CALLIEEHIPIS. 583 



|3. Reddish-ochraceous,the prothorax sometimes (as in the type) with a narrow median vitta and a line at the 

 sides black, the elytra with a common oblong mark behind the scutellum, an oblong patch at the sides 

 below the shoulder, and about the apical two-fifths, black. ( 6 •) (Fig. 20, 6 •)— Guatemala. 



y. Testaceous-red, the elytra sometimes yellowish, a patch on the vertex, a median vitta on the prothorax, a 

 common oblong or triangular patch at the base of the elytra, and the apex of the latter to a greater or 

 less extent (sometimes to near the middle), the elytral markings often connected along the suture, black. 

 ( 6 $ •) (Figg. 21, 22, 3 ; 24, $ .)— Mexico, Nicaragua, Costa Kica. 



2. Head and prothorax testaceous-red or ochraceous, a spot on the vertex and a median vitta on the pro- 

 thorax sometimes black, the elytra entirely black. ( J •) (Fig. 23, tf •)— Guatemala, Costa Rica. 



The head and thorax are densely, rather finely, rugulosely punctured ; the vertex is 

 canaliculate down the middle ; the eyes are small and prominent in both sexes ; the 

 thorax is strongly transverse, rapidly narrowed from a little before the base, appearing 

 slightly dilated posteriorly, transversely depressed on either side behind the middle, 

 the depression ending inwards in a deep fovea, and more or less distinctly canaliculate 

 down the centre. Each elytron has four costse, the external one being sometimes 

 faint or distinct towards the apex only, and the second longer and more prominent 

 than the others, extending round to the suture behind in some specimens; the inter- 

 spaces are closely and coarsely punctured, the punctures being much coarser and 

 deeper in the female than in the male. The legs are rather short and stout ; the tibiae 

 are somewhat dilated and sinuous, the intermediate pair a little bowed ; the basal joint 

 of the hind tarsi is short. The males are finely pubescent above; they have the 

 antennal rami very elongate. The females are larger and more robust, and when fresh 

 slightly pubescent above, the pubescence, however, being easily abraded (six out of the 

 eight examples examined are glabrous); they have the antennae strongly pectinate 

 from the third joint. 



A single discoloured, mutilated, male example from Escuintla, Guatemala (Conradt), 

 perhaps belongs here; it is obscure rufo-piceous in colour, and apparently has 

 a broad black vitta on either side of the disc of the thorax, the elytral interspaces 

 are rather sparsely punctured, and the thorax is faintly carinate down the centre of 

 the median channel. C. laportei approaches the genus Simianus (Blanch.), as 

 defined by Fairmaire * ; it is connected with the typical Callirrhipis by intermediate 

 forms. 



We figure six examples : a female of the var. a, from Bugaba ; a male of each 

 of the vars. (5 and B, from Zapote ; two extreme forms of the var. y, both males, 

 one from Irazu and the other from Panistlahuaca ; and a female of the var. y, from 

 Chontales. 



* Notes Leyd. Mus. ix. p. 154 (1887). 



