374 SEREICOENIA. 



from the apex, black, the suture at the base, and sometimes an oblique stripe extending from it to 

 the discoidal patch, piceous ; the legs and antenna? flavo-testaceous ; the under surface ferruginous or 

 ferrugineo-testaceous. Head convex, coarsely, rather thickly punctate, the frontal carina rounded and 

 rather prominent; antenna? with joint 3 slightly longer than 2, the two together not nearly so long as 4. 

 Prothorax longer than broad, a little narrowed in front, the sides rounded anteriorly and sinuate behind ; 

 the hind angles strongly, acutely produced, slightly divergent, finely carinate at the sides above, the 

 carina about one-third the length of the prothorax, parallel with the margin, slightly abbreviated behind, 

 and connected near the apex of the angle with a short fine oblique ridge ; the surface finely, somewhat 

 thickly punctate, and canaliculate behind. Elytra about two and one-half times the length of the 

 prothorax, narrowing from the middle, rounded at the apex ; finely and sharply punctate-striate, the 

 interstices feebly convex and somewhat roughly punctured. 

 Length 7-9, breadth 2-2g millim. 



Hab. Guatemala, Chiacam and Cababon in Vera Paz (Champion). 



Four specimens. Allied to JB. vermiculatus, but more elongate and a little larger, 

 the thorax with a much shorter carina and without the marginal stripe ; the elytra 

 marked as in the var. oc of that species. From M. pulchellus it may be known by the 

 immaculate sides of the thorax and the transverse (not oblique) patch on the elytra 

 before the middle, the elytra themselves more finely punctate-striate, with the inter- 

 stices less convex ; the supra-marginal carina of the thorax slightly abbreviated behind. 



30. iEolns ovipennis. (Tab. XVI. figg. 24, 24 a.) 



Moderately elongate, convex, slightly shining, finely pubescent ; tlavo-rufous, the prothorax with a broad 

 fuscous median vitta, extending nearly to the base and apex and narrowed behind; the scutellum 

 fuscous ; the elytra with a broad transverse patch before the middle, becoming oblique inwards and 

 nearly reaching the suture, and a triangular patch beyond the middle, confluent posteriorly with the 

 corresponding mark on the opposite elytron, black ; the antennae and under surface ferruginous, the legs 

 flavo-testaceous. Head thickly, somewhat coarsely punctate, flattened in front, the frontal carina rather 

 prominent and subtruncate ; antennae with joint 3 slightly longer than 2, the two together longer than 4. 

 Prothorax a little longer than broad, gradually narrowing from the middle forwards, the sides parallel 

 behind and feebly rounded in front ; the hind angles stout and greatly produced posteriorly, acute, 

 sharply carinate above, the carina distant from the margin, rather short, abbreviated behind, and there 

 almost confluent with a sharp oblique ridge extending inwards from the apex of the angle ; the surface 

 thickly, somewhat coarsely punctate. Elytra one and two-thirds the length of the prothorax, convex, 

 oval, narrowed in front and behind, broadly, conjointly rounded at the apex ; finely, but very deeply 

 punctate-striate, the interstices convex, roughly punctured and granulate. 



Length 5|, breadth 1| millim. 



Hab. Mexico, Venta de Peregrino in Guerrero (H. II. Smith). 



One specimen only of this peculiar species has been received. It somewhat 

 resembles JE. pulchellus, Cand., but differs from that insect in the longer, stouter, and 

 non-divergent hind angles of the thorax, with the carina sharper, distant from the 

 margin, and abbreviated behind ; the elytra shorter, almost equally narrowed in front 

 and behind, very obtuse at the apex, with the strise deeper, and the interstices more 

 convex and more roughly punctured. JE. ovipennis belongs to Candeze's second 

 section of the genus, and is perhaps best placed near 2E. cibaensis. 



