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Cordova) having the elytral pubescence almost uniformly pale. Smaller and much 

 narrower than A. amabilis; the thorax less rounded at the sides, with more acute and 

 less divergent hind angles; the elytra usually vittate, with a submarginal stripe of 

 pallid pubescence, the suture also being clothed with pale hairs. The present insect 

 is still more closely allied to A. quadrivittatus, from which it may be separated by 

 its narrower and less fusiform shape, and also by the black patch on the anterior part 

 of the thorax being triangular or oval, instead of strongly transverse. A specimen 

 from Oaxaca is figured. 



19. Agriotes quadrivittatus. (Tab. XXIII. figg. 8 ; 9, var. p.) 



Agriotes quadrivittatus, Cand. Monogr. Elat. iv. p. 366 \ 



Eab. Mexico \ Puebla, Playa Vicente, Tuxtla, Jacale (Salle), Cordova (Salle, E6ge\ 

 Fortin in Vera Cruz (H. E. Smith), Almolonga, Tapachula (Edge) ; British Honduras* 

 R. Sarstoon (Blancaneaux) ; Guatemala, Senahu in Vera Paz, Zapote (Champion), 

 Guatemala city (Salvin). 



Var. a. Black, the elytral vittte indistinct or obliterated ; the elytra with a sutural and a submarginal stripe 

 of cinereous pubescence, the prothorax sometimes with a transverse patch of brownish pubescence on the 

 disc. 



Eab. Mexico, Tuxtla (Salle), Playa Vicente (Edge). 



Var. /3. Black, the suture of the elytra very narrowly cinereo-pubescent. (Fig. 9.) 

 Eab. Mexico (coll. Janson), Cordova (Salle), Playa Vicente (Edge). 



Var. y. Black or brownish-black, the prothorax rufous or flavo-ferruginous ; the elytra with the suture very 

 narrowly, and a short submarginal stripe, cinereo-pubescent. 



Eab. Mexico, Cordova (Salle). 



In the typical form of this variable species the thorax is rufous or flavo-ferruginous, 

 with a strongly transverse black patch on the disc a little before the middle, this 

 sometimes extending forwards to the apex, or divided down the middle so as to 

 form two spots. The varieties are much rarer than the type ; they occur at the same 

 localities. The elytra are comparatively short and a little rounded at the sides, rapidly 

 narrowed from the base in the male, less attenuate in the female. 



This is one of the commonest species of the genus in Mexico, but from the more 

 southern localities single examples only have been obtained. A typical specimen from 

 Tapachula and one of the var. j3 from Playa Vicente are figured. 



20. Agriotes trilineatus. (Tab. XXIII. fig. 10.) 



Moderately elongate, very narrow, rather convex, shining ; piceous or pitchy-brown, the head in front, the 

 prothorax and propleurse rufo-ferruginous, the elytra indeterminately paler at the sides, the abdomen in 

 great part ferruginous, the basal joint of the antennae and the legs testaceous ; the prothorax with a large 

 rounded patch on the disc, divided down the centre, and the elytra, the suture and a narrow indistinct 

 submarginal abbreviated vitta excepted, thickly clothed with fulvous-brown pubescence, the rest of the 



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