130 MALACODERMATA. 
CYMATODERA. 
Cgmatodera, Gray, Griff. An. Kingd. i. p. 875 (1882). 
Allowing for synonymous names, there are about thirty species of this genus at 
present described, all but three (which are from South America—Colombia or Orinoco) 
being found in the United States and Mexico. One species (C. modesta, Spin.?) is 
said to be found in Chili; however that may be, Spinola gives Mexico as the country 
of his species, but figures it under a different name. 
The genus appears to reach its greatest development in size and number of species 
in Central America, the series obtained by the collectors employed by the editors of 
the present work exceeding what I have seen in any private collection or museum in 
variety and number of specimens. 
1. Cymatodera hopei. 
Cymatodera hopei, Gray, Griff. An. Kingd. i. p. 875, t. 48. fig. 1*; Klug, Mon. i. p. 270°; Spin. 
Mon. i. p. 141, t. 9. fig. 5°. 
Notozxus giganteus, De}. Cat. ed. 8, p. 126. 
Hab. Mexico 12%, Orizaba, Parada (Sallé), Guanajuato (Dugeés, coll. Sallé), Oaxaca 
(Hoge). 
This fine insect, one of the largest species of the family, appears rare. Both sexes 
were in the Sallé collection. The males have the fifth ventral plate arcuate emarginate, 
and the sixth narrow and polished; in the females the same segment is short and 
rounded, and its surface is punctured. 
2. Cymatodera sallei. (Tab. VII. fig. 13.) 
Cymatodera sallei, Thoms. Mus. Scient. p. 49°. 
Cymatodera emarginata, Chevr. Mém. sur la Fam. des Clerites, p. 8°. 
Hab. Mexico 1, Vera Cruz (Sallé), Cordova (Saldé ”). 
I do not think there is any doubt that these two descriptions refer to the same 
species. The specimen from Vera Cruz (C. sallwi, Sallé coll.) is rather larger, and is 
a little less distinctly marked than the two examples of C. emarginata. They are all 
males, and have the apex of the elytra arcuate-truncate, a character which separates 
this species from any other known to me. The figure is that of a Cordova specimen. 
8. Cymatodera grandis. 
Notoxus grandis, Sturm (coll. Sallé). 
Fuscus; antennis, palpis tarsisque pallidioribus; elytris sordide pallidis, fusco marmoratis vel strigosis, seriebus 
obsoletioribus punctorum gemellatis. Long. 14-16 millim. ¢ @. 
Hab. Mexico (coll. Sturm), Guanajuato (Dugés, coll. Sallé), Puebla (Sallé). 
