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by the densely and rugosely punctured thorax, with the median groove indistinct. All 

 three occur at Jalapa. 



5. Hypodesis punctata. 



Hypodesis punctata, Cand. Monogr. Elat. iv. p. 245 l . 



Hah. Mexico, Tapachula in Chiapas (Edge) ; Guatemala, Yzabal (Salle x ), Teleman 

 and Chacoj in Vera Paz, Zapote (Champion). 



This species may be distinguished from H. chry Somalia by the coarsely punctured 

 elytral stria?, the stria? themselves being shallow or almost obliterated. In four out of 

 the five specimens from Tapachula, and in the two from Zapote, probably all males, 

 the seriate punctures on the elytra are still coarser and deeper towards the sides, there 

 becoming as broad as the interstices, the strife are obsolete, and the hairs on each of 

 the outer interstices are seriately arranged. Females only (including the types) have 

 been received from the Atlantic slope ; both sexes from the Pacific slope. The males 

 appear to have the third elytral interstice a little more densely punctured than the 

 others. 



6. Hypodesis penicillata. (Tab. XXL fig. 23, $ .) 



Hypodesis penicillata, Cand. Monogr. Elat. iv. p. 244 \ 



Hah. Mexico, Playa Vicente and San Andres Tuxtla in Vera Cruz (Salle), Fortin in 

 Vera Cruz (H. H. Smith), Teapa in Tabasco (coll. Janson) ; Guatemala, Yzabal (Salle l ), 

 Panzos in Vera Paz (Champion). — Colombia (coll. Janson). 



Closely allied to H. chrysomalla, but differing from it in the more sparsely punctured 

 thorax, and in the sparser and less conspicuous pubescence of the elytra. The thorax 

 is clothed with long decumbent golden hairs, these at the base in the middle being so 

 arranged as to form a broad pencil or tuft, which projects over the anterior part of the 

 scutellum. The hairs on the abdomen form a matted tuft on the outer part of each 

 segment behind. The locality " Yzabal " given for this species and H. punctata is in 

 Guatemala, not in Honduras as stated l . One of the types is figured. 



7. Hypodesis auricoma. (Tab. XXL fig. 24, 2 .) 



Moderately elongate, broad, robust, sbining ; black, tbe elytra with a faint bluish or greenish lustre, the legs 

 pitchy-brown ; the head and prothorax clothed with long, coarse, decumbent, bright golden hairs, those on 

 the prothorax transversely or obliquely combed inwards, the hairs at the centre of the base forming a pro- 

 jecting tuft ; the elytra with a few golden hairs at the extreme apex only, for the rest apparently glabrous 

 (under a high magnifying-power minute scattered hairs are visible in fresh specimens) ; the legs and 

 under surface also clothed with bright golden hairs, which form dense matted tufts at the sides of the first 

 four ventral segments behind. Head coarsely, rather sparsely punctate, depressed in front ; antennae 

 extending to a little beyond the hind angles of the prothorax in the male, shorter in the female, the joints 

 from the fourth strongly serrate, 3 nearly as long as 4. Prothorax convex, strongly transverse, narrowed 

 in front, the sides rounded anteriorly and sinuate behind ; the hind angles long and moderately divergent, 



