140 MALACODERMATA. 
There is a small basal pale spot, which is sometimes wanting, as it appears to be in 
the figure given by Spinola. The apex is also wholly red. The name “¢rinotata” 
appears for this on Spinola’s plate, because he considered it a variety of the species 
figured by him afterwards on plate 46 ; it is evidently, however, quite distinct. 
3. Priocera stictica. (Tab. VII. fig. 17.) 
Picea, plerumque dense pilosula ; elytris rufo luteoque variegatis, maculis duabus, una laterali, altera juxta 
suturam pone medium, approximatis, sepe conjunctis, apice integro luteo. Long. 9-10 millim. 
Hab. Mexico, Oaxaca (Hoge, Salle); Guavemata, Teleman, San Juan, Calderas, 
Cerro Zunil, Pantaleon, Panajachel (Champion); Nicaracua, Chontales (Belt); PANAMA, 
Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 
The figure is of a specimen from Chiriqui. 
In this species the eyes approximate, the space between and above is thickly punc- 
tured, while the crown of the head is finely and transversely wrinkled; the thorax has 
two evident tubercles on the front of its disk; the elytra are rather coarsely punctured 
in rows, and the series are evident on the sides, but the punctures are fewer and larger 
there. Their pattern is very variegated with pitchy and red-brown; and the basal, 
lateral, and postmedian spots are whitish yellow; the two latter closer together than in 
P. miersana or P. hypocrita, and often joined, forming a hook; the apex is clear 
yellow. A variety (if it does, indeed, belong to this species), the one taken at Oaxaca 
by Sallé, has the elytra of a uniform brown pitchy colour, excepting the apex and the 
pale spots, the postmedian one being more linear and oblique, and rather more remote 
from the lateral one, than in typical stictica; this is more like P. hypocrita, Chev., but 
in other points it more resembles the present species. 
4. Priocera clavipes. 
Picea, antennis, pedibus basi elytrorumque apice dilutioribus; his piceo rufoque variegatis, maculis duabus 
parvis, una laterali, altera post medium, flavis; elytris apice integris, femoribus fortiter clavatis. Long. 
6-64 millm. 
Hab. Guatemasa, Capetillo, Chacoj, San Juan, Senahu, Zapote (Champion); PANAMA, 
Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 
This differs from PP. stictica not only in its much smaller size, but in its being 
frequently of a much paler colour, which extends to the thorax. The elytra have 
always a dark but interrupted fascia in the middle, in which lies the lateral pale spot, 
and bounded behind by the postmedian spot, and a narrow arcuate fascia to repre- 
sent the termination of the dark portion of the elytra before the pale apex. These 
markings are very evident in a little series from Senahu. The specimens from the 
other localities are mostly single ones, and are very like small P. stictica ; but will, I 
think, prove to be distinct. The femora are very sharply clavate. 
