some specimens extending from a. 
little below the humeral callus to beyond the middle, in others obsolete—being dilute 
fuscous. This species is widely distributed in Mexico, and we have received many 
specimens of it from Guanajuato and Jalapa. | 


63. Coptocycla hogbergi. (Tab. XI. fig. 25, 2.) 
Coptocycla hégbergi, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iii. p. 158’, and iv. p. 4057; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 165°, 

Hab. Muxico, Atoyac in Vera Cruz, Teapa in Tabasco, Tapachula in Chiapas (H. H. 
Smith), Vera Cruz (Mus. Holm.1-*), Temax in North Yucatan (Gaumer) ; British 
Honpuras, Belize (Blancaneaux); Guavemata, San Isidro (Champion); NIcara@ua 
(Sallé), Chontales (Janson) ; Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui, David (Champion). 


The elytra in this small species have on the disc before the middle an oblique dilute 
olivaceous patch, which is connected externally with a longitudinal similarly-coloured 
stripe extending from the humeral callus downwards, this stripe being continued in 
some specimens to the suture. The antenne usually have the eighth and ninth joints 
infuscate. We have received about thirty specimens of C. hégbergi. C. vinula, Boh., 
from Colombia, appears to be a very closely-allied form. 


_ 64, Coptocycla emarginata. (Tab. XI. fig. 26.) 

Coptocycla emarginata, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. ii. p. 298’, and iv. p. 4427; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. 
Mus. ix. p. 179°. 

Deloyala emarginata, Dej. Cat. 3rd. edit. p. 396 *. 

_Coptocycla arizona, Crotch, Proc. Acad. Phil. 1878, p. 78°. 

Deloyala fimbricollis, Sturm, in litt. 

Hab. Norta America, Arizona °.—MeExico!* (Sallé, ex coll. Sturm), Chihuahua 
city, Durango city, Colima city, Matamoros Izucar, Misantla, Oaxaca, Tapachula 
(Hoge), Saltillo in Coahuila (Dr. Palmer), Pinos Altos in Chihuahua (Buchan-Hepburn), 
Atlixco, Guanajuato, Orizaba, Cordova (Sallé), Cuernavaca (Hoge, H. H. Smith), 
Soledad, Tepetlapa, Xucumanatlan, and Amula in Guerrero, Fortin in Vera Cruz | 
(H. H. Smith), Chilpancingo, Cuernavaca (Hoge, H. H. Smith); Guatemata ? (Scherzer °, 
Sallé), Zapote, Capetillo, San Gerénimo (Champion); Costa Rica (Van Patten), Caché 
(Rogers). 


A rather common insect in Mexico and Guatemala, extending northwards to within 
the frontier of the United States. The elytra (as in C. tuberculata) vary in colour 
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from sanguineous or vermilion-red to dilute flavo-testaceous; the margins have a large 
flavo-hyaline space before the middle, which is bordered with black (broadly in front 
and behind), except along the outer limb. In pallid examples the humeri are usually 
rufo-testaceous; the latter have usually a few scattered coarse punctures, but these 
are sometimes obsolete. The third joint of the antenne is elongate, as long as the 
fourth. We are indebted to Dr. Horn for a specimen of C. arizone, Crotch ; it differs 
in no way from Boheman’s species. We figure an example from Soledad. 


65. Coptocycla annexa. (Tab. XI. fig. 27.) 
Coptocycla anneza, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iii. p. 2991, and iv. p. 4427; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 179°. | 
Hab. Mexico, Matamoros Izucar, San Andres Tuxtla (Sallé), Jalapa, Misantla, 
Oaxaca (Hoge), Teapa in Tabasco (Sallé, Hoge, H. H. Smith); British Honpvras, 
R. Hondo (Blancaneaux); GuatEMaLa, Cahabon (Champion). 


Not uncommon in Tabasco. Very closely allied to C. emarginata, but smaller, the 
elytra invariably dilute flavous or flavo-testaceous, with the subhyaline space on the 
margins more extended and narrowly bordered with piceous or fuscous within, this 
border being sometimes almost obsolete, the humeri smooth and not stained with 


rufo-testaceous. A specimen from Teapa is figured. 


66. Coptocycla tumida. (Tab. XII. figg. 1; 1a, profile.) 

Subcordate, very convex, shining, flavo-testaceous; the elytra each with two fuscous-spotted flavo-testaceous 
fasciee extending across the margin from the disc but not reaching the exterior limb—one very broad and 
transverse, at the base, the other narrower and oblique, a little beyond the middle,—a broad quadrangular 
space between the fascie and the rest of the margin flavo-hyaline; the antennw flavo-testaceous, with 
the apical five joints black; beneath and the legs black, variegated with testaceous, the metasternum 
broadly flavous in front, the fascia on the elytral margins fuscous. Antenne elongate, slender, the 
apical five joints thickened, joint 3 a little longer than 2 and very much shorter than 4. Prothorax 
about twice as broad as long, strongly sinuate at the base on either side of the median lobe, broadly 
expanded at the sides and in front, smooth; the disc deeply foveate at the base on either side of the 
median lobe, canaliculate behind, and deeply excavate at the sides: the margins reticulate and 
subhyaline. Elytra very much wider than, and more than three times as long as, the prothorax, deeply 
sinuate-emarginate at the base, with prominent rounded humeri; the disc uneven, moderately gibbous 
anteriorly, excavate on either side of the suture in front of this, bifoveate at the base, deeply irregularly 
foveate in the centre at about one-fourth from the base and also irregularly foveate towards the sides 
a little beyond the middle, hollowed laterally behind the humeral callus, and with rows of deep, coarse, 
dilute fuscous punctures, the interstices smooth and here and there connected by feebly-raised transverse 
callosities; the margins broadly expanded, becoming narrow at the apex, smooth and reticulate, separated 
from the disc by a row of very deep fovee. Claws angularly dilated at the base. 

Length 84, breadth 7 millim. 


Hab. Costa Rica (coll. Janson). 


One specimen, contained in Mr. O. E. Janson’s collection. This species approaches 
C. tuberculata (Fabr.) ; but it has the elytra less gibbous and more coarsely punctured, 


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and the third joint of the antenne shorter. The elytral margins are also differently 
coloured—the two fascie not extending to the outer limb and separated by a much 
less elongate flavo-hyaline space; the fascize are fuscous beneath, paler and more 
dilute above. ‘The coloration resembles that of Ctenochira fraterna, Boh., and its 
allies. 


67. Coptocycla maculicollis. (Tab. XII. figg. 2; 2a, profile.) 


Subrotundate, convex, shining, flavo-testaceous ; the prothorax with various coalescent black markings on the 
disc, from which a broad sinuous ramus extends across the margins posteriorly; the elytra with the 
disc black, with some spots and longitudinal streaks at the base (including a short curved stripe outside 

_ the humeral callus), and three narrow curved angulated fasciee on the posterior half (the middle one 
extending completely across), flavo-testaceous, a very broad black ramus extending across the margins 
at the base to the humeri, and the suture also black at the tip; the antenne flavo-testaceous, with the 
apical two joints black; the legs and under surface flavo-testaceous, a large transverse patch on the 
metasternum, and the middle of the abdomen at the base, black. Antenne elongate, slender, the apical 
five joints a little thicker than those preceding, joint 3 slightly longer than 2 and much shorter than 4. 
Prothorax twice as broad as long, moderately sinuate at the base on either side of the median lobe, 
broadly expanded at the sides and in front; the disc with a few widely scattered fine punctures, very 
deeply foveate on either side externally, and deeply foveate in the middle at the base; the margins 
subhyaline, except at the sides behind, and reticulate. Elytra very much wider than, and nearly three 
times as long as. the prothorax, rather feebly emarginate at the base, with moderately prominent 
rounded humeri; the disc very uneven, abruptly transversely gibbous below the base, and deeply 
excavate on either side of the suture in front of this, with rows of coarse deep punctures, which become 
finer at the sides and are placed in deep strie towards the suture, the interstices smooth and here and 
there connected by feebly-raised transverse or oblique callosities, the humeral callus very prominent ; 
the margins very broadly expanded, becoming narrow at the apex, deeply transversely excavate and 
irregularly foveolate in front, subhyaline, reticulate, and somewhat rugulose from a little below the base, 
and separated from the disc by a row of deep fovee. Claws angularly dilated at, the base. 

Length 53, breadth 43 millim. 


Hab. Guatema.a, Sinanja in Vera Paz (Champion). 


One specimen. This species approaches C. asperata, Boh.; but it is much smaller 
and has very different prothoracic and elytral markings, those on the prothorax 
extending across the dilated outer margins, the prothorax itself deeply foveate on 
either side of the disc externally, the third joint of the antenne shorter, &c. 


68. Coptocycla vilis. (Tab. XII. fig. 3, ?.) 
Coptocycla vilis, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iii. p. 857', and iv. p. 454°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. ix. 


p. 186°. 
Hab. Mexico, Misantla, Jalapa, Oaxaca (Hoge), Cordova, Juquila (Sallé), Atoyac 
(H. H. Smith), Teapa (Sallé, H. H. Smith), Yucatan?* (Pilate ', Sallé); GuateMata, 
Teleman and San Juan in Vera Paz (Champion); Nicaragua, Chontales (Janson). 


~ Boheman’s description of this species was made from a pallid example, and on 
this account the insect is widely separated in his monograph from the allied 
C. judaica. In the fully-coloured examples the elytra have a common transverse 
fuscous mark before the middle (not mentioned by Boheman), and the disc slightly 


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216 PHYTOPHAGA. 


variegated with the same colour, each of the punctures being also marked with a fuscous 
or castaneous dot. C. vilis differs from C. gudaica, however, in having the third joint of 
the antenne shorter than the fourth, the punctures of the elytra coarse and deep, and 
the elytra themselves more convex towards the base; the females are narrower, longer, 
and more ovate than the males. We figure a female specimen from Jalapa. 


69. Coptocycla proxima. (Tab. XII. fig. 4.) 
Coptocycla proxima, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iii. p. 200 *, and iv. p. 421 2; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 169°, 
Hab. Muxico!-%, Pinos Altos in Chihuahua (Buchan-Hepburn), Chilpancingo and 
Cuernavaca (H. H. Smith); Guatemaua, Aceituno, Capetillo (Champion). 


Of this species we have received numerous examples, varying in the width of the 
black vitta of the elytra—which extends along the outer part of the disc nearly to the 
apex and then runs rather obliquely inwards to the suture. The disc of the prothorax 
is testaceous, sometimes narrowly and obliquely bordered on either side with fuscous 
(this border in conjunction with that on the outer part of the disc of the elytra forming 
a common hexagonal ring); but in the two specimens from Chihuahua it is fuscous or 
piceous, the base excepted. The antenne are testaceous; the third joint is a little 
longer than the second, and shorter than the fourth. On either side of the disc of the 
prothorax are some coarse scattered punctures, not mentioned by Boheman, whose type 

I have examined. 


70. Coptocycla evanescens. (Tab. XII. figg. 5; 5a, antenna.) 


Subrotundate, convex, flavo-testaceous, shining, the margins subhyaline ; the eyes black; the prothorax with 
a transverse black patch at the base, rounded anteriorly and occupying about half the disc; the scutellum 
black or piceous, usually flavous at the tip, in some specimens ferruginous; the elytra with a dilute 
rather broad blackish or piceous stripe on the outer part of the disc (in one specimen black and sharply 
defined, in others faint and evanescent), extending inwards to the suture at some distance before the apex, 
and forming (with the mark on the prothorax) an oblong annulus, the space enclosed dilute sanguineous 
or flavous; the antenne: testaceous, with the apical joint infuscate or black; beneath and the legs tes- 
taceous. Antenne rather short, extending to very little beyond the base of the prothorax, slender, the 
apical five joints a little thickened, joint 3 short, not longer than 2. Prothorax twice as broad as long, 
broadly expanded and reticulate at the sides and in front, the disc shallowly grooved at the base on either 
side of the median lobe, the surface smooth. Elytra nearly three times as long asthe prothorax, and much 
wider than it at the base, moderately deeply sinuate-emarginate in front, conjointly rounded at the apex, 
with prominent but obtuse humeri; the disc convex, hollowed behind the humeral callus, with rows of 
rather closely placed, moderately coarse punctures, which become very much finer, shallower, and more 
remote towards the suture and obsolete before the apex, the interstices quite flat, smooth; the margins 
broadly expanded and reticulate, becoming narrow at the apex, smooth, separated from the disc by a 
row of deep fovere. Claws angularly dilated at the base. 

Length 42-54, breadth 43-42 millim. 


Hab. Nicaracua, Chontales (Belt, Janson); Panama, Bugaba, Volcan de Chiriqui, 
David (Champion).—Perv, Chanchamayo (coll. Janson). 


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Numerous examples. This species exactly resembles C. circumnotata, Boh., from 
the Amazons, in colour; but differs from it in the more transverse prothorax and the 
less deeply emarginate base of the elytra, the elytra with the punctures on the middle 
of the disc more remote from each other. The annulus on the elytra is usually faint. 
In one specimen from Bugaba the apical four joints of the antenne are black above. 
A closely allied insect from Brazil (incorrectly labelled Charidotis cognata, Boh.) is 
contained in the Baly collection. 

Some of the species placed in Charidotis by Boheman have similarly formed antenne. 
The shorter annulus on the elytra (when present) will distinguish C. evanescens from 
C. proxima. 


71. Coptocycla virgulata, (Tab. XII. figg. 6, 7.) 
Coptocycla virgulata, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iii. p. 327’, and iv. p. 4487; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p, 182°, 
Hab. Mexico!~3; GuateMaLa, Zapote, Aceituno, and San Gerdénimo (Champion). 


Boheman’s description of this species, the type of which is before me, was based 
upon a pallid example with the annulus on the elytra obliterated. One of the three 
examples found by myself in Guatemala has the annulus sharply defined, one shows 
the outline of it towards the base, and the third resembles the type. In the first of 
these (from Zapote), the prothorax has a broad transverse patch in the middle 
posteriorly, divided down the centre by a flavous line and not quite reaching the base ; 
and the elytra have a rather narrow stripe on the outer part of the disc, extending 
nearly to the middle and then obliquely converging inwards to the suture, black, 
becoming castaneous posteriorly (forming with the marking on the prothorax a 
hexagonal annulus), the suture (except at the apex) and the annulus on the inner side 
dilute rufescent. The elytra are foveate in the centre before the middle. The antenne 
have their third joint not longer than the second. The claws are angularly dilated at 
the base. a 

A specimen from Caché, Costa Rica (Rogers), seems to belong to the pallid variety 
of this species ; but it has the discoidal fovea of the elytra almost obsolete. 

We figure two Guatemalan specimens—one (fig. 6) showing the narrow annulus, the 
other (fig. 7) agreeing with the type. — 


72. Coptocycla diluta. (Tab. XII. fig. 8.) 


Subrotundate, convex, dilute flavo-testaceous, shining; the prothorax with an indistinct transverse dilute 
olivaceous patch in the middle before the base, this being divided in the centre ; the elytra with a rather 
narrow similarly-coloured annulus on the outer part of the disc, extending round the base to the scutellum 
and obliquely converging inwards beyond the middle but not nearly reaching the suture; the antenna, 
legs, and under surface flavo-testaceous. Antennee moderately long, slender, the apical five joints a little 
thickened, joint 3 short, not longer than 2, 4 and 5 elongate. Prothorax about twice as broad as long, 
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218 PHYTOPHAGA. 


lobe; the disc almost smooth, feebly obliquely grooved on either side of the median lobe at the base; the 
margins subhyaline and reticulate. Elytra much wider than, and about three times as long as, the pro- 
thorax, rather deeply sinuate-emarginate at the base, with rounded not very prominent humeri; the disc 
convex, somewhat deeply foveate in the centre before the middle, with rows of very fine widely separated 
punctures, which become almost obsolete towards the apex, the interstices smooth and flat; the margins 
broadly expanded, becoming narrow at the apex, smooth, reticulate, and subhyaline, separated from the 
disc by a row of not very deep fover. Claws angularly dilated at the base. 
Length 6, breadth 5 millim. 


Hab. Nicaraeua, Chontales (Janson). 


One specimen, contained in Mr. O. E. Janson’s collection. The narrow dilute 
olivaceous annulus on the elytra, extending round the base to the scutellum and 
obliterated posteriorly, will distinguish this obscure species from C. virgulata and other 
allied forms. 


73. Coptocycla sinuata. (Tab. XII. fig. 9.) 


Rounded-triangular, convex, shining, flavo-testaceous ; the elytra each with three dilute fuscous spots on the 
disc—two placed transversely at about one-fourth from the base (one in the discal fovea, the other at the 
side) and one at the side a little below the middle,—and a similarly-coloured broad curved stripe on the 
margin, extending round the base in front (but not reaching the anterior edge) and partly hiding a 
broad flavo-testaceous fascia, obliquely converging inwards about the middle, and thence narrowly 
continued along the outer part of the disc to the apex, the suture very narrowly edged with black; the 
antenne flavo-testaceous, with the apical five joints black ; beneath black, the prothorax at the sides, and 
the abdomen with the sides very broadly, and the apex of each segment narrowly, flavo-testaceous ; the 
legs testaceous, the intermediate and hind femora black, except at the apex. Antenne elongate, slender, 
the apical five joints thickened, joint 3 slightly longer than 2 and much shorter than 4. Prothorax 
about twice as broad as long, moderately sinuate at the base on either side of the median lobe, smooth, 
broadly expanded at the sides and in front, the margins reticulate and subhyaline. EKlytra very much 
wider than, and more than three times as long as, the prothorax, moderately emarginate at the base, with 
very prominent rather obtuse humeri; the dise strongly convex, deeply foveate in the centre at about 
one-fourth from the base, shallowly bifoveate at the base, and hollowed at the sides behind the humeral 
callus, with rows of exceedingly fine remote punctures, which on the median third become coarser at the 
sides, the interstices smooth and flat; the margins broadly expanded, becoming narrow at the apex, 
smooth and reticulate, subhyaline from a little below the base (except on the dark curved stripe), and 
separated from the disc by a row of deep fovee. Claws angularly dilated at the base. 


Length 73, breadth 6; millim. 
Hab. Nicaracua, Chontales (Belt). 


One specimen. ‘This species somewhat resembles C. egregia, Boh.; but the elytra 
are not gibbous anteriorly, the discoidal fovea is deeper, and the curved sinuous stripe 
on the margins is very differently shaped, it extending obliquely inwards about the 
middle and then continued along the outer edge of the disc to the apex. There is 
apparently a broad flavo-testaceous fascia extending across the margins to the humeri, 
but it is hidden by the fuscous stripe. 


74. Coptocycla scapularis. (Tab. XII. fig. 10.) 


Rounded-triangular, rather broad, strongly convex, shining; flavo-testaceous, the elytra with a transverse 
patch on the margin at the base—extending narrowly inwards along the basal margin, but not reaching 


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the anterior border of the humerus,—a transverse or oblique mark on the inner part of the margin about 
the middle, two small spots on the outer part of the dise—the anterior one oblong and in a line with the 
discoidal fovea, the posterior one at the middle,—a small spot on the discoidal fovea, and the sutural edge 
very narrowly, black or blackish ; the antennz testaceous, with the apical five joints black ; beneath black, 
the sides of the prothorax and of the abdomen testaceous; the legs testaceous. Antenna elongate, 
extending far beyond the base of the prothorax, joints 3-6 slender, 7-11 thicker than those preceding, 
3 very little longer than 2, Prothorax twice as broad as long, smooth, slightly depressed at the base on 
either side of the broad median lobe, broadly expanded and reticulate at the sides and in front. lytra 
very much wider than, and about three times as long as, the prothorax, sinuate-emarginate at the base ; 
the disc strongly transversely convex anteriorly and somewhat abruptly declivous beyond, very deeply 
foveate in the centre before the middle and longitudinally depressed at the sides below the humeral callus, 
very finely and rather remotely seriate-punctate, the punctures becoming coarser towards the sides, the 
interstices smooth and flat; the margins broadly expanded, becoming narrow at the apex, smooth, reti- 
culate, separated from the disc by a row of coarse fovex, subhyaline from a little below the base; the 
humeri prominent anteriorly, obtuse. Claws angularly dilated at the base. 

Var, The transverse humeral patch faint or dilute, the other elytral markings partly or entirely obliterated. 

Length 6-63, breadth 5-53 millim. 


Hab. Panama, Bugaba, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 


Numerous examples. This species is perhaps nearest allied to C. profligata, Boh. ; 
but it is much larger and more convex, and the elytra are relatively wider anteriorly, 
with more prominent humeri and a deeper discoidal fovea. The elytra are almost 
gibbous below the base. 


75. Coptocycla duplex. (Tab. XII. figg. 11; 114, profile.) 


Subtriangular, very convex, shining, rufo- or flavo-testaceous, the elytra with a broad ramus of this colour at 
the base extending across the margins to the humeri; the dilated margins of the prothorax, and those of 
the elytra from a little below the base, flavo-hyaline; the antennz flavo-testaceous, with the apical four 
joints (the tip of the eleventh excepted) black; the legs and under surface flavo-testaceous. Antenne 
moderately long, the five outer joints thicker than those preceding, joint 3 a little longer than 2 and 
shorter than 4. Prothorax nearly twice as broad as long, moderately sinuate at the base on either side 
of the broad median lobe, the latter obliquely grooved at the sides and with a few fine punctures; the 
margins broadly expanded. Elytra very much wider than, and about three times the length of, the pro- 
thorax, narrowing from the base, the base rather deeply emarginate, the humeri prominent, obtuse; the 
disc very convex, rather abruptly declivous posteriorly, deeply foveate in the centre before the middle and 
bifoveate at the base, hollowed at the sides behind the humeral callus, with rows of widely separated fine 
punctures, which are sometimes fuscous in colour, the interstices smooth and flat; the margins moderately 
expanded, becoming very narrow at the apex, smooth and reticulate, separated from the disc by a row of 
deep fovee. Claws angularly dilated at the base. 

Length 6-62, breadth 5-53 millim. 


Hab. Mexico, TapachuJa in Chiapas (Hége) ; Guatemaua, Las Mercedes (Champion). 


Three examples, all from the Pacific slope, and from not very distant localities. 
This species resembles C. ventricosa, Boh.; but it is much smaller and the elytra are 
not abruptly gibbous. From the somewhat similarly-coloured C. proftigata, Boh., it 
may be known by its larger size, subtriangular shape, and more gibbous elytra, the 
latter much more deeply foveate on the disc. 


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_ 76. Coptocycla marculenta. (Tab. XII. fig. 12, 2 .) 
Coptocycla marculenta, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iii. p. 336’, and iv. p. 450°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. 
Mus. ix. p. 184°. 


Hab. Mexico }-°, San Andres Tuxtla (Sallé). 


We have received two specimens of this obscure species. C. marculenta is 
exceedingly like a pallid C. annexa, Boh., with which. species it was mixed in the 
Sallé collection ; but is broader, and also differs from it in having the elytral margins 
entirely subhyaline posteriorly (the faint fuscous line on the outer part of the disc not 
extending across the margin to the exterior limb at one-third from the apex, as in that 
species). The flavo-testaceous colour extends across the elytral margins nearly to the 
humeri, a character distinctly visible in the type, but not mentioned by Boheman. 
The third joint of the antenne is a little longer than the second, and shorter than 
the fourth. The male is shorter and more rotundate than the female. The type from | 
the Stockholm Museum is figured. 


77. Coptocycla profligata. (Tab. XII. fig. 13.) 
Coptocycla profligata, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iv. p. 446°. 
Coptocycla bifoveolata, Sturm, in litt. 

Hab. Mexico! (Sallé, ex coll. Sturm), Guanajuato, Etla, Orizaba, Cordova, Yolos, | 
Juquila (Sallé), Chilpancingo, Cuernavaca (H. H. Smith), Misantla, Jalapa (Hége) ; 
British Honpuras, R. Sarstoon (Blancaneauxr); Guatemata (Sallé), Cerro Zunil, 
Capetillo, Duefias, San Gerénimo (Champion); Costa Rica (Van Patten), Volcan de 
Irazu (Rogers). 


An abundant Central-American insect. C. profligata, the type of which is before 
me, is compared by Boheman with C. immunda (a pale variety of C. signifera, Herbst, 
=guttata, Boh.); but it is,in reality, avery close ally of C. bicolor—some of the 
specimens of the species in the Sallé collection were indeed so labelled,—from which 
it differs in having a dark transverse fascia on the elytral margins at the base. The 
third joint of the antenne is slightly longer than the second. 


78. Coptocycla erratica. (Tab. XII. fig. 14, ¢ .) 

Coptocycla erratica, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iii. p. 201’, and iv. p. 421°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 169°. 

Coptocycla varicornis, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iii. p. 348 *, and iv. p. 452°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. 
Mus. ix. p. 185°. 

Coptocycla meticulosa, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iii. p. 351", and iv. p. 452°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. 
Mus. ix. p. 185°. | 

Coptocycla rufosignata, Sturm, in litt. 


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Hab. Mexico1-3 5-9 (Chevrolat+; Sailé, ex coll. Sturm), Puebla, Playa Vicente, 
Tuxtla, Cordova, Vera Cruz, J uquila (Sal/é), Cerro de Plumas, Jalapa, Misantla, ‘Tapa- 
chula (Hoge), Teapa in Tabasco (Sallé, Hige, H. H. Smith); British Howpvras, 
R. Hondo (Blancaneaux); Gtaremaua, Chiacam and San Juan in Vera Paz, San 
Isidro, Zapote, Capetillo (Champion); Nicaragua, Chontales (Janson); Costa Rica 
(coll. Janson); Panama, Bugaba, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion).—Cotom1a *~*. 


This is a common insect in Central America. It varies greatly in size, and also in 
the colour of the antenne, and of the under surface, the elytral markings, too, are. 
sometimes obliterated. With the types of Boheman’s insects before me, I am unable 
to distinguish more than one variable species. C. meticulosa was based upon a 
discoloured male example of C. erratica, with the apical five joints of the antenne 
apparently (?) infuscate ; the characteristic transverse ferruginous spot on the suture 
before the middle is very distinct in the type, though it is not mentioned by Boheman. 
C. varicornis (the type of which is contained in the British Museum) has the elytral 
markings obliterated and the abdomen entirely testaceous, characters of no importance 
when a long series of specimens is examined; it has been received from a number of 
localities in company with C. erratica. The elytra usually have an indeterminate vitta 
on the outer part of the disc—extending from a little in front of the humeral callus to 
beyond the middle and then curving inwards to the suture,—and a common transverse 
spot on the suture before the middle, ferruginous or fuscous, the rather coarse, 
scattered, subserially arranged punctures being similarly coloured. The antenne are 
testaceous, and usually have the ninth and tenth joints, and sometimes the eighth also, 
infuscate ; but in some specimens (from Chiriqui) they are almost entirely testaceous, 
and in others the apical joint is infuscate, except at the tip; the third joint is a little 
longer than the second, and shorter than the fourth. Several of the Chiriqui examples 
are unusually large, others, again, from Teapa are small, the species varying considerably 
in this respect. In some specimens the elytra are subseriately punctured to the apex ; 
the transverse sutural spot is nearly always distinct, even in the variety varicornis. 
We figure a male example from Tuxtla. 


79. Coptocycla angularis. (Tab. XII. fig. 15, ¢.) 

Rounded-triangular, moderately convex, flavo-testaceous; the prothorax with an indistinct oblong dilute 
fuscous or castaneous patch on the middle of the disc behind, this being excised in front ; the elytra with 
a common transverse subquadrate patch across the suture before, and an irregular fascia beyond the 
middle, some irregular markings, the punctures, and a broad ramus on the margin at the base extending 
from the disc outwards, dilute castaneous or fuscous; the antenne flavo-testaceous, with the ninth and 
tenth joints more or less infuscate; the legs flavo-testaceous; the body beneath black, marked with ' 
yellow at the sides, the abdomen with the sides and apex broadly flavo-testaceous. Antenne moderately 
long, slender, the apical five joints a little thickened, joint 3 short, not longer than 2. Prothorax nearly 
twice as broad as long, rather feebly sinuate at the base on either side of. the median lobe, broadly 
expanded at the sides and in front, smooth ; the disc obliquely grooved on either side of the median lobe 
behind; the margins hyaline and reticulate. Elytra very much wider than, and about three times as 


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222 PHYTOPHAGA. 


long as, the prothorax, rather feebly sinuate-emarginate at the base, with prominent subangular humeri ; 
the disc moderately convex, bifoveate at the base, deeply foveate in the centre before the middle, and 
longitudinally depressed towards the sides beyond the middle, with .interrupted rows of coarse deep 
punctures, the interstices smooth, and here and there transversely connected; the margins broadly 
expanded, becoming narrow at the apex, smooth and reticulate, hyaline from a little below the base, and 
separated from the disc by a row of deep foves. Claws angularly dilated at the base. 

Length 43-5, breadth 33-4} millim. 


Hab. Nicaragua, Granada (Sallé) ; Cogra Rica (colls. Baly and Janson). 


Four specimens. Closely allied to C. erratica, Boh., but differing from it in the 
elytra having a broad castaneous ramus extending from the disc across the margins at 
the base. From C. signifera, Herbst (=guttata, Oliv.), it may be known by its more 
triangular shape, and by the coarser punctuation and different markings of the elytra. 
The elytra have a transverse subquadrate dark patch across the suture before the 


7 middle, this being larger than in C. erratica,. 2 i 
b, Axilerior Clans evgviorly Lilaled, ane termed le ot prelerior clawa peclinste atthe bree. 


CTENOCHIRA. 


Coptocycla, Sect. II., Boheman, Monogr. Cassid. iii. p. 430. 
Ctenochira, Chapuis, Gen. Col. xi. p. 409 (1875). 


This genus, or section of Coptocycla, contains nearly one hundred described species. 
It is probably confined to Tropical America, ranging as far north as the highlands of 
Mexico. Ctenochira differs from Coptocycla * in having the claws of the anterior tarsi 
angularly dilated, and those of the intermediate and hind tarsi pectinate, at the base. 
Neither Boheman nor Chapuis appears to have noticed this, both authors giving the 
claws as “pectinate.” ‘Twenty-two species are here enumerated from within our limits, 
but some of these are probably not really distinct. Certain groups of species are 
indicated, the members of which differ inter se in various details of coloration, e. g.: 
(1) C. plicata, C. melanota, C. sagulata, and C. stali; (2) C. vivida, C. tabida, and 
C. punicea; and (3) C. infantula, C. palmata, and C. dissimilis. Many of these forms 
have been collected together in great abundance by Mr. H. H. Smith at Teapa in 
Tabasco. The antenne have the third joint short, not longer than the second. 


The elytral margins partly infuscate, with an oblong translucent space . . . Species 1. 
The elytral margins with two dark fascie (obsolete and the black discoidal patch 
simply emarginate at the sides in some specimens of C. stali) . . . . . Species 2-5. 
The elytral margins with a single (post-median) dark fascia. . . . . . . Species 6-8. 
The elytral margins partly sanguineous . . ss 6 6 « 6 6 . «Species 9. 
The elytral margins flavous, the inner part black from the middle forwards. . . Species 10. 
The elytral margins entirely flavous. . 
The disc entirely or in great part black. . . . ... . - « . »« Species 11, 12: 
The disc with a sharply defined black annulus along the outer part - « . . Species 13. 
The disc narrowly bordered externally with black or sanguineous . . . . Species 14-16. 
The disc black, reticulated with yellow. . . 2... 2... ee ee Species 17. 


* The Central-American species only haye been examined. 


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The disc black, with well-defined yellow spots . . . woe . Species 18, 19. 


The disc black, with an annulus on the anterior half and a curved post- _median 
fascia, confluent behind, | yellow . 


on Species 20. 
The dise black, with a common cruciform yellow patch Species 21. 
The disc yellow, with the punctures fuscous . Species 22. 


1, Ctenochira bifenestrata. (Tab. XII. figg. 16, 17.) 
Coptocycla bifenestrata, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iii. p. 480°, and iv. p. 4777; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. 
Mus. ix. p. 199°. 


Hab. Nicaracua, Chontales (Janson); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion).— 
VENEZUELA, Caracas 1-3, 7 


Two specimens from Central America apparently belong to this species. One, from 
Chiriqui (fig. 16), has the disc of the elytra brownish-black, faintly reticulated with 
transverse yellow markings, and the oblong hyaline space on the margins broadly 
bordered with brownish-black externally; the other (fig. 17), from Chontales, has the 
disc of the elytra testaceous, with a large, common, cordate patch at the base, and two 


interrupted fascie beyond the middle, pitchy-brown, the oblong hyaline space on the 


margins narrowly bordered externally with dilute brown. The antenne have their 
joints 8-10 more or less infuscate. 
C. bipellucida, Boh., from Cayenne, is perhaps a pale form of the same species. 


2. Ctenochira hectica. (Tab. XII. fig. 18, ¢.) 
Coptocycla hectica, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iii. p.471', and iv. p. 475°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. ix. 
. p. 198°. | 
Deloyala lateralis, Sturm, in litt. 
- Hab. Mexico! (Sallé, ex coll. Sturm), Puebla (Sallé), Acapulco, Chilpancingo, 
Cuernavaca, Atoyac (H. H. Snvith), Cordova, Oaxaca, Tapachula (Hoge), Teapa in 


“Tabasco (Sallé, H. H. Smith); Guatemaua, Zapote, San Gerénimo (Champion) ; Costa 


Rica (Van Patten). 


Sent in plenty from Teapa. A very distinct species, easily recognizable by the 
spotted prothorax and the two transverse ferruginous fascie (separated by a hyaline 
space) on the elytral margins. We figure a specimen from Atoyac. 


3. Ctenochira fraterna. (Tab. XII. figg. 19; 20, var.) 
Coptocycla fraterna, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. i. p. 4738 *, and iv. p. 476°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 198°. 


Hab. Nicaracua, Chontales (Belt, Janson); Panama, Bugaba, Volcan de Chitigu, 
David (Champion).—CotomBia 1~°, 


2 ff 2 


99.4 PHYTOPHAGA. 


Var. a. The spots on the prothorax almost obliterated, and the fascie on the elytral margins abbreviated. 
(Var. a, Boh.) . 


Hab. Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt).—CoLomBIA. 


Var. 3. The elytra with a broad common transverse patch at the base, a smaller transverse mark below it, the 
two connected along the suture, two or three fascie below the middle, and some scattered spots, black or 
piceous ; the scutellum infuscate or piceous. (Fig. 20.) 


Hab. Panama, Bugaba, Caldera, and David (Champion). 


The typical form is not uncommon in Chiriqui. The variety 6 (fig. 20), of which 
three specimens only have been obtained, is connected with the type by intermediate 
gradations; it closely resembles C. dissimilis, but may be known from it by the addi- 
tional fascia on the elytral margins. 


4. Otenochira lugubris. (Tab. XII. fig. 21.) 
Coptocycla lugubris, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iii. p. 478*; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. ix. p. 199 *, 
Coptocycla lugubrina, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iv. p. 477°. 


Hab. Panama, Bugaba (Champion).—Cotomnt1a 2 3 (Chevrolat *). 


One specimen, agreeing perfectly with a specimen from Chevrolat’s collection (pro- 
bably the type) in the British Museum. In this species the prothorax has a large 
subtriangular black patch, marked with three yellow spots—one median and one on 
either side (the latter not surrounded with black externally in the type); the scutellum 
black; the elytra with the disc, and two transverse fascize extending across the margins 
nearly to the outer limb, black, the black deeply excised on either side of the disc at 
the middle. 


5. Ctenochira stali, (Tab. XII. fig. 22, ¢.) 
Coptocycla stali, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iv. p. 480°. 
Ctenochira semilobata, Wag. Mittheil. Minch. ent. Ver. i. p. 55 (part.) *. 
Coptocycla punicea, Boh., var.a, Monogr. Cassid. iv. p. 482°. 
Hab. Mexico 2%, Toxpam, Cordova, Orizaba, Playa Vicente (Sallé 1), Teapa in Tabasco 
(H. H. Smith); Nicaragua, Chontales (Bel¢, Janson). 


Sent in numbers from Teapa. This insect is closely allied to C. plicata; but differs 
from it in having the black dorsal patch of the elytra more or less emarginate on either 
side at the middle, and usually with two broad black rami extending outwards from it 
(to a greater or less extent) on to the margin, but not reaching the outer limb. The 
elytra also have some small yellow or testaceous spots near the suture, which are rarely 
absent. In pallid examples the disc of the prothorax and of the elytra is castaneous. 
The scutellum is yellow. The antenne are flavous, with the tip of the apical joint 
black. 

Two species were confused by Wagener? under the name semilobata: the Mexican 
specimens are referable to C. stali; those from Colombia (one of which has been kindly 


we 


CTENOCHIRA. 225 


lent me by M. René Oberthiir) to C. semilobata. The latter differs from the present 
insect in the relatively broader elytra and more prominent humeri, and in having the 
black dorsal patch more broadly and more deeply emarginate at the sides; the discoidal 
patch on the prothorax, too, being parallel at the sides and acutely produced in front 
(instead of triangular as in C. stali). Boheman’s var. a of C. punicea®, of which there 
is a specimen in the Sallé collection with his ticket attached, is evidently a pallid 
example of C. stali. We figure a well-marked male example from Teapa. 


6. Ctenochira infantula. (Tab. XII. figg. 23; 24, var. salebrata.) 


“ Coptocycla infantula, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iv. p. 477+. 


Cienochira uniramosa, Wag. Mittheil. Miinch. ent. Ver. i. p. 66. 
Hab. Muxico? (coll. Baly1, Sallé); Costa Rica (Sailé). 


Var. a. The disc of the elytra dilute castaneous, marked with a few small yellow spots; the scutellum yellow. 
(Fig. 24.) 


Coptocycla salebrata, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iv. p. 4787. 
Hab. Costa Rica (Deyrolle?, in coll. Baly). 


Var. 8. Smaller ; the elytra much more finely punctured, especially towards the apex, with flatter interstices 
and shallower discoidal foves, the disc black ; the scutellum yellow. 


Hab. Panama, Bugaba, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 


Of this insect I have seen three specimens of the typical form, including the type; 
one of these has the scutellum yellow and the elytral punctuation finer. C. salebrata 
is based upon a pallid example of the same species; and the var. B, of which four 
specimens have been obtained, is probably a small smooth form of it. C. infantula 
closely resembles C. lugubris, but may be known from it by the single (post-median) 
transverse black fascia on the elytral margins. We figure Boheman’s types, both 


‘of which are contained in the Baly collection. 


7. Ctenochira palmata. (Tab. XIII. figg.1; 2, var. dilobata.) 


‘Coptocycla palmata, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iii. p. 487 *, and iv. p. 479°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 


ix. p. 200°. 
Coptocycla bilobata, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iii. p. 486 *, and iv. p. 478°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 

ix. p. 200°. 
Hab. Mexico 2356 (Chevrolat!; Mus. Berol.*), Cordova (Sallé), Cerro de Plumas, 


Oaxaca (Hoge); Guatemaua, Las Mercedes, Capetillo (Champion). 


C. bilobata only differs from C. palmata in having the scutellum and the eighth and 
ninth joints of the antenne black, and it cannot be maintained as distinct, these 
characters being variable; the single specimen from Oaxaca is intermediate between 
the two forms. The species is apparently scarce, one or two specimens only having 


been received from each of the localities mentioned. C. palmata is closely allied to 


226 PHYTOPHAGA. 


C. infantula, but may be known from it by the flavous slightly raised reticulations on 
the disc of the elytra. In pallid examples the dark parts of the prothorax and elytra 
are brownish-testaceous or castaneous. | 


8. Ctenochira dissimilis. (Tab. XII. fig. 25.) 
Coptocycla dissimilis, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iii. p. 4887, and iv. p. 479°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 200°. . 
Hab. Mexico 1-3, Teapa (Pilate, in coll. Baly). 


There is a single specimen of this species in the Baly collection, agreeing perfectly 
with the type. C. dissimilis is closely allied to C. palmata (with the antenne coloured 
as in the var. bélobata); but differs from it in the much more coarsely punctured elytra, 
the disc of the latter being yellow, with a common sutural patch before the middle, a 
short streak below the shoulders, an oblong patch at the sides below the middle 
(connected with the rather narrow, post-median, transverse, marginal fascia), and some 
scattered spots, black. ‘The type from the Stockholm Museum is figured. 


9. Ctenochira rubrocincta. (Tab. XIII. figg. 3, 2 ; 4, var. carnifer, 2 .) 
Coptocycla rubrocincta, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iii. p. 4981, and iv. p. 483°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. 
Mus. ix. p. 201°. 
Hab. Mexico !-8, Cordova (Sallé); Nicaragua, Chontales (Janson); Costa Rica (Van 
Patten); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion).—VENEZUELA, Caracas!~*; Brazii1—>. 


Var. a. The inner part of the elytral margins from the base to the middle, as well as the entire disc, black. 


Hab. Mexico, Cordova (Sallé), Atoyac in Vera Cruz (H. H. Smith); GuaTEMa.a, 
Chacoj in Vera Paz (Champion); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 


Var. 2. The disc of the prothorax and of the elytra, and the scutellum, obscure sanguineous or sanguineous. 
(Fig. 4.) 
Coptocycla carnifex, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iii. p. 497‘, and iv. p. 483°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 201°. 
Hab. Mzxico*—*, Puebla, Cordova (Sallé), Jalapa (Hége), Fortin in Vera Cruz 
(H. H. Smith). 


The typical form of this species, which may be known from C. plicata and its allies 
by the elytral margins being suffused with dilute sanguineous internally, has been 
collected in numbers in Chiriqui. Of the vars. a and 6 (carnifex, Boh.) single speci- 
mens only have been collected at each of the localities quoted; the var.a merely differs 
from C. melanota, Boh. (which is probably an analogous variety of C. plicata), by the 
colour of the elytral margins. Some of the specimens from Mexico and Chiriqui are 
intermediate between C. carnifex and C. rubrocincta. The disc of the elytra varies 
in colour from entirely black to sanguineous; it has usually a very large triangular 


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black patch. We figure a typical C. rubrocincta from Chiriqui and a specimen of 
the var. carnifex from Fortin. 


Va 10. Ctenochira melanota. (Tab. XIII. fig. 5, ¢.) 
Coptocycla melanota, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iii. p. 451', and iv. p. 4727; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 196°. 


Hab. Mexico, Teapa 1-8 (Sallé, Hoge, H. H. Smith). 


This insect is probably nothing more than a local variety of C. plicata,—though it 
is widely separated from that species in Boheman’s Monograph,—from which it differs 
in having the inner part of the elytral margins from the base to the middle, as well as 
the entire disc, black. The scutellum is usually black, sometimes partly yellow. The 
black on the elytral margins is broadest at the middle, showing no tendency to extend 
outwards at the base (the converse being the case in C. stali), the rest of the margin 
being clear flavo-hyaline. Sent in plenty from Teapa, in company with C. stali and 
C. plicata. Boheman!3 also quotes New Granada (Colombia) as a locality; but his 
Colombian specimens probably belong to C. rubrocincta, as here understood. 


va 


| / 11. Ctenochira plicata. (Tab. XIII. fig. 6, 2.) 
“ Coptocycla plicata, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iii. p. 4931, and iv. p. 4827; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 200°. 
Ctenochira flayoscutellata, Wag. Mittheil. Munch. ent. Ver. i. p. 65 *. 
Hab. Mexico 1~ (Sallé, ex coll. Sturm), Tuxtla, Cordova (Sailé), Fortin in Vera Cruz, 
Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith); Panama, Bugaba, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 


This is one of several closely allied forms named by Boheman as distinct species, and 
which merely differ inter se in slight details of coloration ; but as these forms are fairly 
constant I have retained them as distinct. The elytra in C. plicata have a large, black, 
parallel-sided patch occupying nearly the whole of the disc, the black not extending on 
to the margins about the middle as in C. melanota, nor emarginate laterally and with 
the black extending on to the margins before and behind the emargination as in 
| C. stali. The scutellum is flavous in the numerous Mexican specimens received, black 
in the two from Chiriqui. The prothorax has a very large, triangular, black patch 
occupying nearly the whole of the disc. Pallid examples have the dark parts casta- 
neous. Boheman also gives!~® North America as a locality, but the insect is not 
known to me from north of the Mexican State of Vera Cruz. | 


12. Ctenochira sagulata. (Tab. XIII. fig. 7, 3.) 
Coptocycla sagulata, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iv. p. 481°. 


Hab. Nicaraaua, Chontales (Belt); Costa Rica!, Caché (Rogers). 
I have seen four (¢ ) specimens of this insect, including the type from the Stockholm 


228 PHYTOPHAGA. 


Museum, which only differs from typical C. plicata in having the black dorsal patch of 
the elytra narrower and not extending so far posteriorly, and sometimes with a narrow 
flavous fascia behind. The scutellum is black. The elytral margins are perhaps a 
little broader than in the male of C. plicata, the elytra themselves obtuse at the apex 
in this sex. The type from the Stockholm Museum is figured. 


13. Ctenochira vivida. (Tab. XIII. figg. 8; 9, 10, vars.) 
Coptocycla vivida, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iii. p. 517+, and iv. p. 4857; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. ix. 
 p. 208%. 

Hab. Mzxtco!~, Playa Vicente, Tuxtla, Cordova (Sallé), Teapa in Tabasco (Hf. H. 
Smith); Honpuras (Mus. Brit.); Panama, Bugaba (Champion). 


Var. a. The black annulus on the elytra narrower and not reaching the apex, obliquely truncate or rounded 
behind, the space enclosed varying in colour from flayous to sanguineous, and with irregular black spots, 
which are sometimes obliterated. (Fig. 9.) 

Ctenochira nigrocincta, Wag. Mittheil. Miinch. ent. Ver. i. p. 55 *. 


Hab. Costa Rica (Sallé); Panama (Mus. Brit.), Bugaba, Volcan de Chiriqui (Cham- 
pion).—CoLomMBIA, Canoas 4. 


Var. 3. The black annulus on the elytra still narrower, extending almost to the apex, nearly obliterated in 
pale specimens, the space enclosed usually flavo-testaceous, broadly bordered with sanguineous, sometimes 
entirely sanguineous, and with the punctures placed upon dilute fuscous dots. (Fig. 10.) 


Coptocycla tabida, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iii. p. 511°, and iv. p. 485°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 2027. 
Hab. Mrxico’~', Playa Vicente, Cordova (Sallé), Cerro de Plumas (ége), Fortin in 
Vera Cruz, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith); Panama, Bugaba, Volcan de Chitiqui 
(Champion). 


Three well-marked forms occur of this variable species :—(1) (C. vivida), with an 
exceedingly broad black annulus on the elytra; (2) (var. «, C. nigrocincta), with the 
annulus a little shorter and not so wide, the space enclosed usually irregularly spotted 
with black; (3) (var. 6, C. tabida), with the annulus still narrower, sometimes not 
reaching the suture behind, the space enclosed bordered within with sanguineous or 
dilute sanguineous, or entirely of that colour. These forms are connected by inter- 
mediate gradations, and all three have been collected together at the same localities 
in Mexico and in the State of Panama; so there can be little doubt that they belong 
to one variable species. Most of the Panama specimens of the typical form and of the 
var. tabida have the space enclosed by the annulus sanguineous. C. nigrocincta, Wag., 
the type of which has been lent me by M. René Oberthiir, is based upon a specimen of 
the var. « with the flavous dorsal patch on the elytra irregularly marked with black, : 
and the black patch on the prothorax reduced in size; some of the Panama examples, 
and the one from Costa Rica, scarcely differ from it. C. vivida is a very variable 
and abundant Central-American insect, and C. punicea is probably a pale variety of it. 


CTENOCHIRA. 229 


C. sertata, Boh. (=varians, Wag.), is an allied form occurring in Tropical South America. 
We figure a typical () C. vivida from Teapa; a specimen (¢ ) of the var. nigrocincta 
from Chiriqui; and a brightly-coloured example ( 2 ) of the var. tabida from Chiriqui. 


14. Ctenochira punicea, (Tab. XIII. fig. 11, ¢.) 
Coptocycla punicea, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iii. p. 4941, and iv. p. 4827; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix, p. 200° (excl. var. a). . 

Hab. Muexico!~®, Acapulco, Teapa in Tabasco (Hége, H. H. Smith), Playa Vicente, 
Cordova (Sallé), Cerro de Plumas (Hoge), Temax in North Yucatan (Gaumer); BritisH 
Honpuras, R. Hondo (Blancaneaux); Guatemaua, Panzos (Champion); NIcaRAGuA 
(Belt, Janson); Costa Rica (coll. Baly). 


This insect differs from some of the varieties of C. vivida only in its paler colour— 
the black patch on the prothorax being replaced by a sanguineous edging and some 
small similarly-coloured spots, and the black annulus on the elytra replaced by a narrow 
marginal stripe,—and in having the eighth and ninth joints of the antenne infuscate. 
This last-mentioned character, however, is not constant. Boheman’s description was 
taken from an example with the disc of the elytra dilute sanguineous: in the speci- 
mens before me it is flavo-testaceous, with the punctures and margins sanguineous. 
Sent in abundance from Teapa, in company with C. vivida and its var. tabida. 


15. Ctenochira plebeja. (Tab. XIII. fig. 12.) 
Coptocycla plebeja, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. ili. p. 516+, and iv. p. 485°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 203°. 
Coptocycla cincta, Sturm, in litt. 
Hab. Mexico 1-8 (Sallé, ex coll. Sturm), Matamoros Izucar, Playa Vicente, Cordova _ 
(Sallé), Cerro de Plumas, Jalapa (Hége), Atoyac in Vera Cruz, Teapa in Tabasco 
(H. H. Smith); Nicaraava, Chontales (Belt, Janson). 


Sent in plenty from Teapa, in company with C. vivida, C. punicea, and C. hiero- 
glyphica. It is nearest allied to C. punicea, from which it may be distinguished by the 
definite markings on the prothorax and by the antenne having only the tip of the 
apical joint black. Boheman’s description appears to have been made from specimens 
with the dark markings on the thorax partly obliterated; in most of the examples 
before me the prothorax has a large subtriangular black patch, enclosing nine flavous 
spots (as in C. cumulata), these varying in size and often becoming more or less 
confluent. In the specimens from Chontales the dark markings on the prothorax 
are reduced to small disconnected spots. We figure a specimen from Atoyac. | 


16. Ctenochira coronata. (Tab. XIII. figg. 13, 2; 14, 6, var.) 
Coptocycla coronata, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iii. p. 515’, and iv. p. 4857; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 203°. . 
BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Coleopt., Vol. VI. Pt. 2, April 1894. 9 gg 


230 PHYTOPHAGA. 


Hab. Muxico!—3, Chilpancingo, Atoyac (H. H. Smith), Matamoros Izucar, Panistla- 
huaca in Oaxaca (Sallé), Misantla, Tapachula (Hége); GuateMaLa, Zapote (Champion). 


Apparently a scarcer insect than most of the allied forms. C. coronata resembles 
C. hieroglyphica, but it has the rows of punctures on the elytra less interrupted by 
flavous reticulations, the punctures themselves placed in deep striz towards the suture 
posteriorly ; the antenne usually with the eighth and ninth joints infuscate or black ; 
and the flavous spots on the discoidal patch of the prothorax more extended, the central 
ones often forming a coroniform mark. In a variety from Matamoros Izucar the elytra 
have a large black patch at the base, not extending to the scutellum. We figure a 
typical C. coronata from Chilpancingo and a variety from Tapachula. , | 


V-_—-17. Ctenochira hieroglyphica. (Tab. XIII. figg. 15, ¢; 16, 2, var.) 
Coptocycla hieroglyphica, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iii. p. 503*, and iv. p. 484°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. 
Mus. ix. p. 201°. 
Hab. Mexico 1-8, Playa Vicente, Cordova, Tuxtla, Orizaba (Sallé), Jalapa (Hoge), 
Atoyac (H. H. Smith), Teapa in Tabasco (Hoge, H. H. Smith); Guatemaua, Senahu, 
San Juan, Teleman, La Tinta, and Sinanja, all in Vera Paz (Champion). 


Var. a. The discoidal black patch on the prothorax with a single arcuate flavous spot before the base ; the 
punctures on the elytra much finer and shallower towards the apex, the flavous reticulations larger and 
tending to form broad fascia. (Fig. 16.) 


Hab. Costa Rica (Van Patten); Panama, Veragua 2°. 


Var. 3. The punctures on the elytra coarse and placed in deep strize towards the suture posteriorly, the flavous 
reticulations usually less distinct. 


Hab. GuatemMata, Las Mercedes, Capetillo, San Gerénimo (Champion); Nicaragua, 
Chontales (Belt, Janson). 


Var. y. The discoidal black patch on the prothorax with a single transverse flavous mark in front; the elytra 
with a large cordate black patch at the base, extending to the scutellum, and a broad space beyond it 
flavous, the sides only of the disc variegated with black, the punctures coarse and placed in deep strize 
behind. 


Hab. GuateMata, San Isidro (Champion). One specimen. 


The typical form of this species is not uncommon in the Mexican States of Vera Cruz 
and Tabasco, and also in Vera Paz. Of the var. w, which is perhaps distinct, we have 
only a single specimen. ‘The var. 8, which is not rare in Guatemala and Nicaragua, 
is almost intermediate between C. hieroglyphica and C. coronata, as it has the elytral 
punctures placed in strie towards the apex as in C. coronata. The antenne are flavous, 
with the tip of the apical joint black. The prothorax has a large triangular basal 
black patch, enclosing three transverse flavous marks, which are sometimes partly obso- 
lete ; in one specimen (from Chontales) the anterior spot extends completely across. 
The scutellum is yellow. The elytra have the disc black, irregularly reticulated with 
yellow markings, which interrupt the rows of punctures. 


CTENOCHIRA. — 231 


The males are more rotundate than the females, and they have the apex of the elytra 
more obtuse. We figure a typical male example from Orizaba, and a female 
specimen of var. a from Costa Rica. 


\/ 18. Ctenochira cumulata. (Tab. XIII. fig. 17, 2.) 
Coptocycla cumulata, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iii. p. 5087, and iv. p. 4857; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 202°. . 
Hab. Mexico, Tapachula in Chiapas (Hége); Guatemata, San Isidro, Zapote, Guate- 
mala city (Champion); Nicaracua, Chontales (Belt, Janson) ; Costa Rica (Van Patten), 
Caché (Rogers).—VenezvuELa, Puerto Cabello and Valencia 1%, 


The numerous examples from the above-mentioned localities agree with Boheman’s 
description of this species, except that the discoidal patch on the prothorax is black 
(instead of partly ferruginous), this patch enclosing nine flavous spot—four placed 
transversely at the base and five in a curved row in front. The antenne are flavous, 
with the tip of the apical joint black (in the allied C. retifera and C. reticulata two of 
the outer joints are also black). The scutellum is yellow. The disc of the elytra is 
black, variegated with raised, transverse or oblique, flavous callosities, which are here 
and there confluent. We figure a specimen from Tapachula. 


19. Ctenochira flavonotata. (Tab. XIII. fig. 18, ¢.) 
Coptocycla flavonotata, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iii. p. 4577, and iv. p. 473°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. 
Mus. ‘ix. p. 197°. 
Hab. Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt, Janson); Costa Rica (Rogers); Panama, Bugaba, 
David (Champion).—Cotomaia!~8; Guiana, Surinam 1~%, 


Not uncommon in the low country of Chiriqui. The antenne have their apical two 
or three joints infuscate or black ; the prothorax has a large subtriangular basal black 
patch, enclosing five yellow spots; the scutellum is yellow; the elytra have the disc 
black, each marked with ten slightly raised yellow spots, the posterior three of which 
form an interrupted arcuate fascia. We figure an example from Chiriqui. 


20. Ctenochira fairmairei. (Tab. XIII. fig. 19, var.) 
Coptocycla fairmairei, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iii. p. 4531, and iv. p.473?; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
| ix. p. 1963. 


Hab. Panama (Boucard).—CotomBia*~; PER t’. 


A single specimen from Panama. differs from the description of this species in 
having the post-median transverse flavous fascia on the elytra extending across the disc 
to the margins. The disc of the elytra is black, with a flavous ring on the basal part, 
this being connected posteriorly with a curved fascia. The elytral markings resemble 
those of Coptocycla annulus (Fabr.), except that the annulus and fascia are connected. 


2e¢ 2 


232 PHYTOPHAGA. 


21, Ctenochira crux-flava, (Tab. XIII. fig. 20, ¢.) 

Subrotundate, very convex, shining, dilute flavous or flavo-testaceous, the margins subhyaline ; the prothorax 
with the entire disc black; the elytra with the disc nearly to the apex black, marked with a common, 
broad, cruciform, flavous patch—extending from the base to a little beyond the middle, and laterally with 
a transverse ramus extending from it to the margins,—formed by smooth, raised, irregular reticulations 3. 
the antenns, legs, and under surface entirely flavous or flavo-testaceous. Antenne elongate, joints 3-6 
slender, 7-11 slightly thickened, 3 a little shorter than 2, 4 nearly twice as long as 3, 4—6 equal in length, 
7-10 more elongate, 11 nearly twice as long as 10, acuminate. Prothorax about twice as broad as long, 
broadly expanded and reticulate at the sides and in front, sinuate at the base on either side of the broad 
median lobe; the disc smooth, foveate and with a few scattered punctures at the sides behind, grooved of 
either side of the median lobe. Elytra very much wider than, and nearly three times as long as, the 
prothorax, deeply sinuate-emarginate at the base, and with prominent obtuse humeri; the disc very con- 
vex, feebly transversely gibbous below the base, hollowed at the sides behind the humeral callus, deeply 
excavate and foveate within the basal margin, and deeply foveate near the suture below the base, with 
rows of rather coarse deep punctures extending to the apex, the rows interrupted by the strongly raised | 
reticulations forming the common cruciform patch; the margins very broadly expanded, becoming narrow 
at the apex, smooth and reticulate, separated from the disc by a row of deep fovee. Anterior tarsal 
claws angularly dilated ; the intermediate and hind tarsal claws pectinate. 

Length 64-7, breadth 52-63 millim. 


Hab. Panama, Bugaba, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 


Numerous examples. Not closely allied to any species described by Boheman; it is 
perhaps best placed near C. conscripta. 


92. Ctenochira aspersa. (Tab. XIII. fig. 21, ¢.) 


Rotundate, convex, shining, flavous or flavo-testaceous, the margins hyaline; the prothorax with a short 
median line at the base, a short oblique line midway between this and the outer limit of the disc, and 
sometimes a small spot or curved mark between these, fuscous or dilute fuscous; the elytra with a short 
fine curved line on the humeral callus and the punctures fuscous; the antenne flavous, sometimes with 
the ninth joint infuscate; the legs and under surface flavo-testaceous. Antenne elongate, joints 3-6 
slender, 7-11 slightly thickened, 3 a little shorter than 2, 4 nearly twice as long as 3, 4—6 equal in length, 
7-10 more elongate, 11 nearly twice as long as 10, acuminate. Prothorax about twice as broad as long, 
broadly expanded and reticulate at the sides and in front, sinuate at the base on either side of the median 
lobe; the disc smooth, foveate and with a few scattered punctures at the sides behind, and grooved on 
either side of the median lobe. Elytra very much wider than, and in the female three times as long as, 
the prothorax, shorter in the male, somewhat deeply sinuate-emarginate at the base, with prominent 
rather sharp humeri; the disc convex, feebly transversely gibbous below the base, hollowed at the sides 
behind the humeral callus, deeply excavate and foveate within the basal margin, and foveate near the 
suture below the base and also in the middle, with rows of widely scattered, rather coarse, fuscous punc- 
tures, here and there interrupted by transverse ridges; the margins very broadly expanded, becoming 
narrow at the apex, smooth and reticulate, separated from the disc by a row of deep fovee. Anterior 
| tarsal claws angularly dilated ; the intermediate and hind tarsal claws pectinate. 
Length 43-53, breadth 43-43 millim. 


Hab. Costa Rica (Van Patten); Panama, Bugaba (Champion). 
Eleven examples, one only of which is from Costa Rica. This insect may be 


known from all the other Central-American species of the genus by its flavous colour; 
the punctures on the elytra and some small spots on the prothorax fuscous. 


SUPPLEMENT. 


HIMATIDIUM (p. 126). ; ( 
. . \ Oe hang! | hem 
5. Himatidium sanguineum. (Tab. XIII. figg. 22; 22, antenna.) jeormnny mere 
Ovate, slightly convex, shining, dilute sanguineous, the expanded margins of the prothorax, and of the elytra 

towards the apex, flavous; the antenne testaceous, with the apical three joints, the tip of the eleventh Ty nyse 
excepted, black; the legs testaceous; the under surface rufo-testaceous. Head almost smooth. \Yhr*"™ | ‘ we 
Antenne nearly three times as long as the prothorax, rigid, filiform, joints 1 and 2 moderately aye moet & oe" Re j 
long, equal, 3 nearly one half longer than 2 or 4, 4-10 gradually decreasing in length, 11 much longer aie BN am, TUTE 


than 10, acuminate. Prothorax twice as broad as long, deeply emarginate in front, strongly bisinuate “8 ———T a, ey 
behind ; the sides converging almost from the base, moderately expanded, concave, smooth, and sub- “°° 

hyaline, the exterior edge not thickened; the hind angles distinct, the anterior angles obtuse; the disc 

sparsely punctured at the sides and along the base, for the rest smooth. Scutellum triangular, smooth. 

Elytra broad oval, much wider than the prothorax, trisinuate at the base, almost separately rounded at 

the apex, and with rather obtuse humeri; the disc strongly transversely depressed behind the prominent 

humeral callus, with regular rows of deep, rather coarse punctures, which become finer at the apex, the 

interstices smooth and almost flat; the margins moderately expanded throughout, smooth and concave, 


. subhyaline posteriorly. 
Length 5, breadth 33 millim. 


Hab. Costa Rica, Volcan de Irazu (Rogers). 


One specimen. ‘This species is a close ally of the Colombian H. fuluwm, Boh. (the 
type of which is before me); but differs from it in its more convex shape, the elytra 
more shining and more coarsely punctured, with the margins more broadly expanded 
at the apex, the prothorax less expanded at the sides and narrowing almost from 
the base. The antenne are similarly formed in the two species, but they are very 
differently coloured, H. fulvum having the joints 1, 2, and 11 rufo-testaceous and 
3-10 black. | 

Both species differ from the typical members of the genus in having the prothorax 
very much narrower than the elytra; they have much the facies of certain Hispide. 


Fam. HISPIDA. 


APPENDI X*. 


t 


Since the completion of the Supplement to this Family in May 1886 by the late 
J. 8. Baly many specimens of Hispide have been received from Southern Mexico, and 
we take this opportunity, before closing the volume, to include here this additional 
material. The extensive collection made by Mr. H. H. Smith, principally in the 
States of Guerrero, Vera Cruz, and Tabasco, includes several new species, and adds 
much to our knowledge of the geographical distribution of many of these interesting 
insects. Mr. Gaumer has also sent us two novelties from Yucatan. 


STENISPA (p. 4). 


Stenispa sallei (p. 4). 
r 
To the Mexican localities given, add:—R. Papagaio in Guerrero, Teapa in Tabasco 


(i. HH. Smith). 
Many specimens of both sexes were obtained by Mr. Smith at Teapa. 


CEPHALOLEIA (pp. 8, 120). 


Cephaloleia fulvolimbata (p. 24). 
To the localities given, add :—MeExico, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith). 


Numerous specimens of the typical form. 


CEPHALODONTA (pp. 32, 120). 


Cephalodonta erudita (p. 39). 
To the localities given, add:—Mexico, Atoyac in Vera Cruz, Teapa in Tabasco 
(H. H. Smith). 


Two specimens of the var. A, hitherto only known from Nicaragua. 


CHARISTENA (p. 45). 


Charistena championi (p. 46). | 
To the localities given, add:—-Muxico, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith). 


* By G. C. Cuampion. 


PHYTOPHAGA. . 235 


Charistena funesta (p. 46). 
To the localities given, add:—Mexico, Cuernavaca in Morelos, Teapa in Tabasco 


(H. H. Smith). 
Two specimens. 
| - CHALEPUS (pp. 48, 120). 
3 (4). Chalepus parallelus. (Tab. XIII. fig. 23.) 


Elongate, narrow, parallel, subopaque ; above rufo-fulvous, the eyes, the margins of the prothorax very narrowly, 
the scutellum, and the suture from about the basal third to the middle, black ; the antenne and legs 
black, the anterior femora and tibie partly fulvous; beneath black, the head and prothorax in great 
part, and the abdomen entirely, rufo-fulvous. Head opaque, sparsely finely punctate; the front mode- 
rately produced, sharply carinate anteriorly, the interocular space deeply triangularly depressed and 
almost smooth. Antenne short, very little longer than the head and prothorax united, stout, slightly 
thickened towards the apex ; the joints cylindrical, 3 very little longer than 2, 4—10 transverse, 11 longer 
than 10, abruptly acuminate at the tip. Prothorax transverse, very convex, slightly narrowed anteriorly, 
with prominent and acute front angles, the sides almost straight behind; the surface closely covered with 
very coarse, deep, foveolate punctures, separated by fine raised reticulations, distinctly canaliculate down 
the middle, and broadly transversely depressed before the base. Elytra very elongate, parallel; the 
lateral and apical margins finely serrulate ; the apices separately rounded ; each elytron with eight regular 
rows of very coarse deep punctures, the eighth obsolete for a short distance before the middle; the second, 
fourth, and sixth interspaces strongly costate throughout, the basal margin also strongly raised. Legs 
short and stout. 

Length 22 lin. 


Hab. Mexico, Atoyac in Vera Cruz (H. H. Smith). 


‘One specimen. This species may be readily known by its elongate, parallel shape 
and very short antenne, the elytra with only eight rows of very coarse punctures, their 
apices separately rounded and very finely serrulate, the second, fourth, and sixth inter- 
spaces strongly costate throughout. The penultimate joints of the antenne are closely 
articulated and transverse. C. parallelus closely resembles Uroplata limbata, Baly, 
but in that insect the apical five joints of the antenne are consolidated into a single 
piece. 


4 


3 (p). Chalepus atroceruleus. 

Moderately elongate, subparallel, slightly shining; bluish-black, the prothorax with an oblong fulvous spot 

. on either side. Head opaque, the front moderately produced, carinate anteriorly, the interocular space 
irregularly punctured and longitudinally trisulcate, the lateral grooves deep. Antenne nearly half the 
length of the body, stout, thickening outwardly; the joints cylindrical, 3 nearly twice as long as 2, 
4, 5, and 7 as long as broad, 6 transverse, 8-11 almost consolidated into a single piece. Prothorax 
strongly transverse, transversely depressed behind, the sides gradually converging from the base, the 
anterior angles moderately prominent; the surface closely covered with very coarse, deep, foveolate punc- 
tures which are here and there coalescent. Elytra moderately long, subparallel, slightly wider at the 
apex than at the base; the apices rounded, feebly conjointly emarginate at the sutural angle; the lateral 
margin finely serrulate, the apical margin finely denticulate ; each elytron with eight regular rows of 
deep punctures; the second and fourth interspaces, together with the suture, strongly costate, the sixth 
interspace also feebly costate. Legs moderately long. 

Length 23 lin. 


Hab. Mexico, Chilpancingo in Guerrero (H. H. Smith). 


236 APPENDIX. 


Two specimens. This species is allied to C. suturalis, Baly, from which it differs, 
apart from colour, in the strongly costate elytra, the apices of which are more distinctly 
emarginate at the sutural angle, and in the longer third joint of the antenne. The 
apical four joints of the antenne are almost fused into a single piece, and the species 
would therefore (like C. su¢wralis) be almost as well placed in Uroplata. An insect 
from Guatemala labelled doubtfully by Baly as Uroplata subvirens, Chap., is perhaps a 
still more nearly allied form. | 


Chalepus suturalis (pp. 51, 120). 
To the localities given, add:— Mexico, Chilpancingo and Amula in Guerrero 


(H. H. Smith). 


Three examples. In this insect the apical four joints of the antenne are extremely . 
closely articulated, a character not mentioned by Baly. 


Chalepus placidus (p. 52). 
To the localities given, add :—Mexico, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith). 


Four examples. 


Chalepus saundersi (p. 53). 
To the localities given, add:—Muxico, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith). 


Three examples. This insect is probably a pale variety of C. terminatus. 


Chalepus terminatus (p. 54). 
To the localities given, add :—Mexico, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith). 


Numerous examples. As in C. saundersi, specimens occur with a short additional 
row of punctures (between the first and second) at the apex of the elytra. 


Chalepus pallescens (p. 56). 
To the localities given, add :—Mexico, Chilpancingo and R. Papagaio in Guerrero, 
Atoyac in Vera Cruz, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith). 


A single specimen from each locality. C. jansoni, Baly, from Chontales, is probably 
an immaculate variety of the same species, the type of which was obtained at Bugaba. 


Chalepus distinctus (p. 56). 
To the localities given, add:—Mextco, Jalapa (Hége), Atoyac in Vera Cruz, Teapa 
in Tabasco (H. H. Smith). 


PHYTOPHAGA. | 237 


Chalepus roseus (p. 58). 
To the Mexican localities given, add :—Omilteme and Amula in Guerrero(H. H.Simith). 


Chalepus fryi (p. 59). 
To the localities given, add:—Mexico, Omilteme and Chilpancingo in Guerrero, 
Atoyac in Vera Cruz (H. H. Smith). 


This insect is probably a variety of C. roseus. 


19 (a). Chalepus flavipes. (Tab. XIII. fig. 24.) 


Moderately elongate, cuneiform, slightly shining ; above and beneath rufo-fulvous, the elytra with an indeter- 
minate transverse fascia before the apex dilute sanguineous, the lateral margin (except at the apex), and 
also the apical margin, flavous, the eyes and antenne black ; the legs flavous, the tarsi fuscous. Head opaque, 
with a few scattered punctures; the front moderately produced, the interocular space longitudinally 
sulcate in the middle. Antenne short, not one third the length of the body, thickening outwardly ; 
the joints cylindrical, 3 slightly longer than 2 or 4, 6-10 transverse, 11 longer than 10, acuminate. 
Prothorax transverse, convex; the sides converging from the base, the anterior angles rather obtuse; the 
surface closely covered with coarse, foveolate punctures, separated by fine raised reticulations. Elytra 
moderately long, gradually widening from the base to the rounded posterior angle ; the apices conjointly, 
obtusely rounded; the lateral and apical margins finely serrulate ; each elytron with eight, at the base 
and apex with nine, rows of punctures; the second, fourth, and sixth interspaces, together with the 
suture, costate, the second more broadly and strongly than the others. Legs rather short. 

Length 27 lin. 


Hab. Mexico, Cuernavaca in Morelos (H. H. Smith), 

One specimen. This insect closely resembles C. instabilis. Baly, var. C, but may 
easily be known from it by the short antenne and pale legs. ‘The penultimate joints 
of the antenne are freely articulated and strongly transverse. 


Chalepus marmoratus (p. 60). | 
To the localities given, add:—Cuernavaca in Morelos, Atoyac in Vera Cruz (7. H. 
Smith). 


Chalepus digressus (p. 66). 
To the Mexican locality given, add :—Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith). 


One specimen, differing from the type in having the apical black patch of the elytra 
more extended. 


Chalepus bellulus (pp. 68, 121). 
To the Mexican localities given, add:—Venta de Pelegrino, Tierra Colorada, 
Tepetlapa, Venta de Zopilote, and Dos Arroyos in Guerrero, Atoyac in Vera Cruz, 
Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith). 


Chalepus rufithorax (p. 70). 
To the Mexican locality given, add:—Tierra Colorada in Guerrero (H. H. Smith). 


One specimen, agreeing perfectly with the type. 
BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Coleopt., Vol. VI. Pt. 2, Judy 1894. 2 hh 


238 APPENDIX. 


Chalepus chromaticus (pp. 70, 121). | 
To the Mexican localities given, add :—Atoyac in Vera Cruz (Z. A. Smith). 


Chalepus propinquus (p. 71). 
To the localities given, add :—Mexico, Teapa in Tabasco (#. H. Smith). 


Three specimens. 


Chalepus angulosus (pp. 73, 121). 
To the localities given, add: —Mzxico, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith); GUATEMALA, 
Panzos (Champion). | | 


Chalepus subhumeralis (p. 74). 


To the localities given, add:—Mexico, Atoyac in Vera Cruz, Teapa in Tabasco 
(Hl. H. Smith). 


45 (a). Chalepus maculicollis. | 


Elongate, rather narrow, subparallel, slightly shining; black, the prothorax with an oblong fulvous vitta on - 
either side; the legs and antenne black. Head subopaque, almost smooth; the front moderately 
produced, the interocular space longitudinally grooved in the middle behind, feebly carinate anteriorly, 
and with a short shallow groove on either side. Antenne short, not one third the length of the body, 
thickening outwardly ; the joints cylindrical, 3 a little longer than 2 and much shorter than 4, 4 and 5 
about as broad as long, 6-10 transverse, 11 much longer than 10, acuminate. Prothorax strongly trans- 
verse, convex, narrowed anteriorly, with rather prominent dentiform anterior angles, the sides bisinuate ; 
the surface (a smooth space-down the middle excepted, this being finely canaliculate in the centre) closely 
covered with coarse, oblong, foveolate punctures, and broadly transversely depressed before the base. 
Elytra moderately elongate, subparallel, slightly widening from the base to the rounded posterior angle ; 
the lateral and apical margins finely serrulate; the apices separately rounded; each elytron with ten 
regular rows of deep, closely-packed punctures; the second, fourth, and eighth interspaces, together with 
the suture, costate, the second more strongly than the others. Legs short and stout. 

Length 24 lin. 


Hab. Mexico, Xucumanatlan in Guerrero (H. H. Smith). 


One specimen. Not very closely allied to any of the species described by Baly, but 
perhaps best placed near C. swhhumeralis. ‘The penultimate joints of the antenne are 
closely, but freely, articulated, and strongly transverse. | 


50 (a). Chalepus yucatanus, (Tab. XIII. fig. 25.) 


Moderately elongate, subparallel, subopaque ; black, the prothorax fulvous, with a rather broad black or 
fuscous median vitta, the elytra with a very broad fulvous lateral patch extending from the base to beyond 
the middle and obliquely truncate behind; the legs and antenne black. Head subopaque, almost smooth, 
the front moderately produced, feebly carinate anteriorly, the interocular space longitudinally trisulcate. 
Antenne very short, not one third the length of the body, thickening a little outwardly ; the joints cylin- 
drical, 3 much longer than 2 or 4, 4-10 transverse, 11 longer than 10, acuminate. Prothorax opaque, 
strongly transverse, a little flattened on the disc, transversely depressed behind, the sides feebly bisinuate 
and converging from the base, the anterior angles feebly dentiform ; the surface closely covered F$ith deep 
foveolate punctures. Llytra rather broad, moderately long, subparallel, slightly widening from the base 


PHYTOPHAGA. 239 


to the rounded posterior angle ; the apices almost conjointly rounded; the lateral margin finely serrulate, 
the apical margin denticulate ; each elytron with ten rows of punctures; the second, fourth, and eighth 
interspaces throughout, and the sixth at the base, costate, the second and fourth more broadly and 
strongly than the others. Legs rather short. 

Length 3 lin. 


Hab. Mexico, Temax in North Yucatan (Gaumer). 

Two specimens. ‘This species is nearest allied to C. hepburni, Baly, but it has much 
more strongly costate elytra, the sixth interspace also being costate towards the base ; 
and the prothorax is more opaque and has obtuse anterior angles. The coloration 
resembles that of C. contubernalis and C. chapuisi, Baly; but both these species are 
more elongate, and have a short additional row of punctures at the base of the elytra, 
and longer antenne. The penultimate joints of the antenne are closely, but freely, 
articulated and transverse. | 


Chalepus acuticornis (p. 79). 
To the Mexican localities given, add:—Dos Arroyos, Rincon, and Acapulco in 
Guerrero, Atoyac in Vera Cruz (H. H. Smith), Temax in North Yucatan (Gauwmer). 


Sent in abundance from Teapa. 


Chalepus chapuisi (p. 81). 
To the Mexican locality given, add:—Atoyac in Vera Cruz, Teapa in Tabasco 
(H. H. Smith), Temax in North Yucatan (Gaumer). 


Chalepus waterhousii (pp. 81, 121). 

This insect has been found in abundance by Mr. Smith at Teapa, the specimens 
showing no variation in colour. In the males the anterior and posterior tibiz are 
each armed with a sharp triangular tooth on the inner side near the apex. The legs 
are long and slender in both sexes. | 


Chalepus mediolineatus (p. 122). 
To the Mexican localities given, add:—Amula and Chilpancingo in Guerrero 
(H. H. Smith). 
Eight specimens. This insect is closely allied to, and perhaps not really distinct 
from, C. contubernalis, Baly. 


Chalepus omogerus (p. 83). 
To the Mexican localities given, add:—Xucumanatlan, Chilpancingo, Amula, and 
Tepetlapa in Guerrero, Cuernavaca in Morelos, Atoyac in Vera Cruz, Teapa in Tabasco 


(H. H. Smith). 
2hh 2 


240 APPENDIX. 


Var. The upper surface entirely black. 
_ Hab. Mexico, Omilteme and Cuernavaca (H. H. Smith). ‘Two specimens. 


Sent in plenty by Mr. Smith. It is probable that two species were confused under 
this name by Baly, the numerous specimens from Western Mexico differing from those 
from Vera Cruz and Tabasco in having the apex of the elytra more finely denticulate 
and the row of punctures at the base better defined. The colour is very variable. 


OCTOTOMA (p. 87). 


Octotoma scabripennis (p. 87). 
To the Mexican localities given, add :—Chilpancingo and Tepetlapa in Guerrero, 
Cuernavaca in Morelos, Atoyac in Vera Cruz (Z. H. Smith). 


Many specimens, including both sexes. 


Octotoma marginicollis (p. 88). 
To the Mexican localities given, add :—Cuernavaca in Morelos (H. H. Smith). 


BRACHYCORYNA (p. 89). 
Brachycoryna pumila (p. 90). 


To the localities given, add:—Venta de Zopilote in Guerrero, Vera Cruz, Teapa 
(Hf. H. Smith). 


MICRORHOPALA (p. 91). 
Microrhopala pulchella (p. 91). 


To the Mexican localities given, add:—Tepetlapa and Chilpancingo in Guerrero, 
Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith), Temax in North Yucatan (Gaumer). 


Microrhopala sallzi (p. 91). 
To the Mexican localities given, add :—Temax in North Yucatan (Gawmer). 


5. Microrhopala unicolor. 


Moderately elongate, subparallel, black with an eneous lustre, shining. Head trisulcate between the eyes, the 
vertex with a few scattered punctures. Antenne short, scarcely longer than the head and prothorax 
united, exceedingly stout; the joints cylindrical, 2 and 3 subequal in length, 4-7 strongly transverse, 
7 one half wider and very much stouter than 6, 8-11 amalgamated into a single piece, and together 
forming an exceedingly stout oval club, which is blunt at the tip. Prothorax very convex, moderately 
transverse, transversely depressed behind, the sides converging from the base, the anterior angles obtuse ; 
the surface impressed with scattered, very coarse, deep, rounded punctures. Elytra moderately long, 
subparallel for two thirds of their length, conjointly rounded at the apex; the lateral margin serrulate, 
the apical margin finely denticulate ; each elytron with eight rows of very coarse, deep, foveolate punc- 
tures, which are partly coalescent and form irregular double series separated by raised reticulations ; 


PHYTOPHAGA. 241 


the second, fourth, and sixth interspaces, together with the suture, slightly raised, becoming costate 
towards the apex. 


Length 13 lin. 
Hab. Mexico, Temax in North Yucatan (Gaumer). 


One specimen. The uniform brassy-black colour, short antenne, and peculiar elytral 


sculpture distinguish this species at a glance. The punctures on the elytra form four 
double series separated by raised reticulations. 


UROPLATA (pp. 92, 123). 


Uroplata sanguinipennis (p. 123). 


Var. The elytra a little shorter, black, with an oblique spot on the shoulders fulvous ; the head and prothorax 
with a brassy lustre. 


Hab. Mexico, Atoyac in Vera Cruz (H. H. Smith). 


Two specimens, differing as above from the Panama type. JU. sanguinipennis differs 


from all the allied forms in having the first to the sixth elytral interspaces narrowly 
costate. 


4 (a). Uroplata sulcifrons. (Tab. XIII. fig. 26.) 


Moderately elongate, subparallel, slightly shining, black, the head and prothorax with a slight brassy lustre ; 
the prothorax with a fulvous vitta on either side; the elytra each with a large fulvous patch extending 
from the base to beyond the middle and obliquely truncate behind, the suture piceous or black through- 
out; the antenne and legs black. Head slightly shining, with some scattered rather coarse punctures 
behind, the front moderately produced; the interocular space with five deep longitudinal grooves. 
Antenne nearly half the length of the body, stout, thickening outwardly ; the joints cylindrical, 3 much 
longer than 2, 4 as long as broad, 5-7 transverse, 8-11 consolidated into a single piece. Prothorax 
transverse, moderately convex, transversely depressed behind, narrowing from the base, with obtuse 
anterior angles ; the surface with very coarse deep scattered punctures, the space on either side occupied 
by the fulvous vitta impunctate. Elytra subparallel, a little wider behind than in front, moderately long ; 
the sides serrulate to the rounded posterior angle, the apices rather coarsely, unequally serrate, and con- 
jointly rounded; each elytron with eight regular rows of deep punctures throughout ; the second inter- 
space broadly and strongly, the fourth moderately, and the sixth finely, costate ; the suture also raised. 
Legs moderately long. 

Length 23 lin. 


Hab. Mexico, Temax in North Yucatan (Gawmer). 


Three examples. Allied to U. vittatipennis, Baly, from Honduras, Nicaragua, &c., 
but less elongate, and with the fourth elytral interspace not so strongly costate, the 
fulvous patch obliquely truncate behind. In U. vittatipennis the third and fourth rows 
of punctures are fused into one in the median third of the elytra (not mentioned in the 
description); in U. sulcifrons they are separate throughout. 


Uroplata coxalgica (p. 123). 
To the Mexican locality given, add :—Teapa in Tabasco (1. H. Smith). 


One specimen, agreeing perfectly with the type. 


242 APPENDIX. 


18 (s). Uroplata annulipes. (Tab. XIII. fig. 27.) 


Moderately elongate, subparallel, rather shining, fulvous; the elytra flavous towards the suture, with an 
oblique narrow piceous stripe on the middle of the disc extending to about one fourth from the base and 
becoming evanescent behind, the apex indeterminately fusco-sanguineous ; the antenn piceous ; the eyes 
and coxe black; the femora flavous, with their outer half (the lower side of the front pair excepted) 
piceous; the tibie fulvous, with their apex pitchy-brown; the tarsi pitchy-brown ; the body beneath 
flavous. Head shining, with a few fine scattered punctures, the front moderately produced ; the interocular 
space plane, feebly longitudinally grooved in the middle behind and sharply carinate anteriorly. Antenne 
short, a little longer than the head and prothorax united, stout, thickened outwardly; the joints 
cylindrical, 3 much longer than 2 or 4, 4 nearly as long as broad, 5 and 6 transverse, 7 twice as long as 
and very much broader than 6,.as broad as long, 8-11 consolidated into a single very stout oval club. 
Prothorax transverse, convex, gradually narrowing from the base, deeply transversely depressed behind, 
with rather obtuse anterior angles; the surface shining, somewhat closely covered with coarse, deep, 
round punctures. Elytra moderately long, subparallel, finely and equally serrulate at the sides and apex ; 
the apices rounded, very feebly sinuate near the sutural angle; each elytron with eight regular rows of 
coarse deep punctures, those of the first and second and third and fourth rows exceedingly coarse towards 
the base and confluent in pairs; the second, fourth, and sixth interspaces, together with the suture, 
costate, the second (except at the base) more strongly than the others, the basal margin also sharply 
raised. Legs stout. 

Length 23 lin. 


Hab. Mexico, Atoyac in Vera Cruz (H. H. Smith). 


One specimen. This insect is nearest allied to U. coralgica, Baly; but it is much 
less elongate, with the prothorax more sparsely punctured, the elytra with their apices 
finely serrulate, the punctures much coarser towards the base and transversely confluent 
in pairs; the colour is also very different. | 


Uroplata westwoodi (p. 112). 
To the Mexican localities given, add :—Dos Arroyos in Guerrero, Atoyac in Vera 
Cruz, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith), Temax in North Yucatan (Gaumer). 


Uroplata fulvopustulata (p. 113). 
To the localities given, add:—Mexico, Atoyac in Vera Cruz, Teapa in Tabasco 
(H. H. Smith). 


Three examples. Like the following, an addition to the Mexican fauna. 


Uroplata lineaticollis (p. 113). | 
To the localities given, add:—Mexico, Atoyac in Vera Cruz, Teapa in Tabasco 
(H. H. Smith). 


Sevenexamples. This species was incorrectly placed in Uroplata by Baly, the apical 
four joints of the antennee not being amalgamated into a single piece. It belongs to 
Chalepus, as defined by him, and should be placed near C. productus. 


INDEX. 


[Names in small capitals refer to Families &. ; those in roman type to the chief reference to each species included in the work; . 
those in italics to species incidentally mentioned, synonyms, &c.] 


Page Page Page 
ACANTHODES ............05 118 | Brachycoryna fulvipes........ 90 | Cassida insculpta .........4.. 182 
flavipes .............00- 118 —— pumila............6. 90, 240 | —— judaica ....... cece cence 209 
Acentroptera ......... cereeee 1 MATYLANAICA vo ever eeaees 212 
ALURNUS ......... cece eee 5 CALASPIDEA ....... 00 eee eee 135 | —— mexicana .............. 176 
ALUPNUS occ eee cee eee e nee 2 | ——alurna ........ eee e noes 135 MUMICAVA 6.6 eee eevee. 1838 
—— cassideus .............. 6 columbina............6- 185 | —— migripes ............ 177, 189 
cassideus ..... see eens 135 UMPETIAS 6... eee caeeees 135 nigropunctata .......00. 170 
—— marginatus ......6.6eee 5 Calliaspis oc... cece eens 125 —— obsoleta........ veeee ees 177 
—— ormatus........... seas 5 Calopepla .... cece cece eeeee 125 pallidula .............. 177 
———— OFNATUS Loe e ec ccecune 6 Calophneand.....cccccccccenes 8 —— purpureomaculata ...... 187 
—— salvini ................ 5 CALYPTOCEPHALA .......... 128 TUQOSA 2... eee eee ee 177 
AMPLIPALPA.,...ccceeecueeee 5 brevicornis ............ 128 SEXPUNCTALA oo. cece cece 210 
—— guerini ................ 5 brevicornis......... cee 129 0) 194 
ARESCUS ......00... eee eeee 31 discoidea .............. 129 CELONG oe cee ceccveeeees 177 
* APOSCUS Lecce ec cece cee e eee 1 gerst@ckert .......6005. 129 -— tuberculata ............ 207 
bicolor ..........60.005 31 —— marginipennis .......... 128 VUETEALA oo. cece cece eee 198 
labiatus .......... ee 31 MATGINIPENNIS 66... 0000 129 ZONA veri vccscrecceeues 202 

—— perplexus .............. 32 PVOCETUla vo. cece seeeeee 128 | CASsIDIDA...........00 ee eee 125 
Aspidomorpha .......... 161, 176 Cantstr A... cs cceeees 125, 129, 183 CEPHALODONTA...... 32, 120, 234 
ASLEFUEA Looe cece eee 161 CASSIDA. Lc. eee eee eee eee 176 | —— abbreviata.............. 42 
Cassida ........ 175, 177, 182,189 | ——ampliata .............. 43 

Basipta oo. cece cece eeee 161 albicollis 6... cc. eae 127 —— antennata.............. 40 
BATONOTA.....0c ccs ceececee 161 ———— AUTNA vee ecccccccccees 185 Callosa ... 0... eee cee 33 
Batonota ...cc cs cccevc ences 163 ANNUUUS ... 6.6.6 eee 189,202 | ——championi.............. 36 
— aurita... eee eee cece ees 161 | —— aurichaleea ............ 212 elongata ........00000, 38 
—— GUrita ow eee 162 aurisplendens .......... 212 | —-—elonyata ............. » 120 
—— biplagiata.............. 164 ~ aurofasciata .......-..55 205 erudita ..... sevens 89, 234, 
—— eremita...... beeen eee 164 | —— bicolor ........ vee ee aes 212 | —— erudita .... ccc eee eee 40 
godmani .............. 163 | —— bistripunctata .......... 212° | —— ferox............. aeons 44 
insidiosa .............. 163 brevilinea ........05. ... 169 | —— fraterna...........0..0. 44 

———— INSUMOSA eee ees 164 callosa ...... ween enna 178 gemmans .........+..4- 32 
—— JANBONE oe ceeeeeees -. 163 CIPCUATIS Coe cc cece ee 189 GENETOSU oo cece eeunee 32 
—— nOd0SA wee. eeeeeeeeeee 162 | ——clavata .......... 0.0 0ne 206 | ——godmani .............. 34 
—— NOUOSA .....ceesevee -.. 163 | —— cruciata............0... 194 gracilenta .............. 37 
—— rufo-ornata ............ 163 disjuncta ....... cee e aes 171 Javeti..............00.. 40 
PUfO-OTNALA ose ccc 164 exclamationis .......... 145 0 37 

—— sexplagiata ............ 163 | ——/flavescens .............. 202 longula ..............4. 120 
-—— sexplagiata ........005. 164 | ——fuliginosa.......... 195,196 | —— maculata .............. 35 
—— yneatana ...........0.. 162 heteropunctata ..........4 175 MATGINATA. 6... eee een. 34 
BRACHYCORYNA.......... 89, 240 UlUSHrUS ooo ee eee ees 138... obscurovittata .......... 41 
" Brachycoryna ........5. .».. 90 | —— insculpta .............. 177 | —— pallida ................ 37. 


244 


Page 

Cephalodonta posticata ...... 4] 
—— proxima ........ veveee 89 
quinquemaculata ........ 35 
salleei...... eee e eee aee 37 

-——— scherzeri .......-...... 43 
—— subparallela ............ 42 
CEPHALOLEIA ........ 8, 120, 234 
Cephaloleia ......4... 1, 7, 14, 31 
antennata........ eoeees 11 

—— bella ........0..... wees 20 
Della ec ccccnsvevscvncs 21 

—— belti ............ sence 22 
—— championi.............. 9 
—— chevrolati .............. 18 
CONGENEY 21... eee eee 12 

—— consanguinea .......... 23 
CONSANGUINEA,.. 1.02 eee 24 
COTAINNA wi cccesseeeees 11 

—— dilaticollis.............. 13 
—— discoidalis.............. 15 
‘distincta ...........00. 10 

— dorsalis ............005. 15 
—— elegantula.............. 17 
elegantuld.....ceserseee 18 
erichsoni .............. ll 
CPUCHSONE oc eee e ce eaee 12 

——- fulvolimbata ........ 24, 234 
——_ gvatios@... 6.6... 6. eee. 8 
—— histrionica ............ 15 
—— histrionica..........066. 17 
-—— instabilis .............. 18 
--—— intermedia ............ 19 
-——— lata ..... cece eee 13 
—— lateralis........... eee 17 
daterAlis. ccc cc cecceees 18 

—— leptomorpha ........ 25, 120 
—— leucoxantha ............ 20 
———— WUCEUOSE eee cee ee 23 
-—— metallescens............ 25 
—— nigropicta.......... .s. 10 
—— ornata ..........00..., 9 
-——— perplexa ............4, 13 
~—— placida .............. . Li 
-—— pretiosa..... vente nes 14 
— proxima ........ be eeee 12 
—— puncticollis ............ 12 
-—— puneticollis .........04. 13 
-—— quadraticollis .......... 13 
—— quadrilineata .......... 21 
-—- guadrilineata ........5, 22 
-— ruficollis .............. 24 
—— sallei........ ee... 12 
semivittata ............ 16 

——— sepurata ............., “22 
—— stenosoma .......... 19, 120 
—— stenosoma .......... wees 20 


INDEX. 

Page 

Cephaloleia stevensi.......... 26 
——suaveola ...... veveeeee 28 
BUAVEOIA. . 6... 000 seeaee 22 

—— sulciceps ......eeeeeees 26 
suturalis ........eee eee 14 

—— tenella ............. ... 26 
—— trivittata ......... eee. 16 
——- vicina .......... eee eee 24 
—— whiter ......0. sete eee 9 
CHALFPUS ........4+ 48, 120, 235 
Chalepus .. 45, 47, 92, 94, 100, 242 
— acuticornis ........ .. 79, 239 
ACULICOTNIS co ceecececeees 49 
alienus ........-- seseee 78 
GILENUS vo csevcsecvcveee 49 
——amabilis .............. 65 
amabtlis si. ccceeeees 49, 66 
——amiculus ............6. 74 
AQMACULUS woe ceceeeccces 49 

——— AMICUS ....... cece ee eee 54 
—— amicus ....... been eens 49 
—amplipennis ............ 82 
—— amplipennis ......++0404. 49 
——anchora ............6. 79 
——— ANCHO A oo ev eacvees wee. 49 
—— angulosus ...... 73, 121, 238 
ANGUIOSUS wo. cc errevece 49 
——— atroceeruleus............ 235 
— bellulus ........ 68, 121, 237 
—— bellulus .... cee ccaee 49, 87 
bivittaticollis ........ .. 121 
—— breviceps ............6- 57 
BrevicePS .....eeveveeee 49 

—— californicus ............ 63 
californicus ........ see. AD 
—— championi .......... 50, 120 
championt ...... 49, 100, 101 

—— chapuisi ............ 81, 289 
——_ CRAPUIST ee cece ccees 49 
—— chromaticus .... 70, 121, 238 
Chromaticus ........e eee 49 

—— clypeatus ............0. 71 
—— clypedtus ...peecccceees 49 
——— congener ..........00, . 62 
CONGENEF Lec eececacee 49, 55 

—— consanguineus .......... 67 
——- consanguineus .......... 49 
—— contiguus ............,. 64 
—— CONLIGUUS eee eeeceevees 49 
—— contubernalis .......... 80 
contubernalis .... 49, 81, 239 
deyrollei .......... 88, 122 
deyrollet ...c.+e evens 49, 123 

—— digressus..........., 66, 237 
——— Migressus ee eeeecceun, 49 
—— distinctus .......... 56, 236 


Page 
Chalepus distinctus ........ 49, 57 
diversipes .........0... . 69 
GUVETSIPS oc ee ccevcceeee 49 
flavipes ...... eo aeee wee. 237 
fraternalis............6+ 122 
—— fraternus ...... ceesoeee 64 
—— fraternus ......ceeseces 49 
—— fryi......... veseeee 59, 237 
—— fry wicsseee eet o¥d-ai8 .. 49 
—— generosus ........ secaee 7 
—— generosus .:... peace wee AD 
—— hematoderus .......... 69. 
—— hematoderus.......... 49,70 
— hepburni .......... wee. 16 
—— hepburni..........ee 49, 239 
— horni.................- 72 
POTN ore eee w cw ee sees 49 
—— inequalis .........06. 57, 58 
— instabilis ........ cece ee 60 
—— instabilis ........ 49, 59, 237 
—— Jamsoni ..............6. 55 
JONSONE ....6%.. .... 49, 236 
— lateralis ............. . 
—— lateralis... cece ceees 49 
—— maculicollis......... wa. 238 
—— Marginatus ............ 75 
———— MATGYINATUS vee eccecvaes 49 
—— marmoratus ........ 60, 237 
MATMOTALUS 6.6. ec ceeees 49 | 
mediolineatus ...... 122, 289 
—— morio .............. 50, 120 
morio ........ 49, 86, 92, 121 
——— NEFVOSUS vee eeccesecces 59 
‘—— nigripictus ...... seceee 66 
——_ migripictus 6... cece eee 49 
MOTMANS os cevvecrenes 78 
notaticollis........ se eeee 86 
—— omogerus.......... 83, 289 
omogerus ...... sence 49, 85 
—— opacicollis.............. 53 
—— opacicollts ........ micas 49 
—— pallescens .......... 56, 286 
pallescens ......c0ec00s . 49 
—— palmeri...... wena wee. 85 
palmert ..... eseeceeses 49 
—— parallelus ............ .. 235 
—— pascoel ........... weeee 65 
PABCOEL occ eccenccnes . 49 
placidus ............ 52, 236 
placidus.....6..cceees a. 49 
—— posticatus .............. 77 
POsticatus oe cececcceces 49 
productus .............. 63 
—— productus ...... woe. 49, 242 
propinquus.......... 71, 238 
propinguus ......... 1a. 49 


Page 

Chalepus rosous ........., 58, 237 
TOSCUS. . 6 ee cc eee c eens 49, 59 
re 64 
—— rufithorax .......... 70, 237 
TUfithorar .. 0.6 cece renee 49 
—— sanguinosus ............ 70 
SANGUINOSUS ....... 0000 49 

——— saundersi............ 53, 236 
SQUNAEVSE . 6. . eee 49 
—— semilimbatus .......... 51 
semilimbatus ..... 00.000. 49 
signaticollis ............ 86 
—— signaticollis .........4.. 49 
—— similatus............ 73, 121 
StMUMAtUS 1... ee eee eee 49 
—— subapicalis ............ 61 
—— subapicalis ............ 49 
—— subhumeralis ....., 74, 238 
—— subhumeralis............ 49 
—— subparallelus .......... 72 
—— subparallelus ....... eee 49 
—— suspiciosus ............ 77 
——— BUSPICLOSUS. eee eeene 49 
—— suturalis........ 51, 120, 236 
—— suturalis .......-cceeeees 49 
terminatus .......... 54, 236 
termMinatus ....eseveees 49 

—— tibialis ................ 55 
tebtalts oo. eee eee 49 

—— univittatus ............ 84 
—— univittatus. 6... ccc cee 49 
vicinalis..............05 67 
—— VICINGIIS. 6. eee eee 49 
viridanus .............. 62 
VUFIMANUS 66. e ewe eens 49 

—— vittaticollis ............ 62 
—— vittaticollis ........64.. 49 
—— waterhousii...... 81, 121, 239 
waterhousit ......ceececes 49 
——— yucatanus ............6. 238 
OHARIDOTIS ...........0.005 178 
Charidotis ... cc cece cece eee 217 
auroguttata ............ 179 
auroguitata ........ 178, 210 
CINCLELIA. . cre cecescseees 179 

—— ctreulaferd vc cceeveeceeee 204 
—— circumscripta ....66.., 180 
COYNALA .... cee seen 181, 217 

—— curtula ..........e000e, 182 
LE 179 

—— erythrostigma ........ . 180 
erythrostigma ...... 179, 181 

—— flavomarginata.......... 180 
flavomarginata....ccieces 179 
frontalis .............. 181 
frontalis ..cccececseuee 179 
——— FUT VA vr eecccvenner 181, 182 


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Charidotis miniata .......... 178 
—— pustulata .............. 179 
—— pustulata oo... cece 178 
— rotundata .............. 182 
POCUNAALA 6... eee eee 179 
—— rubrocincta .........05 180 
seminulum ............ 181 
SEMINUUM. 6 eens 179 
——— yucatanensis............ 181 
—— yucatanensts .........44. 179 
CHARISTENA ............ 45, 234 
—— bellula ................ 45 
—— championi .......... 46, 234 
—— elegantula.............. 45 
—— funesta ............ 46, 235 
—— funest oe ere ecccevene 47 
—— MIGTULA cece cece eee 47 
—— perspicua .............. 47 
—— pilatel ....... ee, 46 
trilineata .............. 46 
CHEIRISPA......ee cee ese eees 29 
Chetrispa eee e ce cenes 31 
—— distincta ..... bene eens 30 
—— dorsata ............000, 29 
AOVSAEA oo. eee ce cee 30 
ChelobastS 6... cece ccc n ee eaes 31 
Bicolor vee eee e eee 31 
CHELYMORPHA............85 147 
Chelymorpha 125, 145, 153, 165, 175 
alternans ...........0.. 151 
—— alternans .......... 148, 152 
—— apiala .......6.,.. 147, 165 
ATGUS bec e cece ees 152, 153 
biannularis ............ 155 
biannularis ......:. 148, 156 
bullata wo. cece eee eae 152 
—— CalV@ oc... ee eee ee eae 153 
COVA oo cee cece teens 148 
— catenulata.............. 154 
catenulata.......... 148, 151 
—— comata ...........6. 00 150 
comata ........ 148, 151, 153 
CONJUGALA ...... 606. 156, 157 
CYUX-NIQTA = .........08. 155 
CYULNIQVA. 6. ccc eens +148 
—— 10-punctata ............ 155 
—— lO-stillata.............. 158 
—— 10-stillata.............. 149 
—— 12-signata.............. 157 
—— l2-signata...........00. 148 
——epilachnoides .......... 158 
epilachnotdes........ 149, 159 
SASCIALA . 6. eee 155, 156 
—— flavomaculata .......... 157 
Jflavomaculata ......600. 149 
—— gressoria ........00.00. 149 
—— JTES8OYIA 6 ee 147, 150 


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Chelymorpha guttifera ...... 157 
—— guttifera ...... 149, 158, 159 
—— hopfneri .............. 149 
—— hop fnert. 60. cv ec cevee 147 
—— Juvenca ........... eee 154 
— juvenca 147, 148, 155, 158, 159 
—— mexicana .............. 155 
MOELUCANA . 6... cee 148, 158 
——wilitaris .............. 152 
—— militaris oo. ccc eee 148 
— obducta ....... 0055. 147, 165 
—— obliterata ............4. 159 
obliterata ... 6.0... eae 149 
—— 8-maculata ........000. 154 
—— OMISB_— we cece eee 154 
—— pubescens .......... ~... 149 
pubescens ...... 147, 148, 150 
—— punctipennis ........ 147, 165 
— ]4-punctata ............ 156 
— ]4-punctata ........ 148, 157 
—— rufipennis .............. 151 
VUPIPENNIS ......40.. 148, 152 
—— rugicollis .............. 153 
—— rugicollis ....... cee eee 148 
—— 17-notata .......... 150, 151 
——— SEFICEA 26... cece eee eee 150 
SETUCE oo cc cee n ec eees 147 
—- l6-stillata......0.. 00.0. 156 
—— SMMAT ce cccccceness 161 
—— ]3-maculata............ 156 
—— 18-maculata ..........4. 148 
— 18-punctata .........4.. 150 
oa Lmaculata owe. 154 
Vittata .. oe cece cee ee 152 
21 148 
CHERSINELLA ..........0005 175 
heteropunctata.......... 175 
Chirida ....00.. 176, 182, 184, 185 
Chlamys oo. vcvcccccneeane 180 
ChONAVING oe cic cc cece cence 2 
CISTUDINELLA ........00000. 164 
Cistudinella vi ceecccecvceees 147 
APTAtA oo ieee ceccceaes 165 
foveolata ............45 165 
Cladispa...... Leen eee eeenee 1 
COPTOCYCLA.....- cc eee eens 182 
Coptocycla.. 176, 178, 181, 183, 185, 
189, 198, 204, 222 
— —ambita ..........0.0.0.. 199 
—— aMbIA Leek cece 201 
—— aMcena.............ee, 191 
——— AMONEA Loc cecc nce cenes 192 
—— angularis............... 221 
—— ANNEXE oe ee eee eee ees 214 
Sm ANNOLD ves ceccccvcceees 220 
— annulus............00.. 189 
= ANNUNUS. oe eee beens 231 
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Coptocycla arizone ...... 218, 214 
asperata ..........00.. 207 
asperata .......... 197, 215 

— atalanta..... .......... 193 
—— atroannulus ............ 199 
—— atroannulus ............ 200 
—— aurichalceea ............ 212 
aurisplendens .......... 212 

—— aurofasciata ............ 205 
azteca oo... eee 188 
ARLECA oe cece 189 

—— balteata..............., 200 
—— biannulifera ............ 204. 
—— bicolor ................ 212 
bteolor ..... eee 211, 220 

—— btifenestra ... 6... 6... 185 
—— bifenestrata ............ 223 
—— bifossulata........ sence 210 
bifossulata.......... 183, 211 
bifoveolata ........46.. 220 

—— br-impressa oo... cee 211 
—— hilobata 6.6. eee 225 
—— bis-tripunctata.......... 211 
—— hbivulnerata ............ 212 
bivulnerata ........0... 213 

—— bonvouloiri ............ 201 
—— bonvoulotri ............ 202 
LL) ko 226 
CINCEA eee cee cece 229 

—— cineticulus.........000.. 204 
—— cingulata .............. 199 
CIrcularis 6... cee eee 189 
circulata .............. 198 
circulifera.... 0.6... 178, 189 
—— circumducta............ 205 
—— circumducta .... 178, 199, 204 
— ctireumnotata............ 217 
— clavata ................ 206 
—— concentrica ..... 0.0605. 204 
CONSIMUIS 6... ce eee eee 204 
CONLEMPLA we cece cee eaae 186 
—— Coronata .... cc cece eee 229 
—— cruciata........ 182, 195, 196 
—— crucipennis ............ 208 
cumulata Lecce eee eee 231 
—— decussata .............. 193 
—— diana...............00. 197 
1 198 
diluta...... 0.0.0... 00 217 
diophthalma............ 202 
—— dissimilis ............0, 226 
—— distorta................ 203 
—— distorta ... cc cc ec ccc eee 204 
— dohmi ................ 203 
—— dohrnt. ... cece cccccceee 204 
—— dorsoplagiata .......... 186 
—— dorsopunctata .......... 186 


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Coptocycla dubitabilis .... 188, 210 
—— duplex ............005. 219 
—— egrepia ......... eee eee 208 
CGVCGUA vee svvvvcscncees 218 

—— elatior vice ccc cece eeee 182 
——emarginata ............ 213 
—— emarginata ........066. 214 
—— ephippiata.............. 191 
—— erratica 6.00... ec eee eee 220 
Crraticd .. 6... eee ees 221, 222 

——— evanescens ............ 216 
——  EVANESCENS 6... . 6c eee 217 
extensa .......... 0c. eee 193 

—— EXTEMSH oo cece cece 195 
—— fahr@i ....... case. 178, 205 
—— fairmairet oo... 6. cece ee 231 
—— flavonotata ............ 231 
STAIN, Lecce 223 
—— gibbifera .............. 197 
—— guttata 194, 195, 196, 220, 222 
—— hamulata ...... 194, 195, 196 
—— hecticd oo. e eee e eee 223 
~—— hieroglyphica............ 230 
hégbergi .............. 218 
— iwmmunda .. 194,195, 196, 220 
MMMUNED oo eecceeee 195, 196 

—— incincta................ 204 
—— NOUNCED 0 205 
infantula ..... cece eee 225 
—— insculpta ..........00ee 177 
——- insubida .............. 194 
ivazueNsiS .............. 201 
——isthmica .............. 198 
—— Judaica ................ 209 
—— Judaica ........40.. 215, 216 
—— lecontei................ 196 
—— leprieuri .............. 206 
leprieurt voce eee cee 205 

—— leprosa ................ 185 
leprosd vocseeceeee. 186, 187 
—— limpida...........0.. «. 211 
—— lobata vie eeee cece eee 207 
—— luctdula... eee cae 195 
—— lugubrina .............. 196 
—— lugubrina .............. 224 
—— lugubris..... 6... .6004., .. 224 
urtda oe e eas 2138 

—— maculicollis ............ 215 
—— marculenta ,......... ,» 220 
—— marmorata ..,......... 187 
—— melanotad ..... eee 227 
meticulosa.......... 220, 221 

——— MYOPS eee cvceccs 200, 201 
nigropunctata .......... 185 
MUTA ere ee ee ceeeaee 207 

—— opulenta .............. 192 
—— opulenta ...... »-.- 183, 198 


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Coptocycla orbiculata ........ 188 
orbiculata 6.1... cece eee 183 
palmata... ccc cceveeeee 225 
—— plGnd ove cece ceneeee 188 
plebeja oo... eevee eee. 229 
—— plicata wo. cecccevceceee 227 
—— profligata .............. 220 
proftigata ...... csc eee 219 
—— propinqua .............. 209 
proxima................ 216 

—— Proxima... esse eee eee 217 
—— puella ........... 00 ee, 201 
—— puella ...ccseccuee a... 200 
—— puertlts ... cc... 190, 191 
—— pumicea ........604. 224, 229 
TAMOSA vices ccccveseeee 207 

—— rubicunda .........0006- 208 
rubrocincta ....... ce eee 226 
rufonotata.............. 187 
PUfOSIGQNALA 6.6... ce. 0ee 220 
BAGUIALD. oe eee 227 
sdlebrata oo... eee eee 225 

—— salle@i............. see. 194 
—— scapularis .............. 218 
seutigerula ..... .». 190, 191 
—— semiatrata......... eees 2038 
—— serguttata.. cc cceciee 195 
SEXPUNCALA 6c cece ae 211 
signifera ............4. 194 
signifera .. 195, 196, 220, 222 
—— Signoretti 6... . cece eens 204 
sinuata ........... 0. cee 218 
sordida ................ 188 
speculata ..... cece cee 185 

| 224 
subirrorata ............ 209 
—— subsignata ...........64. 198 
—— succinea .............. 212 
——tabida .........0....., 228 
testudinaria ............ 206 
testudinarta ....... 6.00. * 207 
trabeata ...... 194, 195, 196 
tricolorata.............. 192 
tripartita ............., 184 
—— trisignata .............. 210 
—— trisignata...... 189, 211, 212 
tuberculata .......... ‘.. 207 
—— tuberculata. . 208, 209, 218, 214 
—— tumida..............., 214 
—— vartcornis .......... 220, 221 
—— ventricosa.............. 208 
ventricosa ....... ,++ 209, 219 
VIQENB. eee 197 
——vVilis ...... eee, 215 
VUE eee eee eee 216 

— vinula ... ee, 2138 


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Coptocycla virgulata .......... 218 Ctenochira stili ...... 222, 225, 227 Mimatidium fuloum oo... eee. 233 
vitreata..... 2. cee ee eee 198 —tabida ........ 222, 228, 229 —— impurum .............. 126 
WUVIA. oo eee cee cece eas 228 —— untramosa ..... 6.6. 225 —— IMPUTUM 2. eee ee 127 
—— wagneri..... eee ee eee 185 | —— varians ....... 0. eee, 229 | —— limbatellum...... 27, 28, 126 
—— wesmaeli .............. 190 VIVIG® .... eee eee eee eee 228 | —— rufiventre .............. 128 
wesmaedt .......... 191,198 | ——vivida ............ 222, 229 rufomarginatum ........ 128 
—— zetterstedti ............ 193 | Cyphomorpha ......... 00065 147 | ——sanguineum............ 233 
zetterstedti ............ 194 Cyrtonota lebasti ............ 139 thoracicum ....... Leaee 127 
YA¢) 1: 202 PUNICEH Lee eee e eee 137 0 2) 1 ra 92 
ZONA veces ce cerececaees 178 GULICOTNIS . 6... eee eae 86 
CTENOCHIBA........... ee eee 222 | DELOCRANIA.............06. 125 —— morio....... Senn 50 
Ctenochira.......... 176, 181, 182 cossyphoides ........ 125, 126 —— philemon ...... cc cceeee 58 
——— aspersa ......... 0.0005. 232 latipennts ... ee eee 126 — FOSEN eee 58 
bifenestrata ............ 223 —— panamensis ............ 125 HISPIDH 1.1... eee eee eee 1, 284 
bilobata...... 6.600. 225, 226 panamensis .........4.. 126 | Hispoleptis..... 0... 6... cee 1 
bipelluctda ... 0... eee 223 | Deloyala acuticornis........... 207 | Homauispa ................ 7 
CAOTNYfEL oo. ee eee 226, 227 CMATGINALA oo eee ee eee 218 | Homalispa............cceee, 14 
CONSCTIPEA 66. - eee 232 — fimbricollts ............ 213 gracilis .............0.. 8 
——coronata .......... wee. 229 UNPPESSA oe eee eee eee 207 limbifera .............. 7 
COTONAEA oo cece eee eee 230 — lateralis.............44. 223 —— variabilis .............. 7 
crux-flava...........0.. 232 pallida ...cecvccscceeas 170 | Hoplionota....... 0... c eee 129 
—— cumulata .............. 231 VECUSEA 2... ee ce eee eee 198 | Hyposa..................0. 178 
—— cumulata oo... cece eee 229 | DeMorTIspa ........... lesa Q7 | Hybosa oo... cece ccc cece eee 161 
—— dissimilis .............. 226 | Demotispa............6+ 125, 126 mellicula .............. 178 
dissimilis ......65.. 222, 224 bimaculata ............ 27 
fairmairel ...........4.. 231 —— limbata................ 27 | Imatidium .. 0... eee 126 
—— flavonotata ............ 231 — limbata ... 0... cee eee 28 | —— albicolle................ 127 
Jflavoscutellata .......45. 227 | —— limbatella.............. 28 thoracicum ...... ccc 127 
—— fraterna.............065 223 limbatella, ........0. 400. 27 | IscHYyROSONYX .............. 176 
—— fraterna,........ eeeeee 215 | Desmonora ................ 182 | ——hospes .......... cease 176 
—— hectica ............. ,.. 223 | ——  multicava.............. 188 | ——nigrosignata............ 176 
—— hieroglyphica .......... 230 | DoicHoToMA .............. 133 
—— hieroglyphica............ 229 anomala ............4. 184 | Laccoptera...... 0... cee aee 161 
infantula ............ . 225 biplagiata .... eee eee 183 
infantula .......44. 222, 226 bisbiplagiata............ 133 Megapygd occ ccc cccccvvnuee 125 
—— lugubris............006- 224 | —— bisbiplagiata............ 184 | Melanispa ....... cc ccc eeeeee 1 
—— lugubris... cc ceccccceees 225 | ——conspersipennis ........ 1384 | MesoMPHALIA .............. 135 
—— melanota .............- 227 —— distincta .............. 1383 | —— eneovittata ............ 144 
—— melanota .......6..4. 222, 226 ———_ MUStINCLA veces 134 —— e@eneovittata oo... cee 136 
MUGrOCIncta ........ 228, 229 PTINCEPS ......000- 188, 134 LY 146 
—— palmata...........-..4. 225 —— salvini ................ 134 | —— ceeruleonotata .......... 143 
PUMALA. .. cere vveee 222, 226 —— VAT UEGAA veer ceccvees 134 ceruleonotata .. 136, 144, 145 
sz— plebeja .......6.- eee eee 229 — chevrolati .......... 187, 188 
—— plicata .........-.+.05: 227 Eilytrogond.v.ccccccvcceccees 129 | ——costaricensis............ 140 
plicata. . 208, 222, 224,226,228 | Epilachna.......... 147, 148,154 | —— costaricensis ............ 136 
—— pumicea............ ‘,.2. 229 Expistictta vic cece eee eee 125 C1eGAns .... css sean 137, 138 
—— punicea.... 222, 224, 225, 228 Euprionota aterrima ........ 100 | ——evanida................ 146 
—— reticulata ....... ccc eee 281 | EURYPEPLA ...........0005- 174 CVANADA oo cece cc ccc neues 137 
—— PELUfer vec cnc cnnnees 231 Erurypepla occ ccc cece enes 125 | ——exclamationis .......... 146 
—— rubrocincta ............ 226 brevilineata ............ 175 | —— exclamationis ...... 137, 146 
—— rubrocincta ..... ccc eee 227 EUXEMA..... ccc ccc eee n eee 3 illustris............00.. 138 
—— sagulata ......--..04.. 227 | Eurema ...ss cc ccccceveeveee 1 Alustvt occ cece eee 2... 186 
—— sagulata ev eeeseevcnes 222 insignis ..........60005- 38 | —— interrupta.............. 146 
salebrata oo... cece eee 225 UNECTTUPLA . ace ceccenaee 137 
semtlobata ......666. 224,225 | HMaTImDIUM............ 126, 233 ——isthmica .............. 143 
— SEVEMMA opi cece eeeeenes 229 Himatidium ........ 27, 125, 128 isthmica ....... +++ 186, 145 
—— stfli ... ieee cece eee eee 224 | —— foveicolle .......... 126,127 | —— lebasi.............-.06. 139 


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Mesomphalia lebasi .......... 136 
188, 140, 160 

——mellyi ...........0008- 143 
mellyt oe ivcvcevevceees 1386 
——— nigrolineata ............ 146 
—— nigrolineata ........ 137, 147 
—— pictilis ................ 142 
——  picttlis oi. ceecccccceeee 136 
—— poecilaspoides ......000. 145 
PTUMATIA 6. ce veeee 139, 140 
——— punicea ......... eee eee 187 
—— punicea........ 186, 188, 142 
—— quadriguttata .......... 141 
—— quadriguttata .......... 136 
—— quadrinotata............ 140 
—— quadrinotata.........44- 136 
—— quadrivittata .......... 145 
—— quadrivittata .......eee 137 
——salvini ........--eeeees 141 
salvini ........ 136, 189, 142 
—— 8UtUTAIS oe cece ene 144 
—— tristigma ............-- 138 
tristigma ...... 136, 142, 148 

———— VATIANE voce even ce eens 144 
—— xanthospila ..........6. 140 
—— xanthospila .... 186,141, 142 
Metaxycera ..... eee e ee eeee 1 
Metazycera quinquemaculata .. 36 
MICRORHOPALA .......... 91, 240 
perforata ......ee. seers 91 
—— pulchella........... . 91, 240 
—— rubrolineata ............ 91 
—— rubrolineata ....seeeeeee 92 
—— sallwi .........6---- 91, 240 
—— signaticollis ...........- 92 
—— umicolor........6- see eee 240 
VUINETALA 6... cence eens 92 
———— LETENE rece ereececenes 92 
Octhispa centromaculata ...... 108 
Octocladtscus .. 0.0 cer eeeeee 1 
OCTOTOMA ....eeeeeeeees 87, 240 
Octotoma ...cscceeeeererees 90 
—— championi.........+.... 88 
CRAMPIONE . 6. vce ceeeees 89 
——  marginicollis ........ 88, 240 
—— plicatula ...ceccreceees 89 
—scabripennis ........ 87, 240 
SCADTIPENNIS oc receees 88, 89 
Odontota....cceseccvececee 48, 64 
ACULICOTNIS ... eevee eee 79 
—— anchora......666 bee eee 79 
—— bellula .ccceeccccceceee 68 
—— californica .....eessees 63 
—— deyrollet wi... ce ee eens 83 


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Odontota gregortt ......eeeeee 86 
——— OMOGEV A. ce cccerenvceves 83 
—— palliata ...reccvevcccees 84 
TUDTO cea c cece ceneees .. 64 
tricolor oo... cece ee eee 68 
Gidiopalpa ..... cece ween ees 5 
OMASPIDES .......-.eeeeeee 161 
Omaspides .....6..ce cece eeee 140 
bistriata .........-006 161 
OMOCETA. 6... eee eee 181 
Omocerus AZUreiCOrnis ... +++ .. 182 
OMOPLATA .... eee cece ences 160 
Omoplata oo. cc cer eeereneees 161 
albiventris ........+... 160 
calearata .......eee 160, 174 
—— maculicollis ............ 160 
maculicollis ........ 161, 178 
—— maculiventris ....c0106. 160 
= MAN GINALA. oer rnvens 161 
—— quadristillata .......... 160 
—— tersa .......... peeeeeee 160 
PARACHALEPUS ......++.00- 47 
Parachalepus ..... 0c ccceveaes 1 
brevicornis ........++0+ 48 
DrevicorniS....seccereeee 47 
Pentispa candezet .......0000. 98 
—— chevrolatt wcccssccvvvees 97 
SUUTMATIE Loe cece 95 
——— POAT IQ™UERL Voce ee ccc 94 
Physocoryna scabra ......++6. 90 
PHYSONOTA 10... cece cece 165 
Physonota . 125, 160, 171, 174, 
175, 183 

—— alutacea.............00 166 
—— attenuata ..........006. 171 
—— attenuata .......4.. 169, 173 
—— bicolor wir cesscesevcees 170 
—  calcarata ............65 174 
COMCATAEA wove ce cece 161 

—— caudata......... eee eee 171 
COUDHA . occ ec eee eeee 172 

——— COTED Lecce eee cece nee 167 
CitVINA 6. eee eee eee 167 

—— citrinella .............. 171 
CUMUNGE . oo cece cece eens 167 

—— CYTLOdES oo ee ccc cee 166 
disjuncta ...........4.. 171 

—— eucalypta .............. 173 
—— eucalypta .......... 172, 174 
—— flavago .............4.. 170 
—— flaveola ... 0... cece eens 173 
—— fuscula . 6. cee ceccceceas 165 
—— gigantea ........eeeeee 167 
GUGANteA ve eeicvcrcenee 168 

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Physonota humilis........ 171, 1738 
UMPTOMPLA ose eeeeeeee 169 
incrustata ........0+-66- 168 
-limoniata ......... 000s 172 
—— maculiventris .......... 173 
—— maculiventris ......005- 175 
—— MEXICANA 26... 0 eee e eee 170 
— nitidicollis ............ 166 
mitidicollis oo... ccs eecnee 167 
OVALIS.. 6. eee eee ee eee 169 
——- OVAL Lecce reece nenee 171 
OVE oo cece cc eee eens 170 
ovipennis ..........-+6- 172 
—— pellucida voc cvsevcceees 168 
perampla .....-..+e+e0- 167 
—— picticollis .............. 169 
prcticollis .......45. 170, 175 
plicata ...cecesecrceees 173 
—— separata ..........508- 170° 
——— SPENCE voce eccvvccences 167 
——— SPIMUPES eee ccnee .. 174 
stigmatilis.............. 168 
—translucida ............ 173 
transluctda ...... beeeee 174 
—— turgida ..........++00- 170 
—— vitticollis .............. 169 
vitticollis 66... cece 170 
PLATYCYCLA....... cece eee 174 
Platycycla ... ec. cceeeees 125, 188 
—— deruta ..........06- ... 174 
A, 178 
Peecilaspis ........4. 125, 129, 145 
Polychalea multicava ........ 1338 
PORPHYRASPIS..........008- 130 
circumdata ............ 130 
———— COCCINED. 6 vee eee cece eee 131 
—— CYANEN ver reveveveces 130 
CYCUCA ec ce reves ceaeee 130 
erythrocera .......00005 130 
—— flexuosa................ 130 
——— flOLWOSH ever nvcccee 131 
—— marginata.............. 131 
reticulata .......006 130, 131 
——— TUJOBH ve rvcvceecnes 131 
SAUNGUINED ....cce ce eeees 131 
PriopterG vevcescccseveccees 125 
PROSOPODONTA......0 0. ee ee 28 
Prosopodonta .. 00. se cccevcnes 31 
Costata ....... eee eee 29 
limbata .............04. 29 
Psalidonota .......... 182, 188, 197 
leprosd cece cece eens 185 
SELENIS......0.. eee seers 159 
—— 8PaYSa oo... 159 
Spheropalpus......... cece eee 125 


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Spilophora .... 60 c cece 125 
STENISPA .............00 4, 234 
Stentspa oo... cece 26 
———~ attenuata .............. 4 
attenuata .......... 1, 5, 120 

—— brevicornis ............ 4 
sallei........ 0. eee 4, 284 
Stenopodius oo... 0... cece eee 1 
flavidus oo... cee cee 1,90 
Stethispa ..... ccc ccc ees 1 
TAUROMA 2.0... cece see eee 131 
TAUroma 6. eee eee 182 
azureicornis ............ 182 
ceruleopunctata 181, 132 

—— casta. 2... ee eee eee 131 
CASLA Loca eee eee 182 
UROPLATA ........5. 92, 123, 241 


Uroplata.... 1, 49, 59, 91, 101, 118, 
120, 236, 242 


——aberrans .............. 104 
QbErrans 1... cee eee 93 
—— annulipes .............. 242 
—— armata ........-...000- 110 
APMAhA oo cee eee ees 93 
—— armigera .........-.05. 114 
——— AYMUGETA eer ccccnneess 93 
—atermima ..........6.005 100 
GETTING oo eee ns 938 
——— beata cece eee ee 99 
——— POAtA crc ccnccnens 93 
—— bellicosa ......--..00ee 99 
Delicosa occ cee ees 93 
—— belti oo... cee eee eee 106 
1 rr 93 
—— bipuncticollis .......... 118 
—— buqueti............006- 107 
bugquett.... 6... eee ee 93, 108 
—— candezei ..... 2... ee eee 98 
CONGDEHEL occ weer ees 93 


BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Coleopt., Vol. VI. Pt. 2, July 1894. 


INDEX. 


Page 

Uroplata centromaculata ...... 108 
centromaculata .......... 93 
—— championi.............. 100 
championt .......... 93, 101 
—— chevrolati .............. 97 
chevrolatt 60... . 6. eee 93 
—— clarkella oo... ccc cee, 95 
—— clypeata .............. 105 
—— clypeata........6-. cane 93 
—— consociata......... .... 101 
——— CONSOCIALA 66. ce eee 93 
—— coxalgica .......... 128, 241 
—— coralgica ......... 2045. 242 
—— crassicormis ..........4. 117 
——— CFASSICOTNIS ... eevee eee 118 
decepta .............04. 104 
decepta .... ce eevee 93 

—— dimidiata .............. 103 
dimidiata .. 6. cee 93 

—— distincta .............. 96 
distincta .. 0... cae ee 93 

—— distinguenda............ 111 
distinguenda ............ 93 

—— dolorosa..........e eee, 116 
GOV OSA. oe ec eee 938 

— elegantula.............. 1038 
—— elegantula .......... 93, 124 
—— elevata ......... 00.08. 107 
—— elevata....... 02. c eee 93, 108 
CMATGINAEA wi. .cveveeee 100 
—— emorsitans ............ 102 
———— EMOTSILANS. 6. cea 93 
—— OEXCISA wwe eee eee eee 111 
CXCISA vo ccc cee ce eens 98, 117 
explanata ...........-.. 93 
CLPIANALA occ ecereveeee 97 
fairmairel .......... 95, 123 

—— fair MAATet... sc eecrevnes 93 
fastidiosa ..........6256 117 
fastidiosa ccc. ccc renee 118 
—— fulvescens............+- 101 


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Uroplata fulvescens .........- 93 
fulvopicta .............. 109 
Sulvopicta oo... cece eee 93 
fulvopustulata ...... 118, 242 
—— fulvopustulata ...... 93,114 
—— hematopyga............ 108 
—— hematopyga .........-6. 93 
—— infuscata 11... cece ee 112 
limbata ................ 106 
limbata ........006. 98, 235 
lineaticollis ........ 113, 242 
—— melancholica .......... 116 
melancholica ........06.. 93 
—— melanura .............- 98 
——— MelANUTA 66. e cc ececaee 93 
—— nebulosa .............. 115 
—— nebulosa...... ces eeeeee 93 
—— pascoel ...........0000. 109 
——__ PUSCOET oe cevevvens 93 
——— robiNsOnt ..eveccssseees 114 
YOUVIQ“UEZ] ......-0- 00 eee 94 
—— TOATIQUERD Dore reeceees 93 
A 99 
—— sallei............. sees. 96 
——— SAUD ccc cn ce eens 93 
—— sanguinipennis...... 123, 241 
—— sculptilis .............. 117 
—— subvirens ...........5.. 118 . 
——— SUDVIFENS oor ec eee nenes 236 
sulcifrons ...........005 241 
variegata ..........005e 114 
——— VOTUEGAEA ooo cece eens 93 
—— vittatipennis ........ 95, 124 
vittatipenmis ........ 93, 241 
—— westwoodi ........ 112, 242 
——- WESEWOOKE » Lee reeeeee 93 
XANTHISPA wes cece eee eeeee 6 
—— ceruleipennis .......... 6 
——— cIMICOIES 2. vee 6 
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2 STENISPA SALLAT. CEPHALOLEIA GRATIOSA. - 19 P SUTURALIS . 
3 AMPHIPALPA GUERINI. ‘ CHAMPIONI. 20 . OTEVENSI. 
4 ALURNUS ORNATUS. : ORNATA . 21 - HISTRIONICA. 
5 ; SALVINI. : NIGRIPICTA | a2 ; ELEGANTULA, 
6 x neh i ERICHSONI. 23 ; INSTABILIS. 
a i CASSIDEUS. ‘i DISTINCTA 24 : ” var 
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2 CHARISTENA PERSPICUA. 10 y FRATERNUS. 19 , SUSPICIOSUS. 
3 PARACHALEPUS BREVICORNIS. Ht ) MARMORATUS. 20 Y ACUTICORNIS. 
4 CHALEPUS MORIO. 2 r CONTIGUUS. 21 ; ALIENUS. 
S y CONGENER . [3 ice CONSANGUINEUS. BL N CHROMATICUS. 
6 »  PLACIDUS. 14 ; NIGRIPECTUS. 23 ; H&MATODERUS . 
7 i > AMICUS: 15 ; BELLULUS. Phe WATERHOUSET. 
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3 1PHYSOCORYNA SCABRA=~ 7 Il ” EMARGINATA. 2 ; ROBINSON == 

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RUBROLINEATA 13 » DIMIDIATA . a2 : Lie Ae. 

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8 » MARGINIPENNIS. 
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226 MESOMPHALIA ILLUSTRIS . 


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12 » MARGINATA . 21 CALASPIDEA COLUMBINA . 
1J,i4 TAUROMA .CASTA.: 

bE » AZUREICORNIS . 23d, 249 » 

16,16a6 DOLICHOTOMA BISBIPLAGIATA . 256 ” 

17d » DISTINCTA . 269 » 

183 » CONSPERSIPENNIS .276 » 

19¢ »» SALVINI . 289 » 


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ag pel » ¥PRIMARIA. 10,110 » ) , VOrS . 199 CHELYMORPHA HOPFNERIL. 
3g ee » vor. 126,130 Y ISTHMICA. 20¢9 ” PUBESCENS. 
ca D COSTARICENSIS . 144 ya 21d » GRESSORIA . 
Sé » XANTHOSPILA. 154 » A NEOVITTATA. 224 ” SERICEA 
9 » 4-GUTTATA | 163 (Terps 45 4-VITTATA | 239 » COMATA , var. 
76 » SALVINL. 176 » NIGROLINEATA. 24¢ » »(17- NOTATA ). 
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lo CHELYMORPHA RUFIPENNIS. 99 CHELYMORPHA MEXICANA. 17 CHELYMORPHA GUTTIFERA . 
26) ALTERNANS. 10¢ , BIANNULARIS. 18 » FLAVOMACULATA |. 
39 ‘ VITTATA . l1lé y » «FASCIATA. 19 » 10- STILLATA . 
Ao ) RUGICOLLIS . 129 y 14- PUNCTATA. 200 » EPILACHNOIDES . 
5d oe CATENULATA . 130 » »vl6~ STILLATA. 219 » OBLITERATA . 
69 ae » wI-MACULATA. 14¢ , »vCONJUGATA. 226,239 SELENIS SPARSA . 
le ” » var. 159 y 1B-MACULATA. 24¢ OMOPLATA TERSA. 
oo » JUVENGA . 160 » 12-SIGNATA. 256 y 4-STILLATA . 
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1 OMASPIDES BISTRIATA . 9,97 BATONOTA GODMANTI. 18 PHYSONOTA OVALIS, zr 4 
24,200 BATONOTA AURITA. 10,10a,6 BIPLAGIATA. 19 7 ViTTICOLLAS a=. 
2,30 » YUCATANA. IL PaRYSONOIA: GISGANTEA . ZO ” TURGIDA. 
A Aw » NODOSA... 129 » FA AY oR OES 5. oa b » MEXIGANA . 
3,50 » INSIDIOSA . 13. » BLP IUOLLIS Ces » PUAVAG SO . 
B, Ow ”) DEAPLAGIATA . 14 )) CBRBA . rie ) Disc VIG 
7, 7H Puro ORNATA. . 15 ” PERAMPLA. . a9 »” CAUDATA 
Bd CISTUDINELLA FOVEOLATA . 16 » DIIGMATILIS . 259 » AVTENUADA 2a 


W, Purlkiss ith. 179 » BEC LIC Olde le: : : Hanharb imp. 


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1 COPTOCYCLA WAGNERI . Oe PRYSONOTTA CALCARATA.. 189 HYBOSA MELLICULA . 
2d » NIGROPUNCTATA. lI¢d EURYPEPLA BREVILINEATA . 18: CHARIDOTIG PUSTOLS a. 
3d coe TMIiPARTILA . 126 CHERSINELLA HETEROPUNCTATA, var, 20 » AUROGUTTATA. 
4 PHYSONOTA HUMILIS. lo IBUVHYROSON YA NiGROSIGRATA . 21 » FLAVOMARGINATA . 
S » LIMONIATA . 14 CASSIDA MEXICANA . a » YUCATANENSIS . 
od ” OVIPENNIS . 1S COPTOOTCULA ASTECSA . 23 » ERYTHROSTIGWA 
Td » TBANGLUCIDA . 16 CASSEIDA PALLIDULA . 24: » FROWN TA 
8 » EUCALYPTA . Nivife » RUGOSA - 25, 25a » SEMINULUM . 
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2,209 » MARMORATA . +7 » AMOENA. - 200 » » ,v.TRABEATA . © 
3 » ORBICULATA. 12 Y OPULENTA . 21d » » jy IMMUNDA. 
4 Aang » SORDIDA | 13 » TRICOLORATA. . 220 » LECONTEL. 
5,5a,bd » DORSOPLAGIATA . 14 » ATALANTA . 23, 23038 D GIBBIFERA . 
6 » WESMAELI. 159 » EXTENSA 2A9 » » Var 
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8 ” yan PUERTAS 176 » INSUBIDA . 2G Shas oe ISTHMICA . 
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PLICATA.. 185¢ ” PFUIBROUGLYPHICA . 
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