370 SEKRICOKNIA. 



Vicente, Panistlahuaca (Salle), Cordova, Oaxaca, Tapachula (Edge); Guatemala, 

 Panzos and Chacoj in Vera Paz, Zapote (Champion). 



Var. The elytral vittae abbreviated at about one-fourth from the apex. 



Edb. Nicaragua, Chontales {Belt, E. M. Janson) ; Costa Rica (coll. Janson). 



This insect is not uncommon in Mexico and Guatemala ; it is found upon both the 

 Atlantic and Pacific slopes. The type, a female, is before me ; the males differ from 

 it in having the thorax longer, less rounded at the sides, and narrowing from the base, 

 and the antennas more elongate. The colour of the antennae and legs is variable : the 

 legs are testaceous in the type, our specimens from Chilpancingo, Panzos, Chacoj, and 

 Oaxaca agreeing in this respect; the examples from Zapote, and many of those from 

 Mexico, have the legs infuscate. The thorax has sometimes the base only broadly 

 black ; but in some specimens it has an abbreviated or entire black median line, or even 

 a broad black vitta, as in one of the Zapote examples. The variety merely differs from 

 the type in having the broad submarginal testaceous vitta abbreviated at some distance 

 before the apex of the elytra, as in one of the forms of JE. vittatus. The fifth ventral 

 segment is convex in both sexes, and coarsely, closely punctate, the punctures on the 

 apical half longitudinally confluent, forming deep irregular grooves. A typical male 

 from Chilpancingo is figured. 



22. JEoluS Vittatus. (Tab. XVI. figg. 16, c? ; 17, $ , var.) 

 Molus vittatus, Cand. Monogr. Elat. ii. p. 332, t. 6. fig. 22 \ 

 JEolus tceniatus, Cand. Corapt. Rend. Soc. Ent. Belg. 1878, p. lxxxii (Elat. Nouv. ii. p. 22) 2 . 



Eab. Guatemala 2 (Salle), near the city (Salvin) ; Nicakagua (Salle, coll. Janson), 

 Chontales (Belt) ; Costa Rica (Mus. Brit.). — South America l . 



Varies greatly in colour. In the form described by Candeze under the name 

 JE. vittatus the thorax is rufous, with the base broadly black, and the elytral vitta? are 

 abbreviated ; in 2E. tamiatus the thorax is black, with the anterior angles, or a long 

 curved stripe extending from them downwards (as in a Guatemalan specimen in the 

 Janson collection, labelled JE. vittatus by Candeze), rufous, and the elytral vittae entire 

 or abbreviated. The insect is very closely allied to JE. pictus, but differs from it in 

 the longer and more coarsely punctured thorax in both sexes, the thorax in the male 

 rapidly narrowing from the base forwards. The punctures on the fifth ventral segment 

 are a little less distinctly longitudinally confluent. I have examined the type of 

 M. tceniatus, Cand. We figure a dark variety of the male from Nicaragua, and a 

 female from Guatemala, the latter from Dr. Candeze's collection. 



